Embedded Systems
On average, every 3 seconds a car hits a pedestrian, and every minute one is killed. Hindsight is a low-cost wearable sensor that alerts pedestrian users of vehicles approaching from behind…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Parkinson's disease progression is worsened by chronic neuroinflammation and excessive microglial activation, making inflammatory pathways promising therapeutic targets. Among these strategi…
Microbiology
The bacterium Vibrio cholerae has evolved unipolar sheathed flagellum as the main organelle to drive motility and facilitate biofilm formation and colonization in host cells although the und…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In trauma and mass casualty events, hemorrhage remains a leading cause of preventable death as definitive car is often delayed by limited access to safe, compatible donor blood. Deployment o…
Embedded Systems
Paralysis afflicts 15.4 million people globally, growing by 0.5 million annually, with an additional 2.5 million Americans experiencing severe arm mobility impairment, with prosthetics costi…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Triple negative breast cancer is notoriously difficult to treat bacause it lacks estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors, and HER2 protein that drive the majority of breast cancers and th…
Biomedical Engineering
Assistive grasping of slippery, delicate, or thin objects remains challenging for hand-impaired individuals. Current prosthetic hands and soft grippers often rely on rigid linkages or bulky…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In fields such as exploration or inspection in hazardous environments, the ability to navigate terrain safely is crucial. This is often done through robotics; however, traditional systems (r…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Ischemic injury causes neuronal loss and neurological deficits, challenging stroke recovery. After injury, a glial scar forms, but its regulation of neural stem cell (NSC) fate remains uncle…
Translational Medical Science
Intracranial aneurysms (IAs) often rupture before detection, causing hemorrhagic stroke that is fatal in 50% of cases. Expensive ($800 - $8400) hospital-based diagnostic tests are conducted…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Stroke is a critical global health issue, and many cases are preventable if risk factors are identified early. Current risk assessment approaches often separate behavioral and neurophysiolog…
Mathematics
Purpose: A set of two new operators contribute to the development of a new theorem on jumpability that, together with a six-fold characterization of dimensional-expansions, are used to estab…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Autonomous vehicle (AV) research has focused on structured, high-income Western environments, leaving dense, variable developing regions underexplored. This project develops three prototypes…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Computational annotation of protein function remains severely constrained by the vast gap between available sequences and experimentally validated characterizations. Current methods often fa…
Translational Medical Science
Breast cancer recurrence rates reach up to 50%, yet existing clinical tools rely on single modality data or repeated medical check-ups. My model, OncoTwin, is a novel recurrence-risk predict…
Physics and Astronomy
Prior to the first unambiguous discovery in 2011, circumbinary planets (CBPs), planets orbiting two stars or eclipsing binaries (EBs), were considered unlikely to exist due to the perturbati…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The need for efficient, actuated robotic systems has increased with modern integration, disaster relief scenarios, and stealth tech. The Perching Hybrid Omni-environment Navigation Integrate…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Because exact earthquake prediction remains unavailable and retrofit budgets are limited, I developed a physics-anchored continuous space-time model to rank where short-term regional seismic…
Plant Sciences
Phytochrome B (phyB) is a plant photoreceptor that forms nuclear photobodies involved in temperature sensing. While photobody size has been studied, the mechanism controlling photobody numbe…
Plant Sciences
Powdery mildew is one of the most widespread and damaging agricultural diseases in the world. As the nation's leading agricultural region, Fresno, California’s 9 billion annual crop revenue…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common malignant brain cancer in adults, and patient survival still remains low. However, 83% of GBM cases have Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase promoter (TERT…
Materials Science
Following the infamous January 2025 Palisades Wildfire that devastated our Southern California community, an urgent need was identified for a lightweight respirator capable of protecting fir…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Azole antifungals have served as frontline therapies for Candida infections. However, increasing azole-resistant Candida species presents a real clinical challenge requiring alternative anti…
Embedded Systems
Wilderness search-and-rescue (SAR) operations across U.S. national parks exceed 4,000 to 4,500 incidents annually, with over 40,000 missions between 2015 and 2025. In August 2024, a multi-da…
Microbiology
Phytochemicals are naturally occurring compounds in plants, relatively understudied for their ability to interfere with bacterial communication mechanisms, and the underlying modes of action…
Chemistry
Ammonia fertilizers feed over half of the global population. However, its synthesis through the Haber-Bosch process is extremely unsustainable, leading to over 20% of global chemical CO2 emi…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder affecting ~12 million worldwide, causing >329,000 deaths annually, with 80% of cases strongly influenced by cognitive impairm…
Translational Medical Science
AI-powered breast cancer diagnostics remain inaccessible in low-resource settings due to patient privacy constraints, high hardware costs, and bandwidth limitations. This project designed an…
Biomedical Engineering
Diaphragm dysfunction is a major cause of respiratory failure, affecting millions of patients worldwide. Current assistive solutions rely on invasive approaches with high complication rates,…
Chemistry
Accurate and rapid analysis of amino acids is essential for metabolomics and disease related biomarker studies. 19F NMR spectroscopy offers high sensitivity and no biological background sign…