2024-2025 Research Scholars
Autumn Quad Research Scholars
Supported by the Global Health Research Fund
- Layne Kohler, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Weight Cycling Effects on Female Fertility
- Mentor: Ada Weinstock
- Ava Lewin, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Assessing the genetic determinants of arsenic metabolism efficiency in children
- Mentor: Brandon Pierce
- Jessalin Nguyen, Fourth-Year, Environmental Science
- Project Title: Water Contamination from Animal Feeding Operations (AFOs)
- Mentor: Eyal Frank
- Maryam Shariff, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: The Immunological Role of the BRCA1 Pseudogene (BRCA1P1) in Human Cancers
- Mentor: Olufunmilayo Olopade
- Cynthia Tang, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Train the Trainer
- Mentor: Marcia Tan
Supported by the Hoeft Family Research Fund
- Zack Hassman, Third-Year, Mathematics, Computer Science
- Project Title: Improving Quantum Chemistry with Classical Assistance
- Mentor: Fred Chong
- Anna Jensen, Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Astrophysics Research Paper Publication - SN 2023ixf
- Mentor: Vikram Dwarkadas
- Alexander Katz, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Hemodynamics at the Anastomosis: Entry Angle Effect on Disturbed Flow
- Mentor: Anindita Basu
- Noam Levinsky, Third-Year, CEGU
- Project Title: Patterns in Management Perceptions of Sustainability at U.S. West Ski Resorts
- Mentor: Evan Carver
- Kaitlyn Li, Fourth-Year, Computer Science, Data Science
- Project Title: Designing Robot Coaches to Support Child Social Emotional Learning
- Mentor: Sarah Sebo
- Quinn Liu, Third-Year, Computer Science, Cognitive Science
- Project Title: Automating Gesture Coding with Machine Learning
- Mentor: Susan Goldin-Meadow
- Nyah Lues, Fourth-Year, Environmental Science, Global Studies
- Project Title: Hiatal control on the turnover of mammalian assemblages in the Eocene of Wyoming
- Mentor: Susan Kidwell
- Edward Luo, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Sweat-Reactive Textiles for Human Body Temperature Control
- Mentor: Po-Chun Hsu
- Jack Luo, Second-Year, Biological Studies, Economics
- Project Title: Transformer-based Computer Networks Congestion Control
- Mentor: Junchen Jiang
- Layla Mravac, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Twisted Topological Insulators
- Mentor: Shuolong Yang
- Ornella Ndatabaye, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Elucidating Inflammatory versus Non-inflammatory Control of Duodenal Lymphatic Architecture
- Mentor: Daria Esterhazy
- Duc Nguyen, Third-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Investigating the Progression of Aortic Disease with Mechanics-driven Agent-based Modelling
- Mentor: Nhung Nguyen
- Kyle Obermeyer, Second-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: The Pathological Progression of a Genetic Prion Disease Represented Through Behavioral Markers
- Mentor: James Mastrianni
- Marta Pantin, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Bacterial Light-Sensing Mysteries: Unraveling the Mechanisms of an Uncharacterized Biliverdin Synthase in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Mentor: Sampriti Mukherjee
- Armin Pazooki, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Spotting Nerve Damage Early with the Pointing Task
- Mentor: Peggy Mason
- Noa Perlmutter, Fourth-Year, Cognitive Science
- Project Title: Do We Know What Mugs We Like?
