Summer 2026 Research Opportunities
Please note: all Summer@SEAS-funded positions are now filled for Summer 2026.
The positions below are only open to Columbia Engineering undergraduate* and Master's students. Positions marked as "CLOSED" are no longer accepting applications. Please check back regularly for additional projects.
- *Seniors are only eligible if they are continuing into a Master's program at Columbia Engineering for Fall 2026.
- Students from other universities or other Columbia schools are not eligible.
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- Aravind Devarakonda
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- (CLOSED) Sensing Quantum Matter Through Mechanical Motion
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- Christopher Hansen
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- (CLOSED) Assembly of the Columbia University Tokamak for Education (CUTE)
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- Christopher Hansen
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- (CLOSED) Pulsed power for the Columbia University Tokamak for Education (CUTE)
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- Nikolas Logan
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- (CLOSED) Julia Code Development and Acceleration for 3D Stability and Perturbed Equilibrium Calculations in Tokamak Plasmas
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- Carlos Paz-Soldan
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- (CLOSED) Fire and Ice – Measuring Cryogenic Pellet Ablation with High-Energy Beams
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- Carlos Paz-Soldan
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- (CLOSED) High-Temperature Molten Salt Experiments to Understand Fusion Fuel Extraction
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- Carlos Paz-Soldan
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- (CLOSED) Non-Planar High-Temperature Superconducting Magnets
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- Michele Simoncelli
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- (CLOSED) AI-accelerated optimization of thermomechanical properties of plasma-facing materials for fusion
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- Michele Simoncelli
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- (CLOSED) Hybrid crystal-glass transport in solids with ordered bond topology & disordered bond geometry
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- Renata Wentzcovitch
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- MINERALS: Modeling Earth from Atomic to Global Scale (This position is not funded by Summer@SEAS.)
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- Yuan Yang
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- (CLOSED) Amide solvent with high solubility of sulfide for rechargeable potassium sulfur battery
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- Xueyue (Sherry) Zhang
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- (CLOSED) Development of Experimental Control Software–Hardware Interfaces for Quantum Experiments
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- Xueyue (Sherry) Zhang
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- (CLOSED) LLM-Assisted Design of Quantum Circuits or Device Layouts
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- Xueyue (Sherry) Zhang
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- (CLOSED) Simulation of Nanophotonic Structures for Silicon Color Centers
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- Ben Zhu
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- (CLOSED) JAX-Based Edge Transport Modeling
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- Treena Arinzeh
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- (CLOSED) Electromechanical stimulation for cartilage repair
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- Elham Azizi
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- (CLOSED) Discovering Tumor-Immune Communication Networks Using Multiheaded Attention-Based Modeling in a Large-Scale African American Colorectal Cancer Study
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- Ke Cheng
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- (CLOSED) Novel therapeutics for cardiovascular disease
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- Ke Cheng
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- (CLOSED) Novel Therapeutics for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
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- Santiago Correa
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- (CLOSED) Development of injectable extracellular vesicle-based hydrogels for tissue regeneration
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- Santiago Correa
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- (CLOSED) Engineering Glycan-Mediated Dendritic Cell Activation in Lymph Node–Mimetic Hydrogels
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- Santiago Correa
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- (CLOSED) Engineering of Yeast Extracellular Vesicles for Immune-modulation
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- Henry Hess
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- (CLOSED) Spatiotemporal dynamics in enzyme solutions
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- Lance Kam
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- (CLOSED) Multimodal prediction of long term T cell function
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- Elisa Konofagou
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- (CLOSED) Pulse Wave Imaging
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- Andrew Laine
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- (CLOSED) Early detection of preclemsia via retinal imaging
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- Andrew Laine
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- (CLOSED) Lung airway tree structure for COPD risk
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- José L McFaline-Figueroa
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- (CLOSED) Mapping Combinatorial Drug Responses with Single-Cell Transcriptomics
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- Grace McIlvain
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- (CLOSED) Building and Validating Physical Models of Brain Mechanical Properties
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- Grace McIlvain
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- (CLOSED) Mapping Brain Mechanics to Brain Function Using MRI
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- Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana
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- (CLOSED) Brain-to-Model Transfer Learning to Probe Disrupted Cognitive Computations in Neurological Disorders
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- Samuel Sia
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- (CLOSED) Point-of-care molecular diagnostics
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- Samuel Sia
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- (CLOSED) Wearable device for health monitoring
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- Sanja Vickovic
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- (CLOSED) RNA sensors and genetic prime editors
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- Sanja Vickovic
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- (CLOSED) Scalable and programmable RNAs in the brain
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- Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
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- (CLOSED) Automated fabrication of engineered cardiac tissues.
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- Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
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- (CLOSED) Identifying bone marrow niche components in regulating leukemia growth and resistance to therapy
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- Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
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- (CLOSED) Influence of Odontoblast Processes on Dentin Sensitivity and Repair in a Tooth-on-a-Chip Model
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- Qi Wang
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- (CLOSED) Neural information processing in perceptual decision making
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- Parisa Yousefpour
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- (CLOSED) Biomolecular Therapeutics for Wound Healing.
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- Parisa Yousefpour
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- (CLOSED) Formulating Biomolecular Vaccines. This position is not funded by Summer@SEAS.
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- Parisa Yousefpour
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- (CLOSED) Modulating Immune responses to RNA therapeutics. This position is not funded by Summer@SEAS.
