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last updated May 22, 2020
Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics
Amir Sagiv | Insulation In Driven Crystals | Earth Mover's Distance and Kernel Statistics
Siu-Wai Chan | Chan Research Group
Samuel Sia | Mobile App for Disease Tracking | Wearable Device For Health Monitoring | Drug release hydrogels to improve wound healing | Microfluidic device for improving cancer immunotherapy
B. O’Shaughnessy and M. Simunovic | Future-proof strategies in preventing SARS-CoV-2 virus entry
Dan Steingart | Battery Design & Analysis (new)
Alexander Urban | Predicting battery recycling processes | Machine-learning thermodynamics
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Sharon Di | Waymo & Lyft Driverless Car Data Analysis and Driving Modeling
Marco Giometto | An Urban Tree Database for High-Fidelity Airflow Simulations | Development of a Feature-Extraction Tool for Turbulence in Hurricanes
Shiho Kawashima | Tailoring the rheology of 3-D printed concretes
Huiming Yin | Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems
Shuran Song | Multi-agent collaborative learning | Active scene understanding | Mult-Arms Motion Planning
Vishal Misra | Analyzing COVID-19 data using the Synthetic Control methodology
Steve Feiner | FastBall | CURVE (Collaborative URban Visualization Environment)
Ethan Katz-Bassett | The Internet under widespread shelter-in-place: Resilience, response, and lessons for the future | Understanding and optimizing Internet video delivery with self-driving networks
Zoran Kostic | COSMOS Smart Intersections, Cloud-Connected Vehicles - Applications of Deep Learning | Peripheral Edema Phenotyping Using Artificial Intelligence
Ken Shepard | Summer 2020 Research Positions in the Bioelectronic Systems Laboratory
Gil Zussman | High Quality Video Streaming over Wireless | mmWave Wireless Channel Measurements in the COSMOS testbed
Earth & Environmental Engineering
Bolun Xu | Electric Bus Energy Analysis in New York City
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Ali Hirsa | Climate risk and NLP | The VIX, its market microstructure and market manipulation | Deep Reinforcement learning and Trading | ML-based Credit Scoring Models | Network Modelling of Financial Systems and their Liquidity
Jay Sethuraman | Revenue Maximization in Platforms
Michael Burke | Data analytics, automation, and multi-scale/multi-physics modeling
Karen Kasza | Biomechanics of Force Generation during Tissue Morphogenesis | Kasza Research Group
Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Katayun Barmak | Grain Growth in Metallic Films: Analysis of Ex situ and In Situ Experimental Results (filled)
Simon J. L. Billinge | Spring 2020 Local atomic structure of nanomaterials from advanced x-ray neutron and electron diffraction data (filled) | Summer 2020 Local atomic structure of nanomaterials from advanced x-ray neutron and electron diffraction data (filled)
Siu-Wai Chan | Stress in nano-scale (filled) | Heat Capacity of nano-crystals (filled)
Kyle Mandli | Accelerating the Calculation of Risk of Coastal Flooding due to Hurricanes (filled)
Elham Azizi | Deep Learning for Cell Segmentation in Multiplexed Tissue Imaging (filled)
Nadeen Chahine, PhD | Degeneration and Regeneration of the Intervertebral Disc (filled) | The role of cell contractility in looping morphogenesis of the small intestine (filled)
Clark Hung | Lab Research in the Hung Lab (filled)
Joshua Jacobs | Representation of directions in the human brain (filled)
Andrew Laine | Unsupervised Machine Learning to discover new COPD subtypes (filled)
Barclay Morrison | Neurotrauma and Repair Laboratory (filled)
Qi Wang | Simulation and characterization of neural stimulation (filled)
Allie Obermeyer | Methods for the intracellular delivery of gene editing tools (filled) | Engineering synthetic organelles using protein phase separation (filled) | Development of bio-orthogonal synthetic organelles via engineered protein phase separation (filled)
Chris Boyce | Multiphase Granular Flows (filled) | Zippering Motion in Gas Jets in Liquid (filled)
Daniel Esposito | High speed video analysis of membraneless electrolyzers (filled) | Membrane Coated Electrocatalysts (filled) | In situ imaging of photocatalysts (filled) | 3D printed membraneless electrolyzers for CO2 conversion (filled) | Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (filled)
Lauren Marbella | Structure and dynamics in lead halide perovskites (filled)
V. Faye McNeill | Data Science to Close the Air Pollution Data Gap (filled)
Mijo Simunovic | Using stem cells to build quantitative platforms for studying human implantation and early pregnancy failure (filled)
Dan Steingart | Battery Design and Analysis (filled)
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Sharon Di | Waymo & Lyft Driverless Car Data Analysis and Driving Modeling 1 of 2 (filled)
WaiChing Sun | Modeling thawing settlement of soil under changing climate (filled)
Luis Gravano | Adaptive Information Extraction from Social Media for Actionable Inferences in Public Health (filled)
David Knowles | Predicting cell-type specific RNA splicing from gene sequence using deep learning (filled)
Prof. Brian A. Smith | Audio Navigation Systems for People Who Are Blind (filled)
Carl Vondrick | Grounding Language in Vision and Interaction | Columbia Computer Vision Lab (filled)
Earth and Environmental Engineering
Robert J. Farrauto | Dual Function Materials (DFM) for CO2 mitigation (filled) | Catalytic dry reforming of green hous gases (filled) | Dual Functional Materials for CO2 capture and conversion (filled)
Bolun Xu | Data-driven analysis (filled)
Ngai Yin Yip | Resource Recovery of N and P Nutrients from Diverted Urine (filled)
James Teherani | Hall-effect measurement (filled)
Matei Ciocarlie | Robotic Manipulation and Mobility Lab (filled)
Kristin Myers | Undergraduate Researcher (filled)
Vijay Vedula | Computational modeling of heart valves in health and disease (filled)
Sinisa Vukelic | Femtosecond laser based modification of collagenous tissues (filled)
- Undergraduate Researcher
- Tropical cyclogenesis and extratropical transition
- Visualizing Flooding Zones Using Augmented Reality
- Targeted de-epithelialization as a novel therapeutic strategy for lung repair in ARDS.
