Awards

• First place: Liang Zhao, Advisor: Irene Xagoraraki, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Second place: Sharmila Samaroo, Advisor: David Hickey, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
• Third place: Logan Soule, Advisor: Dana Spence, Biomedical Engineering
• Honorable mention: Babak Dialameh, Advisor: Ehsan Ghane, Biosystems Engineering
• Honorable mention: David Butts, Advisor: Michael Murillo, Computational Mathematics
• Honorable mention: Steven Grosz, Advisor: Anil Jain, Computer Science and Engineering 
• Honorable mention: Xinda Qi, Advisor: Xiaobo Tan, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Honorable mention: Michael Hayes, Advisor: Andre Benard, Mechanical Engineering

• First place: Saad Asadullah Sharief, Advisor: Evangelyn Alocilja, Biosystems Engineering 
• Second place: Daniel S. Chen, Advisor: Jeffrey Nanzer, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Third place: Wei Jin, Advisor: Jiliang Tang, Computer Science and Engineering 
• Honorable mention: Shijun Liang, Advisor: Saiprasad Ravishankar, Biomedical Engineering
• Honorable mention: Gouree Kumbhar, Advisor: Robert Ferrier, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
• Honorable mention: Seyedamir Bahrololoumi Tabatabaei, Advisor: Roozbeh Dargazany, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Honorable mention: He Lyu, Advisor: Rongrong Wang, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering
• Honorable mention: Farzaneh Tatari, Advisor: Hamidreza Modares, Mechanical Engineering

• First place: Julian Blank, Advisor: Kalyanmoy Deb, Computer Science and Engineering
  
• Second place: Erik Amézquita Morataya, Advisors: Elizabeth Munch and Daniel Chitwood, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering
  
• Third place: Hongyang Shi, Advisor:Xiaobo Tan, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Kara Dean, Advisor: Jade Mitchell, Biosystems Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Apoorva Chandrakant Kulkarni, Advisor: Ramani Narayan, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
  
• Honorable mention: Muhammad Munum Masud, Advisor: Syed Haider, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Guangchen Shen, Advisor: Junlin Yuan, Mechanical Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Kylie Smith, Advisor: Kurt Zinn, Biomedical

• First place: David Hernandez Escobar, Advisor: Carl Boehlert, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
  
• Second place: Ian Hildebrandt, Advisor: Bradley Marks, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Biomedical Engineering
  
• Third place: Sarah Tymochko, Advisor: Elizabeth Munch, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Fatemeh Fakhrmoosavi, Advisor: Ali Zockaie, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  
• Honorable mention:  Yonatan Raz Israeli, Advisor: Aitor Aguirre, Biomedical Engineering
  
• Honorable mention:  Yaojie Liu, Advisor: Xiaoming Liu, Computer Science and Engineering
  
• Honorable mention:  Audun D. Myers, Advisor: Firas Khasawneh, Mechanical Engineering
  
• Honorable mention:  Stavros Vakalis, Advisor: Jeffrey Nanzer, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Cort Thompson, Advisor: Erin Purcell, Biomedical Engineering
  
• Juan Sebastian Hernandez-Suarez, Advisor: Pouyan Nejadhashemi, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
  
• Chenchen Yang, Advisor: Richard Lunt, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
  
• Vahid Morovati, Advisor: Roozbeh Dargazany, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  
• Ryan LaRose, Advisor: Matt Hirn, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering
  
• Joshua Engelsma, Advisor: Anil Jain, Computer Science and Engineering
  
• Dhrubajit Chowdury, Advisor: Hassan Khalil, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  
• Mehdi Samiee, Advisor: Mohsen Zayernouri, Mechanical Engineering

• First place: Amin Jourabloo, Advisor: Xiaoming Liu, Computer Science and Engineering
  
• Second place: Aritra Chakraborty, Advisor: Philip Eisenlohr, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
  
• Third place: Hadi Salehi, Advisor: Rigoberto Burgueño, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Kaitlyn Casuli, Advisor: Kirk Dolan, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Joshua Drost, Advisor: Tamara Reid Bush, Mechanical Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Biyi Fang, Advisor: Mi Zhang, Electical and Computer Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Joseph Salatino, Advisor: Erin Purcell, Biomedical Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Hao Wang, Advisor: Jianrong Wang, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering

• First place: Xi Yin, Advisor: Xiaoming Liu, Computer Science and Engineering
  
• Second place: Hassene Hasni, Advisor: Nizar Lajnef, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  
• Third place: Matthew Herman, Advisor: Pouyan Nejadhashemi, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
  
• Third place: Jinshui Miao, Advisor: Chuan Wang, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Gautham Dharuman, Advisor: Michael Murillo, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Christine James, Advisor: Yue Qi, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
  
• Honorable mention: Aryan Mehboudi, Advisor: Junghoon Yeom, Mechanical Engineering

• First place: Maggie Williams, Advisor: Syed Hashsham, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  
• Second place: Margaret Young, Advisor: Richard Lunt, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
  
• Third place: Tongyu Wang, Advisor: Nelson Sepulveda, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Francisco Garcés-Vega, Advisor: Bradley Marks, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Wu Pan Zagorski, Advisor: Tamara Reid Bush, Mechanical Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Faraz Ahmed, Advisor: Alex Liu, Computer Science and Engineering

• First place: Joseph Roth, Advisor: Xiaoming Liu, Computer Science and Engineering
  
• Second place: Emily Tummons, Advisor: Volodymyr Tarabara, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  
• Third place: Caitlin Kowalsky Stein, Advisor: Tim Whitehead, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
  
• Honorable mention: Zhiguo Liu, Advisor: Yan Liu, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Shreya Nad, Advisor: Jes Asmussen, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Byron Zambrano, Advisor: Seungik Baek, Mechanical Engineering

• First place: Jianguo Zhao, Advisor: Tim Hogan, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  
• Second place: Sean Woznicki, Advisor: Pouyan Nejadhashemi, Biosystems Engineering
  
• Third place: Muhammad Shahzad, Advisor: Alex X. Liu, Computer Science and Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Keith Button, Advisor: Roger Haut, Mechanical Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Mohannad Z. Naser, Advisor: Venkatesh K. Kodur, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Yimu Zhau, Advisor: Richard Lunt, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

• First place: Zheng Fan, Advisor: Lixin Dong, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  
• Second place: Zhenhua Ruan, Advisor: Yan Liu, Biosystems Engineering
  
• Third place: Soweon Yoon, Advisor: Anil Jain, Computer Science and Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Gloria Lehr, Advisor: Donald Morelli, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
  
• Honorable mention: Purushotham Pakala, Advisor: Venkatesh K. Kodur, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Venkatanarayanan Ramakrishnan, Advisor: Brian Feeny, Mechanical Engineering

• First place: Hongzhi Chen, Advisor: Ning Xi, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  
• Second place: M. Zubair Shafiq, Advisor: Alex X. Liu, Computer Science and Engineering
  
• Third place: Amanda Herzog, Advisor: Syed Hashsham, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Stephen Boona, Advisor: Donald Morelli, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
  
