Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Mapping long - range axonal projections is critical for understanding neural circuit dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases. While machine learning ( ML ) tools have advanced volumetric c…
Mathematics
Currently, seqNMF is the leading algorithm for extracting repeated temporal motifs from neuronal recordings. However, it is computationally expensive, requiring manual regularization tuning…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Electrohydrodynamic ( EHD ) propulsion, also known as ionic wind, is capable of producing thrust with no moving components. Using emitter and collector electrodes, EHD thrusters ionize and a…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The go/no-go (GNG) task is a well-known paradigm for studying reactive inhibition. While traditional GNG tasks use repetitive presentations of letters or other visual stimuli, there is an in…
Translational Medical Science
Drug repurposing involves identifying new therapeutic uses for existing drugs that have already been approved or tested for other diseases, offering a faster and lower-cost alternative to tr…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Dementia affects more than 55 million people worldwide, and its prevalence is projected to nearly triple by 2050. A major clinical challenge is identifying individuals who are likely to expe…
Translational Medical Science
Purpose: About 7.2 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's Disease (AD), with the number expected to to double by 2060. Currently used drugs for AD only reduce disease symptoms and mar…
Microbiology
Food waste accounts for 58% of methane emissions from municipal solid waste landfills (MSWLF), one of the top three sources of greenhouse gas emissions globally. Over 96% of MSWLFs lack deco…
Software Design
Effective communication between air traffic controllers and pilots is very important for aviation safety. In this project, I use automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language proce…
Biomedical Engineering
A trocar is a device that creates ports in the abdominal wall to allow for laparoscopic and endoscopic surgeries. Trocar insertion has been associated with several surgical injuries due to s…
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…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The requirement for millikelvin refrigeration is a dominant barrier for scaling quantum computing and unlocking its potential for groundbreaking research across numerous fields. As qubits ar…
Microbiology
Chlamydia trachomatis (Ctr) causes over 130 million urogenital infections annually. Despite high genetic similarity, Chlamydia muridarum (Cm) exhibits different host tropism. Interspecies di…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Alzheimer's disease and dementia present a global health crisis characterized by progressive cognitive decline that traditional pharmacology struggles to reverse. This study, "Cognitive Stim…
Materials Science
Unexpected polymorphic transitions occur in over 50% of pharmaceutical drugs as they pack themselves into 2+ distinct lattice arrangements. These differing molecular structures destabilize t…
Chemistry
Controlled drug delivery systems can improve chemotherapy effectiveness while reducing side effects. This study investigated how pH and polymer coatings affect the release of doxorubicin fro…
Biochemistry
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) represents one of the most prominent forms of synthetic plastic pollution, accounting for over 50 million tons of annual waste worldwide. Although the discov…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project's purpose is to explore a novel hybrid energy harvesting model that uses two kinds of sustainable harvesting that tap into unused energy in the world, piezoelectric and electrom…
Environmental Engineering
The research aimed to develop an environmentally friendly and cost-effective sorbent product made from coconut husks and activated carbon for oil spills clean-up. Results showed that the sor…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The World Health Organization (WHO) states over 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water, exposing them to heavy metals, pesticides, and microbial toxins that cause cancer and dev…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Purpose: Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer death in women, and while immunotherapies are effective, many patients do not benefit. Current methods to assess tumor immune activity rel…
Embedded Systems
In this project, the researcher developed the engineering goal of creating a real-time drone system that would fly over an area, state the location of each invasive plant, create a risk asse…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Everyday behavior is shaped by both conscious and unconscious processes. While neuroscience research has traditionally focused on brain activity associated with conscious perception, far les…
Physics and Astronomy
Graphene has been proposed as a hydrogen storage medium capable of alleviating the concerns that come with other forms of hydrogen storage. However, current studies rely on pristine graphene…
Chemistry
Glioma is a brain tumor with a high mortality rate, partly because symptoms such as cognitive changes often emerge only after substantial tumor growth. CD44, a transmembrane protein overexpr…
Translational Medical Science
Background: Optimizing performance and enhancing resilience among military personnel who are frequently exposed to traumatic situations is challenging. Outstanding physical fitness, the foun…
Mathematics
An infinite iterated function system (IFS) associated with local inverse branches of the Riemann xi-function near its simple zeros is constructed. Throughout, all zeros of the xi-function ar…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Parkinson's disease (PD) affects over 10 million people globally. It is driven by the intrinsically disordered (IDP) protein a-synuclein (asyn). While asyn's flexibility is functional, it en…
Translational Medical Science
Meniscus injuries are among the most common orthopedic conditions, with approximately 1 million surgeries annually. Injuries in the avascular zone cannot self-regenerate, and modern scaffold…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder requiring early intervention, yet screening is often delayed due to a dependency on expensive, in-person clinical assessments.…