Vol. 8 (2026)

Abstracts submitted by the Aspiring Scientists Summer Internship Program cohort of 2026. Each describes an 8-week project conducted under faculty mentorship at George Mason University that was publicly presented at our in-person or remote research symposiums in August 2026. Congratulations interns on your completion of the program, and thank you for your hard work!

(Note: Not every ASSIP 2026 participant has an abstract that may posted publicly. Some projects are the subject of an invention disclosure, are undergoing double-blind peer review as part of a scientific manuscript, or describe findings that are part of a grant submission.)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13021/jssr.2026

Published: 2026-09-24

College of Science: Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Earth Sciences

Assessing Changes in Heat-Stress, Precipitation, and Drought Extremes in the Northeastern United States from 1979-2022

Ethan Chen, Tehreem Qureshi, Xiaojing Du
Analyzing the Relationships Between Southern Hemisphere Westerly Wind Strength and Latitude, SAM, ENSO, and Pacific Climate Conditions

Sanha Kang, Melody Zeher, Xiaojing Du

College of Science: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Bioprospecting of Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) in Cannabis sativa L. Hemp Seeds Using Mass Spectrometry

Alicia Kim, Edward Bentil
Discovering Antimicrobial Peptides in Red-Legged Salamander Skin Secretions using De Novo Protein Sequencing

Andy Wu, Manisha Lnu, Edward Bentil, Barney Bishop
Identification of Antimicrobial Peptides from HAN-J6 Hemp Seeds Using Mass Spectrometry and De Novo Peptide Sequencing

Lauren Zhong, Edward Bentil
In Silico Predictions of N-Terminal Residue Cleavage Preferences and Class-Specific 4MDM Modulation in LTA4H

Anna Wang, Kachief Callender, Kenneth Foreman
Exploration of solvent effects on the transition state of Grignard exchange reactions

David Ji, Kenneth Foreman
Understanding Binding Partner Association Interactions with Unphosphorylated STAT3

Daniel Jeon, Hui-Chen Foreman, Kenneth Foreman
Design of an Irreversible Inhibitor to Overcome Efflux Pump-Mediated Resistance in Fungal Species

Rebecca Chen, Hui-Chen Foreman, Kenneth Foreman
Computational Prediction of a Most Likely Binding Protein Given an Arbitrary DNA Sequence

Riva Dehadaraya, Kenneth Foreman
In Silico Evaluation and Structure-Activity-Relationship of Ambroxol analogues against Glucocerebrosidase as potential therapeutics for Lysosomal Storage Diseases

Kathleen Hsu, Mikell Paige, Michael Girgis
Uncovering the Plasma Proteome: A Comparative Evaluation of Immunoaffinity Depletion and Nanoparticle-Based Enrichment for Mass-Spectrometry-based Plasma Proteomics

Minati Divakar, Kaviya Rajkumar, Riya Srikumar, Mikell Paige, Paul Russo, Michael Girgis
Preparation and Characterization of Metal Sulfide-Based Chalcocarbogels (MxMo₃S₁₃-GO) as Potential

Arianne Almeida, Ajadur Rahman Shakil, Muhammad Saiful Islam
Synthesis and Structural Analysis of Ca3Ti2-xMnxO7 (x = 0.15, 0.25) as Potential Photocatalyst

Marco Olmedo, Esther Udoh, Xiaoyan Tan

College of Science: Department of Computational and Data Sciences

Emergence of Homonymy in an Evolutionary Language Game

Aarav Gaur, William Kennedy
The Impact of Demonstrated Untrustworthiness and Severity of Mistake on Trust Emergence in an Agent-Based Model of The Trust Game

Ambika Bhasin, William Kennedy
A Microscopic Agent-Based Model for Pedestrian Dynamics at Scramble Crossings

Anrui Hong, William Kennedy
Modeling Human-Inspired Behavioral Strategies in the El Farol Bar Problem

Daphne Evans, William Kennedy
Effects of population polarization and information availability on group cooperation: agent-based modelling of the weakest-link game

Evan Koblentz, William Kennedy
Modeling Agricultural Employment Across Africa: Panel Fixed-Effects and Robustness Analysis

Aaron D’Souza, Elaina Wi, Alexander Poon, Linh Quach, Adam Malik, Yousef Malik, Avinash Kunala, Vrinda Shah, Kunal Chevur, Maction Komwa, Olga Gkountouna, Ron Mahabir
A Network Analysis of Development Finance Institutions and Private Co-Investment in African Agrifood Systems

Alexander Poon, Kunal Chevuri, Aaron D'Souza, Vrinda Shah, Avinash Kunala, Elaina Wi, Linh Dieu Quach, Yousef Malik, Adam Malik, Ron Mahabir, Maction Komwa, Olga Gkountouna
Predicting Epidemiological and Sociopolitical Agrifood Shocks: An Early Warning Index for Africa

Yousef Malik, Adam Malik, Avinash Kunala, Olga Gkountouna, Maction Komwa, Ron Mahabir

College of Science: Department of Environmental Science and Policy

Shell Associated Parasites of the Long-Clawed Hermit Crab (Pagurus longicarpus) Along the U.S.