• Honorable mention: Dharmendra Mishra, Advisor: Kirk Dolan, Biosystems Engineering
  
• Honorable mention: Andrew White, Advisors: Guoming "George" Zhu and Jonguen Choi, Mechanical

• Meghan Hill, Biomedical Engineering (Advisor: Taeho Kim)
• Josué Kpodo, Biosystems Engineering (Advisor: Pouyan Nejadhashemi)
• Shalin Patil, Chemical Engineering (Advisor: Shiwang Chang)
• Farhad Abdollahi, Civil Engineering (Advisor: Emin Kutay)
• Xitong Zhang, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (Advisor: Rongrong Wang)
• Han Xu, Computer Science and Engineering (Advisor: Jiliang Tang)
• Xinda Qi, Electrical & Computer Engineering (Advisor: Xiaobo Tan)
• Zheng Li, Environmental Engineering (Advisor: Alison Cupples)
• Sabrina Curley, Materials Science (Advisor: Caroline Szczepanski)
• Mohammad Hajidavalloo, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Zhaojian Li)

• Brett Volmert, Biomedical Engineering (Advisor: Aitor Aguirre)
• Carly Gomez, Biosystems Engineering (Advisor: Bradley Marks)
• Chauncey Splichal, Chemical Engineering (Advisors: S. Patrick Walton and Christina Chan)
• Ceren Aydin, Civil Engineering (Advisor: Bora Cetin)
• Sarah McGuire, Computational Mathematics, Science & Engineering (Advisor: Elizabeth Munch)
• Wei Jin, Computer Science & Engineering (Advisor: Jiliang Tang)
• Daniel Chen, Electrical & Computer Engineering (Advisor: Jeffrey Nanzer)
• Liang Zhao, Environmental Engineering (Advisor: Irene Xagoraraki)
• Geeta Kumari, Materials Science (Advisor: Carl Boehlert)
• Royal Ihuaenyi, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Xinran Xiao)

• Quentin Whitsitt, Biomedical Engineering (Advisor: Erin Purcell)
  
• Ian Kropp, Biosystems Engineering (Advisor: Pouyan Nejadhashemi)
  
• Apoorva Chandrakant Kulkarni, Chemical Engineering (Advisor: Ramani Narayan)
  
• Megat Usamah Megat Johari, Civil Engineering (Advisor: Peter Savolainen)
  
• Renming Liu, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (Advisor: Arjun Krishnan)
  
• Julian Blank, Computer Science (Advisor: Kalyanmoy Deb)
  
• Nick Ivanov, Computer Science (Advisor: Qiben Yan)
  
• Abdullah Karaaslanli, Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Selin Aviyente)
• Brijen Miyani, Environmental Engineering (Advisor: Irene Xagoraraki)
  
• JoAnn Ballor, Materials Science (Advisor: Carl Boehlert)
  
• Hoa Nguyen, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Haseung Chung)

• David Filipovic, Biomedical Engineering (Advisor: Sudin Bhattacharya)
  
• Ryan Julien, Biosystems Engineering (Advisor: Steven Safferman)
  
• Quinn Sun, Chemical Engineering (Advisor: Shiweng Cheng)
  
• Hamid Mohammadi, Civil Engineering (Advisor: Neeraj Buch)
  
• Nazanin Donyapour, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (Advisor: Alex Dickson)
  
• Sudipta Banerjee, Computer Science (Advisor: Arun Ross)
  
• Yaojie Liu, Computer Science (Advisor: Xiaoming Liu)
  
• Sneha Banerjee, Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Peng Zhang)
  
• Dipti Kamath, Environmental Engineering (Advisor: Annick Anctil)
  
• David Hernandez Escobar, Materials Science (Advisor: Carl Boehlert)
  
• Justin Scott, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Tamara Reid Bush)

• Victoria Toomajian, Biomedical Engineering (Advisor: Chris Contag)
  
• Kaitlyn Casulli, Biosystems Engineering (Advisor: Kirk Dolan)
  
• Kanchan Chavan, Chemical Engineering (Advisor: Scott Calabrese-Barton)
  
• Ramin Saedi, Civil Engineering (Advisor: Ali Zockaie)
  
• Robert Termuhlen, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (Advisor: Hui-Chia Yu)
  
• Yao Ma, Computer Science (Advisor: Jiliang Tang)
  
• Asif Iqbal, Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Peng Zhang)
  
• Vidhya Ramalingam, Environmental Engineering (Advisor: Alison Cupples)
  
• Chelsea Weiskerger, Environmental Engineering (Advisor: Phanikumar Mantha)
  
• Yubo Zhang, Materials Science (Advisor: Jason Nicholas)
  
• Nilay Kant, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Ranjan Mukherjee)

• Monica Setien, Biomedical Engineering (Advisor: Erin Purcell)
  
• Juan Sebastian Hernandez Suarez, Biosystems Engineering (Advisor: Pouyan Nejadhashemi)
  
• Lisaura Maldonado-Pereira, Chemical Engineering (Advisor: Ilce Medina Meza)
  
• Farshid Felfelani, Civil Engineering (Advisor: Yadu Pokhrel)
  
• Mingzhe Li, Civil Engineering (Advisor: Weiyi Lu)
  
• Sarah Tymochko, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (Advisor: Elizabeth Munch)
  
• Ali Munir, Computer Science (Advisor: Alex Liu)
  
• Saranraj Karuppuswami, Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prem Chahal)
  
• Camille McCall, Environmental Engineering (Advisor: Irene Xagoraraki)
  
• Yuxiao Lin, Materials Science (Advisor: Yue Qi)
  
• Suihan Liu, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Rigoberto Burgueño)

• Joseph Salatino, Biomedical Engineering (Advisor: Erin Purcell)
  
• Yuzhen Lu, Biosystems Engineering (Advisor: Renfu Lu)
  
• Sayli Bote, Chemical Engineering (Advisor: Ramani Narayan)
  
• Ankit Agrawal, Civil Engineering (Advisor: Venkatesh Kodur)
  
• Michael Crockatt, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (Advisor: Andrew Christlieb)
  
• Xi Yin, Computer Science (Advisor: Xiaoming Liu)
  
• Anand Chandrasekhar, Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Ramakrishnan Mukkamala)
  
• Joshua Drost, Engineering Mechanics (Advisor: Tamara Reid-Bush)
  
• Zachary Curtis, Environmental Engineering (Advisor: Shu-Guang Li)
  
• Yuanchao Liu, Materials Science (Advisor: Scott Calabrese Barton)
  
• Ruitao Song, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Guoming Zhu)

• Emily Wrenbeck, Chemical Engineering (Advisor: Tim Whitehead)
  
• Margaret Young, Materials Science Engineering (Advisor: Richard Lunt)
  
• Fariborz Daneshvar, Biosystems Engineering (Advisor: Pouyan Nejadhashemi)
  
• Joseph Salatino, Biomedical Engineering (Advisor: Erin Purcell)
  
• Ata Babazedeh, Civil Engineering (Advisor: Rigoberto Burgueño)
  
• Yogendra Kanitkar, Environmental Engineering (Advisor: Alison Cupples)
  
