Translational Medical Science
Airborne Neurotropic Viruses (ANVs) are emergent invasive neuropathogens, affecting 300-500 million people and being responsible for >700,000 deaths annually. Early neurotropic transcriptomi…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Structural comparison between proteins is key to many research tasks, including evolutionary analysis, peptidomimetics, and functional annotation. Traditional structure alignment tools such…
Animal Sciences
There have been calls for replacing synthetic food dyes, including Yellow 5 (tartrazine), with natural dyes, including beta-carotene extract from the microalgae Dunaliella salina. The projec…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is a synthetic polymer commonly found in cosmetic products such as shampoos and conditioners. Its widespread use raises environmental concerns due to its accumulati…
Software Design
This project advances audio augmentation in augmented reality (AR) by developing a music-theoretic spatial sonification method. Although AR is increasingly used in education and entertainmen…
Embedded Systems
Around 40% of electromagnet coil failures result from overheating-induced enamel degradation. Implementing a current limit as the magnetic core saturates can reduce this overheating and prev…
Physics and Astronomy
Current drug design methods treat proteins as rigid structures, failing to capture functional high-energy states. This contributes to 40–50% of clinical-stage drug failures. Mapping continuo…
Microbiology
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterial agent of tuberculosis, has become resistant to many traditional antibiotics due to its thick, lipid-rich membrane. Phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) is…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Poetry rewriting requires more than fluent paraphrasing; it must preserve the source poem’s meaning while reproducing a target author’s persona, including diction, cadence, punctuation, and…
Materials Science
Plastic recycling is limited by mis-sorting across polymer families and additives. Current identification methods, such as SPI resin codes, labels, and visible/near-infrared/Fourier Transfor…
Plant Sciences
Pests are a serious problem as they cause drastic negative impacts on global food production. The current solution, using pesticides, causes even bigger issues: having detrimental impacts on…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Pedestrian-vehicle conflict at intersections is a major safety challenge, as conventional fixed-time traffic signals do not adapt to real-time pedestrian crossing behavior and drivers often…
Software Design
This project addressed a critical gap in adolescent mental health support by expanding TheraBee, an artificial intelligence-powered screening and support-routing application for teenagers. T…
Software Design
Thermal anomaly detection from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is increasingly used for applications such as early wildfire discovery, post-disaster monitoring, and infrastructure inspection…
Biomedical Engineering
Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the fastest-growing neurological disorders worldwide, yet objective tools for monitoring speech and gait decline outside specialist clinics remain limited,…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This project aims to engineer the next-generation cooling device using ionic wind technology. This system consists of a high-voltage emitter and collector electrodes that generate and attrac…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In the first 6 hours following a building collapse, the chance of finding a survivor is approximately 60%, but drops to less than 10% by the 48th hour. This research developed a soft biomime…
Biomedical Engineering
This project addresses the accessibility gap in hypertension monitoring by developing a low-cost, cuffless blood pressure device. With 48.1% of U.S. adults affected by high blood pressure, m…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Liver cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) as the most common type. HCC shows disparities across race, gender, and ethnic…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
CRISPR Cas9 is a gene-editing tool that holds immense importance for precision medicine, yet off-target effects remain as a major challenge. This project aims to design ligand-functionalized…
Biomedical Engineering
Early diagnosis of retinoblastoma (RB) in the current clinical practice remains challenging due to the lack of access to timely and accurate eye examinations which is essential as late stage…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
With the increased use of 3D printers, there exists a need to recycle filament purge and failed prints. Traditionally, filament is produced via shredded material fed through an extrusion mac…
Systems Software
Heart murmurs are abnormal sound signals generated by turbulent blood flow and are closely associated with specific structural heart disorders. Current murmur analysis methods only look towa…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. and remains incurable. Most existing therapeutics target beta-amyloid plaques, but plaque removal has shown no evid…
Biochemistry
Infertility affects over 186 million people globally and is mechanistically linked to oxidative stress-induced mitochondriopathy, genomic instability, and chronic inflammation. These patholo…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disease (NDD) that is characterized by the gradual loss of dopaminergic neurons and progressive motor impairment. Recent studies sugges…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Poverty is a pervasive issue worldwide, and poverty prediction is crucial for developing interventions that alleviate hardship and reduce cyclical inequality. This project focuses on poverty…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This project presents an innovative Thrust-Vectoring Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) specifically designed to perform contact-based inspections(ultrasonic crack detection, wave check, and adhe…
Biomedical Engineering
Many individuals with lower-limb immobility lack access and motivation to engaging and effective upper-body strength training. This project aims to address this problem with Smartbell, a chi…
Biomedical Engineering
Over 462 million individuals suffer from Type II Diabetes worldwide. However, current glucose monitors are painful, costly, and unsustainable. This project establishes a novel, non-invasive…