- Investigating the immunological mechanisms that cause heart failure in lupus patients using 3D cardiac tissues.
- Brain Computer Interfaces developed for Virtual Reality
- Multimodal Brain Computer Interface for Human-Robot Interaction
- Reconfigurable network topology design using algorithmic relaxation
- AIM Testing
- Speech separation with deep neural networks
- Crosslayer Design and Modeling of Silicon Photonic Interconnects
- Microneedles for delivery of therapeutics into the cochlea
- Production of CO2 negative concrete from seawater-derived raw materials
- Technologies for contacting electric fish
- Primary cilia regulation of intercellular cytoskeletal dynamics
- Effects of network disruption within the hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons due to blast induced traumatic brain injury
- Characterizing the mechanism of T cell exhaustion in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
- Concussion Analysis
- Targeting protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) activity to mitigate electrophysiological deficits due to blast-induced traumatic brain injury
- Engineering Bacterial Pattern Formation
- Cement from Seawater
- High speed video analysis of membraneless electrolyzers
- Membrane Coated Electrocatalysts
- Photoelectrochemical cells
- T cell expansion
- Selective Coacervation of Proteins in Complex Mixtures
- Catalytic oxidation of hydrocarbons for pollution abatement
- Chemical Biology Tools for Protein Structure by Solid State NMR
- Controlled-Atmospheric Probing of 2D Materials
- Design and Control of Batteries for Grid Applications
- Encapsulation of CO2 capture materials
- Financial Networks Analysis and Policy Implications
- Investigating the Mechanobiology of Organ Formation in the Developing Embryo
- Isothermal Membrane Distillation for Ammonia Recovery from Source-Separated Urine
- Modeling of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Using CRISPR Interference
- Orthopaedic Tissue Engineering
- Orthopaedic Tissue Engineering for Women's Health Challenges
- Polarized Noble Gas Imaging
- Predictive Visual Understanding
- Probing Neurons with Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy
- Quantification of mechanical strain from time lapse experiments in the developing chick endoderm
- Responsive delivery of therapeutic proteins
- Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits
- Structure-Performance Relationships in Aqueous Na Ion Batteries
- Temperature Swing Solvent Extraction for High-Salinity Desalination
- In vitro microphysiological system for modeling Marfan Syndrome
- Tissue engineering of the synovium
- Experimental and computational studies of combustion kinetics
- Point-of-care molecular diagnostics
- Development and Characterization of Battery Materials
- Carbon dioxide capture and conversion to fuel
- CO2 capture and catalytic conversion
- Catalysis using Niobium oxide as a promoter
- Neutron Diffraction study of nano-ceria for fast ionic conduction for better solid state fuel-battery
- In vitro model of traumatic brain injury
- Non-linear mechanical properties of brain
- Developing an iPSCs model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy using CRISPRi
- Generating a stem cell model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy using CRISPRi
- Hydrogen Battery
- High speed video analysis of membraneless electrolyzers
- Spectroelectrochemical Investigation of Low-dimensional van der Waals Electrocatalysts
- Membrane Coated Electrocatalys
- Numerical Modeling of Air Pollution Episodes in New Delhi, India
- Development of Therapeutic Protein Delivery Vehicles
- Chemically enhanced weathering of silicate minerals and industrial wastes for carbon capture and storage
- Development of Innovative CO2 Capture Materials and Their Fluidization Behaviors
- Undergraduate Researcher
- CRISPR/Cas9-mediated PARP1 disruption to sensitize BRCA1 mutated breast cancer cells in response to chemotherapy
- Economic modeling of traffic accidents
- Articular cartilage delamination wear and a novel treatment strategy to delay osteoarthritis progression
- Niobouim oxide as a promoter for catalytic pollution abatement
- Carbon dioxide capture and the conversion to fuel
- Adhesive solutions for rotator cuff repair
- High-speed 3D microscopy: applications and image analysis
- Femtosecond Laser Corneal Treatment
- 2D Material Synthesis
- Electromechanical Actuators Using Two-Dimensional (2D) Materials
- Experimental and Behavioral Economics Research
- Building and replicating microscope systems
- Modeling of blood flow changes from 3D data
- Classification of Multiple Sclerosis disease state and biomarker identification from brain metabolite concentrations acquired from 1H-MRS at 7T