• Hussein Hejase, Computer Science Engineering (Advisor: Kevin Liu)
  
• David Olson, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Manoochehr Koochesfahani)
  
• Jie Li, Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Shanker Balasubramaniam)

• Yingqian Lin, Biosystems Engineering (Advisor: Fei Pan)
  
• Caitlin Kowalsky Stein, Chemical Engineering (Advisor: Tim Whitehead)
  
• Chen Zhang, Materials Science (Advisor: Thomas Bieler)
  
• Mohannad Naser, Civil Engineering (Advisor: Venkatesh Kodur)
  
• Fernanda Paes Wilson, Environmental Engineering (Advisor: Alison Cupples)
  
• Joseph Roth, Computer Science (Advisor: Xiaoming Liu)
  
• Bin Fan, Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Wen Li)
  
• Ali Al-Jiboory, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Guoming Zhu)

• Zhiguo Liu, Biosystems Engineering (Advisor: Yan "Susie" Liu)
  
• Yimu Zhao, Chemical Engineering (Advisor: Richard Lunt)
  
• Ajith Chakkedath, Materials Science (Advisor: Carl Boehlert)
  
• Nan Hu, Civil Engineering (Advisor: Rigoberto Burgueño)
  
• Mariya Munir, Environmental Engineering (Advisor: Irene Xagoraraki)
  
• Muhammad Shahzad, Computer Science (Advisor: Alex X. Liu)
  
• Jun Zhang, Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Xiaobo Tan)
  
• Brian Scott Strachan, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Steve Shaw)
  
• Christopher Cater, Engineering Mechanics (Advisor: Xinran "Sharon" Xiao)

• Rui Chen, Biosystems Engineering (Advisor: Wei Liao)
  
• Phillip Angart, Chemical Engineering (Advisor: S. Patrick Walton)
  
• Robert Schmidt, Materials Science (Advisor: Eldon Case)
  
• Yi Sun, Civil Engineering (Advisor: Rigoberto Burgueño)
  
• Indumathy Jayamani, Environmental Engineering (Advisor: Alison Cupples)
  
• Soweon Yoon, Computer Science (Advisor: Anil Jain)
  
• Zhang Fan, Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Lixin Dong)
  
• Smruti Ranjan Panigrahi, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Brian Feeny)
  
• Brian Weaver, Engineering Mechanics (Advisor: Roger Haut)

• Chemical Engineering
  • Best Poster: Annie Needs, "Pioneering Targeted Therapy for Neuroblastoma: Engineering Specificity and Potency in Antibody Therapeutics"

• Civil Engineering
  
  • Best Poster: Behlul Kula, "Implementation of VR Technology for Energy Audit Training"
  • Best Poster: Amirali Soltanpour, "Electrifying Travels Along Lake Michigan Circuit"
  • Best Poster: Raheel Tariq, "Vehicle Classification and Tire Analysis Using Piezoelectric Sensors"
  • Best Poster: Poornachandra Vaddy, "Measurement of Different Layers’ Dynamic Modulus in Multi-layered Pavement Cores using Image Processing Technique"

• Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering
  • Best Poster: Jared Reiling, "Improving Accuracy of Multi-animal Motion Tracking"

• Computer Science
  • Best Poster: Girish Chandar Ganesan, "Remove Projective LiDAR Depthmap Artifacts via Exploiting Epipolar Geometry"
  • Best Poster: Tzu-Han Hsu, "Automated Program Repair for Security Hyperproperties"
  • Best Poster: Nitish Shukla, "Face Demorphing via Image Decomposition"
  • Best Poster: Redwan Sony, "Automatic Comparative Chest Radiography Using Deep Neural Networks"

• Electrical Engineering
  
  • Best Poster: Zebadiah Miles, "Electrical Engineering, Ultrasonic Digital Twins"
  • Best Poster: Avirup Roy, "On-device Semi-supervised Activity Detection: A New Approach to Privacy-aware Personalized Health Monitoring"
  • Best Poster: Subal Sharma, "Rayleigh Wave Based Characterization of Rolling Contact Fatigue Micro-cracks Array Using Machine Learning"

• Mechanical Engineering
  • Best Poster: Garrett Weidig, "Smooth Moves: Kinematic Smoothness as an Assessment Tool"

• Jackson Computing and Data Impact Award
  • Anthony James Franco, "Where Does Salmonella Come From? Preliminary Monitoring of the Presence of Salmonella at Various Stages of Poultry Processing"
  • Luyao Yuan, "Comparing the Carbon Footprint of Future Silicon Photovoltaics Manufacturing in North America and China"

• Biomedical Engineering
  
  • Best Poster: Mohammed Almatrood, "Towards Hardware and Software Integration of Noninvasive Transcutaneous Oxygen Monitor"
  • Best Poster: Sarah Wright, "Development of Three-Dimensional Neonatal Brachial Plexus Finite Element Model"

• Chemical Engineering
  • Best Poster: Nunzio Giorgio Carducci, "Bioelectrochemical Lignin Valorization Using Low-Cost NAD+ Biomimetics"
  • Best Poster: Sunanda Dey, "Modifying Small Proteins To Create A Novel Protein-Electrode Sensing Interface"
  • Best Poster: Annie Needs, "Rationally-Evolved Antibodies: targeting Neuroblastoma using high-throughput approaches"

• Civil Engineering
  • Best Poster: Huy Dang, "Are hydropower dams mitigating adverse impacts of flood and drought in Southeast Asia?"
  • Best Poster: Xiaoqiang Ni, "Investigating thermal and mechanical properties of phase change materials incorporated concrete"
  • Best Poster: Alireza Rostami, "Estimating Path Travel Costs in Large-Scale Networks Using Machine Learning Techniques"

• Computer Science
  • Best Poster: Andrew Hou, "Face Relighting with Geometrically Consistent Shadows"

• Electrical Engineering
  • Best Poster: Saad Alzahrani, "MAS - Assisted Microgrid Protection Using State Observer"
  • Best Poster: Mostafa Fereydoonian, "High Power Density Rare-Earth Magnet-Free Wound-Field Flex Switching Machines with Optimal Winding and Rotor Design"

• Environmental Engineering
  • Best Poster: Brijen Miyani, "Methods to test for human virus diversity in wastewater: Towards a practical approach for identifying human viruses with metagenomics"

• Mechanical Engineering
  • Best Poster: Adam Chrzan, "Does Selection Lead to Significance?: How Coordinate System Selection Affects Thumb Carpometacarpal Joint Angles"

BASF Sustainable Materials for Mobility Award

• First Place: Seungyeon (Mindy) Lee, "Nano Zinc Catalysts for Biomass Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation"
• Second Place: Augusto Gil, "Response of UHPC Bridge Girders Under Severe Fire Conditions"

DewGood Public Service Technology Award

• First Place: Fahmi Dwilaksono, "Evaluation of Operational Performance and Environmental Impact of a Commercial Scale Anaerobic Digester Utilizing Multiple Feedstocks"
• Second Place: Logan Soule, "Normoglycemic Storage Solutions for Blood Banking"

