College of Science

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• Assessing a Correlation between Predicted Protein Stability and Antibiotic Resistance of Beta-Lactamase Enzymes

  SARINA LI, SHARANYA TUMMA, Iosif Vaisman

• A carbonyl-based conjugated polymer as an organic cathode for sustainable lithium-ion batteries

  LELA SKOPEC, Motahareh Mohammadiroudbari, Chao Luo

• A Computational Study on Destabilizing Effects on Grignard Reagents

  ANH PHAM, SURUTHIKHA VIJAY, CHLOE PAIGE, ELLA MOON, Kenneth Foreman, Mikell Paige

• A high-resolution and efficient system for analyzing and labeling ice images

  ABISHEK KANTHAN, PATRICK O’BRIEN, Theodore Spanbauer, Chaowei Yang

• A Rule Based Machine Learning Approach to Vegetation Classification using Remote Sensing Data

  ARAN PANDEY, Md. Didarul, Islam, Liping Di

• A Simple Universal Biomechanics Monitoring System for Patients with Neuromusculoskeletal Conditions

  AMAD QURESHI, Amanda Haymond-Still, Lance A. Liotta

• A Study of California Drought and Wildland Fires Using Satellite Remote Sensing Measurements

  JOHN SMALL, Xianjun Hao

• Activation and Inhibition of Leukotriene A4 Hydrolase Aminopeptidase Activity by Modulators B08-2a and B08-2b

  MAILINH NGUYEN TRAN, Fertuna Mequennent, Yen Nguyen, Mikell Paige, Kyung Hyeon Lee

• Advancing Scientific Communication about Cancer Research: How to Develop Inhibitors for PD-1 and PD-L1 and Why It Is So Important

  SIRI NIKKU, Rachel Carter, Amanda Haymond

• Agent-Based Simulation of Human Mobility Using High-Resolution Foot-Traffic Data

  DARIUS KIANERSI, Amira Roess, Hamdi Kavak, Tim Leslie, Andreas Züfle, Taylor Anderson

• AI Art Applications in Designing Icons for Dust Health and Safety Effects

  AUSTIN MOON, Daniel Tong

• Al Based PM 2.5 Retrieval and Spatiotemporal Downscaling Using Earth Observation Data

  ALLISON LOU, Seren Smith, Chaowei Yang, Hai Lan, Yun Li

• Amazonian Forest Disturbance Shows Reduced Breeding Activity and Recruitment of Young Birds

  DANIELLE ARMSTRONG, David Luther

• An Analysis of the Properties and Distributions of Vulnerability Exploits

  TEJ MEHTA, Massimiliano Albanese

• An in-silico based approach to the analysis and determination of de novo peptide sequences and PEAKS efficacy based on LC-MS/MS data

  SOFIA JACIK, Madison Werkheiser, Amy Carfagno, Barney Bishop

• An Organic Anode Material for Stable Sodium-Ion Batteries

  SYDNEY REEVES, Naomi Stevenson, Jinghao Huang, Chao Luo

• An unfair fare for a lengthy trip: A comparison of travel time and travel cost for trains and planes in America

  LYDIA BLACKWELL ESSLAMI, ALEXANDER JIA, Alireza Ermagun

• Analysis of Bacterial Microbiome and Human Proteome for Lung Cancer Characterization via Affinity Nanoparticles and De Novo Assisted Database Search Mass Spectrometry

  RAYMOND DEL VECCHIO, Rayan Alhammad, Ruben Magni, Alessandra Luchini

• Analysis of CFTR Gene Mutations in Cystic Fibrosis

  PRANAV PREM, Iosif Vaisman

• Analysis of COVID-19 Genome Data in the US

  NICOLE LIANG, Taylor Anderson, Andreas Züfle, Hamdi Kavak, Amira Roess

• Analysis of Spatial-Temporal Trends in Vegetation and Rainfall in the Sahel Region during 2000-2020

  MICHELLE WANG, Qian Liu, John Qu, Xianjun Hao

• Analysis Ready Data (ARD) for Detecting Urban Gentrification: Current Capabilities and Challenges

  WILMAN VLACH, Li Lin, Liping Di

• Analyzing High School Student Mental Health using SEITR Compartmental Model of Epidemiology

  SASHWAT RAVISHANKAR, Alonso Ogueda, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer

• Analyzing modal noise in non-circular core fibers using a python script to visualize the standard deviation of light intensity across multiple images to reduce modal noise in spectrograph instrumentation

