Mirielle Wong
B.S.E. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
I am an undergraduate student majoring in Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan, with a minor in Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering. My current research is with Prof. Carolyn Kuranz's group in Nuclear Engineering.
I love learning about anything and everything. This passion for learning fuels my drive to study technology with a focus on interdisciplinary, application-based research. I come from a family of academics and engineers and thus feel most at home when I can learn and design solutions without bound.
In my free time, I write for the sports section of The Michigan Daily, the University of Michigan's independent student newspaper. I'm also a member of the Society of Women Engineers.
SELECTED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate Research with Kuranz Radiative Astrophysics Team
2023 – present
I am currently an undergraduate research assistant with the Kuranz Radiative Astrophysics Team, a research lab headed by Prof. Carolyn Kuranz at the University of Michigan. I currently perform simulations for an upcoming experimental campaign on the Z Machine at Sandia National Laboratories, which aims to study collisionless shocks using a Z-pinch wire array and the Z-Beamlet laser. I use these radiation hydrodynamic codes to explore experimental design space. I completed 1-D simulations in HELIOS in Summer 2023; my current work focuses on 1-D and 2-D simulations of each setup in FLASH and writing an experimental design paper.
Summer Research Intern with Zetawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort Pulse Laser System (ZEUS) facility
Summer 2023
In Summer 2023, I was an intern at ZEUS as part of Michigan's Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) program. I assisted with experimental design and setup of laser wakefield acceleration experiments at the ZEUS facility which involved analysis of laser spot size and laser wavefront, setup of diagnostic tools such as X-Ray CCD and electron spectroscopy, and physical assembly of the vacuum chamber. During shots on target, I also assisted with sweeps of experimental space to determine ideal experimental parameters and assisted with analysis of results to determine if laser wakefield acceleration had occurred.