Leah Coppola-Karelin, Julia Rennel, Sarai Quintana, Amy Fowler
Benthic Macroinvertebrate Community Composition after 2026 Potomac River Sewage Spill

Henry Wang, Amy Fowler
Parasite Communities and Reproductive Consequences of Infection in Native Elimia virginica and Invasive Margarya chinensis In Mid-Atlantic Water Systems

Michael Wang, Daya L Hall-Stratton, Amy Fowler
Assessing the Use of Amoxicillin to Treat Stony Coral Disease in the Honduras

Maya Satheesh, Gaby Choa, Breanna Hart, Jordan Sims, Esther Peters, Jennifer Salerno

College of Science: Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science

Multi-Storm Monte Carlo Assessment of Geomagnetically Induced Currents in the Virginia Mid-Atlantic Power Grid

Aaditya Bose, Dennies Bor, Edward Oughton
Multi-Hazard Exposure Shows Modest and Spatially Variable Agreement with Observed U.S. Power Outages

Aaron Lin, Dennies Bor, Edward Oughton
Substituting and Augmenting Real Imagery with Blender-Generated Synthetic Data for Unmanned Aircraft System Based Multispectral Landmine Detection Using YOLOv11 and RF-DETR

Aryan Ruia, James Gallagher, Edward Oughton
Indirect effects from tributary and upstream droughts account for most system-wide losses in the Mississippi River System

Audrey Na, Alimurtaza Kothawala, Edward Oughton
A building-level dataset of 2,696 United States data centers shows that more than one third lie within five kilometers of high wildfire hazard land

Avilash Angirekula, Dennies Bor, Edward Oughton
Restyling Synthetic Multispectral Imagery with CycleGANs for UAS-Based Landmine Detection

Bhargav Mandakolathur, James Gallagher, Edward Oughton
A Standardized Repository of 9,031 Regional Storm Events Enables Traffic-Based Analysis of Transportation Disruption Signatures

Emma Zurine, Alimurtaza Kothawala, Edward Oughton
Substituting and Augmenting Real Imagery with Synthetic Data for Unmanned Aerial Systems-Based Multispectral Landmine Detection

Evan Li, Jim Gallagher, Edward Oughton
Comparing Object Detection Models for Electrical Substation Component Mapping

Haley Mody, Namish Bansal, Dennies Kiprono Bor, Dante Groccia, Edward Oughton
County Level Flood Risk Assessment reveals Rural Appalachian Communities of Southwest Virginia Face Disproportionate Riverine Flood Exposure and Infrastructure Vulnerability

Megha Chitrakar, Dennies Bor, Alimurtaza Kothawala, Edward Oughton
Not all assumptions are equal: Ranking influence of parameters in US National Flood-Transport Model

Srinandasai Ari, Alimurtaza Kothwala, Edward Oughton
Regional Adaptation of C-SWIM for Virginia: Grid Vulnerability, Economic Impact, and Data-Driven Mitigation Under Geomagnetic Storm Scenarios

Vedaang Verma, Dennies Bor, Edward Oughton
Multimodal Freight Network Estimates $58.9M Rerouting Loss in Virginia from Hurricane Helene Flooding

Paul Yoo, Alimurtaza Kothawala, Edward Oughton
A Partial Correlation Analysis of ENSO-Driven Heatwave Severity in Burkina Faso from 2001 to 2025

Callie Deng, Xianjun Hao, John Qu
Comparing the Affect of Climate Change on Food Security and Farming in Burkina Faso

Karachi Emy-Munonye, Jessica Ainsworth, John Qu
Mapping Water-Accessibility Deficits Across Ethiopia’s Eastern and Southern Drought Belt

Kina Xu, Jessica Ainsworth, Xianjun Hao, John Qu
Applying a Time-Varying Markov Decision Process to Deep Reinforcement Learning–Based Resource Allocation in Cloud Computing

Emily Ma, Yahya Masri, Chaowei Yang
Improving Wildfire Boundary Estimation through Temporal Multiscale Fusion of GOES-R and VIIRS Satellite Data

Ryan Guo, Anusha Srirenganathanmalarvizhi, Chaowei Yang
An LLM-Driven Digital TWin for Data Center Monitoring