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- Juliana Carneiro
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- (CLOSED) Tailoring Electrified Catalyst Surfaces for the Non-oxidative Coupling of Methane: Towards the Sustainable Refinery
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- Daniel Esposito
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- (CLOSED) Investigations of single photocatalyst particles
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- Daniel Esposito
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- (CLOSED) Removal of Contaminants from Mining Waters using Electrochemically Generated pH Gradients and Controlled Bubble Dynamics
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- Sharon Di
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- (CLOSED) LLM-Empowered Mobile App to improve Urban Walkability
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- Shiho Kawashima
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- (CLOSED) Mg-based cements incorporating ex-situ mineralized carbonates
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- Addis Kidane
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- (CLOSED) 3D printed architecture material for energy absorption
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- WaiChing Sun
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- (CLOSED) Reasoning and Acting AIs for mesh generations tailored for boundary value problems
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- Julia Hirschberg
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- (CLOSED) Safe, Robust, Interpretable Dialogue Agents for Democratized Mental Health Care
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- David Knowles
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- (CLOSED) A genomic foundation model predicting full isoform repertoires
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- Kathleen McKeown
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- (CLOSED) Rapid Summarization for Public Health Emergencies
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- Christian Murphy
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- (CLOSED) Introducing Generative AI Tools into an Intermediate-Level Computer Science Course
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- Henning Schulzrinne
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- (CLOSED) Analyzing high-Speed internet access in rural areas
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- Henning Schulzrinne
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- (CLOSED) Preventing phishing attacks on vulnerable populations
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- Brian Smith
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- (CLOSED) Computational Rationality for Accessible Video Games. This position is not funded by Summer@SEAS.
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- Brian Smith
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- (CLOSED) Gameplay Programmer for Increasing Replayability in Educational Games. This position is not funded by Summer@SEAS.
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- Brian Smith
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- (CLOSED) Increasing Replayability in Educational Games
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- Eugene Wu
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- (CLOSED) The Disaster Genome
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- Eugene Wu
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- (CLOSED) Lake agents
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- Henry Yuen
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- (CLOSED) Formalizing the PCP Theorem in Lean
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- Richard Zemel
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- (CLOSED) Biologically-Guided Memory Consolidation for Continual Learning
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- Adeyemi Adeleye
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- (CLOSED) Investigating pH-Dependent Reactive Species Generation by Non-Thermal Plasma for PFAS Degradation
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- Adeyemi Adeleye
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- (CLOSED) REE Phytomining from Enriched Soils
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- Shaina Kelly
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- (CLOSED) NMR-Based REE/Critical Mineral Liberation Analysis
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- Oscar Nordness
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- (CLOSED) High Throughput Characterization of soft Materials
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- Oscar Nordness
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- (CLOSED) High Throughput Design and Screening of Electrolyte Materials
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- Dan Steingart
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- (CLOSED) Industrially Applied Acoustic Image Reconstruction
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- Dan Steingart
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- (CLOSED) Machine Learning on Robotically Driven Metal Reactions
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- Ngai Yin Yip
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- (CLOSED) Evaluating the Public Health Performance of Point-of-Use Water Purification Devices
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- Ngai Yin Yip
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- Fundamental Partitioning and Precipitation Phenomena in Switchable Solvent Selective Extraction for Lithium Recovery from Brines. This position is not funded by Summer@SEAS.
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- Ngai Yin Yip
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- (CLOSED) Steric Effects Governing Ion Transport in Ion-Exchange Membranes
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- Ngai Yin Yip
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- Thermodynamic and Energy Analysis of Critical Material Recovery from Unconventional Resources. This position is not funded by Summer@SEAS.
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- Bolun Xu
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- (CLOSED) Exploring Interconnection Queue of Renewable and Data Centers
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- Bolun Xu
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- (CLOSED) Process Optimization of Synthetic Fuel Production
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- Keren Bergman
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- (CLOSED) Photonic Computing
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- Keren Bergman
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- (CLOSED) Photonic network modeling
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- Asaf Cidon
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- (CLOSED) Using LLMs to generate labels for phishing emails
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- Savannah Eisner
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- (CLOSED) Radiation-Hardened Hall-Effect Sensors for Magnetic Field Diagnostics in Fusion Plasmas
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- Christine Hendon
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- (CLOSED) Image processing and machine learning for health applications
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- Ioannis Kymissis
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- (CLOSED) In-treatment radiation sensors
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- Ioannis Kymissis
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- (CLOSED) Phosphor printing for multicolor LED arrays
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- Alex Meng
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- (CLOSED) Design and Experimental Characterization of Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits
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- Kenneth Shepard
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- (CLOSED) Projects in the Bioelectronic Systems Laboratory
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- Xiaodong Wang
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- (CLOSED) Trustworthy AI Tutors for Core Electrical Engineering Courses
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- Yaren Bilge Kaya
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- (CLOSED) Daily Needs Proximity Index for Buenos Aires
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- Chaoqun Dong
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- (CLOSED) Steerable neural electrode projections for adaptive brain implantation
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- Karen Kasza
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- (CLOSED) 3D structure and dynamics of developing epithelial tissues
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- Karen Kasza
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- (CLOSED) Mechanisms of morphogenesis during embryonic development
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- Vijay Modi
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- (CLOSED) Automation in solar PV installations
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- Vijay Vedula
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- (CLOSED) Attention-enhanced neural networks for predicting cardiac activation times
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- Vijay Vedula
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- (CLOSED) Image-based modeling of a gravid uterus
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