The College of Engineering celebrates its many outstanding graduate students with a number of awards.
- Fitch H. Beach Awards
- Outstanding Graduate Student Awards
- Engineering Graduate Research Symposium Poster Awards
- 3MT (Three-Minute Thesis) Competition Winners
Fitch H. Beach Awards
This endowed award, established by Janet M. Beatty in honor of her uncle, recognizes the most outstanding graduate researchers within the College of Engineering. Each department nominates one Ph.D. student, and awards are based on a review of students’ academic and professional records and on an oral presentation of their research. Awardees receive stipends, a certificate, and a medal to be worn at graduation.
- First place: Yihua Zhang, Advisor: Sijia Liu, Computer Science
- Second place: Aniwat Juhong, Advisor: Zhen Qiu, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Third place: Ashiq Shawon, Advisor: Alexandra Zevalkink, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Honorable mention: Kay Hadrick, Advisor: Taeho Kim, Biomedical Engineering
- Honorable mention: Anthony James Franco, Advisor: Evangelyn Alocilja, Biosystems Engineering
- Honorable mention: Poornachandra Vaddy, Advisor: Muhammed Emin Kutay, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Honorable mention: Avrajit Ghosh, Advisor: Saiprasad Ravishankar & Rongrong Wang, Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering
- Honorable mention: Aakash Khandelwal, Advisor: Ranjan Mukherjee, Mechanical Engineering
- 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
Outstanding Graduate Student Awards
This award recognizes the most outstanding doctoral student in each program, as selected by the faculty within the department. Recipients receive a stipend, certificate, and a medal to be worn at graduation.
- Jacob Reynolds, Biomedical Engineering (Advisor: Brian Johnson)
- Kieron Moller, Biosystems Engineering (Advisor: Amirpouyan Nejadhashemi)
- Mayson Whipple, Chemical Engineering (Advisor: Robert Ferrier)
- Ehsan Kamjoo, Civil Engineering (Advisor: Ali Zockaie)
- Siddhant Gautam, Computational Mathematics, Science & Engineering (Advisor: Saiprasad Ravishankar)
- Minchul Kim, Computer Science and Engineering (Advisor: Xiaoming Liu)
- Amit Bhuyan, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Advisor: Subir Biswas)
- Francis Hanna, Environmental Engineering (Advisor: Annick Anctil)
- Yu-Hsiu Lin, Materials Science (Advisor: Jose Mendoza Cortes)
- Jiabin Liu, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Shaoting Lin)
- 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)
Engineering Graduate Research Symposium Poster Awards
These awards recognize students who presented exceptional research posters at the annual Engineering Graduate Research Symposium. Awardees are selected by a panel of judges drawn from faculty and industry representatives.
- Biomedical Engineering
- Best Poster: Sema Athamna, "Brain Fingerprinting-Based Community Structure"
- Best Poster: Maggie Lee, "Exosome-Coated Gadolinium Prussian Blue Nanoparticles as a Multi-theranostic Agent for Treatment of Glioblastoma"
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Best Poster: Ankush Jha, "Enhancing Hospital Evacuation Strategies through Data-Driven Approaches on Egress and Fire Dynamics"
- Best Poster: Tejeswar Rayala, "Fire Response of FRP-strengthened Prestressed Concrete Flexural Members"
- Best Poster: Sajjad Vosoughinia, "Supporting EV Tourism Trips Through Intermediate and Destination Charging: A Case Study of Lake Michigan Circuit"
- Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering
- Best Poster: Mandela Quashie, "PIC Based on Scovel-Weinstein’s Finite-Dimensional Approximations of Lie-Poisson Spaces"
Computer Science and Engineering - Best Poster: Tianyi Ma, "Breaking Down and Building Up: Skill-Centric Transfer Learning for Vision-and-Language Navigation"
- Best Poster: Mandela Quashie, "PIC Based on Scovel-Weinstein’s Finite-Dimensional Approximations of Lie-Poisson Spaces"
- Mechanical Engineering
- Best Poster: Scott Anthony, "Development and Validation of a 1D Oil-Injected Screw Compressor Model for Small-Scale Helium Cryogenic System Applications"
- Best Poster: Raghav Bihani, "HDH (Humidification-Dehumidification) Desalination Driven by Oscillating Water Column"
- Best Poster: Jiabin Liu, "Pressure-Sensitive In-Situ Underwater Adhesives"
- 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"
- Best Poster: Jared Reiling, "Improving Accuracy of Multi-animal Motion Tracking"
- 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 Areas
- 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
- 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”
- Mechanical 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”
3MT (Three-Minute Thesis) Competition Winners
- First Place: Adam Chrzan, Mechanical Engineering, "Inevitable or Preventable? Pioneering Biomechanics to Understand Thumb Arthritis"
- Second Place: Colin O'Hern, Biomedical Engineering, "A Human Heart Macrophage: Assembloid or the Study of Cardiac Development and Arrhythmias"
- Third Place: Joelle Eaves, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, "If You Give a Girl a Grapefruit: Understanding Drug Compatibility"
- People's Choice: Ankur Kamboj, Electrical and Computer Engineering, "Human Motor Learning in High-Dimensional Spaces"
- 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"
