Biomedical and Health Sciences
One may be surprised to learn that the same ingredient, luteolin, is in a huge scope of supplements. Luteolin is the primary ingredient in therapeutic, neuroprotective, anti-inflammatory, an…
Biochemistry
Termite infestations pose a threat to infrastructure and crops throughout the world. Many current termiticides contain toxic carbamates, organophosphates, pyrethroids, and chlorinated hydroc…
Translational Medical Science
Dementia-related Cognitive Impairment (CI) is a neurodegenerative disorder, affecting over 55 million people worldwide and growing rapidly at the rate of one new case every three seconds. Th…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
The existence of adversarial examples, which are inputs that force neural networks to misclassify them, represents a major risk in safety-critical applications of deep learning, such as malw…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Global adolescent death is not primarily due to cardiovascular diseases, cancer, or other infectious diseases, but from suicide–the 2nd leading cause of death in adolescents. However, no obj…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
First Award
In order to develop complex relationships between their inputs and outputs, deep neural networks train, and adjust, a large number of parameters. To make these networks function at high accu…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
GenX, a fluorinated chemical, has been discovered in multiple drinking water supplies around the world. However, studies have found that GenX exhibits high cytotoxicity towards different hum…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Neurodegenerative diseases and cancerous brain tumors cause millions of patients worldwide to be fatally ill each year. Current diagnosis and treatment of these neurological conditions take…
Microbiology
In Western medicine, the search for new antibiotics is becoming increasingly urgent due to developing antibiotic resistance, and few novel antibiotics have been discovered in the last decade…
Biomedical Engineering
My research this year was devoted to creating a non-invasive method to efficiently detect Bronchial Carcinoma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Emphysema unaccompanied by deleterio…
Environmental Engineering
Soil scientists predict that there will not be enough sustainable soil on this planet to keep up with global agriculture demands by 2050. I developed an artificial soil and tested the hypoth…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
In this project through machine learning guided directed evolution, a novel Marine plastic degrading enzyme “Eco-Enzyme” was designed to reduce plastic pollution. It is estimated that there…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Accurate Age-At-Death (AAD) estimation is integral in determining biological profiles, specifically of unidentified and skeletonized human remains. To date, AAD estimation relies primarily o…
Embedded Systems
Emergency responders need devices that send digital information and communicate in weak-signal environments without using existing infrastructure. The researcher created a receiver capable o…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Antibiotic-resistant diseases, orphan diseases, and disease outbreaks are the cause of millions of deaths annually. Inefficient treatment of these diseases, alongside other diseases, contrib…
Biochemistry
Third Award
Drug-resistant infections are expected to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050. The increased prevalence of resistant bacteria has resulted in a scarcity of therapeutic alternatives, mak…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Our urban population is rapidly expanding, which will require a reduction in private transportation and the adoption of faster and more efficient public transportation. Magnetic levitating (…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Every passing year, more and more material is introduced into Earth's orbital environment. While regulations regarding end-of-life removal have steadily evolved over the past decades, hundre…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The objective of this project is to measure the effects of adaptive control on the performance of a wave energy converter (WEC). Ocean wave energy is one of the most promising sources of ren…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Maintaining optimal indoor air quality (IAQ), humidity, and household safety is a critical aspect of improving overall health. Poor IAQ and improper humidity have adverse health effects. To…
Biochemistry
First Award
There is a significant global need for tissue engineering scaffolds that are comparable to human tissue. Interestingly, the plant kingdom presents a striking similarity to human tissues, esp…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is responsible for 864,989 deaths annually, making it the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide. The leading upstream cause of cancer deaths is a lack of cli…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Synthesizability—the ability to build a compound using purchasable starting materials—is a vital consideration in computer-aided drug discovery; virtually created molecules are of no value i…
Systems Software
The Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) is an optimization problem in which a set of basis vectors is given, and one must determine an integer combination of these vectors such that the resultant…
Chemistry
Third Award
Nanoparticles are of significance because of their small size and unique characteristics. Few studies have been conducted on the synthesis of manganese nanoparticles. This project was among…
Environmental Engineering
Non-degradable organic dyes are used by many industries, like textiles, printing, plastics, leather, paper, and cosmetics. Many of these dyes have carcinogenic, mutagenic, and teratogenic ef…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project focused on proving that those with aphantasia are at a disadvantage when it comes to standardized testing. Aphantasia is the inability to form mental images of objects that are…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Current genetic databases provide a wealth of information accessible to the general population, but are primarily designed for usage by professionals already experienced in the fields of gen…
Mathematics
Third Award
The Rubik's Cube is the most popular puzzle in the world. Two of its studied aspects are God's Number, the minimum number of turns necessary to solve any state, and the First Law of Cubology…
Translational Medical Science
Second Award
The current practice of treating cancer with radiation, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy is a one-size-fits-all approach, in which patients with the same type and stage of cancer receive the…