Innovation, curiosity and discovery are on full display during UCF’s Student Research Week. Students from a wide range of disciplines showcase their research through poster presentations and the best of the best claim awards for their work. A total of 165 students from the College of Engineering and Computer Science participated in the Student Scholar Symposium and 30 of them took home awards. In addition, Assistant Professor Chinewendu Enyioha received the Champion of Undergraduate Research: Rising Star award for his excellence in mentoring undergraduate students. See the full list of CECS-mentored student winners below:
Undergraduate Judges’ Choice Winners
Eugenio Diaz, Real-Time Classification of Neuromorphically Encoded Tactile Data with Spiking Neural Networks
Mentor: Mohsen Rakhshan (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Rami Falhi and Harrinsson Santos, Design and Control of a Compact Rotating-Beam Prosthetic Foot for On-Demand Stiffness Tuning
Mentor: Hwan Choi (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Michael Freeland, Consistent Automated Segmentation of DENSE MRI using a Seeded Growth Algorithm
Mentor: Luigi E. Perotti (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Sophie Bennett and Arina Nemati, Evaluating the Effects of Multiplayer Interactions on Social Connectivity and Engagement in a Gamified EMG Training Environment
Mentor: Albert Manero (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Joshua Taggart, Robust AlN MEMS Resonators for High Temperature Space Environments
Mentor: Jaesung Lee (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
John Ilemsky, Using a Multi-Site Haptic System to Evaluate the Usability of a Real-Time Feedback System in Upper Limb Prostheses
Mentor: Albert Manero (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Eren Durham, Analyzing Temporal-Based Machine Learning of Prosthetic Control in Presence of Dynamic Movement
Mentor: Mohsen Rakhshan (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Md Asif Ishrak Sarder, DDQN-Driven Adaptive and Covert Neighbor Discovery for Directional Aerial Networks
Mentor: Murat Yuksel (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Calvin VanWormer, Implementation and Evaluation of CHIRP: Enabling Scalable and Dynamic Peer-to-Peer Communication in IoT Networks
Mentor: Mike Borowczak (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Avril Elmer, Lean Blow-Off of Ammonia-Hydrogen Flames at Gas Turbine Conditions Using a Toroidal Jet-Stirred Reactor
Mentor: Subith Vasu (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Maya Eusebio, TEXELS: A Programmable Textile Interface for Replicating Textures
Mentor: Joseph Laviola (Computer Science)
Lucas Rivera, Amphiphilic Engineering of CT20p Enables Micellar Self-Assembly
Mentor: Lorraine Leon (Materials Science and Engineering)
Ossyris Bury, Preliminary Mission Architecture for Small Satellite Rendezvous with Asteroid 2024 YR4
Mentor: Paula Do Vale Pereira (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Andrew Hansen and Henry Wong, Pediatric Prosthesis Training Using Electromyography-Based Interaction: “Magical” Themed Experiences
Mentor: Albert Manero (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Christopher Simpson, Scalable Environmental Sensing for Human Activity and Emission Modeling in Digital Twin Frameworks
Mentors: Soheil Sabri, Dr. Azadeh Vosoughi, and Dr. Haofei Yu (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Graduate Judges’ Choice Winners
Bassam Nasir, Automated LiDAR-Based Assessment of Coastal Morphological Change Following Hurricane Ian
Mentor: Weiwei Zhan (Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering)
Matt Counts, Z-TOP: A Self-Assembling Peptide for Micellar Transport and Delivery
Mentor: Lorraine Leon (Materials Science and Engineering)
Tahoora Ateeq, Disease states in membraneless organelles: an investigation using a peptide-based polyelectrolyte complex model
Mentor: Dr. Lorraine Leon (Materials Science and Engineering)
Matthew Shanosky, Investigating the Viability of Using Corticomuscular Coherence for Clinical Applications
Mentor: Helen J. Huang (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Precious Nwaorgu and Olamide Osigbemeh, Score-Guided Synthetic Experience Replay for Stable Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning
Mentor: Chinwendu Enyioha (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Abdulmajeed Alghamdi, Game-Theoretic Obfuscation of Wi-Fi MAC-Layer Traffic Against IoT Device Fingerprinting Attacks
Mentor: Cliff Zou (Computer Science)
Yiting Wang, Si(B)CN/BNNT Coating on CMC towards High Thermal Shock and Thermal Cycling Performance for Hydrogen Combustion
Mentor: Jihua Gou (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Sudipto Baul, An attention-based deep learning framework for 3D gene expression prediction of tissue sections
Mentor: Wei Zhang (Computer Science)
Siavash Gitifar, From Ocean to Prosthetics: Mantis Shrimp-Inspired Ankle Foot Prosthesis
Mentor: Hwan Choi (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Esteban Patino Marin, Critical State Behavior of Granular Materials From Direct Shear, Simple Shear, and True Triaxial Discrete Element Simulations
Mentor: Luis Arboleda-Monsalve (Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering)
Faraz Madanchi, Identifying the Most Critical Performance Attributes for Modern Supply Chain Success
Mentor: Thomas O’Neal (Industrial Engineering and Management Systems)
People’s Choice
Yiting Wang, Si(B)CN/BNNT Coating on CMC towards High Thermal Shock and Thermal Cycling Performance for Hydrogen Combustion
Mentor: Jihua Gou (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)