Jackson Computing and Data Impact Award

• First Place: Hossein Rajaby Faghihi, "Domiknows: A library for integration of symbolic domain knowledge in deep learning"
• Second Place: Sandeep Banik, "Learning adversarial moves and combating them"

Advanced Manufacturing

• Best Poster: Orwell Madovi, "Design Considerations for Magnet Configurations in Rotor Design with Reduced Rare-Earth Material for PM Machines"

AI and Big Data

• Best Poster: Rahul Dey, "3DFaceFill: An Analysis-by-Synthesis Approach for Face Completion"
• Best Poster: Doga Dikbayir, "Optimizing Data Locality and Termination Criterion for t-SNE"
• Best Poster: Andrew Hou, "Towards High Fidelity Face Relighting with Realistic Shadows"
• Best Poster: Ankur Kamboj, "Human Motor Learning in High-Dimensional Spaces"
• Best Poster: Declan McClintock, "Teaching Circuits Through a Serious Game"
• Best Poster: Roshanak Mirzaee, "Spatial Reasoning in Deep Learning"
• Best Poster: Farzaneh Tatari, "Fixed-time System Identification Using Concurrent Learning"
• Best Poster: Julia Zheng, "Performance Study: Cophylogenetic Event Estimations are Impacted by Species Tree Uncertainty"

Applied Electromagnetics

• Best Poster: Ritam Ganguly, "Distributed Runtime Verification of Metric Temporal Properties for Cross-Chain Protocols"
• Best Poster: Kangbeen Lee, "Partial Discharge and Electromagnetic Interference Under Repetitive Voltage Pulses with High Slew Rate in AC Machine Drives"
• Best Poster: Omkar Ramachandran, "Transient Port Parameter Extraction Techniques for Analyzing Coupled Full Wave EM-Device Systems"

Biometrics

• Best Poster: Thomas Swearingen, "Synthesizing Face Images from Match Scores"

Energy, Environment and Sustainability

• Best Poster: Omid Bagheri, "Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Change on Terrestrial Water Cycle of the Amazon River Basin"
• Best Poster: Chase Bruggeman, "Decomposition Kinetics of Enzyme Cofactor Biomimetics"
• Best Poster: Huy Dang, "Quantification of the effect of hydropower developments on Southeast Asia's largest inland lake"
• Best Poster: Royal Ihuaenyi, "A Nonlinear Thermoviscoelastic Model for Polymeric Battery Separators"
• Best Poster: Tamanna Kabir, "Simulating Groundwater-Human Interactions in the Mekong River Basin Using Community Land Model"
• Best Poster: Seungyeon (Mindy) Lee, "Nano Zinc Catalysts for Biomass Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation"
• Best Poster: Brijen Miyani, "Spatial Variation of Excreted SARS-CoV-2, Biomarkers, and Observed COVID-19 Cases in Detroit MI"
• Best Poster: Philipp Schimmels, "Development and Testing of a Solid Fuel Charging Reactor for Long Term Renewable Energy Storage"
• Best Poster: Maddie Spooner, "Methods of SARS-CoV-2 Quantification for Wastewater-Based-Epidemiology Applications"
• Best Poster: Liang Zhao, "Five-week Warning of COVID-19 Peaks in Detroit, Michigan Using Wastewater Surveillance"

Health and Biomedical

• Best Poster: Kevin Chen, "The Role of IRE1α and Its Downstream Pathways in DNA Double Strand Break Repair and the Development of Chemotolerant Breast Cancer Cells"
• Best Poster: Connor Grady, "GEMInI- Genetically Encoded Magnetically Induced Indicators"
• Best Poster: Michael Kaven, "Vitamin D as Co-Factor for Neurodevelopment and Cognitive Function"
• Best Poster: Logan Soule, "Normoglycemic Storage Solutions for Blood Banking"
• Best Poster: Yan Xie, "Computational Study of Transport in the Molecular Tunnel of Asparagine Synthetase"
• Best Poster: Atacan Yucesoy, "Growth Modeling and its Application to Brain Mechanics"

Materials

• Best Poster: Sabrina Curley, "Phase Separation in Free Radical Photopolymer Systems: Attaining Simultaneous Chemical and Physical Patterning for Complex Surface Generation"
• Best Poster: Ian Morris, "Next-Generation Optical Quantum Technologies based on Novel Quantum Bits in Synthetic Diamond"
• Best Poster: Sarah Roberts, "Process Variable Optimization for Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond"
• Best Poster: Chi Zhan, "Stretching-Dominated Deformation Mechanism in 3D-Printed Hierarchical Re-entrant Honeycomb"

Mobility

• Best Poster: Shivam Bajaj, "Defending a Perimeter Against Mobile Intruders"
• Best Poster: Amit Bhuyan, "Using Coordinated UAVs as a Distributed and Dynamic Content Caching Platform"
• Best Poster: Demetris Coleman, "Observability-aware Target Tracking Control"
• Best Poster: Augusto Gil, "Response of UHPC Bridge Girders Under Severe Fire Conditions"
• Best Poster: Farish Jazlan, "Toward Smart Communities: A Mobility Technology Adoption Framework Incorporating High-Level Technical Analysis"
• Best Poster: Ehsan Kamjoo, "Assessing the Network-Wide Impacts of Dedicated Lanes for Connected Autonomous Vehicles"
• Best Poster: Mohammadreza Kavianipour, "Macro Analysis to Estimate Electric Vehicles Fast-Charging Infrastructure Requirements in Small Urban Areas"
• Best Poster: Md Shakir Mahmud, "Evaluating Driver Response to a Dynamic Speed Feedback Sign at a Freeway Exit Ramp Considering the Sign Design Characteristics and Lateral Installation Position"
• Best Poster: Mohammad Wasif Naqvi, "Engineered Water Repellency to Mitigate Frost Heave Damages in Pavement"
• Best Poster: Svetha Venkatachari, "Critical Factors Governing Fire-induced Progressive Collapse in Steel Framed Buildings"

Smart Ag

• Best Poster: Musab Guven, "Shunt-Connected Solar Microinverter for Induction Motor Soft-Starting and Active and Reactive Power Compensation"

DewGood Public Service Technology Award

• First Place: Xue (Zoe) Jiang, "A Disposable Skin Patch for Rapid Malaria Infection Detection"
• Second Place: Mary Ensch, "A Pilot Scale Flow-Through System Utilizing Boron-Doped Diamond Perforated Plates for the Destruction of PFOA"  Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science
• Best Poster: Hamid Karimi, "Learning Hierarchical Discourse-level Structure for Fake News Detection"
• Best Poster: Michael Langford, "Enhancing Learning-Enabled Software Systems with Novelty Search to Address Environmental Uncertainty"

Computing

• Best Poster: Ali Akhavan-Safaei, "Spectral Element Method for Stochastic CFD and Uncertainty Quantification"
• Best Poster: Mehdi Samiee, "A Fractional Subgrid-Scale Model for Turbulent Flows"
• Best Poster: Wei Wang, "Support Estimation of Phylogenetic Tree Using SERES Resampling Approach"

