The Grainger College of Engineering Illinois Scholars Undergraduate Research (ISUR) Program Research Expo showcases the various science and engineering projects our scholars and their mentors have been working on this year. ISUR is a two-semester, structured, mentored research experience for undergraduate students in science and engineering. Through the learning-by-apprenticeship model, students learn about the research process, develop their research and technical communication skills, and gain experience needed for graduate school acceptance or research in industry.
Under the ISUR umbrella are the following programs: Clare Boothe Luce Research Program, DaRin Butz Foundation Research Program, Semiconductor Research Corporation Undergraduate Research Program, and C3SR-Undergraduate Research in Artificial Intelligence. In 2022, we also had presentations from ROTC students in the Accelerated Learning and Engineering Research Training (ALERT) Program in Electronic and Cyber Security.
The following is the list of projects and researchers for ISUR 2022:
Study of Liver Progenitor Cells Through Changes in Micropatterning
Ayusha Acharya (ADM Scholar), Senior, Bioengineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Multimodal Imaging of Peripheral Arterial Disease Comorbid with Type 2 Diabetes
Yamenah Ambreen, Senior, Bioengineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Biomaterials to Investigate Pathophysiological Mechanisms of Glioblastoma Invasion and Chemotherapeutic Resistance
Joseph Boyce, Senior, Materials Science and Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Label-Free Tissue Histopathology Using Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging
Jaime Chen, Senior, Bioengineering, Grainger College of Engineering
A 3D Tissue Engineering Model of Endometrial Vessel Networks
Noah Chiou, Junior, Bioengineering, Grainger College of Engineering
A Model of HIV Latency in Monocytes Reveals Monocyte to Macrophage Differentiation Increases Latency Reactivation
Rob Coronado, Senior, Bioengineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Full State Estimation of a Ballbot Using a Contactless Optical Flow Sensor
Skyler Do, Senior, Systems Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Aluminum Plate-Based Tensegrity Structures
Christina Garcia, Junior, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Optimization and Evaluation of 3D Bioprinter
Lauren Krause, Junior, Bioengineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Development of a Planar Inverted Pendulum Testbed
David Lam, Senior, Mechanical Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
The Virtual Reality Method on Analyzing Extinction-Based Classical Conditioning Learning
Beulah Lee, Junior, Computer Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Inferring Regulatory Motifs from Fungal Genomic Sequences
Simon Liu, Junior, Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering
Tuning the Topology of Substrates for Coral Larval Recruitment
Eliza Lovrich, Junior, Bioengineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Investigation of the Synthesis of YSZ Aerogels Using Crystalline Precursors
Jordan Meyer, Senior, Materials Science and Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
A Graphical User Interface for Rapid Prototyping of Imaging Phantoms for Nuclear Medicine Applications
Emma Morano, Sophomore, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Biomaterial-Based Tumor Models to Analyze the Role of Glioma Extracellular Matrix in Therapeutic Efficacy
Edward Neves, Senior, Chemical Engineering, LAS
Determining the Effects of Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Matrix Remodeling on Hematopoietic Stem Cell Maintenance
Alison Nunes (ADM Scholar), Senior, Materials Science and Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Metabolomic and Lipidomic Analysis of Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer Plasma
Ege Gungor Onal, Senior, Bioengineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Understanding the Impact of Fluid Flow on Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells in Conjunction with Human Stellate Cells
Danny Owen, Senior, Bioengineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Highly Efficient High Harmonic Generation in a Hollow-Core Fiber from a Ytterbium Laser
Sahaj Patel, Junior, Physics, Grainger College of Engineering
Investigating the Effect of Mineralized Collagen Scaffolds on the Immunomodulatory Capacity of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Maxwell Polanek, Junior, Chemical Engineering, LAS
Central Illinois Intercropping: Intersection between Ancient Agriculture and Midwestern Prairie Restoration
Daniela Pope (ADM Scholar), Senior, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Electrical Detection of Dopamine Using a Graphene-Field Effect Transistor
Malaak Saadah, Senior, Materials Science and Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Design of A Textile Sensor Embedded Shirt for Posture Monitoring
Drashti Sikligar, Senior, Bioengineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Design, Development, and Testing of a Microfluidic Phantom Setup for a Preclinical Nuclear Imaging System
Lisa Silverstein, Sophomore, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Investigation of Ionic Conductivity in Mixed Conducting Perovskite Oxide Thin Films during Crystallization
Joshua Simpson-Gomez, Senior, Materials Science and Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Kinetic Modeling of CO2 Electroreduction on Silver Nanoparticles
Sujay Someshwar, Senior, Chemical Engineering, LAS
The Surface Energy of Chemically and Physically Functionalized Graphene
Jules Suarez, Senior, Mechanical Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Noisy Policies for Visual Embodied Navigation
Nikash Walia, Junior, Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering
Ultrasonic Measurements of Binderjet Additively Manufactured Parts
Madison Yang, Junior, Mechanical Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Electrodeposition of Si Anodes for Li-ion Batteries
Muhemmad Yåçîn, Senior, Materials Science and Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Study of Liver Progenitor Cells Through Changes in Micropatterning
Madeline Blaauw, Senior, Bioengineering, Grainger College of Engineering
CO2 Electroreduction Catalyzed by Intermetallic Gold-Copper Nanoparticles
Maya Chattoraj, Senior, Chemistry, LAS
Comparative Investigation of a Continuous DC Plasma Electrode Against Boron-doped Diamond during PFAS Degradation
