Carmen Ciardiello

Thesis Title: Computational Analysis of a New Planar Mixing Layer Flame Configuration to Study Soot Inception

Thesis Advisor: Carbone Francesco

Honors Degree Major: Mechanical Engineering

Additional Majors and Minors:

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Drug treatment; retrospective analysis

 

 

Noah Del Coro

Thesis Title: High Power Electronic Speed Controller Integration for Drone Flight Control (NASA)

Thesis Advisor: Dani Ashwin

Honors Degree Major: Electrical Engineering

Additional Majors and Minors: CSE double major, mathematics minor

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Drone analysis; flight efficiency; mechanical optimization

 

 

Evan Faulkner

Thesis Title: Uniform Linear Array Beamforming Implementation for Software Defined Radio Platforms

Thesis Advisor: Anwar A

Honors Degree Major: Electrical Engineering

Additional Majors and Minors: Honors degree: BSE EE, CL; Dual degree BA Math, CL

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Underwater acoustic communication strategies;

 

 

Gregory Foss

Thesis Title: Mobile Application Architecture, Design, and Implementation for Personal Wardrobe Management

Thesis Advisor: Johnson Joseph

Honors Degree Major: Computer Science & Engineering

Additional Majors and Minors: Honors degree: BSE CSE; MCL; Mathematics minor

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: App development; user interface design; algorithm development; Clothing/wardrobe management

 

 

 

Kelsey Hebert

Thesis Title: Actin Assembly and Microtubule Reorganization by Formin-1 in Vitro and in Cells

Thesis Advisor: Campellone Kenneth

Honors Degree Major: Molecular & Cell Biology

Additional Majors and Minors:

Scholarships and University Support: SURF 18-19

Themes: Protein analysis; disease progression and relationship to protein; biochemical analysis; comparison of wild/natural and mutant protein;

 

 

Kara Heilemann

Thesis Title: Numerical Analysis of the Black Scholes Partial Differential Equation applied to American Options

Thesis Advisor: Angeles-Boza Alfredo

Honors Degree Major: Pathobiology

Additional Majors and Minors: Dual degree BS NUSC, SCL; MCB minor

Scholarships and University Support: SURF 17-18University Scholar

Themes: Antibiotic resistance; alternative cell therapy; antibiotic therapy development

 

Nathalia Hernandez

Thesis Title: Distinguishing Tetrode Placement in Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampus Using the Microorganism Bacillus Subtilis

Thesis Advisor: Markus Etan

Honors Degree Major: Molecular & Cell Biology

Additional Majors and Minors: Double major Spanish

Scholarships and University Support: OUR travel to present research 18-19, IDEA 18-19

Themes: Brain; hippocampus; brain function localization; neuron activity measurement

 

 

Nicole Jain

Thesis Title: How Dynamic Cues Bias Decision-Making for Categorization of Non-Speech Vocalizations

Thesis Advisor: Read Heather

Honors Degree Major: Psychological Sciences

Additional Majors and Minors: Dual degree:  BS Health Care Management

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Auditory perception; ECoG recording [electrocorticography]; brain; auditory cortex activity;

 

 

Kat Konon

Thesis Title: Applications of Renewable Activated Carbons

Thesis Advisor: Valla Ioulia

Honors Degree Major: Chemical Engineering

Additional Majors and Minors:

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Contaminant removal; comparison of material absorption effectiveness between nonrenewable and renewable sources

 

 

 

Saurabh Kumar

Thesis Title: Reorganization of the Human Ventricular-Subventricular Zone Neural Stem Cell Niche in Fetal-Onset Hydrocephalus

Thesis Advisor: Conover Joanne

Honors Degree Major: Molecular & Cell Biology

Additional Majors and Minors: University Scholar/Honors degree: BS MCB, SCL; double major statistics

Scholarships and University Support: SURF 17-18, OUR supply 18-19, OUR travel to present research 19-20University Scholar; Goldwater Scholar 2018, Honorable mention 2017

Themes: MRI; brain tissue analysis; Stem cell; exploration of atypical development;

 

 

Ashley Laliberte

Thesis Title: An Analysis of CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing in Agriculture

