Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis posits that highly sparse, trainable subnetworks ('winning tickets') exist within all randomly initialized neural networks. However, state-of-the-art ticket-dra…
Translational Medical Science
Can neuron resilience be predicted as topological failure of cellular identity? Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease marked by TDP-43 aggregation and moto…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Traditional forest fire monitoring suffers from inherent flaws, including early warning lag, safety risks of manual sensor deployment in complex terrain, limited flight endurance of conventi…
Translational Medical Science
Dementia affects 55 million people globally, projected to reach 139 million by 2050. Although deep learning models achieve 90–98% accuracy for dementia classification, clinical adoption is h…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
XenoFold is a chemistry-conditioned generative framework designed to computationally propose enzymes capable of degrading xenobiotic pollutants. The system integrates reaction-aware molecula…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
With over 1.8 million deaths from lung cancer annually, it is imperative to develop immunotherapies that precisely target these tumors while minimizing off-target effects on healthy cells. A…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
When disaster strikes, the difference between life and death often comes down to timely information. First responders need an aerial view immediately, but current drones capable of both vert…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Hydrogen has emerged as a promising green energy storage solution due to its on-demand energy release through fuel cells. However, major barriers to wide-scale adoption remain: inefficiency…
Plant Sciences
The fall armyworm is a destructive pest affecting more than 80 plant species, most notably maize, resulting in an estimated $9.4 billion in annual agricultural losses. As the global populati…
Materials Science
Various factors, such as inflation, tariffs, deforestation, disease, and increasing manufacturing costs, have led to scarcity and high material costs in recent years. Annually, billions of p…
Animal Sciences
Anti-apoptotic B-cell leukemia/lymphoma (Bcl-2) proteins are overexpressed in around half of human cancers, linked to tumorigenesis, chemotherapy resistance, and poor prognosis. Effectively…
Physics and Astronomy
Neutrino oscillation measurements aim to find fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model, but precision is limited by our inability to distinguish genuine signals from interfering nuclear…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Fixed-wing UAVs have greater efficiency, flight range, and speed compared to traditional multirotor drones, making them more suitable for applications like geological surveillance, weather s…
Chemistry
Acetaminophen is a widely used non-opioid analgesic and antipyretic medication, with over sixty million weekly consumers in the U.S. alone. Unfortunately, its toxicity is a leading cause of…
Microbiology
Every one in five adults carry a genetic mutation related disease (Cross 2017). Current neoadjuvant and nanoparticle therapies are ineffective in treatment due to rapid tumor drug resistance…
Systems Software
This study investigates the application of OpenAI's Whisper Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model, fine-tuned to improve speech recognition accuracy for individuals with moderate to mild…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
To bridge the gap between the increasing demand in the STEM workforce and the mathematician shortage, we constructed a children's book that combined the definition and applications of a comp…
Chemistry
In our project, we examined the use of acids in the building demolition industry. Many structures from the mid 20th century are nearing the end of their lifespan for safe and effective use.…
Translational Medical Science
Neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease affect approximately 55 million people worldwide and are expected to double every 20 years. Standard detection methods, such as cerebrosp…
Chemistry
The purpose of this experiment was to see how hydrogen (H2) incorporation during production of thin films affects the stability and opto-electronic properties of various thin films. It was p…
Physics and Astronomy
The growth of space debris in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) risks the current operation of satellites and spacecrafts. The Kessler Syndrome, in which debris is projected to grow at an exponential ra…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project was meant to assess the public health risk posed by arsenic (As) in Texas drinking water on a local and statewide scale, find out if climate was affecting As concentrations stat…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project is a computer program designed to model the siting of offshore wind farms in the North Atlantic Ocean, providing the user with the knowledge to optimally locate them for maximum…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics have become a prevalent global environmental issue, with an estimated 75 trillion microplastics in the oceans today. MPs pose dangers to wildlife and cause serious health issue…
Physics and Astronomy
Sound waves are all around us, but we never think about how they can be controlled or focused like light can be. My project explores if sound waves can be bent or concentrated using gases wi…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in electroencephalography (EEG) responses between active and passive sensory stimulation to identify neural patterns beneficial for i…
Biomedical Engineering
Heart failure is a leading cause of mortality worldwide, with the limited regenerative ability of the human heart posing a significant obstacle. Ischemic injury such as myocardial infarction…
Systems Software
Throughout synthetic biology among other domains, artificial neural networks (ANNs), through the replication of biological neural networks, have aided and automated several applications. Wit…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Myocardial infarction, the leading cause of death in America, can be prevented by detecting risk factors early. I investigated the relationship between urine albumin-creatinine ratio (uACR)…
Translational Medical Science
Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) remains a significant health concern, accounting for over 436,000 deaths annually in the United States. An electrocardiogram (EKG) signal can help to identify ris…