Jasmine Dinari, Junior, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Engineering Commensal Microbes for Optimized Therapeutic Delivery to the Gut
Shweta Khorana, Senior, Bioengineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Interrogating the Metal/Acid Site Balance in Bifunctional Catalysts Toward Oxygenate Upgrading
Melissa Manetsch, Senior, Chemical Engineering, LAS
Dual Role of Strigolactone Signaling Partner in Inhibiting Substrate Hydrolysis
Briana Sobecks, Senior, Chemical Engineering, LAS
Hierarchical Planning with Annotated Skeleton Guidance
Ananya Yammanuru, Senior, Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering
Oxidation and Crystallization Behavior of Ternary Aluminum Diborides
Dana Yun, Senior, Materials Science and Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Investigation of the Gas Phase of a Plasma-Water Interface
Elizabeth Perez, Senior, Physics, LAS
Development and Evaluation of Biopolymer Robotic Actuators for Healthcare Applications
Adia Radecka, Junior, Electrical Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Development of Capacitance-Voltage Measurement Method for Non-Uniform Dopant Profiling in III-V Solar Cells
Karen Yang, Senior, Materials Science and Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Semiconductor Research Corporation – Undergraduate Research Program Optimizing Nanoparticles Using Microfluidic Instruments
Nathaniel Anderson (Siemens EDA Scholar), Junior, Materials Science and Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Antimicrobial Peptides: The New Generation of Antibiotics to Create a World Free of Cancer and Bacteria
Juan David Campolargo (IBM Scholar), Sophomore, Undeclared, DGS
Evaluation of Novel Halide-Based Solid-State Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Battery Systems
Daniel Cudzich (TI Scholar), Sophomore, Materials Science and Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
HOPPY: An Open-source Kit for Education with Dynamic Legged Robots
Michaela Horn (Intel Scholar), Junior, Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering
Using Computer Vision to Relieve the Crop Phenotyping Bottleneck
Liana Koleva (IBM Scholar), Senior, Computer Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Fabrication and Testing of Metamorphic In0.63Ga0.37P Solar Cells
Amanda Loutris (Intel Scholar), Senior, Materials Science and Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Exploration of a Stand-Alone PV System and Implementation of FarmBot
Daniel Moreno (Intel Scholar), Senior, Systems Engineering and Design, Grainger College of Engineering
Teaching Electromagnetism through 3D VR Immersion
Savannah Pagan (TI Scholar), Sophomore, Electrical Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Instability-Induced Pattern Formation for Functional Materials
Anisha Sharma (Intel Scholar), Junior, Materials Science and Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Full State Estimation of a Ballbot Using a Contactless Optical Flow Sensor
Piyush Sud (Siemens EDA Scholar), Senior, Computer Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Conformationally Switchable Copper Complexes
Claire Zimmerman (Siemens EDA Scholar), Senior, Chemistry, LAS
Parallelizing the Sparsification of Matrices and Hypergraphs
Manav Agrawal, Senior, Computer Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Living Dictionary: Automatically Generating Wikipedia-like Content from Keywords
Nishant Balepur, Junior, Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering
Towards a Lab Test Results Advisor
Zach Cacini, Junior, Bioengineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Adversarial Learning on Federated Models
Anusha Ghosh, Sophomore, Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering
The Information Forest: Context and Connections
Matthew Jin, Junior, Computer Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Text-Based Models for Federated Learning and Adversarial Training
Suchita Joshi, Junior, Computer Science, LAS
Generating Large Synthetic and Real Graph Datasets
Arpandeep Khatua, Junior, Computer Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Identifying Difficult Topics for Smart MOOCs
Akhil Kodumuri, Junior, Computer Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
The Information Forest: Context and Connections
Jacob Levine, Sophomore, Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering
Chirag Rastogi, Junior, Computer Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
IBM Analog AI Hardware Acceleration Kit
Joseph Rejive, Junior, Computer Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Stereotype Bias Mitigation in Masked Language Models with Few-shot Learning
Emily Sallenback, Junior, Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering
The “Living” Encyclopedia
Sanjana Sarkar, Senior, Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering
Ranking Different Concepts in MOOCs
Taksh Singh, Junior, Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering
Interactive Aspect-Based Information Retrieval System for IT Tickets
Victor Szabo, Junior, Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering
Methodology for Compressing Multilingual Transformer
Heyi Tao, Senior, Computer Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Federated Machine Unlearning
Rem Yang, Junior, Computer Science, Grainger College of Engineering
IBM Analog Hardware Acceleration Kit
Bowen Xiao, Senior, Electrical Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Detecting Anomalous Behaviors for Assured Command and Control
Benjamin Candee, Senior, Mathematics, LAS
Luke Lalumandier, Senior, Aerospace Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Reconfigurable Antenna System to Detect and Mitigate GPS Spoofing/Jamming
Josh Carpenter, Senior, Mechanical Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Adam Spitzner, Junior, Systems Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Stretchable Wrinkled WSe2 for Tunable Single Photon Emitters
Henry Feldhaus, Senior, Mechanical Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Mary Pelzer, Junior, Mechanical Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Trustworthy Machine Learning – Image Classification
Jisu Kim, Junior, Mechanical Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Autoencoder Based IDS
Krishna Vasudev, Sophomore, Physics, LAS
Next Generation Power Electronics
Samuel Weiss, Junior, Systems Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
Small Array Behavior on Portable/Mobile Platforms
Patrick Yim, Senior, Mechanical Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering