Grace Young

openlab Summer Student, IT/DI, from 27/06/11 to 19/08/11

Grace Young is an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her previous experience includes researching quantum computing at The Joint Quantum Institute (a partnership between the United States National Institute for Standards & Technology and the University of Maryland), studying electrical properties of carbon-nanotubes at the Johns Hopkins Center for Applied Physics, and developing software for the Harvard-MIT Cybernetics Laboratory. At MIT, she is Vice President of the Undergraduate Women in Physics, contributing writer for the MIT Entrepreneurship Review, and member of the MIT varsity sailing team. She is a Siemens Scholar and Intel ISEF Award winner for her research in physics, and has won various awards in robotics. At CERN, Grace is developing a new software package for ROOT.