Electrosystems

• Best Poster: Adamantia Chletsou, "UHF Rectenna for Implanted and Free Space Communications in Biomedical Applications"
• Best Poster: Lucas Stanek, "Hybrid Quantum-Hydrodynamics/Kinetics Model for Dense Plasma Mixtures"

Fitch H. Beach Nominees

• Best Poster: Kaitlyn E. Casulli, "Developing MOdel-Based Tools for Quantifying Rish Mitigation and Validating Commercial Dry-Roasters"

Health, Food Safety and Biomechanics

• Best Poster: Chelsie Boodoo, "Remodeling the Bladder through Static Pre-Stretch"
• Best Poster: Kara Dean, "Effect of Exposure Route on Threshhold Levels of Concern for P. Aeruginosa in Premise Plumbing Systems"
• Best Poster: Xue (Zoe) Jiang, "A Disposable Skin Patch for Rapid Malaria Infection Detection"
• Best Poster: Patrick Vaughan, "Influences of Age and Rate of Loading on Material Property and Fracture Morphology in the Porcine Femur"

Materials and Manufacturing

• Best Poster: Shengyuan Bai, "Mesoscale Interface and Surface Characterization by ?-XRD Mapping on Mosaic and Lateral Grown Single Crystal Diamond"
• Best Poster: Geeta Kumari, "Microstructural Evolution with Varying Solutionizing Temperature in Allvac 718plus"
• Best Poster: Erik Stitt, "Preparation of Graphene Nanoplatelet (GnP) Polyamide Copolymer Nanocomposite Utilizing a Hybrid Solvent/Melt Compounding Methodology"

Mechanics and Structures

• Best Poster: Marissa Grobbel, "Remodeling in the Lean and Obese Type II Diabetic Urinary Bladder"
• Best Poster: Puneet Kumar, "Effect of Temperature Induced Restraint on Fire Resistance of Prestressed Concrete Beams"
• Best Poster: Yogesh Kumbargeri, "An Image Processing Based Method to Evaluate Chip Seal Pavement Performance"

Mobility and Robotics

• Best Poster: Nilay Kant, "Orbital Stabilization for a Class of Underactuated Systems"
• Best Poster: Sam Shojaei, "Investigating Commuting-oriented Outlooks on a Multimodal Transportation System with Shared COnventional and Electric Bicycles"

Sustainability and Environment

• Best Poster: Mary Ensch, "A Pilot Scale Flow-Through System Utilizing Boron-Doped Diamond Perforated Plates for the Destruction of PFOA"
• Best Poster: Farshid Felfelani, "Implementing an Advanced Groundwater PUmping Scheme in the OCmmunity Land Model (CLM)"
• Best Poster: Akshay Murali, "Natural Coagulants as Low-Cost Alternatives for Water Treatment in Resource-Constrained Settings: The Case for Moringa Oleifera"
• Best Poster: Siddharth Shukla, "Energy Saving in Residential Buildings Associated with the Use of Transparent Organic Photovoltaics in the United States"

Outstanding posters in interdisciplinary areas

• DewGood Public Service Technology Award
  • First Place: Hao Wang, "Systematic Delineation of Enhancer Regulation by Probabilistic Modeling of CRISPR Screening Data"
  • Second Place: Xue (Zoe) Jiang, "Hollow Microneedle Arrays for Minimally Invasive Diagnostics and Therapeutics"

Outstanding posters in disciplinary areass

• Biomedical Engineering
  • First Place: Joseph Salatino, "Alterations in Ion Channel Expression Surrounding Brain Implants"
  • Second Place: Victoria Toomajian, "Artificially Derived Exosomes for Targeted Gene Delivery to Myocardial Infarcts"
  • Third Place: Monica Setien, "Characterization of Light-Driven Reporter Genes for Spatial Patterning of Neuronal Circuitry"

• Biosystems Engineering
  • First Place: Yuzhen Lu, "Detection of Defects on Apples Using Structured-Illumination Reflectance Imaging "
  • Second Place: Kara Dean and Ryan Julien, "Declining Water Use and the Compounding Effects of Green Building Design"
  • Third Place: Younsuk Dong, "Simulation of Domestic Wastewater Land Application using Hydrus CW2D"
  • Honorable Mention: Khang Huynh, "Uptake and Metabolism of Triclocarban in Hydroponically Grown Jalapeno Pepper (Capsicum annuum)"

• Chemical Engineering
  • First Place: Aritra Chakraborty, "Causes of Whisker Growth in Tin Thin Films Studied by Advanced Multi-Physics Simulations"
  • Second Place: Wu Yuelin, "Investigate the Disappearance of Cu9Al4 from the Cu-Al Ball Bond Interface"
  • Third Place: Christopher Hershey, ""Nonlinear Rheology of Polymer Nanocomposite Melts under Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear Flow (LAOS)"

• Civil Engineering (Structures)
  • First Place: Hadi Salehi, "Structural Health Monitoring and Assessment using a Network of Self-Powered Thru-Substrate Wireless Sensors: A Machine Learning Methodology"
  • Second Place: Ankit Agrawal, "Residual Response of Reinforced Concrete Beams after Exposure to Design Fires"
  • Third Place: Ali Imani Azad, "Shear Energy Dissipation through Bistable Inclined Beam Mechanism"

• Civil Engineering (Transportation/Pavements).
  • First Place: Ramin Saedi, "A Framework for Incorporating the Network-wide Fundamental Diagram into Large-scale Emission Estimation"
  • Second Place: Fatemeh Fakhrmoosavi, "Network Contraction Using an Iterative Learning Approach: Path Finding Problem in Stochastic Time-varying Networks Considering Link Travel Time Correlations for Multi-class Users"
  • Third Place: Danilo Balzarini, "Impact of Pavement Strucural Response on Rolling Resistance and Fuel Economy"

• Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering
  • First Place: Anna Yannakopoulos, "Weak Semi-supervised Machine Learning on Gene Expression Data"
  • Second Place: Hao Wang, "Systematic Delineation of Enhancer Regulation by Probabilistic Modeling of CRISPR Screening Data"
  • Third Place: Ehsan Kharazmi, "Operator-Based Uncertainty Quantification of Fractional PDEs, Application to Anomalous Transport"