- Mentor: Howard Nusbaum
- Christian Ramos, Second-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Effects of THC on Negative Facial Emotions During Retrieval of Stressful Memories
- Mentor: Hanna Molla
- Uriel Rodriguez, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience, Music
- Project Title: The roles of the neurodevelopmental disease-linked protein Ube3a in Golgi satellite function
- Mentor: William Green
- Jacob Rothman, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Decoding the Immune System’s Pathways Between the Gut and Skin using Colitis and Psoriasis Mouse Models
- Mentor: Nicolas Chevrier
- Hanna Ruiz, Second-Year, Biological Chemistry, Business Economics
- Project Title: The Effect of Optimized Dosages of Type-1 Interferons on 4-1BB CAR T-cells
- Mentor: Jun Huang
- Kent Schechter, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Characterizing the Role of Cancer Cell-Intrinsic XBP1s on Anti-Tumor Immunity in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
- Mentor: Marsha Rosner
- Dellara Sheibani, Third-Year, Linguistics
- Project Title: Novel Gene Correction of Human ADNP Mutations Using Prime Editing
- Mentor: Xiaochang Zhang
- Gwen Sheley, Third-Year, Astrophysics, Computational and Applied Mathematics
- Project Title: Accessing Potential Systematics in Cosmic Shear – tSZ Cross-Correlation Analyses
- Mentor: Chihway Chang
- Jay Shen, Third-Year, Physics, Computer Science
- Project Title: Deep Learning for Immunomodulation Prediction
- Mentor: Andrew Ferguson
- Prithi Srinivasan, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Chemistry
- Project Title: Investigating the mechanism of the actin transport into the nucleus by Importin 9
- Mentor: Alex Ruthenburg
- Junfei Sun, Third-Year, Mathematics, Computer Science
- Project Title: A symplectic duality theory for saddle point problems from Sherman's Area Convexity Algorithm
- Mentor: Lorenzo Orecchia
- Tim Sun, Fourth-Year, Biological Chemistry, Economics
- Project Title: Investigating the Connection Between Ribosome Biogenesis and the Heat Shock Response
- Mentor: David Pincus
- Eric You, Third-Year, Physics, Economics
- Project Title: Prototype Smart Pixel Detectors
- Mentor: Karri DiPetrillo
- Jacob Zhang, Fourth-Year, Psychology, Economics
- Project Title: Effect of Education on Wellbeing
- Mentor: Shigehiro Oishi
- Rain Zhu, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences, Economics
- Project Title: Increasing T lymphocyte/CAR-T cell potency through modulation of TET2 enzyme activity
- Mentor: Amittha Wickrema
- Sneha Agarwal, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Intratumoral administration of chemokine mRNA to promote immune infiltration into the tumor microenvironment
- Mentor: Jeffrey Hubbell
- Ophra Atar, Third-Year, Cognitive Science, Psychology
- Project Title: More Semantic 'Connections' in Aphantasics than Imagers
- Mentor: Wilma Bainbridge
- Maya Atassi, Second-Year, Astrophysics, Physics
- Project Title: An Experimental Approach to Cosmic Constraints with the Simons Observatory
- Mentor: Jeffrey J. McMahon
- Iris Badezet-Delory, Second-Year, Physics, Classical Studies
- Project Title: Cracking the Blocks: Decoding the Precursors of Extreme Heat
- Mentor: Noboru Nakamura
- Emmanuel Barajas, Third-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Who Causes Boys to Seek Help Less: In-group vs Out-group Masculinity Threats
- Mentor: Lin Bian
- Aubrey Barb, Second-Year, Chemistry, Environmental Science
- Project Title: Decarbonyl Functionalization of Cyclic Ketone via a Dual Aromatization Strategy
- Mentor: Guangbin Dong
- Hunter Bershtein, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Economics
- Project Title: The Therapeutic Potential of Fcgr4-Expressing Macrophages in Atherosclerosis Resolution
- Mentor: Ada Weinstock
- Rohan Buluswar, Third-Year, Mathematics
- Project Title: Applications of Optimal Transport Theory
- Mentor: Lorenzo Orecchia
- Surya Chinnappa, Third-Year, Linguistics, Cognitive Science
- Project Title: Lexical-Semantic Predictors of Compelling Preaching
- Mentor: Howard Nusbaum
- Karolina Dorosz, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry, French and Francophone Studies
- Project Title: Exploring the Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Mediating the Impact of Chronic Inflammation on Epithelial Stem Cells
- Mentor: Yuxuan Miao
Supported by the Liew Family Research Fund
- Fady Adal, Fourth-Year, Computer Science, Linguistics
- Project Title: Verified Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerant Computing
- Mentor: Robert Rand
- Genevieve Evans, Third-Year, Creative Writing
- Project Title: Degrowth Game Design Project
- Mentor: Katherine Buse
- Avah Harris, Second-Year, Computer Science, Media Arts and Design
- Project Title: The Aesthetics of Artificial Intelligence
- Mentor: Andre Uhl
- Keshav Malik Kapoor, Second-Year, Economics, Philosophy
- Project Title: 'Smart to the Core' Exhibition Research
- Mentor: Meg Jackson Fox
- Leo Kupperman, Third-Year, Mathematics, Anthropology