Victor Cao, Yahya Masri, Chaowei Yang
Zero-shot Synthetic Sheltering Behavior in Infectious Disease Agent-Based Models

Victoria Zhang, Emma Von Hoene, Taylor Anderson
X-Desert AI: An Agentic Framework for Detecting Areas Deficient in Opportunities and Services

Noah Kang, Julia Carreon-Sanchez, Sarah Zak, Armita Kar
: Following Footsteps Through the Seasons: A Study of Seasonal and Locational Variation in Pedestrian Activity across Virginia

Owen Goltry, Yifei Wang, Armita Kar
Evaluating Biases in Cell-phone-based Healthcare Travel Data: A case study of Texas, USA

Sahasra Byreddy, Anastasia Soukhov, Tao Hu, Armita Kar
An Uncertainty-Aware Framework for Integrating Clinical AI and Environmental Exposure Prediction

Athena Xing, Joshitha Kalyani Govarthanan, Pranay Kancharla, Ziheng Sun
An Evaluation of Baseline-Adjusted Ensemble Hourly PM2.5 Forecast for 2023 Wildfire Season

Charles Wang, Ziheng Sun
Hydroclimatic Preconditioning Enables Operational Seasonal Wildfire Forecasting Across Western U.S. Ecoregions

Dhruv Mandala, Zack Miller, Ziheng Sun
Estimating and Forecasting Surface NO₂ from TEMPO via Machine Learning

Pranav Yogeswaran, Ziheng Sun
Multi-Scale AI for Wildfire Risk Assessment: Integrating Regional Spread Mapping with Computer Vision Hazard Recognition

Sean Noh, Khush Shah, Aarav Jain, Annika Huang, Ziheng Sun
Learning Fire Domain Representations for Interpretable Wildfire Model Transferability

Yash Kher, Ziheng Sun
Loop Engineering: constraining LLM hallucinations in environmental health reasoning with knowledge graphs

Yiran Yang, Ziheng Sun
Machine learning reveals heterogeneous climate impacts and weakening agricultural productivity growth

Edward Guo, Ruixin Yang
Synthetic-to-Real Imagery Substitution and Augmentation for Multispectral Landmine Detection

Kabir Raghavan, Evan Li, Bhargav Mandakolathur, Aryan Ruia, James E. Gallagher, Edward Oughton
Comparative Analysis of Arctic and Antarctic Warming Acceleration Using ERA5 Reanalysis and Earth’s Energy Imbalance

Esther Hwang, John Qu, Xianjun Hao

College of Science: Department of Mathematical Sciences

Reframing Matroid Intersection as a Quantum Query Complexity Problem

Sumer Chaudhary, Thomas Patrick De Mastri, Michael Jarret
Measuring the Effectiveness of Anti-Circumvention Sanctions Using Network Interdiction

Abhiraj Mallangi, Petr Kisselev, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer
A Differential Equation–Based Model of Toxin-Mediated Feedback in Bioaugmented Water Remediation with Optimal Control

Arnav Krishnan, Mohan Parthasarathy, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer
An Optimal Control Framework for Adaptive Virtual Reality Interventions in Drug Rehabilitation

Charlotte Cheng, Angela Ho, Pradyuta Padmanabhan, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer
Dynamical Systems Analysis of Diffusively Coupled FitzHugh–Nagumo Neural Networks: Synchronization, Stability, and Bifurcation on Weighted Graphs

Hrishikesh Shanmuganathan, Kapilan Karunakaran, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer
Modeling the Impact of Sexual Harassment Exposure on Substance Use Dynamics Among Women

Isha Gupta, Paige Zhu, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer
Modeling the efficacy of Algae at removing microplastics in wastewater treatment plants

Matt Jacoby, Muhammad Jalil Ahmad, Andy Jacoby, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer
A Difference-Equation Framework for Modeling Organ Transplantation Dynamics

Radha Srinivasula, Siva Venkatachalam, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer
A differential equation model for the impact of data centers on bird population dynamics

Prithvi Ram, Divya Laddha, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer
Modeling the progression of Primary Open Angle Glaucoma through an Ordinary Differential Equation Framework

Sabrina Yimer, Biniyam Tibebu, Muhammad Jalil Ahmad, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer
A Physics Informed Graph Attention Transformer with Weather Driven Delay Propagation for Air Traffic State Predictio

Sivamurugan Velmurugan, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, Ravanasamudram Uma

College of Science: Department of Physics and Astronomy

Satellite Streak Photometry for the NASA Landolt Mission Using PSF-Based MCMC Modeling

