Applying to graduate school can be a maze with questions that are difficult to find answers to. On this episode, we try to answer some of those questions with some help from current grad students, Chelsea Onyeador and Wilka Carvalho.

Chelsea is pursuing a Master of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, with plans to continue to receive a Ph.D. with the Hypersonics Research Group. Her current research interests lie in fluid mechanics, computational methods, hypersonic boundary layers, and aerodynamics. She is also heavily involved in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion advocacy work at MIT.

Wilka is pursuing a PhD in Machine Learning at the University of Michigan where he studies how object-centric representation learning and reinforcement learning can bring us closer to human-level artificial intelligence. He is interested in developing computational and mechanistic cognitive theories of learning that help us understand how humans infer, reason with, and exploit the rich structure present in realistic visual scenes to enable sophisticated behavioral policies.

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