  ALEXANDER J. DORSEY, Peter Plavchan

• Analyzing Recycling Education Programs in the US: A Longitudinal Analysis

  BILLY OH, AASHNA SAWHNEY, TARUN SIVANANDAN, Younsung Kim

• Analyzing the Interplay of Public Opinion, Political Ideology, and Demographic Factors in Addressing the Digital Divide Relating to Broadband Infrastructure Sentiment

  MARIA KURIAKOSE, FELIX HOWTON, Bonface Osoro, Dennies Bor, Edward Oughton

• Application of Nylon Affinity Nets to Capture Tuberculosis Extracellular Vesicles and Identify Protein Biomarkers

  VIDHI SHARMA, MERICA PATRICIA TALLEY, Ahana Byne, Barbara Birkaya, Alessandra Luchini

• ArcCI Development

  PATRICK O’BRIEN, ABISHEK KANTHAN, Theodore Spanbauer, Grady Hollar, Chaowei Yang

• Assessing the Immunogenicity of DNA Scaffolding for Hybrid Molecular Modalities in THP-1 Cells

  Hanna Sovinski, Jessica Roman, Alessandra Luchini, Lance Liotta, Remi Veneziano, Amanda Haymond

• Assessing the performance of machine learning models at predicting demographics from satellite imagery

  AIDEN SUGANUMA, Michael L Wolf, Edward J. Oughton

• Assessing Water Volume Fluctuations in Africa's Lake Victoria Using NASA Satellite Measurements

  ASHLEY CHON, John Qu

• Automated in-season crop-type data layer mapping without ground truth for the contiguous US

  RYAN HONG, Hui Li, Liping Di

• BERT Feature Embeddings Fused With Physiochemical Feature Representations Yields More Accurate and Versatile Model for Prediction of Blood Brain Barrier Penetrating Peptides

  MYTHREYA DHARANI, Iosif Vaisman

• Binding of indolicidin to the DMPC bilayer using molecular dynamics simulations

  KUBER GOHIL, Christopher Lockhart

• Calculation of Interstellar Relativistic Spacecraft Collision Probabilities with 'Oumuamua-like Asteroidal Debris

  SIDDHARTH TIBREWALA, Michael Summers

• Capturing Exosomes in Urine using a Polyamide 6 - Affinity Net

  ADYA MISRA, AZADA SAMADI, Rocio Cornero, Alessandra Luchini

• Changes in the Toolik Lake Ecosystem of Alaska in the Past Decades

  LINA HAO, Xianjun Hao

• Chaotic Behavior of the Baker’s Map Under Quantization

  PRAVALIKA PUTALAPATTU , John Rob Cressman

• Characterization of Synthetic Peptides for Use as an Artificial Oxygen Transporting Material

  NIMESH RUDRA, Alex Chavez, Abigail Rodgers, Connor Preston, Virginia Lopez, Chiranjit Dutta, Lee Solomon

• Characterization of the Saliva Microbiome in Women with Suspicious Mammograms

  EMRE NALBANTOGLU, Ngoc Vuong, Ruben Magni, Virginia Espina, Lance Liotta, Alessandra Luchini

• Characterizing Interactions Between PD-1 and PD-L1 in Cell-Based Models of Ovarian Cancer and Investigating the Effect of Chemotherapy on Cancer-Derived Exosomes

  SIRI NIKKU, Amanda Haymond

• Cleavage Site Prediction for Activation of Avian Cathelicidin Peptides

  JULIA JACKSON, Amy Carfagno, Barney Bishop

• Combining Meta’s SAM with traditional machine learning methods to improve crop type classification

  PURVA MARFATIA, Chen Zhang, Liping Di

• Combining Satellite Imagery and Social Media to Communicate Sand and Dust Events

  SAM TAMPUBOLON, Ring Len, Daniel Tong

• Comparing Fire Weather Index (FWI) and Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD) as Predictors to Forecast Subseasonal Wildfire Emissions

  SOPHIA TANG, ARUSHI DESAI, Yunyao Li

• Comparison modelling of PM2.5 concentrations in the 2023 Canadian Wildfires between various emissions data products (GBBEPx, GFAS, FEER) in HYSPLIT

  IAN YOON, Amber Verstynen, Yunyao Li

• Comparison of Synthetic Population Generation Techniques

  DAVID HAN, SHEITAA BANSAL, Hamdi Kavak

• Computational Exploration of Remote Directing Groups and Their Effects on Creating Grignard Reagents

  ANH PHAM, Kenneth Foreman

• Computational Model of Vaccination Effects for COVID-19

  SHAWN KIM, Marissa Howard, Lance Liotta

• Computational Model to Analyze Calcium Imbalances in Cells Affected by Alzheimer's Disease