Anne Zhang, Peter Plavchan
Measuring plasma velocities in Coronal loops using Hinode/EIS spectroscopic data to constrain physical models

Maedot Ayalew, Anthony Murray, Ansh Gandhi, Arthur Poland

College of Science: School of Systems Biology

The Effects of HTLV-1 Extracellular Vesicle Subpopulations in Driving Autonomous Pro-Survival Signaling Across Infected and Uninfected T-Cell Subsets

Ajar Ajmal, Katerina Pashiardis, Fatah Kashanchi
Detection of Spiked HIV1 in plasma matrix using RT-qPCR

Shuaib Malik, Vinay Yallapragada, Pooja Khatkar, Fatah Kashanchi
Phytopathogens in the Tap Water?! Using Amaranthus tricolor Microgreens to Study Pythium Induced Root Rot in a Hydroponic Greenhouse

Sara Wang, Varnit Khare, Emily Tran, Aryah Jamil, Donielle Nolan
Architecture Dependent Generalization in Antimicrobial Peptide Classifiers: A Comparative Study Using Protein Language Model Embeddings

Amritha Bharath Ram, Christopher Lockhart
Classification of Alzehimer’s Disease from 2D Brain MRI Slices Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Arisha Johri, Christopher Lockhart

College of Science: Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine

Using Mol 5 as a Fluorescent Probe to Detect Aldehyde Biomarkers in Ovarian Cancer Cell Lines

Aanya Shah, Jeyasri Sathyamoorthy, Veronica Sanchez, Ozlem Dilek, Eva Marie Bryan, Virginia Espina
Targeting the GBCA Ligand: A Study of Gadolinium Toxicity in the Intracellular Vesicle Transport System

Cora Shields, Veronica Sanchez, Edward Bentil, Conner Preston, Virginia Espina
Comparing proteins linked to preventing mitochondrial and oxidative stress ovarian cancer cells

Zina Ugwuh, Veronica Sanchez, Sally Rucker, Jeyasri Sathyamoorthy, Virginia Espina
Cystic Fibrosis Receptor is Actively Exported within Extracellular Vesicles: A New Therapeutic Strategy

Andrew Bonfadini, Sofie Strompf, Paige Ellis, Angela Rojas-Rivera, Marissa Howard, Lance Liotta
Molecular Characterization of Lewy Body Proteomics Using Laser Capture Microdissection and Mass Spectrometry

Krish Tripathy, Angela Rojas-Rivera, Sofie Strompf, Paige Ellis, Marissa Howard, Lance Liotta
Export of Actively Signaling HER2 and EGFR Heterodimers Within Extracellular Vesicles in Breast Cancer: New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategies

Myra Goyal, Angela Rojas-Rivera, Sofie Strompf, Paige Ellis, Jessica Roman, Marissa Howard, Lance Liotta
Molecular Predictors of Early Vaso-Occlusive Kidney Injury in Pediatric SCD

Myra Kumar, Paige Ellis, Sofie Strompf, Marissa Howard, Lance Liotta
Characterizing Secretory Mitophagy in Lund Human Mesancephalic (LUHMES) Cells as a Model of Parkinson’s Disease

Riya Goyal, Sofie Strompf, Paige Ellis, Angela Rojas-Rivera, Marissa Howard, Lance Liotta
Let’s Get Cooking: Can an Instant Pot be used to improve protein extraction from clinical samples?

Jacqueline Froede, Ariana Singleton, Sheila Nicewarner Pẽna

College of Science: Center for Collision Safety and Analysis

An End-to-End Stereo Vision Platform Enables Calibrated Depth and Multi-View 3D Reconstruction with Consumer Cameras

Andrew Liu, Yucheng Sun, Richard Phan, Lucas Wu, Leyu Wang
Investigating Differences in Battery Health Among Semi-Solid State Lithium-Ion Cells with Similar Capacity

Angelo Chu, Alexander Fang, Aristotle Fang, Leyu Wang

Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience

Linking 3D Pose Estimation with Neural Activity as a Key to Understand Spatial Cognition

Chloe Tan, Fatemeh Moghadam, Holger Dannenberg

College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Bioengineering

Design and Development of a Wearable Ankle Exoskeleton to Avert Freezing of Gait in Persons with Parkinson's Disease

Rig Saini, Jingyi Mao, Helina Sisay, Isaac Jin, Grace Zhang, Quentin Sanders

College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering

Clustering neighborhood morphology to explain hurricane damage susceptibility in Bay County, Florida

Rishi Kandimalla, Sumukh Bharadvaja Shivaram, Poonam Rathore, Catalina González-Dueñas
Evaluating LLM Failure in Disaster Recovery Regulatory Reasoning

