Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Globally, tens of millions of people suffer from lower body impairments, including spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, stroke, and muscular dystrophies, leading to loss of independent mobi…
Translational Medical Science
Stroke, the 2nd leading cause of death(>7M) and 3rd leading cause of disability (94M) worldwide, is a time-critical emergency. Rapid, accurate stroke detection and severity assessment during…
Biomedical Engineering
Non-invasive BCIs such as EEG and fNIRS are limited by low spatial resolution and high latency, while invasive neural implants require surgery and pose biocompatibility risks. Existing close…
Biomedical Engineering
This project seeks to address the global need for affordable, early screening tools for diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) by engineering a low-cost, self-contained wearable glove that qua…
Translational Medical Science
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that impairs motor function, making early detection crucial for slowing disease progression and managing symptoms. However, current d…
Mathematics
Purpose: A set of two new operators contribute to the development of a new theorem on jumpability that, together with a six-fold characterization of dimensional-expansions, are used to estab…
Chemistry
N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have emerged as excellent spectator ligands in homogeneous catalysis, especially in transfer hydrogenation reactions. Transfer hydrogenation, the reduction of…
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…
Animal Sciences
Bees pollinate the flowers of many fruit trees which produce a significant proportion of our food supply. It is therefore important to improve beekeeping practices to produce healthier bees…
Biomedical Engineering
Distal pulse assessment during closed fracture reduction in pre-hospital emergency care is typically performed intermittently and subjectively, leaving windows where vascular compromise may…
Environmental Engineering
This project was designed to tackle the growing problem of the invasive Burmese Python in the Florida Everglades. Since these snakes are hard to find, standard hunting methods did not work w…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common sexually transmitted bacterial infection in the United States. It is frequently asymptomatic, yet can result in severe reproductive complications. Wh…
Biomedical Engineering
Background Heart failure affects 64 million people annually. Transplants are in chronic shortage, especially for pediatric patients. Total artificial heart (TAH) promises a solution; however…
Embedded Systems
Falls are the second leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide, responsible for over 684,000 deaths annually. Existing solutions leave critical gaps. Preventive approaches like s…
Microbiology
An estimated $6 billion USD will be lost in 2026 globally due to disease outbreaks in aquaculture facilities, particularly from Vibrio coralliilyticus, a pathogen that infects corals, fish a…
Translational Medical Science
Embryo selection for Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) is routinely based on subjective parameters. In most modern In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) labs a quantitative approach for embryo selection i…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Hydrogen is a promising clean fuel, yet most global production still relies on fossil fuel intensive processes. Biogenic hydrogen offers a renewable alternative, but natural microbes suffer…
Physics and Astronomy
Current drug design methods treat proteins as rigid structures, failing to capture functional high-energy states. This contributes to 40–50% of clinical-stage drug failures. Mapping continuo…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Autonomous vehicle (AV) research has focused on structured, high-income Western environments, leaving dense, variable developing regions underexplored. This project develops three prototypes…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Prescribed burning and mechanical thinning are forest treatments commonly used to alter forest structures for wildfire mitigation. In 2001, the National Fire and Fire-Surrogate (FSS) Study e…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Computational annotation of protein function remains severely constrained by the vast gap between available sequences and experimentally validated characterizations. Current methods often fa…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
HER2 is associated with cancer progression in breast and gastric cancer, and, while HER2-targeted antibody therapy has improved responsiveness, approximately half of patients with HER2-posit…
Translational Medical Science
Cancer remains one of the leading causes of mortality due in part to the limitations of current diagnostic methods, which often rely on single biomarkers and fail to capture the systemic bio…
Biomedical Engineering
Ovarian cancer subtype diagnosis in current clinical practice remains challenging because it relies on expert pathologists and advanced computational infrastructure, which are often unavaila…
Translational Medical Science
Breast cancer recurrence rates reach up to 50%, yet existing clinical tools rely on single modality data or repeated medical check-ups. My model, OncoTwin, is a novel recurrence-risk predict…
Chemistry
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising alternatives to conventional antibiotics due to their membrane-disruptive activity, but clinical translation is hindered by host cytotoxicity, poo…
Materials Science
This study represents the synthesis and optimization of drug-loaded PLGA nanoparticles, and analysis of the structure, release, and in vitro kinetic studies. To enhance the bioavailability a…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Installed wind power capacity has tripled in the last decade, motivating significant research in wind turbine performance optimization. Traditional optimization methods often evaluate blades…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Improving structural efficiency in aircraft wings is a critical objective in aerospace engineering, particularly as the industry moves toward more sustainable and lightweight designs. Wing r…
Software Design
Electromyographic (EMG) signals carry neural control information and are widely utilized in neural-machine interfaces (NMIs) for applications such as prosthetic control and virtual reality.…