Poornima Apte

1 month ago | news.mit.edu | Poornima Apte

Growing up in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, with engineer parents who worked in the state’s silver mining industry, MIT senior Maria Aguiar developed an early interest in materials. The star garnet, the state’s mineral, is still her favorite. It’s a sheer coincidence, though, that her undergraduate thesis also focuses on garnets. Her research explores ways to manipulate the magnetic properties of garnet thin films — work that can help improve data storage technologies.

2 months ago | electronicsmedia.info | Poornima Apte

Since 2016, Columbus, Ohio, has been at the forefront of the smart city revolution, making digitalization a cornerstone of its cyber infrastructure to deliver improvements in a variety of public services. But in July 2024, the city faced an unfortunate side effect: A ransomware attack on the digital infrastructure compromised the data of half a million residents. In August 2024, another ransomware attack created havoc in the Port of Seattle with multiple outages in systems.

Mar 9, 2025 | energy-daily.com | Poornima Apte

Developing materials for stellar performance in fusion power plantsby Poornima Apte | MIT Department of Nuclear Science and EngineeringBoston MA (SPX) Mar 05, 2025 When Zoe Fisher was in fourth grade, her art teacher asked her to draw her vision of a dream job on paper. At the time, those goals changed like the flavor of the week in an ice cream shop - "zookeeper" featured prominently for a while - but Zoe immediately knew what she wanted to put down: a mad scientist.

Mar 6, 2025 | copernical.com | Poornima Apte

Developing materials for stellar performance in fusion power plantsby Poornima Apte | MIT Department of Nuclear Science and EngineeringBoston MA (SPX) Mar 05, 2025 When Zoe Fisher was in fourth grade, her art teacher asked her to draw her vision of a dream job on paper. At the time, those goals changed like the flavor of the week in an ice cream shop - "zookeeper" featured prominently for a while - but Zoe immediately knew what she wanted to put down: a mad scientist.

Mar 4, 2025 | news.mit.edu | Poornima Apte

When Zoe Fisher was in fourth grade, her art teacher asked her to draw her vision of a dream job on paper. At the time, those goals changed like the flavor of the week in an ice cream shop — “zookeeper” featured prominently for a while — but Zoe immediately knew what she wanted to put down: a mad scientist. When Fisher stumbled upon the drawing in her parents’ Chicago home recently, it felt serendipitous because, by all measures, she has realized that childhood dream.