Alice Li, Kavya Kumar, Dheeraj Nagula, Rohith Swaminathan, Catalina González-Dueñas
The Scale-Dependent Relationship Between Building Spacing and Structural Damage Following Hurricane Ian, Fort Myers Beach, Florida

Sofia Kunkel, Amirhossein Chegini, Catalina González-Dueñas
Multi-Parameter Dataset Enables Machine Learning Analysis of Organic Acid Dissolution of Mine Tailings for Sustainable Critical Mineral Recovery

Anna Ching, Junyi Wang, Xijin Zhang
Fly Ash Dissolution Data Collection for Machine Learning Models

Nina Murthy, Junyi Wang, Xijin Zhang
Surface Modification of Lignin with Methyltrimethoxysilane (MTMS) for Enhanced Hydrophobicity

Qian (Ann) Han, Lixin Wang, Xijin Zhang

College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Computer Science

Parametrizing the Distribution of the Number of Stable Matchings

Patrick Du, Fei Li
StateSight: Benchmarking Latent Spatial-State Reconstruction in Vision-Language Models

Michelle Lin, Rui Yu, Mingrui Liu
Certificate-gated inference enforces machine-learning deletion compliance at serving time with negligible latency cost

Advait Kothuri, Mingrui Liu
Using Tree-Based Search to Generate High-Quality Reasoning Traces for Offline Supervised Fine-Tuning of LLMs

Yeeyung Li, Tiantong Sun, Mingrui Liu
Adaptive Selection of Deterministic and Neural Receivers for Low-Power BPSK Demodulation on the MAX78000

Aarush Katam, Yuan Ge, Parth Pathak
Physiological Stress Detection and Real-Time Biofeedback Applicable to Alzheimer’s Patients via an Edge-Computing Multi-Sensor System

Kirthan Kulkarni, Parth Pathak
Factorized Spatiotemporal Attention Improves Representation Learning in Generalizable Radar Transformers

Lexin Zhu, Rezoan Nazib, Parth Pathak
Generating Efficient Test Suite Orders to Improve Test Suite Runtime

Gabriel Cohen, Talank Baral, August Shi, Wing Lam
A Preliminary Study of Test Flakiness in Large Language Model Generated Tests

Hana Kopuncova, Devanshi Kashyap, Suzzana Rafi, Shanto Rahman, August Shi, Wing Lam
Recursive Laminar Decomposition for Preemptive Resource Allocation

Manan Bansiwal, Fei Li
Extending RandomAD for Multichannel EEG Seizure Detection

Amba Narayanan, Avyaan Maniar, Jessica Lin
Enabling Autonomous Indoor Navigation with an ROS2/Nav2 Framework

Asha Idiculla, Aiden Lu, Nhat Le, Xuesu Xiao
User-Friendly Enhancements to the Scout Mini Robot for Collecting Natural Human-Robot Interaction Data

Maxwell Ritter, Nhat Le, Xuesu Xiao
Simulation-Guided Autonomous Data Collection for Social Navigation in Multi-Story Buildings

Ryan Wang, Nhat Le, Xuesu Xiao
Benchmarking Programming Models for GPU and AI Accelerator Kernels

Aaroosh Rustagi, Bowen Cui, Keren Zhou
A Unified Tile-Level Execution and Tracing Framework for GPU Kernel Simulation

Atharva Jillhewar, Junyu Yin, Keren Zhou
Stable FP4 training in Small Transformer Language Models

Alicia Yee, Anthony Givans, Mingrui Liu

College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Electrical Characterization of TiO₂-Based RRAM for Neuromorphic Computing Applications

Yunhan (Helen) Tong, Pranav Choori, Ethan Ahn
Quantifying the Proximity Effect in Electron Beam Lithography

Prthika Lanka, Fitunerediate Gashaw Gebeyehu, Ethan Ahn
Plasma Engineering on Flexible Polyimide Substrates for 2D Material Exfoliation

Suan Cho, Emily Keung, Pranav Choori, Ethan Ahn
Characterizing Exfoliation Variability in Flake Dimensions and Structural Quality of NbSe₂

Victoria Lee, Afifa Asad, Emily Keung, Ethan Ahn
Optimizing Human Attention Allocation in Heterogeneous Semi-Autonomous Robotic Systems Using A Heuristic Computational Framework

Chris Devine, Lucas Shen, Patrick Zhao, Kaichen Liu, Harry Bai, Alex Shcherbina, Yojana Gautam, Zach Arsala, Thasin Abedin, Yojan Gautam, Ningshi Yao
SOLO: Single-Operator Multi-Robot Platform for Outdoor Field Deployment

