Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Wind energy is projected to contribute 35% of total energy production in USA by the year 2050. Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) have gained prominence due to their distinct advantages, i.…
Biomedical Engineering
Diabetic wounds pose a significant health challenge from the resilience of biofilms and the inflammation of the wound environment. Current antibiotics often lack targeted and adaptive respon…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
PhoenixH2 is dedicated to enhancing the feasibility of clean aviation by developing and flight-testing a small-scale aircraft powered by onboard hydrogen production. With aviation responsibl…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Coral reefs are a vital ecosystem that thousands of species rely on. However, with climate changing, coral reefs are struggling. The “Cnidaria” Project serves as a tool for scientists to acc…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The use of antibiotics to inhibit breast cancer cell proliferation is a novel approach to cancer treatment. Antibiotics, such as gentamicin and chloramphenicol, primarily known for their ant…
Plant Sciences
As of 2024, micronutrient deficiency cases are increasing throughout the world. To counter this, my experiment aimed to improve micronutrient availability in barley low-phytic acid (lpa) mut…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Currently, there is a noticeable lack of AI in the medical field to support doctors in treating heterogenous diseases such as Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), which has a five-year survival ra…
Embedded Systems
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a cornerstone of global innovation. However, current digital hardware, such as GPUs, faces critical computational bottlenecks with the growth of next-…
Biomedical Engineering
The project presents a groundbreaking approach to enhance human health through the eye with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technology through a smartphone attachment. By lev…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
My study examines three new brown dwarf spectral binary candidates, CWISE J072708.09-360729.2, CWISE J103604.84-514424.4, and CWISE J134446.62-732053.9, which were discovered by citizen scie…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Increasing pollution in large water bodies poses a significant threat to the availability of safe drinking water. As pollutants (surfactants) decrease interfacial tension, when a contaminant…
Translational Medical Science
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is an intracranial damage common among soldiers and impact-sport athletes. In severe cases, TBI is associated with neurodegeneration and dementia if left untreat…
Materials Science
Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) are a novel state of matter that exhibit unique characteristics where atoms behave as waves. BECs are highly sensitive to magnetic fields, and precision expe…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
I characterized placenta and fetal brain tissues on the cellular level by leveraging single-cell (sc)RNA-seq data from pregnant pigtail macaques (Macaca nemestrina). My hypothesis was that t…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Global warming is a significant threat to the environment. Increased pollution and fossil fuels are being released into the environment, and one of the main culprits is cars. Both gasoline c…
Translational Medical Science
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a heritable heart muscle disease and is the leading cause of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in young adults and teenagers, most notably youth athletes. HCM h…
Physics and Astronomy
First Award
Continuous gravitational waves (CW) are long-lasting, monochromatic gravitational waves (GW), produced by persistent quadrupolar variations of dense matter resulting from rapidly spinning as…
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 $…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Fourth Award
One of the greatest challenges for blind and visually impaired individuals (BVIs) is in learning STEM subjects. Many key concepts, like graphs and molecules, are hard to comprehend without t…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
First Award
By leveraging modern flight computer capabilities, I designed and flight tested an oblique wing aircraft (an efficient variable-sweep design where one wing sweeps forward and the other sweep…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Breast cancer affects 2.3 million women annually with the five-year survival rate for Triple-negative-breast-cancer (TNBC) being 12%. Current immunotherapy treatments are effective only in 2…
Translational Medical Science
Leukemia is a blood cell cancer ranking 15th in worldwide cancer incidence and 10th in death. The gut microbiome and its metabolites, e.g., short-chain fatty acids like propionate, are thoug…
Biomedical Engineering
The aim of this project is to develop a mobile app that can detect drug/alcohol intoxication levels in individuals using eye-pupil analysis. The app will utilize computer vision algorithms t…
Systems Software
Smart technology can be used not only to expand human capabilities but also to compensate for lost human functions. Making these technological advances accessible for everyone is a noble cou…
Physics and Astronomy
The recent emergence of research surrounding the superconducting diode effect (SDE) has led to greater understanding of the theory underpinning the mechanism. Previous works have found that…
Systems Software
Natural Language Processing systems such as GloVe are necessary for computer interpretations of human language. Previous research has used these systems to predict genomes or stocks. After t…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Microbial DNA is a novel analyte for early cancer detection. Although recent studies have found distinct communities of bacteria and fungi between tumor types, they have not investigated mic…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Drug discovery, a complex and time-consuming process, heavily relies on determining affinities between drugs and targets. With the introduction of computational methods, researchers can now…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Autism Spectrum Disorder is one of the leading neurodevelopmental disorders in our world, present in over 1% of the population and rapidly increasing in prevalence, yet the condition lacks a…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
The current ways to diagnose depression are heavily dependent on patients self-reporting their symptoms which is closely related to its high rate of misdiagnoses. The purpose of this investi…