Research Expo 2015 took place Thursday April 16, 2015 and featured a poster session, faculty lightning talks, and an award ceremony and networking reception. The event was a success, thanks to our judges, sponsors and the Jacobs School faculty, staff, and students. As a way to recognize the hard work of the graduate students who presented a poster at the event, a grand prize and the Rudee Outstanding Poster Award was presented to the poster deemed “best in show” by the judges. In addition, smaller prizes and awards were given to the presenters of one poster in each department who were able to articulate the meaning of their research extraordinarily well.
The Rudee Outstanding Poster Award
NanoEngineering
190. ARTIFICIAL MICROMOTORS IN THE MOUSE'S STOMACH: A STEP TOWARDS IN VIVO USE OF BIOMEDICAL MICRO-ROBOTS
Student: Jinxing Li | Faculty: Joseph Wang, Liangfang Zhang
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| Jinxing Li, Best Overall Poster, Rudee Research Expo Award, 2015 |
The winners of the Best Poster Awards from the departments are:
Bioengineering Best Poster
47. THREE-DIMENSIONAL CARDIAC MICROTISSUES IN A PERFUSION-BASED DEVICE: AN IN VITRO PLATFORM
Student: Ivneet Singh Bhullar | Faculty: Shyni Varghese
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| Ivneet Singh Bhullar, Bioengineering Best Poster Award Winner |
Computer Science and Engineering Best Poster
55. ANALYZING SOCIAL MEDIA TO CHARACTERIZE HIV AT-RISK POPULATIONS AMONG MSM IN SAN DIEGO
Student: Narendran Thangarajan | Faculty: Nadir Weibel
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| Narendran Thangarajan, Computer Science and Engineering Best Poster Award |
Electrical and Computer Engineering Best Poster
86. W-BAND SPATIAL POWER COMBINER
Student: Minu Mariam Jacob | Faculty: Daniel F. Sievenpiper
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| Minu Mariam Jacob, Electrical and Computer Engineering Best Poster Award Winner |
Katie Osterday Best Poster Award Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
139. MAGNETIC FREEZE CASTING: POROUS SCAFFOLDS BIO-INSPIRED BY BONE
Student: Michael Brian Frank, Tsuk Haroush, Sze Hei Siu, Jerry Ng, Ivan Torres | Faculty: Joanna M. McKittrick
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| Michael Frank, Katie Osterday Best Poster Award, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Winner |
NanoEngineering Best Poster
190. ARTIFICIAL MICROMOTORS IN THE MOUSE'S STOMACH: A STEP TOWARDS IN VIVO USE OF BIOMEDICAL MICRO-ROBOTS
Student: Jinxing Li | Faculty: Joseph Wang, Liangfang Zhang
Student: Jinxing Li | Faculty: Joseph Wang, Liangfang Zhang
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| Jinxing Li, NanoEngineering Best Poster Award Winner |
Structural Engineering Best Poster
208. HYBRID SIMULATION OF STEEL BUILDING WITH STIFF ROCKING CORES FOR IMPROVED SEISMIC DRIFT DISTRIBUTION
Student: Alireza Sarebanha | Faculty: Gilberto Mosqueda
Student: Alireza Sarebanha | Faculty: Gilberto Mosqueda
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| Alireza Sarebanha, Structural Engineering Best Poster Award Winner |
Honorable Mentions
Bioengineering Honorable Mentions
35. AN ONLINE BIOSENSOR FOR THE PROTECTION OF WATER SUPPLIES
Student: Garrett Cook Graham | Faculty: Jeff Hasty38. ENGINEERING MULTIPOTENT MESODERM PROGENITORS FOR CELL THERAPY
Student: Shenghan Yu | Faculty: Mark Mercola