HanRui Zhang, Siyou Liu, Michael Dong, Alex Shcherbina, Zack Arsala, Yojana Gautam, Thasin Abedin, Yojan Gautam, Ningshi Yao
A Comparative Study of First-Person and Third-Person Visual Feedback in Teleoperated Mobile Robot Navigation

Joonsung Lee, Michael Zou, Ayaan Ramnani, Bridget Xiao, Suhani Desai, Yojana Gautam, Zack Yama Arsala, Alex Shcherbina, Thasin Abedin, Yojan Gautam, Ningshi Yao
Experimental Evaluation of Mechanical Design Parameters in Multi-Stage Compliant Intakes

Neel Patwardhan, Aaron Zhang, Michael Yaroschuk, Thasin Abedin, Zack Arsala, Yojana Gautam, Alex Shcherbina, Yojan Gautam, Ningshi Yao

College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Information Sciences and Technology

Language Proficiency Classification Tools vs. Generative Artificial Intelligence: Scoring Behavior on English Language Learner Materials

Kelly Zou, Mihai Boicu
Evaluating Prompt Engineering Strategies on GPT-5 for Accuracy and Token Efficiency on Competitive Programming Tasks

Aaroosh Kurchania, Rashi Lohiya, Pranav Anandh, Mihai Boicu
A Unified National Registry of EMS Agencies with Estimated Service Areas: EMS Capability, Insurance Coverage, and Community Health Outcomes

Aden Abeye, Eneh Kim, Karin Leverett, Preeti Vukkalkar, Andy Wan, Latifah Abubakr, Rachel Warren, Myeong Lee
Evaluating the Instructional Quality of LLM Across Prompting Strategies for Explaining Computer Science Concepts

Meghna Gomatam, Achyut Nuli, Neel Bhaskar, Mihai Boicu
Evaluating Socratic Prompting Strategies to Improve Student Python Code Understanding

Timothy Guo, Linda Li, Nihanth Tatikonda, Avani Thakur, Harihar Vadrevu, Mihai Boicu
Evaluating Prompt Engineering Strategies for Reasoning Token Efficiency in Large Language Models

Rashi Lohiya, Aaroosh Kurchania, Pranav Anandh, Mihai Boicu
Claude Sonnet 5 Demonstrates Greater Creative Output Quality Than Other Leading GenAI Tools on Introductory Programming Tasks

Rhea Bhadange, Somya Daga, Zainab Khan, Mihai Boicu
Cybersecurity Analysis: Explainable Machine Learning for Phishing URL Detection

Aishwarya Sawant, Nikil Pillai, Kamaljeet Sanghera
A Mobile Augmented Reality System Recognizes Three Image Targets and Preserves Virtual Object Placement

Sharani Chebrolu, Supriya Khadka, Sanchari Das
Designing a Real-Time ATC Transcription Tool to Reduce Pilot Cognitive Load and Readback Errors

Yuvaan Chandra, Stephanie Chen, Vangmayee Avadhanula, Manohar Babu Katika, Kashyap Kandibanda, Kamaljeet Sanghera
Readiness gaps between high and low income countries persist despite converging AI adoption in education

Stephanie Chen, Hasini Chandrakumar, Manya Raisinghani, Manohar Babu Katika, Vangmayee Avadhanula, Kashyap Kandibanda, Kamaljeet Sanghera
Cross-Network Generalization Failure in Machine Learning-Based Network Intrusion Detection

Nikil Pillai, Aishwarya Sawant, Kamaljeet Sanghera
Measuring Regulatory Semantic Divergence and Obligation Strength Distribution Across US State Artificial Intelligence Statutes

Rishi Khanna, Kamaljeet Sanghera
Similarity of brain parts affected from a recession and areas for those with Parkinson’s

Saina Bhandari, Hasini Chandrakumar, Manohar Babu Katika, Vangmayee Avadhanula, Kashyap Kandibanda, Kamaljeet Sanghera
Translating Fine-Motor Spiral Drawing Metrics into Accessible Digital Interfaces for Parkinson’s Disease

Stephanie Chen, Saina Bhandari, Aarshia Vuppala, Manohar Babu Katika, Vangmayee Avadhanula, Kashyap Kandibanda, Kamaljeet Sanghera

College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Mechanical Engineering

Comparison of Photoresponse of Laser-Induced Graphene Photodetectors Fabricated with Intrinsic Laser-Generation and Solution-Processed Palladium Nanoparticles

Max Choe, Tyler Duan, Ishaan Pandya, Philip Acatrinei, Pilgyu Kang

College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

A Coalitional Decision Framework for Post-Disaster Interdependent Infrastructure Systems

