Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This project aims to develop compact robots that can be easily assembled and deployed, potentially in swarms. An autonomous mobile robot based on a Tensegrity structure is developed. The Ico…
Microbiology
It is important to find ways to study neuronal diseases or methods of treatment that are ethical, relevant, and effective. It is intriguing to see that the structure of fungal mycelium and n…
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…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Climate change continues to disrupt agricultural systems, making crop yield forecasting a critical component towards enabling climate resilience in agriculture. This project aimed to deciphe…
Software Design
Beef cattle producers collect years of breeding, pregnancy, and calving data, but typically analyze it using spreadsheets and manual review — methods too slow to reveal multi-year trends. It…
Embedded Systems
Visual impairment significantly limits an individual's ability to live independently and navigate their surroundings safely, often requiring external assistance. Current solutions, such as t…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Attentional fatigue reduces cognitive performance, increases reaction time variability, and increases error rates, especially in environments where safety is critical. This study developed a…
Materials Science
Nickel-Titanium (Ni-Ti) alloys dominate the shape memory alloy (SMA) market, but high costs limit their expansion. While iron-based SMAs (Fe-SMAs) offer a cheaper alternative, discovering co…
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…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Parkinson disease (PD) remains a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that is characterized by dopaminergic neuronal loss, immune metabolic dysregulation, and chronic neuroinflammation. Th…
Biomedical Engineering
Gliomas remain the deadliest form of brain cancer, with patients surviving one year post-diagnosis on average, 5-year survival rates as low as 5%, and no major treatment advances in the past…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As fossil fuels have been sent back to the head of the line for depletion, there is a need to continue to find alternative fuels. Algae has become a nuisance. In reaction to increased freque…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek increasingly influence how people access and interpret political information, raising concerns that they may subtly sh…
Physics and Astronomy
This project presents an in-line lens-free digital holographic imaging system capable of single-frame 3D reconstruction. I used a 532 nm monochromatic source to illuminate the sample, and th…
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…
Biochemistry
Water pollution by phenolic compounds and heavy metals poses a significant threat to aquatic ecosystems, creating a need for rapid, low-cost methods to assess environmental toxicity. Tyrosin…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Approximately 2.1 million people in the U.S. live with limb loss, with about 36% experiencing depression. Conventional non-invasive prosthetic control relies on electromyography (EMG), which…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Due to the need for unsafe or costly data collection to train a policy in the real world, sim-to-real transfer is the most common approach: learning a policy in simulation and deploying it i…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Peatland fires are among the most detrimental types of fires toward global warming, and are capable of releasing 10 times more carbon per hectare into the atmosphere than typical forest fire…
Environmental Engineering
This study presents the design, implementation, and validation of a low-cost autonomous water quality monitoring and forecasting system integrating embedded IoT hardware with an adaptive mac…
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…
Translational Medical Science
Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), are typically diagnosed after 50-80% neuronal loss, reflecting a critical failure of early…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures, and affects nearly 50 million people, causing ~140,000 deaths worldwide annually. Many of these deaths could be preve…
Translational Medical Science
Visual impairment (VI) affects 2.2 billion people worldwide, and 1 billion cases are preventable with early diagnosis. Retinal diseases are preventable causes of VI. Clinical Decision Suppor…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Background: Rupture of cerebral aneurysm, an abnormal bulging of the arterial wall, can lead to brain hemorrhage and stroke. Endovascular surgical treatment is highly invasive and poses sign…
Biomedical Engineering
Respiratory exacerbations are often detected only after symptoms become severe, limiting opportunities for early intervention. Current monitoring systems rely on clinic-based devices or sing…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Despite advances in immunotherapy, up to 60% of melanoma patients do not respond to treatment. Emerging evidence suggests that physical exercise enhances anti-tumor immunity; however, the mo…
Environmental Engineering
Early wildfire detection and prediction systems based on machine learning have typically relied on a single type of data, either meteorological data or satellite imagery, limiting their accu…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) negatively affects over 300 million people worldwide as the leading cause of disability, and suicide. Yet, current biomarkers fail to capture its biological h…