Biomedical Engineering
Inexpensive and portable heart rate monitoring devices that are used for fitness applications only measure heart rate. On the other hand, medical-grade electrocardiogram (ECG) instruments me…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project was to create a computer simulation of an intersection with no traffic controls (stop signs or traffic lights), and develop artificial intelligence capable of mak…
Plant Sciences
Second Award
A paramount issue that contemporary agriculture faces is the worldwide infestation of soil with parasitic weeds. Strigolactones (SLs), a family of carotenoid-derived plant hormones, act as g…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Spatial abilities are thought to be pronounced in some scholastically-classified slow learners. In scholastically-classified slow learners with high spatial abilities, concepts can be taught…
Systems Software
Autism is a brain development disorder that is accompanied by a variety of indicators that include problems with communication and social interactions, as well as repetitive behavior (Hodge,…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The VPS-34 gene in C. elegans is required for vesicular trafficking, including endocytosis, though the exact function of the protein is still unknown. My project involves identifying the spe…
Plant Sciences
First Award
HCC has become the fastest-rising cause of cancer-related death. A novel therapeutic approach for treatment is warranted. The goal of this study is to find effective components from Chinese…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Black Rubber, commonly found in tires and crumb rubber, is known to have carcinogenic materials and compounds such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals. Crumb rubber is recyc…
Systems Software
CSE-Lab is a software written in C# aimed for students, teachers and others interested in math/physics. CSE-Lab offers user friendly graphical user interface, interface for connection to mea…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Society is used to consume technology and isn’t interested in creating it, little kids don’t receive enough stimulation for developing logic and creativity skills. Consequently, the interest…
Microbiology
The idea of conducting this research stemmed after the imposition of the unjust siege on Qatar on 5/6/2017, when we noticed a shortage of some basic agricultural crops that are frequently us…
Materials Science
Copper nanowires have attracted attention as transparent conductor for display application due to their excellent electrical conductivity and low cost of fabrication. This study investigated…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Cancer remains a pervasive and ominous threat as the second leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for one in four fatalities. The survival and proliferation of tumors in ca…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
With increasing populations and rising global temperatures, the need for a new agricultural revolution is imperative. The objective of this project was to find a sustainable and economical a…
Translational Medical Science
Rambutan fruit is a local fruit that can be found abundantly in Malaysia. The skin of rambutan has been reported to possess few phyto-constituents that has anti-cancer properties. Hence, the…
Translational Medical Science
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer and accounts for 1 in 4 cancer deaths. Sulindac is an FDA approved anti-inflammatory drug. Metformin is an anti-diabetes drug which is also FDA a…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
I used Big Data (> 2.3 million records) to identify predictors of peripheral neuropathy (PN). PN costs the U.S. over 10 billion annually, so predicting factors may lead to large cost savings…
Mathematics
This project demonstrated the problem of deconstructing graphical models is polynomial time solvable, with an O(mn^r+3 + nr) algorithm. The execution was split into two parts: one involving…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Autism spectrum disorder is a heritable, developmental disorder affecting 1 in 68 children in the United States. Development of a more definitive diagnostic method is especially critical for…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Breast cancer is currently the second leading cause of death among American women even though breast cancer mortality rates have decreased by 36% since 1989-2012. This decline has often been…
Systems Software
The objective of our BerriVest device is to accurately do object detection by alerting the user of frontal obstacles and uneven surfaces and image processing, by specifically naming the obst…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Estimating the future course of cancer is invaluable to physicians; however, current clinical methods fail to effectively use the vast amount of multimodal data available. To tackle this pro…
Materials Science
Localized surface plasmon resonances in metal nanoparticles generate intense localized heat, which can be used to catalyze reactions. This study aims to use plasmonic silver nanoparticles to…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Creeping woodsorrel or Oxalis corniculata is the perennial plant with a slender primary root. The leaf is composed of 3 leaflets. The fruit itself consists of green cylindrical capsules whic…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer's affects about 70-80% of all dementia patients around the world. This neuroimaging study is aimed to examine the various numerical and quantifiable differences in volumetric measu…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are traditionally used in computer vision, but have recently gained traction as sequential models. In this paper two improvements to temporal convolutiona…
Environmental Engineering
There is an acute shortage of accessible freshwater. Desalination can create freshwater from seawater, but current techniques are expensive and require energy and maintenance. This research,…
Energy: Physical
Second Award
The leading sources of energy globally are oil, coal, and natural gas - fossil fuels that can be depleted, and whose access and use greatly impact the environment. Hence, much study has been…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
The study’s first objective is to analyze and improve movement range of a new hip prosthesis design using a gimbal or universal joint. A second objective is to determine load-carrying capaci…
Physics and Astronomy
The gravitational behavior of antimatter has never been conclusively determined through experimentation and thereby has long remained elusive to the field of physics. Various experiments hav…