Congratulations to all the Engineering and Computer Science students who participated in the 2025 Research Day. There were 97 poster presentations in total along with a keynote lecture by Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Charles Driscoll.
POSTER PRESENTATION AWARDS
First Place (tied): Wanning Ding - Breaking the Mempool Bottleneck: Defending Blockchain Transactions from Asymmetric DoS Attacks. Advisor: Dr. Yuzhe Tang
First Place (tied): Ruosi Qiao - Is Less Really More? Fake News Detection with Limited Information. Advisor: Dr. Yeqing Wang
First Place (tied): Anthony Watt - Prediction of Drug-Induced Cardiotoxicity Using Machine Learning Analysis of hiPSC-CM Functional Dynamics. Advisor: Dr. Zhen Ma
First Place (tied): Frank Chen - Continuous Stress Monitoring with Wearable Devices: A Multimodal Framework for Real-Time Assessment. Advisor: Dr. Vir Phoha
First Place(tied): Ratnakshi Mandal - Unlocking the Secrets of DNA and RNA packing. Advisor: Dr. Shikha Nangia
First Place(tied): Poojan Kaswekar - Enhanced dendrite suppression via hybrid interlayer in all-solid-state lithium-metal batteries. Advisor: Dr. Quinn Qiao
Second Place (tied): Cole Wilhelm - Investigation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells with Varying Hydrogen/Ammonia Fuel Mixtures. Advisor: Dr. Jeongmin Ahn
Second Place (tied): Jing Cheng - Harnessing Natural Oscillations for High-Speed, Efficient Asymmetrical Locomotion in Quadrupedal Robots. Advisor: Dr. Zhenyu Gan
Second Place (tied): Michael Seitz - Deciphering peri-implantation human development with stem-cell-based embryonic models. Advisor: Dr. Era Jain
Second Place (tied): Mingrui Jiang - The quaternary structure origin of the fibrillation of sickle hemoglobin: a molecular dynamics study. Advisor: Dr. Zhao Qin
Second Place (tied): Sevde Nur Can - A Smart Answer to Wound Healing: Vanillic Acid-Incorporated Polyurethane Shape Memory Polymer Foams for Hemorrhage and Infection Management. Advisor: Dr. Mary Beth Monroe
Second Place (tied): Ashok Thapa - Oscillating Heat Pipe with Highest Thermal Conductivity. Advisor: Dr. Shalabh C. Maroo
Third Place (tied): David Moses - Polymer-Modified Catalysts for Improved Biomass Conversion Processes. Advisor: Dr. Theodore Walker
Third Place (tied): Zixi Wang - Asynchronous Decentralized Federated Learning Deconstructs Excessively Large Batches. Advisor: Dr. M. Cenk Gursoy
Third Place (tied): Chenxu Zhao - Soft Shell Grippers with Highly Tunable Dry Adhesion through Low Negative Pressure for Universal Manipulation. Advisor: Dr. Wanliang Shan
Third Place (tied): Riliang Li - Numerical Study on the Influence of Unbonded Reinforcement on Strengthened Reinforced Concrete Beams. Advisor: Dr. Riyad Aboutaha
Third Place (tied): Zehui Han - Active topography with mucin coating inhibits biofilm formation by interrupting bacterial motility. Advisor: Dr. Dacheng Ren
Third Place (tied): Haodong Yang - Combinatorial Group Testing in Presence of Deletions. Advisor: Dr. Venkata Gandikota
Honorable Mention: Yasser Alqaham - 16 Ways to Gallop: Energetics and Body Dynamics of High-Speed Quadrupedal Gaits. Advisor: Dr. Zhenyu Gan
Honorable Mention: Natalie Petryk - Biodegradable and Bioactive Polyurethane Foams to Improve Traumatic Wound Healing. Advisor: Dr. Mary Beth Monroe
Honorable Mention: Matthew Qualters - SPOD Analysis of Experimental Flow Control within a Supersonic Multi-Stream Rectangular Nozzle. Advisor: Dr. Fernando Zigunov
Honorable Mention: Shao-Peng Yang - COMETS: Cost-effective Multi-node Efficient Training System with Memory Pooling and Sharing. Advisor: Dr. Bryan Kim
Honorable Mention: Paul Sagoe - Tailoring Polymeric Nanoparticles Properties for Enhanced Targeted Delivery to Macrophage Subpopulation. Advisor: Dr. Era Jain
Honorable Mention: Pardha Sourya Nayani - Approaching fundamental limits on bandwidth-to-thickness ratio for electrically thin absorbers through dispersion engineering. Advisor: Dr. Younes Ra'di
