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![SDMhomepic](https://sdm.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/SDMhomepic-OP-600x350.jpg)
Dan Sturtevant SDM ’07 was featured in MIT News for his work on making large, complex codebases more understandable and more modular. His company Silverthread spun out of
![Portrait of Susan Conover](https://sdm.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/SusanConover-trimmed-600x350.jpeg)
Susan Conover SDM ’15 was featured in MIT News for her work on the startup she co-founded, Piction Health. Piction is an app that assists doctors in identifying and managing
![Portrait of Elizabeth White Baker](https://sdm.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ElizabethBaker-trimmed-600x350.jpeg)
Elizabeth White Baker, SDM ’19 alumna, was interviewed for Peter Coy’s newsletter in the New York Times discussing her research into hospital safety procedures and medical
![Portrait of Indrayud Mandal](https://sdm.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Indro-trimmed-600x350.jpeg)
Indrayud Mandal, a current SDM fellow, will co-present a pre-conference workshop at the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference on March 6th and 7th, 2021. “Using Tactile
![Graphic of infant in crib with wifi symbol emitting from diaper and wifi symbol on crib](https://sdm.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/MIT-Diaper-RFID_0-trim-600x350.jpeg)
Pankhuri Sen, SDM ’20 and a research assistant in MIT’s AutoID Laboratory was featured in MIT News for the laboratory’s work on RFID sensors that could be
![Rendering of dome-shaped buildings on Martian landscape](https://sdm.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/BIGIdeaChallenge-trim-600x350.jpeg)
An MIT team, including one SDM fellow, took second place in NASA’s 2019 BIG Idea Challenge. Tommy Smith joined SDM in 2018 and participated in the student team’s
![Sorin Grama receiving trophy for World Cooling Prize finals](https://sdm.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Transaera-trim-600x350.jpeg)
SDM alum Sorin Grama’s venture Transaera was named a finalist for the Global Cooling Prize, an international innovation competition focused on developing efficient and
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SDM Fellows Nick Dowmon and Ajie Nikicio participated in the MIT team competing in the 2019 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. Both students started at SDM in 2018 and joined the