• Computer Science and Engineering
  • First Place: Vahid Mirjalili, "Semi-Adversarial Neural Networks: A New Paradigm for Imparting Privacy to Face Images"
  • Second Place: Fengyi (Andy) Tang, "Using Dialogue Simulation for Performance Improvement and Data Augmentation in Off-Conversational Prediction Task"
  • Third Place: Adam Terwilliger, "Recurrent Flow-Guided Segmentation Prediction"
  • Honorable Mention: Salman Ali, "Detecting Objects Using Ultrasound on a Commodity Device"
  • Honorable Mention: Sudipta Banerjee, "Generating an Image Phylogeny Tree for Near-Duplicate Images".
  • Honorable Mention: Anurag Chowdhury, "Speaker Verification in Degraded Audio Signals"
  • Honorable Mention: Tarang Chugh, "Fingerprint Spoof Buster"
  • Honorable Mention: Joshua Engelsma, "RaspiReader: Open Source Fingerprint Reader"
  • Honorable Mention: Alexander Lalejini, "Evolving Event-driven Programs with SignalGP"
  • Honorable Mention: Kaixiang Lin, "Efficient Large-Scale Fleet Management via Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning"
  • Honorable Mention: Amin Jourabloo, "Learning Deep Models for Face Anti-Spoofing: Binary or Auxiliary Supervision"
  • Honorable Mention: Yaojie Liu, "Learning Deep Models for Face Anti-Spoofing: Binary or Auxiliary Supervision"
  • Honorable Mention: Farzan Masrour Shalmani, "Attributed Network Representation Learning Approaches for Link Prediction"
  • Honorable Mention: Thomas Swearingen, "ATM: A Distributed, Collaborative, Scalable Software Platform for Automated Machine Learning"
  • Honorable Mention: Qi Wang, "Generative Clustered Matrix Completion"

• Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • First Place: Portia Banerjee, "Dynamic Data-driven Prediction of Fatigue-induced Delamination Growth in Composite Joints"
  • Second Place: Hongyang Shi, "Soft Capacitive Sensors for Measurement of  Both Positive and Negative Pressures"
  • Third Place: Gaurab Panda, "Flying Qubit Investigations for Heterostructure based Qubit implementations"

• Environmental Engineering
  • First Place: Farshid Felfelani, "Improving Irrigation Parameterizations in the Community Land Model (CLM) using SMAP Soil Moisture Data"
  • Second Place: Suyog Chaudhari, "High-resolution modeling of the Amazon water cycle with existing and proposed hydropower dams"
  • Third Place: Eunsang Lee, "Environmental Benefit of Transparent Organic Photovoltaic in Window Application for Urban Area"

• Materials Science and Engineering
  • First Place: Yuxiao Lin, "Origin of the Two-Plateaued or One-Plateaued Open Circuit Voltage in Li/S Batteries from First Principle Calculation"
  • Second Place: Mariana Desireé Reale Batista, "Hybrid Cellulose-Inorganic Reinforcement Polypropylene Composites: Lightweight Materials for Automotive Applications"
  • Third Place: Yang Lu, "High Performance Cast Aluminum Alloys for Automobile Applications"

• Mechanical Engineering
  • First Place: Alborz Izadi, "Surface Instabilities in Silicon Nanocrystal Thin Films-Finite Bending"
  • Second Place: Joseph Kerwin, "Experimental Study of the Mechanics of Blast-induced Traumatic Brain Injury"
  • Third Place: Tyler Tuttle, "Swelling Capability of the Porcine Urinary Bladder Wall"

Outstanding posters in interdisciplinary areas

• MSUFCU Research Translation Award
  
  • First Place: Michael Craton, "3D Printed High Frequency Coaxial Transmission Line Based Circuits"
  • Second Place: Mariana Desire Reale Batista, "Carbon Fiber Polymer Matrix Composite Interphases Modified with Cellulose Nanocrystals"
• DewGood Public Service Technology Award
  
  • First Place: Tung-Yi Lin, "Finger-powered Microfluidic Electrochemical Assay for Point-of-care Testing"
  • Second Place: Hang Shi, "Recovery of Human Adenovirus 40 from Tap and Surface Water by Crossflow ultrafiltration"

Outstanding posters in disciplinary areas

• Biosystems Engineering
  
  • First Place: Yuzhen Lu, "Spiral Phase Transform for Fast Processing of Fringe Pattern Images in Structured-illumination Reflectance Imaging for Food Quality Evaluation"
  • Second Place: Younsuk Dong, "Understanding of Food Processing Wastewater Irrigation"
  • Third Place: Alexandre Chabrelie, "A Quantitative Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) Approach to Exposure-based Antimicrobial Product Prioritization"

• Civil Engineering
  • First Place: Suhail Hyder Vattathurvalappil, "Experimental and Numerical Modeling of Tri-axial Braided CFRP Crush-tubes"
  • Second Place: Rajendra Palanisamy, "Virtual Sensing for Structural Health Monitoring of Offshore Structures"
  • Third Place: Ata Babasadeh, "Proposed Guidelines to Consider Nonlinear Second-order Moments in Seismic Design of Slender Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns"

• Environmental Engineering
  • First Place: Hang Shi, "Recovery of Human Adenovirus 40 from Tap and Surface Water by Crossflow ultrafiltration"
  • Second Place: Jean-Rene Thelusmond, "Biological Transformation of Two Common Pharmaceuticals in Agricultural Soils and Identification of the Responsible Microorganisms"
  • Third Place: Yogendra Kanitkar, "The Application of Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) for Rapid Detection of vcrA and tceA in Groundwater Samples"

• Computer Science Engineering
  • First Place: Inci Baytas, "Patient Subtyping via Time-aware Long-short Term Memory Networks"
  • Second Place: Wei Wang, "SERES: Sequentially Resampled Support Measures for Multiple Sequence Alignment"
  • Third Place: Xi Yin, "Multi-task Learning for Face Recognition"
  • Honorable Mention: Kamran Ali, "Recognizing Keystrokes Using Commodity Wi-Fi Devices"
  • Honorable Mention: Sudipta Banerjee, "Computing an Image Phylogeny Tree from Photometrically Modified Iris Images"
  • Honorable Mention: Garrick Brazil, "Monocular Camera-based Pedestrian Detection"
  • Honorable Mention: Anurag Chowdhury, "Speaker Recognition in Degraded Audio Signals"
  • Honorable Mention: Joshua Engelsma, "Universal 3D Fingerprint Target"
  • Honorable Mention: Tam Le, "Access Control with Delegation for Smart Home Applications"

• Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • First Place: Matthias Muehle, "High quality SCD synthesis with microwave plasma assisted CVD at pressures between 300 and 400 Torr"
  • Second Place: William Jensen, "Online RUL Estimation of Stator Winding Insulation using Transient Peak Detection" 
  • Third Place: Portia Banerjee, "Impact-Damage Growth Estimation in Composites using Particle Filter Based Prognostics"

• Mechanical Engineering
  • First Place: Suihan Liu, "Controlled Elastic Postbuckling of Bilaterally Constrained Non-prismatic Columns: Application to Enhanced Quasi-static Energy Harvesters"
  • Second Place: Yifan Men, "Model-based Calibration of the Reaction-based Diesel Combustion Dynamics"
  • Third Place: Mayank Sinha, "Mechanical Characterization and Modeling of the Behavior of Nanocrystals-PDMS Bilayers"

Outstanding posters in interdisciplinary areas

• MSUFCU Research Translation Award
  • First Place: Sayli Devdas Bote, “Synthesis of Biobased Polyols from Soymeal and Its Application in Polyurethane Rigid Foam”
  • Second Place: Xiyuan Liu, “Liquid Activated Textile Batteries for Wearable Biosensing Systems”

• DewGood Public Service Technology Award
  • First Place: Rachel Sak, “Biomass Conversion to Hydrocarbon Fuels by Pyrolysis and Electrocatalysis”
  • Second Place: Leann Lerie Matta, “Rapid Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria Using Affixed Carbohydrate-Functionalized MNP and Cyclic Voltammetry Detection”