- Project Title: Aesthetics of AI
- Mentor: Andre Uhl
- Ernest Leong, Third-Year, Romance Language & Literature
- Project Title: Good shepherds and sheep of human descent: towards a medieval biopolitics
- Mentor: Daisy Delogu
- Dani Levy, Fourth-Year, Religious Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
- Project Title: Research in the ISAC Tablet Collection
- Mentor: Susanne Paulus
- Eli Naftulin, Third-Year, Mathematics
- Project Title: Aesthetics of AI
- Mentor: Andre Uhl
- Darren Peng, Second-Year, Computer Science, Statistics
- Project Title: Optimizing Mixture-of-Agents using Neural Architecture Search
- Mentor: Ce Zhang
- Francesco Rahe, Fourth-Year, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts, Religious Studies
- Project Title: The Songs of Khayyam: A Translation
- Mentor: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi
- Jo Selmeczy, Third-Year, Theater and Performance Studies, Comparative Human Development
- Project Title: Dramaturgy as Artistic Research into Queer Identities in World Premieres at the Court Theatre
- Mentor: David Levin
- William Turner, Second-Year, Linguistics, Computer Science
- Project Title: Curation, Synthesis and Conversion of Textual and Lexical Data for Ancient Languages into Modern Graph Database Formats
- Mentor: Jeffrey Tharsen
- Jiayue Wang, Third-Year, Anthropology, Computer Science
- Mentor: James F Osborne
- Tony Zhou, Fourth-Year, Cognitive Science
- Project Title: Language Contact Simulated in the Lab
- Mentor: Ming Xiang
Supported by the NK Cheung Chemistry Research Fellowship
- Abbie Blenko,Fourth-Year, Chemistry, Music
- Project Title: Amide-Linked Covalent Organic Framework for Dual Photoredox and Copper Catalysis
- Mentor: Wenbin Lin
- Felice Chan, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Resolving Electron-Phonon Interactions in Hybrid Perovskites via Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy
- Mentor: Greg Engel
- Tomas Germanas, Fourth-Year, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Development of a Metal Organic Framework Cancer Vaccine for Enhanced Tumor Antigen Recognition
- Mentor: Wenbin Lin
- Sofiia Kucher, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry, Chemistry
- Project Title: Synthesis and Modification of Chemically Recyclable Boronic Ester Vitrimer Networks
- Mentor: Stuart Rowan
- Brennan Lee, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering, Economics
- Project Title: Treating Sores with Gas
- Mentor: Bozhi Tian
- Jhan Liufu, Fourth-Year, Computer Science, Physics
- Project Title: Tissue-like Bioelectronics for Stress Management
- Mentor: Bozhi Tian
- Sona Santry, Third-Year, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Natural Products and Drug Discovery: Total Synthesis of Cinncassiol F
- Mentor: Scott Snyder
- Victor Sun, Second-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Solving RNA Structure Puzzles Using Medium Throughput Construct Planning
- Mentor: Joseph A. Piccirilli
- Melody Tang, Third-Year, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Nickel-catalyzed mixed diboration of cyclic alkenyl triflates
- Mentor: Guangbin Dong
- Sarah Thau, Third-Year, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Establishing Protocols for the Production of Zirconium-89 Radiopharmaceuticals for Cancer Imaging
- Mentor: Satish Chitneni
- Ashley Zhu, Third-Year, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Synthesis and Characterization of a Cobalt-Nitrido Complex for the Study of Catalytic Mechanisms
- Mentor: John Anderson
- Guanchen Zhu, Third-Year, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Total Synthesis of Bipolarolide C-D
- Mentor: Scott A. Snyder
Supported by Collegiate Research Funds and other generous gifts from donors
- Claire Fu, Third-Year, Biology
- Project Title: Comparative analyses of doublesex supergene expression during Papilio butterfly wing development
- Mentor: Marcus Kronforst
- Jenna Garcia, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Investigating the Intersection of Terminal Selectors and Neurodegeneration in Aging Motor Neurons
- Mentor: Paschalis Kratsios
- Lola Lambert, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Photoemission Electron Microsocopy for Connectomics
- Mentor: Bobby Kasthuri
- Annie Wang, Fourth-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: A novel investigation of gene expression in cranial suture development via hybridization chain reaction
- Mentor: Russell Reid
- Gasser Elwasefi, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Investigating gene regulatory networks in somatosensory processing neurons
- Mentor: Elizabeth Heckscher
- Elisa Gao, Second-Year, Astrophysics, Physics
- Project Title: X-ray Emission of Supernova 2011DH
- Mentor: Vikram Dwarkadas
- Esther Goldberg, Fourth-Year, Data Science
- Project Title: The Effect of Memorability on Fame
- Mentor: Wilma Bainbridge
- Isabella Summe, Third-Year, Data Science
- Project Title: Predicting Linguistic Surprise from Brain Network Dynamics
- Mentor: Monica Rosenberg