Discipline-based Categories
Undergraduate Presenters
Biomedical Engineering:
1st: Christianne Chua (BME): “Engineered Live Three-Dimensional "Spark Cell" Structures for Optical Pacing”
Advisor: Dr. Emelia Entcheva
2nd: Anna Warhol (BME): “Electrocardiographic response to Doxorubicin treatment in mouse is modulated by conscious and anesthetized state”
Advisor: Dr. Igor Efimov
Engineering and Physical Sciences:
2nd: Samantha Racan (MAE): “Monitoring Hydrolytic Degradation in Polymeric Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration Applications”
Advisor: Dr. Michael Plesniak
Graduate Student Presenters
Biomedical Engineering:
1st (Tie): Frederick Zasadny (BME): “A Powerful Approach to Understanding Cardiac Structure and Function”
Advisor: Dr. Matthew Kay
1st (Tie): Jenna Osborn (MAE): “Development and Characterization of Bovine Milk Ultrasound Responsive Exosomes”
Advisor: Dr. Kausik Sarkar
Electrical and Computer Engineering:
1st: Hao Zheng (ECE): “Power and Performance-Efficient Manycore Architectures”
Advisor: Dr. Ahmed Louri
2nd: Mostafa Nazemi (ECE): “Energy Storage Planning for Enhanced Seismic Resilience of Power Systems”
Advisor: Dr. Payman Dehghanian
Engineering:
1st: Priyanka Ali (CEE): “Primary sludge fermentation: sustainable and economical process of supplementing carbon for short cut nitrogen removal”
Advisor: Dr. Rumana Riffat
Mathematical and Physical Sciences:
1st: Ian Carr (MAE): “The wake of a bluff body in highly pulsatile flow: effects of freestream inflow frequency”
Advisor: Dr. Michael Plesniak
Special Prize Categories
Sustainability Prize
(Sponsored by Sustainable GW)
Graduate Presenter: Priyanka Ali (CEE): “Primary sludge fermentation: sustainable and economical process of supplementing carbon for short cut nitrogen removal”
Advisor: Dr. Rumana Riffat
GWNIC Award for Microscopy and Nanofabrication Techniques
(Sponsored by the GW Nanofabrication and Imaging Center)
Nanofabrication:
1st (Tie): Rubab Amin (ECE): “0.52 V•mm ITO-based Mach-Zehnder Modulator in Silicon-on-Insulator Platform”
Advisor: Dr. Volker Sorger
1st (Tie): Shiqi Guo (ECE): “The Self-inspired Artificial Intelligence Device for Toxic Gas Detection and ‘Murderers’ Prediction”
Advisor: Dr. Mona Zaghloul
Microscopy:
1st: Frederick Zasadny (BME): “A Powerful Approach to Understanding Cardiac Structure and Function”
Advisor: Dr. Matthew Kay
AccelerateGW I-Corps Site Grants
(Sponsored by the GW Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
Shuyue Guan (BME): “Can a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) implement histogram equalization in image analysis?”
Advisor: Dr. Murray Loew
Yuan Li (ECE): “Accelerator-Rich Heterogeneous Architectures”
Advisor: Dr. Ahmed Louri
Zixian Lin (BME): “Patient-based classification of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma through Computed Tomography Texture Analysis”
Advisor: Dr. Murray Loew
Mostafa Nazemi (ECE): “Energy Storage Planning for Enhanced Seismic Resilience of Power Systems”
Advisor: Dr. Payman Dehghanian
Hong Xuan (CS): “Deep Randomized Ensembles for Image Retrieval”
Advisor: Dr. Robert Pless
Hao Zheng (ECE): “Power and Performance-Efficient Manycore Architectures”
Advisor: Dr. Ahmed Louri