College of Science

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• A Computational Study on Destabilizing Effects on Grignard Reagents

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 COVID-19 Genome Data in the US

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

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

  BILLY OH, AASHNA SAWHNEY, TARUN SIVANANDAN, Younsung Kim

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

  SIDDHARTH TIBREWALA, Michael Summers

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

  SAM TAMPUBOLON, Ring Len, Daniel Tong

• 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

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

  ALINA ALFARO, Ustina Abdel Sayed, Lee A. Solomon

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

  SREENIDHI SANKARARAMAN , M. Saleet Jafri

• Developing an Adaptive Social Media Data Collection System

  COLIN BERRY, Ron Mahabir

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

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

  CHARLES TATUM, Michael Summers

• Hazardous Air Quality Forecasting from Aquatic Cyanobacteria Emissions

  Dennis Ngo, Ling Ren, Siqi Ma, Daniel Tong

• 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

• Investigating Viral Entry Routes and the Impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the Central Nervous System

  KRISHNA PAHWA, SAUMAN DAS, ELIZABETH MCCLOUGH, Fatah Kashanchi

• Lead Mediates Concentration-Dependent Inhibition at mGluR7a Receptors but Does Not Cause Significant Changes at GlyR Alpha 1 in Xenopus Oocytes

  BHAVYA BODDU, Greta Ann Herin

• Long-Term Declines in Functional Diversity of Amazonian Birds

  LALUREN BRADSHAW, David Luther

• Mathematical Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of the COVID-19 Epidemic

  COMFORT OHAJUNWA, Kirthi Kumar, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer

• Measuring Conflict Between Countries from a Data-Driven Perspective

  AARAV KHANNA, Hamdi Kavak, Bora Aslan

• Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas on Mitigating Coral Disease

  KRITHIKA LAYAGALA*, PREETI BEDI*, Valerie Nguyen, Jennifer Salerno

• Metabolic Constraints on Neuronal Signaling

  JAYANT SIVA, John Robert Cressman, Monica Gertz

• Methods of Data Processing on TESS Observations

  KINGSLEY KIM, ISAAC MEITE, JACKIE CHANGE, WILLIAM LIU, Owen Alfaro, Michael Reefe, Michael Bowen, Deven Combs, Justin Wittrock, Kevin Collins, Peter Plavchan

• Modeling and Simulation of the Dynamics of COVID-19 in Enclosed Spaces

  UDBHAV MUTHAKANA, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer

• Modeling Future Spread of COVID-19 in Different U.S. States in Light of Disparate Vaccination Rates and the Delta Variant's Rise

  DANIEL LEVERETT, Saleet Jafri

• Modeling the Effect of Gene Expression Variation on T cell Activation and Differentiation

  VAIBHAV GURUNATHAN, Saleet Jafri

• Novel Algorithmic Estimation of Extraterrestrial Intelligent Civilizations and Attributes per Planetary Continuum through Statistical Simulation and Civilization Modeling

  SRIRAM ELANGO, Michael Summers

• Oral Fluid Drug Testing: What Interferes With These On-Site Kits?

  VALERIE CRUZ ORTIZ, Sydney Andes, Paul Russo, Sally Rucker, Virginia Espina

• Plants Could Provide a New Dimension to Crime Scene Analysis

  TIMOTHY STOCKER, Paul Russo, Weidong Zhou, Virginia Espina

• Predictability in the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and its Connection with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and the Mixed Layer Depth

  MEGAN CRAVEN, NITI POTDAR, Jon Martin, Natalie Burls

• Predicting Potential Active Chiroptera Cathelicidins Sequences From Sequences of Precursors Using Bioinformatic Tools

  MAHIKA RAWAT, Amy Carfagno, Barney Bishop

• Predicting Probability of Infection of an Estuarine Crab by a Castrating Isopod Parasite

  LINDSEY COX, Darby Pochtar, Amy Fowler

• Predicting Wildfire Strength and Duration Over the United States with Machine Learning Methods

