On Wednesday, February 24, the School of Engineering & Applied Science hosted the 10th annual R&D Showcase, featuring student poster presentations, guest speakers, and awards ceremony featuring the founder of the showcase and SEAS alumnus, Randolph "Randy" Graves (D. Sc. '78).
Among the 101 student posters on display throughout the ground floor of the Science & Engineering Hall, 82 were by master's and doctoral students at SEAS.
Awards were distributed to projects in four categories: Experimental Prize, Theoretical Prize, Undergraduate Prize, and Entrepreneurship Prize. In addition, the Randolph A. Graves Innovation Award was given to two recipients, one graduate and one undergraduate. The graduate recipient of the award this year went to Angel Moreno, a doctoral student in Electrical Engineering, who also received $2,500.
Other graduate student winners:
Entrepreneurship Award
1st Place ($2,000) – Krishna Kumar & Mitra Aliabouzar, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Poster Title: Effects of acoustic parameters on nanodroplet vaporization
Faculty advisor: Kausik Sarkar
2nd Place ($500) – Shuai Sun, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Poster Title: Hybrid photonic plasmonic interconnects (HyPPI): a low latency, energy and area efficient on-chip interconnects
Faculty Advisor: Volker Sorger
Theoretical Research Awards
1st Place ($3,000) – Sultan Alamro, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Poster Title: CRED: cloud right-sizing to meet execution deadlines and data locality
Faculty Advisor: Suresh Subramaniam
2nd Place ($1,500) – Jennifer Hill, Department of Computer Science
Poster Title: Automatic generation of context-based fill-in-the-blank exercises using vector space models and Google n-grams
Faculty Advisor: Rahul Simha
2nd Place ($1,500) – Shuai Sun, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Poster Title: Hybrid photonic plasmonic interconnects (HyPPI): a low latency, energy and area efficient on-chip interconnects
Faculty Advisor: Volker Sorger
Honorable Mention #1 ($750) – Abedeh Abdolghafoorian, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Poster Title: Enhanced estimation of land surface moisture and heat fluxes by coupling water and energy balance models
Faculty Advisor: Leila Farhadi
Honorable Mention #2 ($750) – Yuanfei Bi, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Poster Title: Exploring the interplay between surface morphology and hydrophobicity in heterogeneous ice nucleation
Faculty Advisor: Tianshu Li
Experimental Research Awards
1st Place ($3,000) – Michael Button, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Poster Title: Water vapor concentration measurement with TDLAS during VHTR steam ingress
Faculty Advisor: Philippe Bardet
1st Place ($3,000) – Shankar Kulumani & Christopher Poole, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Poster Title: Geometric adaptive control of attitude dynamics on SO(3) with state inequality constraints
Faculty Advisor: Taeyoung Lee
2nd Place ($2,000) – Kara Garrott, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Poster Title: Shortening of action potential duration with increased work in contracting rabbit hearts
Faculty Advisor: Matthew Kay
2nd Place ($2,000) – Ivan Suarez Castellanos, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Poster Title: Ultrasound stimulation of insulin release from pancreatic beta cells
Faculty Advisors: Vesna Zderic & Aleksandar Jeremic