Outstanding posters in disciplinary areas

• Biosystems Engineering
  • First Place: Mahlet Garedew, “Electrocatalytic Upgrading of Lignin Model Compounds Using Ruthenium on Activated Carbon Cloth to Produce Liquid Fuel Intermediates”
  • Second Place: Fariborz Daneshvar, “Sensitivity Analysis of Climate Change Impact on Macroinvertebrate Communities in the Saginaw River Watershed”Third Place: Kaitlyn Casulli, “Modeling the Effect of Product Temperature, Moisture, and Process Humidity on Thermal Inactivation of Salmonella in Pistachios”

• Chemical Engineering
  • First Place: Padmanaban Sasthan Kuttipillai, “Phosphorescent Inorganic Nanoclusters – A New Paradigm for Light Emitting Diode Emitters”

• Materials Science
  • First Place: Mingmin Wang, “Introduction of Precisely Controlled Microstructural Defects into SRF Cavity Nb Sheet and their Impact on Local Superconducting Properties”

• Civil Engineering
  • First Place: Leila Khalili, “Mechanics-Based Service-Life Prediction of Elastomeric Nano-Composites”
  • Second Place: Pengcheng Jiao, “Control of Post-Buckling Response of Non-Uniform Beams for Energy Harvesting Applications”
  • Third Place: Suhail Hyder Vattathurvalappil, “Thermal, Electrical and Structural Behavior of ‘Reversible Bonded’ Composite Joints”

• Environmental Engineering
  • First Place: Ammar Safaie, “Circulation and Thermal Structure in Michigan's Inland Lakes: A Comparative Analysis Across Lakes”
  • Second Place: Jean-Rene Thelusmond, “Carbamazepine Biodegradation, Putative Carbamazepine Biodegrading Phylotypes and Xenobiotic Degrading Genes in Agricultural Soils”
  • Third Place: Zachary Curtis, “Evaluating the Threat of Upwelling Brines in Lower Michigan - A Data-Intensive Groundwater Sustainability Study”

• Computer Science and Engineering
  • First Place: Hussein Hejase, “Mapping the Genomic Architecture of Adaptive Traits with Interspecific Introgressive Origin”
  • Second Place: Xi Yin, “Multi-Task Convolutional Neural Network for Face Recognition in Constrained Environment”
  • Third Place: Kaixiang Lin, “Multi-Task Feature Interaction Learning”
  • Honorable Mention: Muhammad Jamal Afridi, “Intelligent and Automatic Quantification of in vivo Cells in MRI”
  • Honorable Mention: Faraz Ahmed, “A Machine-to-Machine Outsourcing Approach to Monitoring Quality of Experience for Operational Cellular Networks”
  • Honorable Mention: Sudipta Banerjee, “From Which Camera Did This Iris Image Come From?”
  • Honorable Mention: Qiaozi Gao, “Causality of Verbs for Grounded Language Understanding”
  • Honorable Mention: Alexander Lalejini, “The Evolutionary Origins of Phenotypic Plasticity”
  • Honorable Mention: Ali Munir, “Network Aware Task Scheduling in Data Centers”
  • Honorable Mention: Lanbo She, “Incremental Acquisition of Verb Hypothesis Space towards Physical World Interaction”
  • Honorable Mention: Thomas Swearingen, “Predicting Missing Demographic Information in Biometric Records Using Label Propagation Schemes”

• Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • First Place: David Torres, “VO2-Based MEMS Mirror”
  • Second Place: Jennifer Byford, “Injection Molding Terahertz Passive Components”
  • Third Place: Montassar AidiSharif, “Cupula-Inspired IPMC Sensor: Fabrication, Simulation and Sensor Characterization”

• Mechanical Engineering
  • First Place: Andy VanderKlok, “Impact Testing and Analysis of Composite Fan Case Structures”
  • Second Place: Masumeh Gholamisheeri, “Analysis and Modeling of a Turbulent Jet Ignition System for Internal Combustion Engines”
  • Third Place: Xiyuan Liu, “Liquid Activated Textile Batteries for Wearable Biosensing Systems”

Outstanding posters in interdisciplinary areas 

• MSUFCU Research Translation Award
  • First Place: Nariman Mansouri, “Design Considerations And Estimated On-Vehicle Performance For A Compression-Couple Based Thermoelectric Generator”
  • Second Place: Uchechi Okeke, “Tensile, Creep, And Fatigue Analysis Of Friction Stir Welded Al 2139-T8 Alloy”

• DewGood Public Service Technology Award
  • First Place: Tula Ngasala, “Water Quality Improvement Through Proper Design And Construction Of Wastewater Collection Systems And Sanitation Facilities In Dar Es Salaam,Tanzania”
  • Second Place: Amy Lenz, “Experimental Method To Quantify Residual Limb Displacement Within A Prosthetic Socket”

Outstanding posters in disciplinary areas  

• Biosystems Engineering
  • First Place: Mahlet Garedew, “Lignin To Liquid Fuels Using Fast Pyrolysis And Electrocatalytic Upgrading”
  • Second Place: Ronald Aguilar, “Engineering At The Tropics: Reclaiming Water Through Constructed Treatment Wetlands”
  • Third Place: Pat Sheridan, “Feasibility Of Utilizing Sugar Beet Residues To Produce Chitosan As A Value Added Product For Food And Agricultural Applications”
• Chemical Engineering
  • First Place: Phil Angart, “Determinants Of siRNA Functional Asymmetry”
  • Second Place: Chetan Tambe, "Silylated Soybean Oil For Industrial Coating Application"
  • Third Place: Nathaniel Leonard,"Non-Precious Metal Catalyst For Oxygen Reduction"
• Materials Science
  • First Place: Jared Williams, “The Efects Of Sn Substitution On The Thermoelectric And Phase Transition Properties Of Ge4SbTe5”
  • Second Place: Quan Zhou,"Microstructure Evolution And Stress-Strain Analysis Of Wafer Level Chip Scale Package (WLCSP) Solder Joints With Different Thermal Cycles"
  • Third Place: Kwang Jin Kim, "Molecular Dynamics Studies Of Diffusion Dynamics During Lithiation Of Si Electrode: Increasing Si Vacancies Can Improve The Lithiation Rate"
• Civil Engineering
  • First Place: Nan Hu, “Controlling The Postbuckling Response Of Cylindrical Shells Under Axial Compression For Applications In Smart Structures”
  • Second Place:Esam Aziz, “Response Of Fire Exposed Steel Bridge Girders”
  • Third Place: Iman Harsini, “Advanced Rapid Non-Destructive Test Method To Determine Chemical Composition Of Concrete Materials In The Field”
• Environmental Engineering
  • First Place: Zachary Curtis, “Groundwater Sustainability In Michigan Lowlands - A Multiscale Analysis”
  • Second Place: Maggie Kronlein, “Field-Based Detection Of Environmental DNA (eDNA) From Aquatic Invasive Species Using Novel Technology And Citizen Science”
  • Third Place: Evan O'Brien, “Screening For Potential Viral Pathogens In Wastewater Effluent And Activated Sludge From An MBR And A Conventional Treatment Utility Using Metagenomics Analysis”
• Computer Science and Engineering
  • First Place: Hussein Hejase, “Association Mapping In The Presence Of Complex Sample Structure”
  • Second Place: David Crouse, “Continuous Authentication of Mobile User: Fusion of Face Image and Inertial Measurement Unit Data”
  • Third Place: Beibei Liu, “Model-Reduced Variational Fluid Simulation”
  • Honorable Mention: Muhammad Jamal Afridi, “Automatic In Vivo Cell Detection In MRI”
  • Honorable Mention: Armand Burks, “An Efficient Structural Diversity Technique For Genetic Programming”
  • Honorable Mention: Emiliy Dolson, “Spatial Reward Heterogeneity Promotes Useful Diversity In Evolutionary Computation”
  • Honorable Mention: Amin Jourabloo, “Attribute Preserved Face De-Identification”
  • Honorable Mention: Keyur Patel, “Live Face Video Vs. Spoof Face Video: Use Of Moire Patterns To Detect Replay Video Attacks”
  • Honorable Mention: Xi Yin, “Attribute Preserved Face De-Identification”
• Mechanical Engineering
  • First Place: Sina Jahangiri Mamouri, “Numerical Simulation Of A Charged Particle In A Charged Rotating Tubular Membrane”
  • Second Place: Rajib Mandal, “Stretchable Luminescent Films Of Silicon Nanocrystals”
  • Third Place: Hussein Hasan, “Design And Development Of A Wirelessly Charged Robotic Fish”

