Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
In payload delivery and humanitarian aid, parachutes often suffer due to instability and drift. Autorotation offers potential solutions, yet it’s treated as an emergency condition rather tha…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Resistance to targeted therapies in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) limits treatment efficacy. Mathematical models have shown promise in predicting resistance development by capturing bio…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Multiple mechanisms contribute to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), including mutations in the SHANK2 gene. SHANK2 encodes a postsynaptic scaffolding protein that organizes key excitatory rece…
Materials Science
Over 50% of applied fertilizer is lost due to leaching and runoff, causing resource wastage, soil degradation, and water pollution. While there are alternatives in the form of controlled - r…
Microbiology
Sunscreen and plastic pollution are widespread and pervasive in ocean waters, stressing marine life through chronic exposure. Previous studies have demonstrated certain fungi have the abilit…
Environmental Engineering
While global oil production exceeds 100 million barrels per day, over 40 million liters of crude oil have contaminated marine ecosystems since 2020, resulting in catastrophic ecological and…
Translational Medical Science
Breast cancer, the most common cancer in women, is treated with chemotherapy drugs, a systemic treatment prone to multidrug and chemoresistance. An improved adjunctive treatment that increas…
Translational Medical Science
The lack of rapid, accessible, and precise quantitative biomarkers for lesion grading remains the primary barrier to preventing cervical cancer—a leading cause of cancer death among women wo…
Translational Medical Science
It is estimated that approximately 9.8% of the world's population suffers from acne, a dermatological condition that can have significant clinical and psychosocial impacts, compromising the…
Biomedical Engineering
Robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS) was used in millions of procedures in 2025. Despite its widespread adoption, current systems largely lack force-sensing capabilities and r…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Uncontrolled minor bleeding requires effective, safe, and accessible materials. However, most commercial hemostatic dressings rely on synthetic, non-renewable polymers and present high produ…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Brain age gap estimation(BrainAGE) has emerged as a powerful biomarker in human neuroimaging, offering insight into deviations from normative aging trajectories and providing a sensitive ind…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Gliomas are the deadliest brain tumors with recurrence rates of up to 90%. Without an accurate map of the tumors’ heterogeneity, surgeons operate with limited knowledge of tumor margins, oft…
Materials Science
DNA nanotechnology is a rapidly developing field with broad applications in medicine and engineering. The field concerns itself with understanding DNA's structural applications through build…
Biomedical Engineering
Your mind works perfectly, but your body will not let you speak. Millions with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, stroke, or paralysis live trapped inside working minds. Today's brain-computer i…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic, immune-mediated esophageal disorder that currently requires repeated invasive endoscopic biopsies for diagnosis and disease monitoring. The absen…
Biomedical Engineering
Vaping is a common habit and a widespread health issue that affects over 100 million people and has transformed into a youth epidemic, with teens being around nine times more likely than adu…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Individuals spend approximately 90% of their time indoors, so maintaining a good Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is important. Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is an essential component of IAQ, as t…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Coral reefs are some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, but are increasingly prone to bleaching due to warming ocean temperatures and acidification. Selective breeding of corals, es…
Materials Science
Large-scale reforestation efforts often struggle due to the large cost associated with seeding and low growth yield due to pest predation on seeds. To negate pests, blanket application of ch…
Animal Sciences
Coral reefs are rapidly declining due to climate change and pollution, with more than 80% of reefs worldwide at risk of bleaching. However, current restoration efforts cannot ensure long-ter…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Monitoring inland waters such as rivers, lakes, and coastal regions is essential for understanding environmental processes and detecting pollution. Conventional measurement buoys are station…
Software Design
Middle ear disorders are common but hard to diagnose without structural imaging. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) offers an accessible alternative to CT, yet it produces noisy and partial…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Cadenza is a music practice app that's designed to help musicians improve by providing immediate, accurate feedback on intonation, rhythm, tone, and harmony. Developed to bridge the gap for…
Software Design
Evaluating scientific claims requires synthesizing evidence across extensive literature, which is time-consuming for experts and challenging to automate. Existing approaches rely on expensiv…
Biomedical Engineering
Many people struggle to access their medication, especially those with reduced hand mobility caused by conditions such as arthritis, rheumatism or Parkinson's Disease. In my project, I have…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This study investigated the accumulation of heavy metals in lichens as bioindicators of air quality in southern Puerto Rico. The objective was to evaluate whether proximity to industrial act…
Embedded Systems
Since 1993, the IAEA has reported 4,243 radioactive accidents, causing deaths due to radioactive lost/stolen sources and leaks. Therefore, surveying contaminated areas using a UAV-based plat…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
By 2052, one quarter of the population will be over the age of 65, with adults over 85 the fastest growing segment. Supporting older adults to maintain their independence is a global priorit…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Referring 3D Gaussian Splatting Segmentation (R3DGS) is a newly proposed task in ICML 2025 Oral paper ReferSplat. Differ from previous 3D segmentation that simply select 3D objects, it empha…