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Engineering and Computer Science 2021 Research Day Award Winners Announced

Tuesday, March 23, 2021, By Alex Dunbar
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College of Engineering and Computer ScienceGraduate SchoolResearch and Creativestudent research

On March 12, the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) held its annual Research Day. During the event, industry representatives, faculty and students from a wide range of disciplines learn about novel approaches to solving challenging research problems. Through poster presentations and research pitches, ECS graduate students communicate the intellectual merit and broader impacts of their research. Joseph Helble, provost of Dartmouth College, delivered this year’s keynote presentation. The 2021 winners are as follows.

Energy, Environment and Smart Materials

  • First Prize: “Light-Induced Self-Writing: A Novel Approach to Develop Organized Polymer Composite Materials.” Shreyas Pathreeker; Advisor Ian Hossein
  • Second Prize: “Development of Inside Out Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for Combined Heat and Power Systems.” Alexander Hartwell, Advisor Jeongmin Ahn
  • Third Prize: “HYDRUS-1D Modeling to Represent Hydrologic Performance of the OnCenter Green Roof.” Courtney Gammon; Advisor Cliff Davidson

Communication and Security

  • First Prize: “Optimized Virtual Antenna Array of Wideband Narrow Beam MIMO System for Overlapped Virtual Elements.” Richard Tanski, Advisor: Jay Lee
  • Second Prize: “Coverage in Networks with Hybrid Terahertz, Millimeter Wave and Microwave Transmissions.” Xueyuan Wang, Advisor: M. Cenk Gursoy
  • Third Prize: “An Efficient Deep Capsule Network with Interleaved Sparse Connections and Attention-Based Routing.” Chenbin Pan, Advisor: Senem Velipasalar

 Sensors, Robotics and Smart Systems

  • First Prize: “Towards Disaster Recovery: Incorporating the Uncertainties Caused by Cyber Attacks in Controlled Islanding.” Sagnik Basumallik, Advisor: Sara Eftekharnejad
  • Second Prize: “Real-Time Adaptive Sensor Attack Detection in Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems.” Francis Akowuah, Advisor: Fanxin Kong
  • Third Prize (tie): “Data Generation for Transient Stability Assessment to Address Lack of Training Data.” Rui Ma, Advisor: Sara Eftekharnejad, and “Soft Crawling Inchworm Robot Enabled by Dynamically Tunable Friction.” Siavash Sharifi, Advisor: Wanliang Shan

Health and Well-Being

  • First Prize: “Investigation of the Effects of Electrochemical Reactions on Complex Metal Tribocorrosion Within the Human Body.” Thomas Welles; Advisor Jeongmin Ahn
  • Second Prize: “Prediction of Tight Junction Strand Architecture.” Nandhini Rajagopal, Advisor: Shikha Nangia
  • Third Prize: “Persister Control by Leveraging Dormancy Associated Reduction of Antibiotic Efflux.” Sweta Roy; Advisor: Dacheng Ren
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