  RIYA DEV, Aman Ullah

• Computational Strategies to Reactivate Glucose Uptake through Increased GLP-1 Lifetime

  RAMYA GRIDDALURI, Kenneth Foreman

• Computational Study of the Magnesium Bonds in Turbo Grignard Reagents

  ANH PHAM, Johnny Bui, Kenneth Foreman, Mikell Paige

• Controlling CRED2 NIR camera and repairing the CCD detector

  JACKIE LIU, Peter Plavchan

• Data Analysis of Genetic Variability in Alzheimer's Affected Brains

  AKANKSHA TIBREWALA, Aman Ullah

• De Novo Design: Sugar Binding

  ANNIE MCALLISTER, Kenneth Foreman

• De novo drug design for a protein binding site

  MUHAMMAD CHAWLA, Christopher Lockhart

• Deciphering Age-Associated Gene Expression Patterns in Colon Cancer: Implications for Older Patients' Risk and Survival

  ERIKA LI, NAVNEETH MURAL, Eric Twum, Aman Ullah

• Designing a De Novo Protein to Inhibit Shiga Toxin Expression in Pathogenic Escherichia coli

  ALINA ALFARO, Ustina Abdel Sayed, Lee A. Solomon

• Designing an ATP-binding protein by harnessing His-tag in secondary structure

  SARINA NAYAK, Robert Spaine, Lee Solomon

• Determination of COVID-19 N-Protein Active Sites for Drug Targets using Torsion Angle Changes Function in Viral

  SREENIDHI SANKARARAMAN , M. Saleet Jafri

• Determining and Applying the Relationship Between FWI and FRP In Predicting Fire Change

  ARUSHI DESAI, SOPHIA TANG, Yunyao Li

• Determining heterogeneity in purified recombinant proteins

  VED LULAY, Akhil Valluri, Misgina Girma, Allyson Dailey, Robin Couch

• Developing a Free and Reliable Google Scholar Data Collection Framework with CAPTCHA Bypass

  SHREYAN DEY, Alireza Ermagun

• Developing an Adaptive Social Media Data Collection System

  COLIN BERRY, Ron Mahabir

• Developing Analytical Algorithms for the Rapid Identification of Atomically Thin Materials

  SIDDARTH SREERAM, Jorge Romo, Yun Yu

• Developing Atomically Layered Heterostructures as Electrochemical Dopamine Sensors

  NEHA ASURI, Solyip Kim, Yun Yu

• Developing Cloud-based Image Classification Management and Processing Service for High Spatial Resolution Sea Ice Imagery

  ARAVINTH VENKATESH NATARAJAN, Kevin Wang, Katherine Howell, Dexuan Sha, Chaowei Yang

• Development and Validation of MS Based Technique, Protein Painting, to Identify Patient Antibody-Binding Epitopes on the Nucleocapsid Protein of SARS-CoV-2

  MARYAM BELLAKBIRA, Rachel Carter, Hannah Steinberg, Alessandra Luchini, Amanda Haymond

• Development of a Model for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Progression Using the Processing Visualization Software

  MEERA GUPTA, Marissa Howard, Lance Liotta

• Development of Historical National Emissions Inventory Data of Criteria Air Pollutants at the County Level from 1990 to 2017 in the United States

  Michael Regan, Bok-Haeng Baek, Daniel Tong

• Differential Gene Expression Analysis of Alzheimer & Type 1 Diabetic Patients

  SARA ABOUELNAGA, KAAN EGUZ, Brenda Ngo, Aman Ullah

• Efficient Image Segmentation and Machine Learning Algorithms for Improved Malaria Detection from Blood Smear Images

  VIRAJ BOREDA, Kirthi Kumar, Soraya Ngarnim, Nathalia Peixoto, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer

• Ensemble Learning Interpretation of COVID-19 Simulation Models Through Clustering Latent Feature Representations and Aggregated Time-Series Forecasts with Deep Learning

  RAYAN YU, ANDY CHEN, JOHN PESAVENTO, Taylor Anderson, Andreas Züfle, Hamdi Kavak, Joon-Seok Kim

• Ethylene Glycol is a Potential Positive Allosteric Modulator of GlyRα1 in Xenopus laevis Oocytes

  TAPAN SAPRE, DIBORAH GUTEMA, ANIYAH SYL, FAE JENSEN, Sophia Gee, Greta Ann Herin

• Evaluating Heterogeneity of Recombinant Protein Expression

  LUKE MANTOOTH, Akhil Valluri, Misgina Girma, Allyson Dailey, Robin Couch

• Evaluating the effect of low-cloud feedback strength on the transient response of Pacific sea surface temperature patterns under CO2 Warming