Thesis Advisor: Zhang Ping

Honors Degree Major: Biological Sciences

Additional Majors and Minors: Honors degree: BS Biological Sciences, SCL; Mathematics and MCB minorsHonors degree: BS Biological Sciences, SCL; Mathematics and MCB minors

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: CRISPR; gene editing; sustainable agriculture; regulation impact on policy

 

 

 

Andrew Levin

Thesis Title: Tomographic Mapping of Perovskite Materials for Optoelectronic Applications

Thesis Advisor: Huey Bryan

Honors Degree Major: Materials Science & Engineering

Additional Majors and Minors: Minors in physics and mathematics

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Solar energy; energy efficiency; nanoscale properties;

 

 

 

Victoria Li

Thesis Title: Gamma Delta T Cell Activation Using Novel Compounds and Natural Product Extracts

Thesis Advisor: Silbart Lawrence

Honors Degree Major: Biological Sciences

Additional Majors and Minors: Film studies minor

Scholarships and University Support: SURF 18-19

Themes: Computational analysis; analytical; soot production; environmental implications

 

 

John Loverin

Thesis Title: Parental Behavior of Black-Backed Woodpeckers in Post-Fire Forest

Thesis Advisor: Bagchi Robert

Honors Degree Major: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Additional Majors and Minors:

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Descriptive research; Avian feeding behavior; exploration of temporal variables and habitat variables on feeding behavior

 

Rohit Makol

Thesis Title: A Novel Flow Sensor for a Hydrocephalus Smart Shunt System

Thesis Advisor: Hoshino Kazunori

Honors Degree Major: Biomedical Engineering

Additional Majors and Minors: MCB and MSE minors

Scholarships and University Support: HRP 17, OUR travel to present research 19-20

Themes: Sensor development; medical application (improved design of disease treatment);

 

 

Kanika Malani

Thesis Title: The Impact of Climate Change on the Survival of Food and Water Borne Pathogens

Thesis Advisor: Rossi Patricia

Honors Degree Major: Molecular & Cell Biology

Additional Majors and Minors: Double major anthropology; Dual degree BA Spanish; SCL

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Climate change; bacterial pathogens; impact of climate change on microorganism activity

 

 

Prabhath Mannam

Thesis Title: Identification of Novel Immunotherapy Ligands Through Directional Cloning Approaches and Cyclic Peptide Phage Display Library Screening

Thesis Advisor: Wiemer Andrew

Honors Degree Major: Molecular & Cell Biology

Additional Majors and Minors: Double major MCB (Honors for MCB not PNB)

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Immunotherapy; cyclic peptides; gene cloning

 

Faraz Mirza

Thesis Title: Resolving The Mechanism of Specificity in Neurodevelopmental Disorders using Proximity Labeling

Thesis Advisor: Tanner Geoffrey

Honors Degree Major: Physiology & Neurobiology

Additional Majors and Minors:

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Development of tools to explore brain development; Neurodevelopmental disorder

 

 

 

Abeer Mohamed

Thesis Title: How Parental Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Math Influence Math Performance and Math Anxiety Levels in Hearing, Hard of Hearing, and Deaf Students

Thesis Advisor: Coppola Marie

Honors Degree Major: Psychological Sciences

Additional Majors and Minors: Human rights minor

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Language and executive functioning; ASL

 

 

Himaja Nagireddy – MCB

Thesis Title: Optimization of CRISPR/Cas12a Editing and Homology Directed Repair in Human iPSCs

Thesis Advisor: Holzer Elizabeth

Honors Degree Major: Molecular & Cell Biology

Additional Majors and Minors: Third degree: BS PNB, CL; Chemistry and bioinformatics minors

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: CRISPR; gene editing optimization

 

 

Himaja Nagireddy – Sociology

Thesis Title: Designing a Social SCADA/HMI System for a Renewable Energy-based Microgrid in Rural Ethiopian Communities

Thesis Advisor:

Honors Degree Major: Sociology

Additional Majors and Minors: Third degree: BS PNB, CL; Chemistry and bioinformatics minors Third degree: BS PNB, CL; Chemistry and bioinformatics minors

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Renewable energy; microgrid development; community-scale analysis

 

 

Grace Nichols

Thesis Title: Detection of Tinnitus in CBA/CaJ Mice Using the Active Avoidance Shuttle Box Test