Outstanding posters in interdisciplinary areas POSTERS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY AREAS

• MSUFCU Research Translation Award
  • First Place: Markus Downey, “Toughening Of Aromatic Epoxy Polymers For Fiber Reinforced Composite Matrices Via Aliphatic Epoxy Copolymers”
  • Second Place: Lacey Best-Rowden and Charles Otto, “Face Recognition: Identifying A Person Of Interest”

Outstanding posters in disciplinary areas

• Biosystems Engineering
  • First Place: Sean Woznicki, “Impacts Of Climate Change On Stream Ecosystem Integrity”
  • Second Place: Zhiguo Liu, “Reclamation Of Anaerobic Digestion Effluent Via Electrocoagulation And Algal Culture”
  • Third Place: Muiyang Li, “Correlating Maize Cell Wall Properties To Their Response To Alkaline Pretreatment And Enzymatic Hydrolysis”
• Chemical Engineering
  • First Place: Caitlin Kowalsky, “High-Resolution Sequence Function Mapping Of Full Length Proteins”
  • Second Place: Daniel Vocelle, "Engineering Delivery Vehicles For SiRNA Therapeutics"
  • Third Place: Markus Downey, "Toughening Of Aromatic Epoxy Polymers For Fiber Reinforced Composite Matrices Via Aliphatic Epoxy Copolymers"
• Materials Science
  • First Place: Matthew Klenk, “Modeling Lithium Ion Diffusion In The Fast-Ion Conducting Garnet Type Solid Electrolyte LLT Using Molecular Dynamics”
  • Second Place: Indraroop Ghosh Dastidar, "In-Situ Scanning Electron Microscopy Observations Of Tensile And Tensile-Creep Deformation Of A Ti-8Al-1Mo-1V (wt.%) Alloy"
  • Third Place: Margaret Young, "Angle-Dependent Performance Of Thin-Film, Transparent Photovoltaics"
• Civil Engineering
  • First Place: Xinyu (Sheena) Ye, “A Stochastic Multi-Scale Model Of Stream-Groundwater Interaction In Strongly Heterogeneous Porous Medium And Its Application In South Branch County, MI”
  • Second Place: Wassim Borchani, “Energy Harvesting From Localized Dynamic Transitions In Post-Buckled Elastic Columns Under Quasi-Static Loading”
  • Third Place: Duraisamy Saravanathiiban, “Macropore Flow Through Earthen Covers”
• Environmental Engineering
  • First Place: Brian Starr, “Produced Water Treatment Using Hybrid Hydrocyclone-Membrane Technology”
  • Second Place: Maggie Kronlein, “Antibiotic Resistance Gene Abundance And Diversity In The Great Lakes Region Using Targeted Functional Gene Sequencing And Gene-Z”
  • Third Place: Indumathy Jayamani, “A Comparison Of RDX Assimilating Microorganisms Across Soil Communities”
• Computer Science and Engineering
  • First Place: Pei Huang, “WiFi-BA: Choosing Arbitration Over Backoff In High Speed Multicarrier Wireless Networks”
  • Second Place: Asem Othman, “De-Identifying Biometric Images For Enhancing Privacy And Security”
  • Second Place: Dennis Roth, "Local Predictions In Social Network Graphs"
  • Third Place: Lacey Best-Rowden, “Face Recognition: Identifying A Person Of Interest”
  • Third Place: Muhammad Shahzad, “Secure Unlocking Of Mobile Touch Screen Devices By Simple Gestures: You Can See It But You Can Not Do It”
  • Honorable Mention: Faraz Ahmed, “Troubleshooting Quality Of Experience For Cellular Networks”
  • Honorable Mention: Chowdhury Hyder, “ARC: Adaptive Reputation Based Clustering Against Spectrum Sensing Data Falsification Attacks”
  • Honorable Mention: Soweon Yoon, “Fingerprint Recognition: A Longitudinal Study Of Intra-Person Similarity”
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • First Place: Daniel Dault, “GMM-MLFMA: A Fast Solver For Electromagnetic Scattering Problems”
  • Second Place: Xianbo Yang, “GaAs Schottky Barrier Diode THz Image Sensor Based On Low-Cost, Large-Area Compatible Embedded Actives Heterogeneous Integration”
  • Third Place: Feitian Zhang, “Gliding Robotic Fish: A Novel Underwater Robot For Aquatic Mobile Sensing”
• Mechnical Engineering
  • First Place: Vahid Mirjalili, “Pore Formation And Deformation In Membrane Bilayers”
  • Second Place: Kyle Bade, “Real-Time Control Of The Boundary Layer Disturbance Induced By A Dynamic Isolated Roughness Element Using Plasma Actuators”
  • Third Place: AbdoulAhad Validi, “Numerical Simulations Of Turbulent Jet Ignition And Combustion”

First Place: Mohamad Yaman Fares, Civil and Environmental Engineering, "Tire-Derived Aggregates (TDA) as Lightweight Fill for Road Structures"

Second Place: Mehrsa Mardikoraem, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, "EvoSeq-ML: Advancing Data-Centric Machine Learning with Evolutionary-Informed Protein Sequence Representation and Generation"

Third Place: Christiana Kiesling, Civil and Environmental Engineering, "Indoor Air Quality Challenges in Rural Alaskan Homes"

People’s Choice: Hamad Muslim, Civil and Environmental Engineering, "Quality Assessment of Longitudinal Joints in Flexible Pavements"