Principal Investigator
Jesse A. Rodríguez is a faculty member by courtesy in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University, starting in earnest as a tenure-track assistant professor in Fall 2024. He is currently working as a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning at Princeton University under Dr. Bill Tang; Principal Research Scientist at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. His postdoctoral research is focused on using deep learning to predict turbulent disruption events in tokamak fusion reactors, as well as tokamak digital twinning.
Jesse completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering with a PhD Minor in Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University under Dr. Mark Cappelli in August 2023, his dissertation focusing on manipulating electromagnetic waves with plasma metamaterials. Rodríguez obtained his MS in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on fluid mechanics at Stanford University in 2020, and a triple honors BS in Physics, Mathematics, and Nuclear Engineering at Oregon State University in 2018. When not working, Jesse splits his time between his family, watch collecting, snowboarding, rock climbing, running, and going to the cinema.
Students
Prof. Rodríguez is seeking students for Fall 2024 of all levels (high school, undergrad, and graduate)! A strong physics background is helpful, but the only requirements are enthusiasm and diligence. Interested post-doctoral researchers are also encouraged to contact Prof. Rodríguez.
Academic Lineage
Prof. Rodríguez’s direct line of advisors goes all the way back to Sir Isaac Newton, who is his 14th great grand-advisor! Our academic family tree can be found here. Prof. Rodríguez’s Erdős and Einstein numbers are both 6 at most.