Thesis Advisor: Oliver Douglas

Honors Degree Major: Molecular & Cell Biology

Additional Majors and Minors: Mathematics minor

Scholarships and University Support: SURF 18-19University Scholar

Themes: Auditory perception; neurological underpinnings of sound perception abnormalities; experimental; animal study; tinnitus

 

Shivam Patel

Thesis Title: Optical Clearing Reveals TNBS-Induced Morphological Changes of VGLUT2-Positive Nerve Endings in the Colorectum

Thesis Advisor: Feng Bin

Honors Degree Major: Physiology & Neurobiology

Additional Majors and Minors: Honors degree: BS PNB, MCL; double major MCB

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Chronic pain treatment; relationship between sensory neurons and chronic pain; animal study; experimental; IBS

 

 

Katherine Riedling

Thesis Title: Temporal Localization of Video Topics Using the YT8M Dataset: An Exploration

Thesis Advisor: Johnson Joseph

Honors Degree Major: Computer Science & Engineering

Additional Majors and Minors: Degree awarded for HS: BSE CSE; also awarded BA German; MCL both

Scholarships and University Support: SHARE 16-17Eurotech

Themes: Computer vision; AI; descriptive analysis; meta-analysis(?); optimization algorithms

 

 

Daniel Silverstein

Thesis Title: Contributions of gyrA and parC Mutations and qnrS2 Acquisition to Ciprofloxacin Resistance in Aeromonas veronii Hm21

Thesis Advisor: Bi Jinbo

Honors Degree Major: Molecular & Cell Biology

Additional Majors and Minors:

Scholarships and University Support: OUR supply award 18-19

Themes: Antibiotic resistance; DNA mutation; plasmid analysis

 

 

Jack Schooley

Thesis Title: Predicting the Outcomes of Soccer Games

Thesis Advisor: Yan Jun

Honors Degree Major: Individualized: Data Science

Additional Majors and Minors: Honors in double major (Individualized – Data Science); SCL

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Predictive modeling; Sports application; model comparison; optimization; simulation

 

 

Keyur Shah

Thesis Title: Evaluating Driving Performance of a Novel Behavior Planning Model on Connected Autonomous Vehicles

Thesis Advisor: Miao Fei

Honors Degree Major: Computer Science & Engineering

Additional Majors and Minors: Mathematics minor

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Autonomous control; vehicle simulator; behavior planning algorithms

 

 

Thomas Shao

Thesis Title: Using Machine Learning to Conduct a Detailed Behavioral Analysis in an Appetitive Social Learning Task

Thesis Advisor: Markus Etan

Honors Degree Major: Physiology & Neurobiology

Additional Majors and Minors: Honors degree: BS PNB, CL; Statistics minor

Scholarships and University Support: SURF 18-19

Themes: Machine learning; observational learning; neuronal mechanisms; social learning; quantitative analysis;

 

 

Daniel Ruskin

Thesis Title: Treatment Effects of Modafinil for Cocaine Use Disorders: A Retrospective Analysis of Aggregated Clinical Trial Data From Three Cocaine Treatment Studies

Thesis Advisor: Graf Joerg

Honors Degree Major: Computer Science

Additional Majors and Minors: Honors degree: BS MCB

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Antibiotic resistance; genetic analysis; DNA mutation;

 

Saumya Singh

Thesis Title: Numerical Analysis of the Black Scholes Partial Differential Equation applied to American Options

Thesis Advisor: Stuber Matthew

Honors Degree Major: Chemical Engineering

Additional Majors and Minors: Mathematics minor

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Optimization criteria; computational analysis;

 

 

Mira Varma

Thesis Title: A Consistent Classical Relativistic Model of a Finite Size Particle

Thesis Advisor: Schweitzer Peter

Honors Degree Major: Physics

Additional Majors and Minors: Honors degree: BS Physics; Economics and Mathematics minors

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Nuclear physics; proton modeling; particle analysis;

 

 

Sydney Wimberley

Thesis Title: Engineering 3D Liquid Crystalline Biomaterial Scaffolds and Investigating Cellular Behavior

Thesis Advisor: Burke Kelly

Honors Degree Major: Chemical Engineering

Additional Majors and Minors:

Scholarships and University Support:

Themes: Biomaterial analysis; measurement of cellular processes;