{"id":8336,"date":"2025-09-24T17:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=8336"},"modified":"2025-12-14T12:25:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:25:52","slug":"ella-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2025\/09\/24\/ella-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/11\/20250728_EllaBrown-Headshot-Squared-2-636x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/11\/20250728_EllaBrown-Headshot-Squared-2-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/11\/20250728_EllaBrown-Headshot-Squared-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/11\/20250728_EllaBrown-Headshot-Squared-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/11\/20250728_EllaBrown-Headshot-Squared-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/11\/20250728_EllaBrown-Headshot-Squared-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/11\/20250728_EllaBrown-Headshot-Squared-2-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/11\/20250728_EllaBrown-Headshot-Squared-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/11\/20250728_EllaBrown-Headshot-Squared-2-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/11\/20250728_EllaBrown-Headshot-Squared-2-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/11\/20250728_EllaBrown-Headshot-Squared-2-710x710.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/11\/20250728_EllaBrown-Headshot-Squared-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/>Ella completed her first year at <text class=\"_textbox_x434h_15\" direction=\"ltr\" height=\"4.84649658203125\" lengthadjust=\"spacingAndGlyphs\" textlength=\"92.27925109863281\" x=\"55.608001708984375\" y=\"-336.30999755859375\" data-test=\"textbox\">Worcester Polytechnic Institute before participating in the 2025 REU program. At WPI, she majors in robotics.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> She discovered her passion for computer programming and the utility of computer science while she was in high school. Ella aims to\u00a0pursue a career in robotics engineering to help find solutions to world problems.\u00a0<\/span><\/text><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=8206&amp;action=edit\">Designing a Soft Bioinspired Grasper for Underwater Manipulation:<\/a> Also known as the &#8220;Octopus Project,&#8221; <span style=\"color: #003366;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ella worked with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/profile\/tommaso-ranzani\/\">Tommaso Ranzani<\/a> in the<\/span> <\/span>Morphable Biorobotics Lab <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to replicate an octopus&#8217;s movements for the purpose of underwater research; primarily she designed and prototyped the creation of a \u201csoft arm.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #003366;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She was mentored by graduate student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=6861&amp;action=edit\">Anna Maria Moran.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1143872385?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"2025 REU Interview with Ella Brown\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ella completed her first year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute before participating in the 2025 REU program. At WPI, she majors in robotics. She discovered her passion for computer programming and the utility of computer science while she was in high school. Ella aims to\u00a0pursue a career in robotics engineering to help find solutions to world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8336"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9823,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions\/9823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}