Ashley Hartwell, Ph.D.

Mechanical Engineer working in circular economy @NIST | PhD @MIT, BS @Stanford | ΔΣΘ | she/her | views and opinions expressed here are my own

[Ashley Hartwell, Ph.D. @AshleyTheMechE]

Yesterday, I successfully defended my Ph.D dissertation entitled "Design optimization of two-way spanning concrete systems for low-carbon, context-informed construction".

Happy and honored to have so many people from my MIT community and beyond there to support me.

[Ashley Hartwell, Ph.D. @AshleyTheMechE]

And that's a wrap!

[Ashley Hartwell, Ph.D. @AshleyTheMechE]

@CP_OD Thank you so much Cadence!!!

[Ashley Hartwell, Ph.D. @AshleyTheMechE]

Yesterday, I successfully defended my Ph.D dissertation entitled "Design optimization of two-way spanning concrete systems for low-carbon, context-informed construction".

Happy and honored to have so many people from my MIT community and beyond there to support me.

[Ashley Hartwell, Ph.D. @AshleyTheMechE]

@ashjcarpenter Thank you so much 😊

[Ashley Hartwell, Ph.D. @AshleyTheMechE]

@KhiLowe 🥹

[Ashley Hartwell, Ph.D. @AshleyTheMechE]

Doing inventory for this fall’s manufacturing course 🪛🧰🔩🤓

[Ashley Hartwell, Ph.D. @AshleyTheMechE]

Thrilled to share that our paper titled ‘Visualization of Design Data in the Wild’ won best Design Computing Paper at #DCC22! It was an honor to present this work and a privilege to hear what others in design are up to 🤓

[Dr. Ufuoma 🛰🌍 @ItsUfuoma]

Given that the focus of my PhD is literally environmental and climate justice, this is scary as hell. I hate it here. What is even the point of spending 6 years in a PhD to advance science if our leaders don’t value science?? https://t.co/Aoy0uCG1jv

[Ashley Hartwell, Ph.D. @AshleyTheMechE]

@ChelNdor Happy to bounce ideas back in forth re: data viz in Matlab if you’re still working on this 😊

[Ashley Hartwell, Ph.D. @AshleyTheMechE]

@CraftyMatSci Congratulations Cecile! So excited to see your next work at Northwestern 🥳

[Ashley Hartwell, Ph.D. @AshleyTheMechE]

Congratulations to one of the most thought provoking and intelligent computer scientists I know! So proud of my friend, Dr. Candace Ross 🥳

[Candace Ross @candacerossio]

"The pursuit of fitting afros into grad caps. In this thesis I will.."

On a real note, feels amazing to say I'm #PhDinished, officially Dr. Candace Cheronda Ross! Tweet one of many because I'm grateful to many people and have a lot I'd like to share. So excited to be done 🔥😍

[Candace Ross @candacerossio]

See our new preprint about using demographic perturbation to train fairer language models, all while maintaining downstream performance!

This also means better representation for demographic groups stereotyped or completely forgotten by NLP datasets. See thread for more details

[Ashley Hartwell, Ph.D. @AshleyTheMechE]

@ChelNdor Probably the DJ 😭

[Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) @MIT]

Chemistry PhD student Azin Saebi is developing tools to modify biomolecules — specifically proteins. In her future work, she says, “I want to be somewhere that I can see the impact of my work on patients’ lives and health care more immediately.” https://t.co/PEwTE3lgad

[Ashley Hartwell, Ph.D. @AshleyTheMechE]

@AutumnDeitrick Congratulations Autumn! Happy to hear your event went well 😁

[Ashley Hartwell, Ph.D. @AshleyTheMechE]

So Microsoft Teams actually is superior for working with collaborators in a research setting I’m finding…

[Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) @MIT]

Lindsey Backman: Biochemist, mentor, and advocate: The PhD candidate studies the human microbiome and its proteins, while also championing the Latinx community on MIT’s campus. https://t.co/EFtTSbWcil

[Rita Idugboe @RitaIdugboe]

When the code runs on first attempt.

#AcademicTwitter @PhDForum

[MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative @mit_esi]

.@AshleyTheMechE, a @MITMechE PhD student in Caitlin Mueller's Digital Structures Group w/ @MITarchitecture, is redesigning concrete structures for a low-carbon built environment 🏗️🌲. We're thrilled to have her as a new Martin Fellow! https://t.co/Kt5aLTyels