Microbiology
One of the most important steps in the overall workflow of manufacturing a drug is ensuring that the mice in which the drug is tested are healthy; unhealthy or sick mice will provide inaccur…
Biomedical Engineering
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide, killing about 17.9 million people annually. Most CVDs are age-related, driven by gradual damage to blood vessels, als…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The growing prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases underscores the importance of improved diagnostic accuracy. Many proposed Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) have low interpretabil…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer globally, with over 1.9 million new cases and nearly 1 million deaths annually. The incidence of early-onset CRC, defined as cancer oc…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have emerged as a promising therapy for late-stage lung cancer. However, the response rate to ICIs remains low. As a result, there is a need to better und…
Animal Sciences
Birds generate calls and songs with distinct frequency patterns. Spectrograms have long been used to visualize those sound patterns by mapping changes in pitch and amplitude over time. While…
Embedded Systems
Cardiovascular and respiratory diseases make up 2 of the 3 leading causes of death globally amounting to more than 23 million people. More than half of these deaths are preventable with earl…
Embedded Systems
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a cornerstone of global innovation. However, current digital hardware, such as GPUs, faces critical computational bottlenecks with the growth of next-…
Environmental Engineering
Pumped storage hydropower (PSH) is a battery free, energy storage system that uses the potential energy of water to generate hydroelectric power. Our hypothesis was that we would be able to…
Physics and Astronomy
Recent discoveries like GJ 9827 d's water-rich atmosphere have brought to light an understudied class of exoplanets—water worlds. The discovery of water in this exoplanet atmosphere simultan…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a significant climate phenomenon with far-reaching impacts on global weather patterns, ecosystems, and economies. This study aims to enhance ENSO f…
Environmental Engineering
Oil spills pose serious threats to marine ecosystems, disrupting biodiversity and causing widespread environmental and economic damage. Conventional cleanup techniques—such as booms, skimmer…
Biomedical Engineering
The continuous monitoring of human physiological health without the presence of a doctor has been a recent subject of innovation. A popular method for detecting various factors involves anal…
Biomedical Engineering
Traditional auscultation devices and methods have inherent limitations in spatially localizing body sounds and suppressing interference—restricting their diagnostic potential. This project d…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Communication between the hearing impaired and the general people has long been an unresolved issue. Although sign language can solve this problem to some extent, sign language becomes ineff…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Wastewater runoff from textile industries – especially in regions with high amounts of both textile and agricultural production (typically east-Asian countries) – can seep into groundwater a…
Materials Science
This study investigated the effects of temperature, mordant additives, and pH on the colorfastness of natural substantive dyes. The hypothesis proposed that alum would enhance colorfastness…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The aim of this project is to determine how having two methods of movement (wheels and legs) affects the movement capabilities of a robot. First, a robot with both wheeled and quadruped syst…
Translational Medical Science
Wound care management is a major medical challenge, causing significant clinical, social, and economic burden. To address this, I developed WoundView, an AI-powered app for real-time wound a…
Physics and Astronomy
The extreme nature and strong gravity of black holes make them a great laboratory for testing our fundamental theories of the universe. We can not see black holes because their gravity is so…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The main goal is to build a robot that can manage plant diseases autonomously for efficient disease management in agriculture. Conventional approaches are time-consuming, laborious, and inac…
Plant Sciences
Huanglongbing (HLB) or the Citrus Greening Disease (Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus) is the most destructive citrus disease worldwide. Currently, no pesticide is registered to cure this di…
Animal Sciences
Anti-apoptotic B-cell leukemia/lymphoma (Bcl-2) family proteins are reported to be overexpressed in around half of all human cancers, linked to tumorigenesis, chemotherapy resistance, and po…
Animal Sciences
Chronic wasting disease(CWD) is a contagious, fatal prion disease found in cervids, specifically whitetail and mule deer, resulting in their decline. Data (sex, species, CWD status, and harv…
Embedded Systems
Water is essential for life, but accessing clean water is a challenge in many places due to pollution. In this study, we focus on plankton, tiny water organisms that can reveal a lot about w…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
The ability to visualize cell behavior within the 3-dimensional space of a tissue is invaluable for understanding cell function. Although open-source and professional software exist to analy…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
As the third largest coral barrier reef system in the world, the Florida Keys is home to thousands of marine life species and faces a myriad of threats resulting in a 90% decline in healthy…
Embedded Systems
Many studies estimate that over 150,000 police-reported accidents are caused by drowsy, distracted, or drunk driving, resulting in over 400,000 injuries and over 4,000 deaths annually. An em…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Leukodystrophies, rare genetic disorders that cause abnormal myelin development or destruction, have recently been discovered to be associated with the polr3a gene. This experiment aimed to…
Biomedical Engineering
Motivated by the increase in shoulder-related surgeries and the subsequent shortage in post-operative rehabilitation, an innovative pneumatic shoulder rehabilitation device was designed to m…