- Sustainable Nutrient Recycling: Development of Decentralized Technologies for High-Yield Nitrogen and Phosphorus Recovery from Source-Separated Urine
- Novel technologies for sustainable water production
- Sustainable Nutrient Recycling: Development of Decentralized Technologies for High-Yield Nitrogen and Phosphorus Recovery from Source-Separated Urine
- Verilog Design of Media Compression Modules
- Shoulder Biomechanics - 2
- MRI of Multiphase Granular Flows
- Wireless control of implantable microdevices
- Designing Nanoparticle Based Polymer Membranes
- Detecting Hate Speech in online Media
- Engineering matrix for guiding stem cell differentiation
- Guiding Stem Cell Differentiation
- Single molecule studies of biomolecular adsorption processes
- Brain-state dependent population neural coding
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Wireless implantable devices
- Smartphone-assisted blood tests
- Point-of-care blood tests
- Shoulder Biomechanics
- Robotics for Human Movement Augmentation and Training
- Data-Driven Complex Travel Behavior Modeling Using Didi Chuxing Data
- Biomechanics of Force Generation during Tissue Morphogenesis
- Tailoring the Rheological Behavior of 3-D Printing Concrete
- Carbon dioxide capture and the conversion to fuel
- Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Research Experience for Under…
- Biomechanics of Force Generation during Tissue Morphogenesis
- Biomechanics of Force Generation during Tissue Morphogenesis - 3
- Visual-tactile geometric reasoning
- Digital circuit design for robot assembler
- Resilient Structures: Fire Effects on Suspension Bridge Main Cables
- Open Source Ultrasound
- Investigating Nonlinear Wave Coupling
- Measuring and Controlling Magnetized Plasma
- Multi Scale Informatics code research
- Engineering novel bacteria circuitry
- Nano-oxide synthesis for Emerging Engineering Applications
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Network VR
- Mechanism of neurotransmitter release in the brain
- Exploring the Electronic Properties of Two Dimensional Materials
- Undergraduate Israel Fellowship
- Interface circuits for piezoelectric devices
- Protecting Coastal Infrastructure in a Changing Climate by Integrating Optimiza…
- Protecting Coastal Infrastructure in a Changing Climate by Integrating Optimiza…
- Robot Simulator in CUDA/C++
- Membrane Coated Electrocatalysts
- 3D Printed Membraneless Electrochemical Devices
- Low-Dimensional Electrocatalysts Based on Van der Waals Materials
- 3D Concrete Printing
- Audio Separation Using Deep Neural Networks
- Polymeric Thin-Film for Enhanced Permeability-Selectivity
- Training to Walk on Stairs using Robotic Assistance
- Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Graphene
- Biomolecular Nanodevices
- High Temperature Creep Deformation of Ceramic and Metal Nanowires
- Design and Testing of Hydrogel Gel-Based Affinity Glucose Micro and Nanosensors
- CVD Graphene Growth
- Analysis and Visualization of Single-Cell Gene Expression Data in Skin Differentiation
- Interfacing Hybrid Computer with Digital Computer
- Mechanisms of Force Generation During Tissue Morphogenesis
- Investigating Nonlinear Wave Coupling
- Bone Mechanobiology
- Online Optimization for Management Science Applications
- urOvol: Medical Device for Fluid Monitoring
- Full-Duplex Wireless
- Integrated Nanophotonic Circuits for Optical Modulators and Switches
- Silicon Photonic SDN Controller
- Extreme Weather Events
- Finite Element Models of Pregnancy
- Senior Lab Assistant - Carleton Laboratory
- Lab Assistant - Carleton Laboratory
- Upper Body Support for Wheelchair Users
- Measuring and Controlling Magnetized Plasma
- Orthopaedic Biomechanics
- Impurity Tolerant Membranes
- Low-Temperature Heat Utilization with Membrane-Based Technology
- Modeling Molecular Packing in Drug Formulation Excipients
- Impact of Radiofrequency Ablation Geometry on Electrical Conduction
- Optical Spectroscopy of Solids
- Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Low Resource Languages
- Personalized Anti-cancer Medicine Targeting via Machine Learning
- Networking Research
- (BNL) A Multi-Axes Motion Controller System for Multi-Stage Spherical Backscatter Detector
- (BNL) A Motion Control Test and Integration System Using EtherCAT Based Drives and Power PMAC
- (BNL) Deterministic Ethernet Accelerator Type Timing Systems on a Standalone FPGA
- (BNL) Protoyping and Measurement of User Interface and Display Manager Conversion Tools
- (BNL) Plotting and Visualization Using Matplotlib
- (BNL) Testing Infrastructure and SQA/Devops
- (BNL) Data Metrics and Mining
- (BNL) Develop an EPICS Aware Vibration and Alarming Monitoring Station
- Community Impact’s George Van Amson Fellowship
- Spatial Patterning of Bacterial Colonies
- Hybrid Computing ELEN
- Hybrid Computing APAM