Samuel Lin, Behnam Momeni, Shima Mohebbi
Real-time Multi-model Anomaly Detection for Interactive Smart Building Management

Parsa Motaharinezhad, Yousaf Zahid, Melchizedek Essandoh, Carlos A. Garcia, Shima Mohebbi
A Comparative Review of ABA and ESDM Cost-Effectiveness Across Treatment Intensities

Amanda Li, Jie Xu
Evidence Grounded Vision Language Framework for Foreign Object Debris Analysis

Ayaan Shah, Jie Xu
Evaluating the Effect of Simulation Model Realism on Softball Batting Lineup Performance

Emma Tao, Jie Xu
Improving Efficiency and Realism of Synthetic Flight Tracks Generated by Randomized Gaussian Processes

Emma Zhang, Jie Xu
Ethical Implications of Using Digital Twins to Treat Autism

William Foster, Jie Xu
Agencies and Ownership: How Corporate Backing Shapes Open-Source Growth on GitHub

Yash Apte, Lakshanaa Balakulam, Tanuj Belapurkar, Mahika Damaraju, Shreeya Gokaraju, Mariia Petryk

College of Public Health

Longitudinal Surveillance of West Nile Virus in Mosquitoes in One Virginian County (2012-2025)

Sragvi Basireddy, Khurziya Maratova, Helene Kaufman, Sanjana Chandok, Shrishti Patel, Alisson Baya, Eli Hosen, Ciro Monaco, Michael Barrera, Amira Roess
Surveillance of Mosquito Species and Trap Type as Determinants of West Nile Virus Public Health Risk in one county in Virginia

Helene Kaufman, Sanjana Chandok, Sragvi Basireddy, Khurziya Maratova, Shrishti Patel, Alisson Baya, Eli Hosen, Ciro Monaco, Michael Barrera, Amira Roess
Mapping Changes in West Nile Virus Activity from 2012 to 2025 using Mosquito Surveillance Data

Khurziya Maratova, Shrishti Patel, Helene Kaufman, Sanjana Chandok, Sragvi Basireddy, Alisson Baya, Eli Hosen, Ciro Monaco, Michael Barrera, Amira Roess

Costello College of Business: Department of Finance

What Cracked a Bank in March 2023? Uninsured Deposits versus Hidden Bond Losses in the SVB Window

Aaron Zhang, Lei Gao
Layoff Announcements and Stock Market Reactions: How Relative Size and Strategic Motive Determine Investor Response

Andy Pham, Lei Gao
Import Exposure and the April 2025 Reciprocal-Tariff Shock: A Paired Event Study of the “Liberation Day” Crash and the April 9 Pause

Deniz Yaveroglu, Lei Gao
Did the 2025 Half-Cent Tick and Access-Fee Cut Tighten Spreads? A Daily-Data Difference-in-Differences, and Why It Cannot Yet Answer the Question

Kushal Borra, Lei Gao
Look-Ahead Contamination in LLM Risk-Factor Evaluation

Lasya Yellamagari, Lei Gao
Do Anomalies Die When They Are Published?

Christopher Dadoo, Lei Gao
Do Housing Prices Reflect Disaster Risk Where People Believe in Climate Change?

Mateo Stine, Lei Gao
The Value of AI Innovation

Michael Philipov, Lei Gao
Firms Accumulating Medical-AI Patents Are Valued More Highly, and Incumbent Health Firms Own the Medical-AI Frontier

Michael Zhou, Lei Gao
Did ChatGPT Reprice AI-Exposed Labor? Substitution, Complementarity, and the Sign of AI Exposure

Nam Ngo, Lei Gao
Investigating Whether Buy Now, Pay Later Credit Furnishing Increased Credit-Reporting Complaints Using a Staggered Difference-in-Differences Analysis

Rakshana Damodaran, Lei Gao
Priced in? Verifying and Testing Stock-Market Reactions to CHIPS Act Award Announcements

Alexander Li Tang, Lei Gao
Break-Even Volatility Thresholds for Managed Leveraged ETF Exposure

Arpit Pareek, Arya Dev, Derek Horstmeyer
Reference-Price Construction Predicts Perpetual Futures Fragility During a Crypto Liquidation Cascade

Bera Gumruk, Aarush Baradwaj, Krishna Malghan, Derek Horstmeyer
Assessing the Influence of Stablecoin Adoption on Dollar Dominance from Cross-Country and Monetary Data

Sarah Dalmet, Aiden Lee, Christina Liu, Mishka Kandhari, Derek Horstmeyer
The Economics of Agentic AI: Investigating How Monetary Properties and Economic Conditions Shape AI Agents’ Preferences for Transacting with Mediums of Exchange