  RITHVIK DIRISALA, Daniel Tong

• Proteomics Profiling Around the AMPK-AKT Signaling Pathway Using the Reverse Phase Array Technology Reveals a Predictive Model for Both Recurrence and Overall Survival in NSCLC as well as Drug Sensitivity in Ovarian Cancer

  CODY JONES, Emanuel F Petricoin

• Reduced Meridional Sea Surface Temperature Gradients and Warmer Climates Produce Enrichment of Delta 18O in the Mid to High Latitudes

  NEHA BAGALKOT, SAMUEL M. WRIGHT, Scott Knapp, Natalie Burls

• Rehabilitation Technology and Relapse-Detecting Software for Opioid Addiction Patients

  DIEGO VALENCIA, Kendall Johnson, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer

• Removing Inedible Seed Hulls Using Weighted Covers on Two Varieties of Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) Microgreens (Black Oil and Gray Striped) Grown Hydroponically on Burlap

  PREETI BEDI, RACHEL CHAE, ABHAY DHARANIKOTA, HARSHINI DOGUPARTHI, BENJAMIN FURUKAWA, MARGARET TAYLOR, Hala Elbarmil, Alexa Hines, Lynn Ruffa, Donielle Nolan

• RNA-Sequence Analysis of the mdx Mouse Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

  BHAVYA BODDU, Aman Ullah

• SnowSource: A Mobile App Connecting Snow with Everyone

  ESHA KARLEKAR, MIHIKA BHATNAGAR, BRIAN LI, Ziheng Sun

• Solvent Effects on Organic Reactions

  SANJANA GANGISHETTY, Kenneth Foreman

• Spatiotemporal Innovation Testbed

  Chaowei Yang, Yun Li, Dexuan Sha, Kevin Wang, JUSTIN KONG

• Structural Engineering, Characterization, and Analysis of an Organic Electrode Material for Battery Applications

  MATTHEW YOON, Kathryn Holguin, Chao Luo

• The Effect of Heat on Human Volatile Organic Compound Analysis

  RYLEIGH FISHER, Dr. Allyson Dailey, Dr. Robin Couch

• The Use of Mass Spectrometry to Determine Fatal Intoxication of Synthetic Cannabinoids, Baclofen, and PGAs through Body Matrices in Forensic Toxicology

  ADELAIDE GANNON, Emanuel F Petricoin

• The α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor: Computational Modeling of Channel Gating

  SOHINI BANERJEE, Aman Ullah

• Therapeutics and Vaccines in the Fight Against COVID-19

  HARRISH GANESH, ALEX KASHANCHI, Fatah Kashanchi, Anastasia Williams

• Towards an Understanding of the Critical Success Factors that Drive Local Community Gatherings in U.S. Cities: A Machine-Learning Study on Meetup Data

  CHRISTOPHER ARRAYA, Olga Gkountouna, Myeong Lee, Ron Mahabir

• Understanding City Dynamics Through Street View Images: A Deep Learning Perspective

  EUGENE CHOI, Ron Mahibir, Olga Gkountouna

• Understanding Countries' Commitments to a Carbon-Neutral World: An In-Depth Analysis of the 2015 Paris Agreement

  CHANHO OH, EMILY OCASIO, Younsung Kim

• Understanding Public Discourse Surrounding Vaccine Hesitancy in Social Media

  Ron Mahabir, Olga Gkountouna, KULEEN SASSE

• Using Agent-based Simulations with Latent Dirichlet Allocation Topic Modeling on Mobile Location Data to Prescribe COVID-19 Interventions

  JOHN PESAVENTO, ANDY CHEN, RAYAN YU, Andreas Züfle

• Viral Innovation: How Animals Are Being Used in the Fight Against the Novel Coronavirus

  SULAIMAN YAMIN, Lauren Huey

• Virtual Screening for Potential Selective Inhibitors of Macrophage Infectivity Potentiator Proteins

  ELIJAH MCCLENDON, Kenneth Foreman