Biomedical Engineering
This project centers around the ultimate goal of making cancer research more affordable and accessible to labs and students around the world. Cancer cells that grow in low-oxygen environment…
Biomedical Engineering
The current nurse to patient ratio in medical-surgical units spans from 1:4 to 1:6, however in long-term care units, this number can range anywhere from 1:15 to 1:30. Additionally, instances…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Lactase dietary supplements are widely used to address lactose intolerance, a condition where the small intestine produces insufficient lactase enzyme to break down lactose, the natural suga…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Brain cancer, or glioblastoma, is one of the most aggressive cancers, given the nutrient-dense environment of the brain. This cancer is very deadly, given the significance of the brain for t…
Animal Sciences
Genetic variation plays a key role in individual patient outcomes, particularly with age due to physical vulnerability. Rho1 is a gene in Drosophila melanogaster encoding proteins in the fam…
Chemistry
This project investigates the multi-spectroscopic characterization of Cobalt(II) meso-Tetra(4-sulfonatophenyl)Porphine (CoTPPS) and its metal-free counterpart, TPPS, under varying concentrat…
Biomedical Engineering
Elopement/wandering affects nearly 49% of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and 71% of these cases result in fatal outcomes. Existing tracking systems rely on cellular subscripti…
Materials Science
More than 50 million tons of electronic equipment waste is generated per year, creating a strong demand for sustainable conductive materials. Yet, biodegradable conductive materials face a c…
Biochemistry
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive primary brain tumor. It is associated with poor survival and frequent development of resistance to the first-line chemotherapeutic agent temozolomid…
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum computers use the principles of quantum mechanics — superposition, entanglement, and coherence — to solve problems that classical computers simply cannot. In the current era of Noisy…
Biomedical Engineering
Bleeding poses as the most serious cause of death in traumatic injury. Whenever someone is bleeding from one of their limbs, a tourniquet (TQ) is vital for stopping hemorrhage. TQs work by t…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Globally, 43 million blind and 295 million visually impaired individuals lack independent indoor mobility. Existing aids are either reactive (white canes), expensive (guide dogs), or ineffec…
Mathematics
Understanding interactions between the spread of multiple pathogens during an epidemic is crucial to assessing the severity of infections in living communities. I created two novel Multiplex…
Mathematics
In this study, I present a novel approach for model compression to reduce the size of neural network models. In recent years, with the rise of LLMs such as ChatGPT, deep learning models have…
Biomedical Engineering
Uncontrolled bleeding is a leading cause of preventable death in both civilian and combat trauma cases. My project, Smart Tourniquets, explores the development of an automatic tourniquet des…
Biomedical Engineering
Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of mortality worldwide, with most conditions requiring vascular stents to restore blood flow. However, complications such as restenosis—the r…
Translational Medical Science
Autoimmune diseases affect millions worldwide, yet many are difficult to diagnose due to biological complexity and variability across patients. I developed a computational pipeline to addres…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The increasing usage of autonomous machines and robotics necessitates effective control systems, such as PID (proportional-integral-derivative) controllers, to ensure stability and functiona…
Biomedical Engineering
The tumor suppressor protein p53, is mutated in 50% of human cancers. DNA damage activates kinases which stabilize p53 through phosphorylation and paradoxically can promote cancer cell survi…
Animal Sciences
Deep-sea octocorals are critical ecosystem engineers that form biodiversity-rich habitats and support commercially and pharmaceutically valuable species, yet remain understudied and increasi…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Our project determined that resazurin, a synthetic fluorescing agent originally used as a bioburden detector, is a practical fluorescing agent for quantifying NADH in cell-free reactions. We…
Biomedical Engineering
Neuroprosthetics offer more advanced functionality compared to traditional prosthetics, but their high cost and invasive procedures limit accessibility. This research focuses on developing a…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Track and Field athletes often have to walk on their spikes to get from place to place, this makes the spikes dull and less efficient. This project is meant to solve this problem, by creatin…
Physics and Astronomy
Sound waves are vibrations that travel through a medium and are characterized by frequency (pitch) and amplitude (volume). Humans can typically hear between 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz. A speaker is…
Physics and Astronomy
Previously, the Hadamard Random Walk was shown as a viable way for representing the maximum-likelihood estimate of the semantic fluency task, an important metric for assessing the semantic m…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Globally, an estimated 40-45 million people are blind, and an estimated 160 million are affected by deafness and blindness. Those who can hear can rely on speech to learn and communicate, wh…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
Industrial Reverse Osmosis (“RO”) provides safe drinking water to homes and is supplied by ocean water. As such, the quantity of waste water produced by this method is inconsequential. Notab…
Physics and Astronomy
The cause of the continual weakening of the weakest part of the geomagnetic field- the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA)- is currently unknown. The research problem discusses if Solar Proton Even…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Many in my grandfather's village are engaged in manual salt-farming, spending long hours by the sea under the blazing sun with little access to potable water. I researched suitable materials…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a molecular subset of breast cancer defined by a lack of estrogen, progesterone, and the human epidermal growth factor 2 (HER2) receptors. Currently,…