Daniel Gulley, Aditya Shah, Jiayi Zhou, Derek Horstmeyer
The Future of the Dollar: Stablecoins and Geopolitics

Sojourner Fitz-Green, Lisa Miyagawa, Hugh Holtman, Derek Horstmeyer
Proprietary Dependencies and Missing Code Hinder the Execution of Academic Replication Packages on Intel TDX Cloud Architecture

Alex Ban, Yimin Hou, Anay Gathani, Pravar Gollamudi, Jiasun Li
The Carbon Effect of Flexible Computing Loads: A Distribution-Free Theory of Dispatch, Investment, and Optimal Contracts

Keshav Krishnan, Ronit Mazumdar, Shreyas Kondapuram, Dhruv Kamath, Jiasun Li
Regulated Large-Load Rules Create Financial Commitments without Mandating Equivalent Electricity Consumption

Keyuan Cheng, Jiasun Li
Renewable-only dispatch contracts achieve the same zero-carbon computing as a carbon tax exceeding every operating U.S. carbon price: evidence from the Cipher–Luminant power purchase agreement

Shreyas Kondapuram, Jiasun Li
Viability of Bitcoin Mining as a Carbon-Reducing Flexible Load: Calibration and Empirical Test Across U.S. Electricity Markets

Pranav Adivi, Suhas Tenali, Jiasun Li
Evaluating the Economic and Operational Flexibility of Bitcoin Mining and AI Data Centers in the ERCOT Electricity Market

Shreyas Kalidindi, Saurish Bhati, Suraj Togaru, Ryo Tomita, Neev Naguboyina, Dev Rai, Jiasun Li
Averch Johnson Regulations Effect of FCL Computational Load

Vibhu Konduru, Jiasun Li
Evaluating the Potential of Bitcoin Mining in Reducing Carbon Emissions Under Different Electrical and Regulatory Markets Through Optimization Models

Vinayak Venugopal, Rishab Nanduri, Jiasun Li
The Market Structure of Tokenized Real-World Assets: Evidence on Access, Rights, and Secondary Trading

Youran Zhao, Manaswi Kolla, Jaivamsi Mukkamalla, Kanna Veerasingham, Wanqing Emily Su, Sally Yu, Anay Sachdeva, Karthik Rengarajan, Vivaan Bansal, Anirudh Puvaada, Lucas Jeong, Jiasun Li

Costello College of Business: Department of Information Systems and Operations Management

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence Discourse on Short-Term Trading Volume: Evidence from S&P 500 Earnings Calls

Aditya Banerjee, Mariia Petryk
The Economics of AI Model Pricing: A Quality-Adjusted Analysis of Commercial AI Models

Enya Ma, Ryan Thyparambil, Aarush Bolla, Nikhil Shankar, Mariia Petryk
Empirical Analysis of High-Frequency Algorithmic Trading Activity, Market Liquidity, and Short-Term Price Volatility in Uniswap V3 Pools

Charlotte Lieu, Ran Zitny, Rithvik Pathuri, Ellie Qin, Mariia Petryk
Prediction Markets vs. Expert Surveys: Comparing Forecast Accuracy for Scientific Replication Outcomes

Peter Zhao, Rohan Chunduri, Akhil Pullagujju, Mariia Petryk
Analysis of Benchmark Performance, Token Price, and the Market Share of Large Language Models

Kai Yang, Indra Uuganbayar, Mitulsena Sridhar, Meghana Nannapaneni, Mariia Petryk
Large Language Model (LLM) Agents Achieve High Labor-Cost Reductions in Short-to-Medium Difficulty Software Engineering Tasks but Face Diminishing Returns on High-Difficulty Tasks

Nithya Potluri, Drew Duong, Ayomikun Oluwaleke, Ishaan Arora, Mariia Petryk
Market oriented factors predict Hugging Face likes and downloads more reliably than solely capability benchmarks

Arinav Kutty, Mariia Petryk
Beyond Binary Disclosure: Anchored LLM Assessment of 10-K Cybersecurity Disclosure Quality and Market Reactions

Winston Cai, Sherry Chen, Ishaan Tharian Joshy, Riddhima Singh, Si Xie

Virginia Serious Game Institute

Jury.exe: Assessing Juror Reasoning and Decision-Making in a Serious Game

Rohan Arun, Lucas Lum, Owen Liu, Tiger Wu, James Casey, Sang Nam
Enhancing Engagement in Cognitive Assessment Through Serious Game Design

Yulee Oh, Hannah Huang, Connor Wang, Daniel Li, Nico Ortiz Neidhart, James Casey, Sang Nam