  ELIANA LINDER, DONOVAN CHONG, Scott Knapp, Ehsan Erfani, Natalie Burls

• Evaluating the Effects of Deep Convection Parameter Perturbations on Cloud Radiative and Physical Properties in the Tropical Warm Pool

  Scott Knapp, Natalie Burls, ANIKA REKULAPELLI

• Evaluating the Viability of Saliva-based Sampling in COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests Compared to Nasopharyngeal (NP) and Oropharyngeal Swabs (OP)

  JASMINE LAOUDI, Dr. Fatah Kashanchi, Mahla Dehbandi

• Evaluation of differential G-protein subunit markers for HIV latent infection in Jurkat and A3R5.7 cells

  SAMUEL LI, LUKE MEHTA, Linda Chillin, Sameer Tiwari, Yuntao Wu

• Evaluation of Synthetic Population Data Created Using Generative Adversarial Networks

  SRIHAN KOTNANA, Taylor Anderson, Andreas Züfle, Hamdi Kavak

• Expand Campus Reopen to a School System by Considering Population Density and Human Dynamics

  YEEFAY LI, Chaowei Yang, Hai Lan, Yen Bui, Daler Khamidov

• Exploring Drug Resistance in Breast Cancer Using a Boolean Model

  KEERTANA YALAMANCHILI, Saleet Jafri

• Exploring Drug Resistance in Gastrointestinal Cancer Using a Network Model

  SREENIDHI SANKARARAMAN, Saleet Jafri

• Exploring Host Defense in Xenopus laevis by Harvesting proteins and peptides from Frog Tissue Using Trizol Extraction and Analysis via Tandem Mass Spectrometry

  KARLI TORRES HINOJOSA, Maya Akcar, Amaal Altalhi, Barney Bishop

• Exploring the effects of topography and land-ice coverage on Paleoproterozoic deglaciation

  ADITYA BEHERA, Alia Wofford, Natalie Burls

• External Sources of Heavy Metals for Tool Use by Developing Intelligences on Exoplanet Ocean Worlds

  CHARLES TATUM, Michael Summers

• Fluctuations in the Martian atmosphere due to solar events that affect the planet’s climate

  ANANYA PAMAL, Erdal Yiğit

• Forward modeling the δ¹⁸O of foraminifera from North Pacific temperature and salinity fields to evaluate the potential fingerprints of Pliocene North Pacific Deep-Water Formation

  SOPHIA HUH, Scott Knapp, Natalie Burls

• Hazardous Air Quality Forecasting from Aquatic Cyanobacteria Emissions

  Dennis Ngo, Ling Ren, Siqi Ma, Daniel Tong

• HIV-1 Transcription Inhibition Using Small RNA-Binding Molecules

  MAYA PASHAI, Yuriy Kim, Anastasia Williams, Fatah Kashanchi

• IF EVs: a new molecular measurement of mitochondrial health

  LINDA HUANG, ANJU ADVANI, EMMA MATHEW, LAYLA HASANZADAH, Olivia Montemurro, Angela Rojas, Purva Gade, Marissa Howard, Lance Liotta

• Implementing Spatial Social Networks with Real World Data

  KETEVAN GALLAGHER, Andreas Züfle, Taylor Anderson

• Improving Accuracy in PM2.5 Interpolation Using AI and ML

  ANDREW YANG, Anusha Srirenganathan, Chaowei Yang

• Incorporating dynamic health behaviors in spatial agent-based models of disease spread

  SHIVANI ACHUTHAN, Emma Von Hoene, Taylor Anderson

• Incorporating Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channels into a Computational Model of Calcium Concentration in T-Lymphocytes

  VICKY CHEN, Saleet Jafri

• Innovating a Computer Infrastructure for Spatiotemporal Studies

  GRACE KANG, Hai Lan, Dr. Chaowei Yang

• Interstellar Panspermia by 'Oumuamua-like Interstellar Asteroids and Comets, and the Implications for Biological Contamination of the Early Earth

  Michael Summers, BILL CHEN

• Investigating Anthropogenic Impacts and Environmental Factors on Bacterioplankton Community Dynamics in the Potomac River

  PREETI BEDI, Jennifer Salerno

• Investigating Soil Moisture-Precipitation Relationships During the 2018 Ellicott City Flood Using WRF and GFS Model Results

  Sam Irvine, Min Huang

• Investigating the Efficiency of Ionic Lipids as Drug Delivery Systems

  RISHIVANDHAN SURESHKUMAR, Kenneth Foreman