Embedded Systems
Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) are AI-driven drones designed to operate alongside manned fighter jets as part of the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance initiative. However, these…
Materials Science
Arsenic contamination in groundwater is a global public health concern, with many areas across the globe exceeding the World Health Organization’s maximum permissible limit of 10 µg/L. Healt…
Biomedical Engineering
Workers in physically demanding fields—such as healthcare, manufacturing, and logistics—face high rates of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) due to repetitive lifting and sustained strain. Cu…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs), like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, are characterized by impairment of synaptic plasticity, the brain's capacity to rewire connections critical for cognition…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Further optimization of renewable energy systems is crucial for efforts towards developing a sustainable future. Recently, offshore wind has become one of the most rapidly advancing solution…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Across the world, hundreds of millions of people are affected by a global inability to meet construction demands. In particular, widespread infrastructure inadequacy that will reach $100 tri…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project introduces an Artificial intelligence powered web application designed to assist in the early detection of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) through facial expression analysis. Usi…
Environmental Engineering
The vast majority of research vessels are restricted by their large size and their need to be captained, making it difficult, if not impossible, for remote, shallow, and hard-to-reach locati…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Each year, over 10,000,000 people lose their lives to cancer. Many current cancer therapies cause deleterious side effects for patients and have an inordinate cost, ultimately leading to pat…
Systems Software
A critical goal in robotics and autonomy is to teach robots to adapt to real-world collaborative tasks, particularly in automatic assembly. The ability of a robot to understand the original…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project primarily aimed to quantitatively assess gender differences in the attribution of certain mental disorders to certain gender identities. It secondarily assessed gender differenc…
Systems Software
The purpose of this engineering design project is to create and optimize an AI-based tool that uses a patient's textual descriptions of symptoms to predict the potential severity of their co…
Plant Sciences
Aquaponics is a process of producing food through a symbiotic relationship between fish, which provide nutrients, and plants, which purify water. This project assesses the effectiveness of n…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Metastatic prostate cancer (mPC) stands second in cancer-related mortality among men. As current treatment options are largely palliative, there is a dire need for novel therapeutic targets…
Microbiology
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is once again the world's deadliest infectious disease, after being replaced by COVID-19 for three years. The only approved vaccine f…
Microbiology
As artificial sweetener consumption rises, environmental contamination by sucralose has become a growing concern due to its persistence in aquatic ecosystems. Previous research has shown tha…
Translational Medical Science
Study Objective: The primary aim of this study was to investigate how P2X1 receptor activation in lung adenocarcinoma (LA) influences the tumor microenvironment, particularly in promoting pr…
Physics and Astronomy
A transit occurs when an exoplanet blocks the light from its host star to cause a unique dimming. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an all-sky scanning space telescope that…
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this project was to engineer a cyanobacteria mitigation device and test how deployed, regulated concentrations of hydrogen peroxide could kill cyanobacteria and how Great Mull…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Asymptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (aICH) patients present with either a decrease or no change in NIHSS scores, which may falsely indicate clinical improvement in the days leading up to th…
Animal Sciences
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the 7th leading cause of death worldwide. It is characterized by the buildup of amyloid-ß plaques that trigger neuroinflammation and increase oxidative stress, ca…
Mathematics
How likely is it that we are one of the luckiest among many evolutionary possibilities? The NK model, a mathematical exemplar describing Wright's fitness landscapes, has provided great insig…
Translational Medical Science
One of the most common complications of chemotherapy treatment is febrile neutropenia (FN), affecting 50% of patients with a mortality rate as high as 21%. Oftentimes, fever is the first and…
Systems Software
With the rise of Generative AI (Gen AI), academic dishonesty in the classroom has skyrocketed, with over 90% of students now admitting to using it for schoolwork. While Gen AI offers various…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Coral reefs are vital marine ecosystems that face mounting environmental challenges, including climate change and pollution, which contribute to coral degradation and bleaching. This project…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
5-Fluorouracil (5-FU), a common chemotherapy for solid tumors, is metabolized primarily by dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD), encoded by the DPYD gene. With > 200 known variants, individ…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Biologists often take sequential 2D images at different heights to study biological structures. Last year, one of us wrote software that creates a 3D rendering from these images. This year,…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
AutoMates presents a novel intelligent solution for multiple intelligent agents to self-learn performing complex, hard-to-optimize, and unpredictable tasks. It does this using a) a novel ite…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
A prevailing issue among the geriatric population is the difficulty of managing medication. With 36% of Americans over 65 using at least five prescription medications and 3% experiencing dem…
Biomedical Engineering
Uncontrolled bleeding is a leading cause of preventable death in both civilian and combat trauma cases. My project, Smart Tourniquets, explores the development of an automatic tourniquet des…