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Global Carbon Sinks: Remote Sensing for Peatland Restoration

Environmental Engineering First Award

Peatland ecosystems are the largest natural terrestrial carbon store on earth. Healthy peatlands act as carbon sinks, trapping atmospheric CO2 as soil organic matter. However, anthropogenic…

How do butterflies fly in the rain?

Physics & Astronomy First Award

Implementation of an Integrated Machine Learning Pipeline for LIGO Continuous Gravitational Wave Searches

Physics and Astronomy First Award

Continuous gravitational waves (CW) are long-lasting, monochromatic gravitational waves (GW), produced by persistent quadrupolar variations of dense matter resulting from rapidly spinning as…

Investigating the Visual Information Degradation in Adverse Weather

Mathematical Sciences First Award

Ionize, Magnetize, Energize

Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics First Award

Lift Them Up: A Pulley Stair Lift for Paraplegics

Applied Mechanics & Structures First Award

MMRTD: Multi-Sensory Mixed Reality Therapy for Dementia

Translational Medical Science First Award

Every 3 seconds, someone in the world develops Dementia. By 2050, over 139 million people worldwide will be living with Dementia. Early interventions are crucial in preventing and treating D…

Novel Drug Discovery Methodology Using Machine Learning for Gene Expression-Based Virtual Screening Predicts Novel Compounds To Reverse Alzheimer's Disease With Applications to Cancer and Longevity by Inhibiting CtBP2 Expression

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) has neither satisfactory nor equitably accessible treatments. Current research emphasizes inflammation, notably age-related elevation of microglial TNF-a, in driving…

OralAI: A Fluorescence Based Mobile System for Dental Disease Prevention

Biomedical Engineering First Award

45% of people today are affected by oral diseases such as periodontal (gum) disease and dental caries (cavities). These can lead to tooth loss and have been linked to fatal diseases like can…

Origami Chair: Always Accessible to Everyone, Everywhere

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award

As the global population continues to increase and natural calamities grow more severe, the pressing issue of inadequate seating in educational institutions poses a significant obstacle to s…

Rapid Detection of Superweeds (Herbicide-Resistant Weeds) Utilizing Novel Full-Spectrum Imaging and a Hyperparameter-Tuned Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Plant Sciences First Award

Every year, farmers around the world lose more than $95 billion from uncontrolled weed infestation. Herbicide-resistant weeds, also known as “superweeds”, are fast becoming a significant par…

Rapid Screening for Major Skin Cancers with M-SCAHN: Multimodal Hierarchical CNN-Transformer Hybrid Networks with Advanced Interpretability, Lesion Evolution Tracking, Trait Identification, and Color Constancy for Improved Generalization in Diverse Populations

Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award

Skin cancer is the most prevalent cancer worldwide with 8 million incidences and 120,000 annual deaths. Visual inspection has a 40% misdiagnosis rate, causing treatment delays leading to inc…

Redefining the Landscape of Hydrogen Safety Using Innovative Gasochromic Technology

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award

The increasing focus on decarbonization has brought hydrogen into the center role in the quest for sustainable solutions. As the hydrogen economy is expected to grow, new detection methods a…

Reducing Pollution through the Discovery of Novel Plastic Biodegrading Microorganisms via Deep Learning Enzyme Engineering

Environmental Engineering #2 First Award

Securing Global Food: Biopolymers, Cryptography, and Visual Transformers for Affordable Anti-Counterfeit Seed Protection

Computational Systems & Analysis #2 First Award

Solving Second-Order Cone Programs in Matrix Multiplication Time

Systems Software First Award

A fundamental class of problems in mathematical optimization is second-order cone programming (SOCP), which provides a generalized framework to solve problems in a wide range of fields. Whil…

Symmetry, Fixed Points and Quantum Billiards: A Confluence of Ideas

Mathematics First Award

A mathematical billiard system is one composed of a planar or multidimensional surface and a moving object whose trajectory is defined by its initial position and speed vector, along with so…

Synthesis and Characterization of Property-Optimized Ionic Liquid for Post-Combustion Carbon Capture Discovered via Novel Deep Learning Model

Chemistry First Award

Post-Combustion Carbon Capture (PCC) aims to mitigate rising greenhouse gas emissions by sequestering CO2 from flue gas streams. Currently, PCC utilizes liquid amine solvents, such as monoet…

Taming the Oblique Wing: Improving Fuel Efficiency by Developing and Flight Testing an Oblique Wing Aircraft Utilizing a Novel Control Method

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award

By leveraging modern flight computer capabilities, I designed and flight tested an oblique wing aircraft (an efficient variable-sweep design where one wing sweeps forward and the other sweep…

The Digital Air Rifle Ballistic Measuring Device

Embedded Systems First Award

The 10m Air Rifle competition is an ISSF Summer Olympic sport where 1mm can make the difference between winning and losing. Over 57,000 cadets in Canada train with the 853C air rifle in the…

The Relationship Between Tumor-Induced Osteoclastogenesis and Osteoprotegerin

Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award

Osteosarcoma (OS), a primary bone tumor, arises from an imbalance in the bone remodeling pathway which fosters metastasis. In healthy bones, the microenvironment supports balanced remodeling…

Trout n' About

Earth & Environment: Air/ Water First Award

What's in which tidepool?

Zoology First Award

A Fully Automatic Self-Assembling Modular Robot System

Embedded Systems First Award

Self-assembling modular robotic systems are a type of swarm robotics that allows for the assembly of different complex robotics configurations. Each system is composed of many individual mod…

Agrobacterium rhizogenes Versus Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA Transformation in Brachypodium distachyon

Plant Biology First Award

Brachypodium distachyon is a monocotyledonous grass species that has emerged as a valuable model organism due to its close relationship to cereal and bioenergy crops, small genome, rapid gen…

Analyzing the Effect of Mid-Circuit Measurement (MCM) on Spectator Qubits

Systems Software First Award

Mid-Circuit Measurements (MCMs) are a key component in many quantum information algorithms. As such, ways to characterize their performance are of great interest. Specifically, it is importa…

A Novel Electrochemiluminescence Biosensing System Using Photonic Crystal as Luminescence-Enhanced Substrates for the Ultrasensitive Detection of Food-Borne Harmful Substances

Biochemistry First Award

Safeguarding food quality and safety is essential to people's livelihoods. Over recent years, the ingestion of food-borne pathogens and their related metabolic toxins increasingly affects pu…

A Novel Self-Disinfecting Nanomaterial for Future Space Travel

Microbiology (General) First Award

A big challenge of long term space travel and habitation is bacteria proliferation in the spacecraft and space station. Bacteria form threatening biofilms that jeopardize equipment and the h…

Best Natural Fabric for a Reusable Menstrual Pad

Materials Science First Award

To address both period poverty and pollution, I will ultimately design a reusable menstrual pad users can fabricate from natural fibers, readily available in both virgin and upcycled forms.…

Bi-Functional MOF-Based Electrocatalyst for Efficient and Cost-Effective Hydrogen Production From Seawater

Chemistry First Award

The interest in green hydrogen, produced from water, as a clean and efficient alternative to fossil fuels is hampered by the high cost of production and the need for desalinated water source…