Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is an extremely rare neurological small vessel disease, affecting about 2-5 people every…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
The August 2023 Maui fires destroyed historic Lahaina town, causing toxic ash to become mobilized into the soil, groundwater, and ocean. This study evaluated the benefits of incorporating na…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
PCPU is a processor that I created from scratch as my previous work. Besides the processor, I provided a complete toolchain (including C language compiler, assembler, emulator), together cre…
Chemistry
Third Award
The accumulation of heavy metal ions in wastewater poses significant health and environmental risks as heavy metals are known to be toxic and bioaccumulate in living organisms. In recent yea…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Floods are widely considered the most expensive natural disaster due to their destructive nature and severe societal repercussions. Thus, our research seeks to predict flood occurrences and…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) is the second most common form of skin cancer. Moreover, accurate, early diagnosis for pre-metastatic SCC is imperative; post-metastasis patient survi…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Wasabi (Japanese horseradish: Eutrema japonicum, synonym Wasabia japonica) is an endemic species in Japan that has been cultivated as a traditional Japanese condiment. However, Ulleung wasab…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Deep learning, particularly generative models, have shown promise to expedite the drug discovery process by generating novel molecules with desirable properties/bioactivity. Current research…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
The escalating scale of “Global Plastic Pollution” is leading to the omnipresence of Microplastics (MPs), negatively impacting the environment, world's water quality, aquatic organisms, and…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
In this study, I use data science principles to analyze pesticide use and Parkinson's Disease (PD) incidence, internationally. Countries were clustered using DBSCANs, the k-means method, and…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Global soil carbon stock contains more than twice the amount of carbon found in Earth’s atmosphere. Soil respiration (Rs) is the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) from soil microorganisms and…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most predominant malignant brain cancer in adults without prognosis improvement in decades (average survival interval of 14-17 months). Nevertheless, 83% of GBM cas…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Bipolar disorder (BD) stigma arises from patients' actions during episodes resulting in feelings of guilt and shame, which delays seeking treatment due to societal pressure increasing the ri…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Third Award
Modern-day rocket engines employ nozzles to transform onboard fuel-derived, high-temperature and pressure gasses into a high-velocity exhaust that propels the rocket forward. The efficiency…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Cognitive impairment is a common, non-specific early presenting symptom in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). A biomarker differentiating AD-related cognitive im…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Cancer is a problem that is affecting millions of people worldwide, and it is one of the leading causes of deaths in the U.S. With the increasing number of cancer cases, there’s a higher num…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
This study investigates plant-specific GAGA-binding factors, BASIC PENTACYSTEINEs (BPCs), which are known to exhibit overlapping and antagonistic effects on various developmental phenotypes,…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Globally, over 2.1 billion people, close to 30% of the world population, are overweight or obese. The consumption of calorically-dense, palatable foods for pleasure, a phenomenon known as he…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Massive underrepresentation of non-White skin in dermatology research contributes to significant disparities in skin cancer outcomes. Since artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are largel…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Third Award
For the Deaf community, math is not a universal language. In over 300 existing sign languages worldwide, most math terms do not have corresponding signs, forcing deaf students to fingerspell…
Microbiology
Third Award
Phage therapy is a promising option to mitigate antibiotic resistance. Phages, a type of virus, are genetically diverse and globally plentiful. Yet only 14,500 phages have been discovered, m…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that causes gradual impairment of an individual through mutations in the SNCA (Synuclein Alpha) gene. Currently, there exist no widely…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
Autonomous mobile robot (AMR) fleets are widely used in smart warehouses, distribution centers and manufacturing to bring operational efficiency, with their market projected reaching up to $…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
In 2023, more than 10,000 oil spills caused approximately 706 million gallons of oil to be spilled into the ocean, damaging the environment and costing billions of dollars in mitigation effo…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Unveiling the behavioral and neural activity underlying hand movements sheds light on mammalian motor control and bolsters advancements in brain-machine interfaces and prosthetic arms. Veter…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Quantum computing has significant potential to generate unparalleled innovations in lattice modeling, encryption schemes, protein folding, prime factorization, and countless other fields of…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Methamphetamine is known for its addictive potential and rapid impact on the central nervous system's dopaminergic pathways. Recent studies suggest it exacerbates stroke outcomes by increasi…
Systems Software
Third Award
Individuals with limited hand mobility usually face challenges in daily activities and technology interactions that require fine motor skills and dexterity. To address this issue, innovative…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
In 2013, an 18 meter sized asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia, injuring ~1100 people– it went undetected! Small asteroids are often missed due to their faintness. In fa…
Microbiology
Third Award
The natural production of antimicrobial substances by living organisms as part of their defense mechanisms has been well-documented. Among these substances, bacteriocins, a diverse class of…