41. CUSTOMIZED OSTEOCHONDRAL GRAFTS FOR CARTILAGE RESURFACING: EFFECTS OF CONTOUR AND PLACEMENT ON BIOMECHANICS OF FEMORO-TIBIAL CONTACT IN THE GOAT
Student: Jason Patrick Caffrey | Faculty: Robert Sah
Computer Science and Engineering Honorable Mentions
2. AUTOMATED ANNOTATION OF CORAL REEF SURVEY IMAGES
Student: Oscar O Beijbom | Faculty: David Kriegman, Serge Belongie
51. DESIGN GUIDELINES AND OPTIMIZATION OF DRAM INTERCONNECT
Student: MulongLuo | Faculty: Andrew B. Kahng
65. GADGETRON: SYNTHESIZING ELECTRONIC GADGETS
Student: Devon James Merrill | Faculty: Steven Swanson
89. SCALING LIMITS OF MEMS OPTICAL BEAM-STEERING SWITCHES FOR DATA CENTER NETWORKS
Student: William Maxwell Mellette | Faculty: Joseph Ford
100. STRUCTURE FROM MOTION IN MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY
Student: Perry W Naughton | Faculty: Ryan Kastner
107. TRANSPARENT, FLEXIBLE, AND SCALABLE ZNO THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR PRESSURE SENSORS
Students: SiarheiVishniakou, NamseokPark, PhatPhan, Brian Lewis, Jacob Stanley, James Wingert | Faculty: Shadi Ahmad Dayeh, Deli Wang
113. MODELING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF IMAGING FIBER BUNDLES
Student: NojanMotamedi | Faculty: VitaliyLomakin, Joseph Ford
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Honorable Mentions
123. A ROBOTIC HYBRID PLATFORM FOR AUTOMATED MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY OF CULTURAL ARTIFACTS
Student: Samantha Stout | Faculty: FalkoKuester
156. SHOCK INDUCED AMORPHIZATION AND RE-NANOCRYSTALLIZATION OF SILICON
Student: Shiteng Zhao | Faculty: Marc A. Meyers
163. USING TOOL STEEL IN METAL-CERAMIC COMPOSITES
Student: James Timothy Cahill | Faculty: Olivia A Graeve
14. LARGE-AREA GRAPHENE TRANSFER FROM INDEFINITELY REUSABLE COPPER SUBSTRATE
Student: AliaksandrZaretski | Faculty: Darren Lipomi
21. CONJUGATED POLYMERS FOR ROBUST, STRETCHABLE, AND WEARABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES
Student: Adam David Printz | Faculty: Darren Lipomi
194. DECOY BIOMIMETIC NANOPARTICLES FOR THE CLEARANCE OF HARMFUL ANTIBODIES: A NOVEL APPROACH TO TREATING AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE
Student: Brian TsengchiLuk | Faculty: LiangfangZhang
195. ANTIBACTERIAL VACCINATION UTILIZING BACTERIAL MEMBRANE-COATED NANOPARTICLES
Student: PavimolAngsantikul | Faculty: LiangfangZhang
Structural Engineering Honorable Mentions
24. TOWARDS A STABILIZED MESHFREE FORMULATION FOR HYDRAULIC FRACTURING SIMULATION
Student: Haoyan Wei | Faculty: Jiun-Shyan Chen
25. MESHFREE METHODS FOR FRAGMENT-IMPACT MODELING AND HOMELAND SECURITY APPLICATIONS
Students: Edouard Marc Yreux, Michael Hillman, Guohua Zhou Faculty: Jiun-Shyan Chen
209. MODULATED BISTABLE INERTIAL GENERATOR FOR BROADBAND VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTING
Student: Scott Anthony Ouellette | Faculty: Michael Todd
210. GAUGING THE FEASIBILITY OF A DOWNHOLE ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEM THROUGH A PROOF-OF-CONCEPT STUDY
Student: Eric John Kjolsing | Faculty: Michael Todd, Charles Farrar
Library Winner for Best Literature Review Best Poster
24. ACCESS PREDICTION FOR KNOWLEDGE WORKERS IN ENTERPRISE DATA REPOSITORIES
Student: Chetan Kimar Verma | Faculty: Sujit Dey192. FREE VOLUME AND TOUGHNESS OF WEAR-RESISTANT CU-ZR-BASED BULK METALLIC GLASSES
Student: Laura Michelle Andersen | Faculty: Kenneth S. Vecchio