Principal Investigator

Samantha Coday, Assistant Professor
Emanuel E. Landsman (1958) Career Development Chair

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Laboratory of Electronics

Email: coday@mit.edu
Phone: 617-253-3934
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Samantha Coday is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Principal Investigator in the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics. She received the M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences in 2019 and 2023, respectively, from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include ultra dense power converters enabling renewable energy integration, electric vehicle charging and data center power delivery. She focuses on the optimization, design and control of hybrid switched-capacitor converters. Sam has received the NSF CAREER and the ARPA-E IGNIITE awards.

Student Researchers

Avani Ahuja, Ph.D. Student
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Qijia Li, Ph.D. Student
Alec Loessy, Ph.D. Student
Mario Lopes, Ph.D. Student
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Ellie Rabenold, Ph.D. Student
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Jonah Rawley, Ph.D. Student
Jade Sund, Ph.D. Student
Yue (Aurora) Yu, Ph.D. Student
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Anthony Acevedo, M.Eng. Student
Josephine Williams, M.Eng. Student
Trinity Chen, UROP
Raine Wen, UROP
Liong Ma, UROP

Not pictured: Natalie Chung [UROP]

Alumni

Deepta Gupta (M.Eng. 2026) – Ph.D. Candidate at UT Austin

Carlos Sanchez (M.Eng. 2026) – now at Eaton

Andre Rodriguez (S.M. 2026) – now at GE Vernova

Yanis Tournier (Visiting Scholar 2025) – now at Swissgrid

Aklilu Aron (M.Eng. 2025) – now at Power Integrations

Raiphy Jerez (M.Eng. 2024) – now at Brookhaven National Lab

Paulin Eliat-Eliat (Visiting Scholar 2024) – Master’s Candidate at UCLouvain