2022 Summer Research Award Recipients

William A. Lee (MS '79, PhD '82) Awardees

Simran Patel
Biology
Research: How cholesterol-containing glucoconjugates are recycled through the Golgi and returned to the surface
Faculty Advisor: Kamil Godula

Suelen Lopez Razo
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Sulfur dioxide: Mechanism of toxicity and development of an antidote
Faculty Advisor: Gerard Boss

Cynthia Rong
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Effect of ribosome stalls and elongation duration on mRNA localization to the mitochondria
Faculty Advisor: Brian Zid

Jiayang Zhou
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Nonequilibrium thermodynamics for quantum systems strongly coupled to baths
Faculty Advisor: Michael Galperin

Jillian Hirano
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Designing Reporters to Track Changes in mRNA Localization to the Mitochondria
Faculty Advisor: Brian Zid

Manasi Movva
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Effects of Phosphorylated Tau On Chromatin Compaction
Faculty Advisor: Galia Debelouchina

Raul Johnson
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Role of MALAT-1 in TDP-43 auto regulation
Faculty Advisor: Colleen A. McHugh

Noura Mohamed
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Effects of the Ketogenic Diet on Mitochondria Morphology in Epilepsy-Associated Mutations in Human Stem Cells
Faculty Advisor: Johannes Schöneberg

Dina Chehada
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: The impact of intron RNA on the activity of the intron-encoded reverse transcriptase
Faculty Advisor: Navtej Toor

Alexander Parmele
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Chemical Synthesis Mucin Mimetics
Faculty Advisor: Kamil Godula

Natalie Hemond
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Investigating Iminopyridine Metal Complexes
Faculty Advisor: Julia Stauber

Sonder Wilson
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Chiral Mixed-Valent Oxo-Centered Metal Clusters
Faculty Advisor: Clifford P. Kubiak

Cara Jensen
Physics
Research: Understanding the quantitative relationship between growth, DNA replication, and gene expression at the single-cell level in E. coli
Faculty Advisor: Suckjoon Jun

 

General Atomics Awardees

Natacha Oget​​
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Co Labilization of WSe2 Nanocrystals
Faculty Advisor: Alina Schimpf

Jiachen Xu
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Development of STM-based Labview Programs
Faculty Advisor: Shaowei Li

Zachary Auvil
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: A Protocol for the Electrospray of Solvated Fatty Acids with the Aerosol Impact Spectrometer
Faculty Advisor: Robert Continetti

Zhaoyi Yu
Mathematics
Research: A Robust and Computationally Efficient Framework for Joint Quantile and Expected Shortfall Regression
Faculty Advisor: Wenxin Zhou

Seung Hyun (Harry) Cheon
Mathematics
Research: Early Stage Alzheimer's Disease Detection from Pupillary Response
Faculty Advisor: Edward Jay Wang

Huiwen Lu
Mathematics
Research: Sparsification of Directed Graphs
Faculty Advisor: Alex Cloninger

Michael ​​Zhang
Physics
Research: Machine-Learned Particle-Flow Algorithm on CLIC Datasets
Faculty Advisor: Javier Duarte

Sirius Song
Physics
Research: Generation of Extreme UV and Soft X-ray Light with Orbital Angular Momentum using High-Intensity UV Lasers
Faculty Advisor: Tenio Popmintchev

Natalie Lam
Physics
Research: Investigating time evolution of network inhomogeneity in swelling hydrogels
Faculty Advisor: Alex Frañó

Anne Lin
Jacobs School of Engineering
Research: Machine Learning Application for Coherent X-Ray Scattering Techniques
Faculty Advisor: Oleg Shpyrko

 

Kenneth Abeloe (BS '91) Awardees

Huaning Liu
Mathematics
Research: A Robust and Computationally Efficient Framework for Joint Quantile and Expected Shortfall Regression
Faculty Advisor: Wenxin Zhou

Pacharadech Wacharanan
Physics
Research: Data Driven Regional Weather Forecasting and temperature (I'm still not sure about the title)
Faculty Advisor: Henry Abarbanel

Rohan Shenoy
Physics
Research: One-shot algorithm for HGCAL L1Trigger using Object Condensation and Graph Neural Networks
Faculty Advisor: Javier Duarte

Malina Desai
Physics
Research: Investigating Ultracool Binary Systems Using Random Forests
Faculty Advisor: Adam Burgasser

 

Jeffrey Marks (PhD '80) Awardees

Hao Wei
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Towards the Synthesis of Novel Cyclic Carbene
Faculty Advisor: Guy Bertrand

Nicole Muir
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: WSe2 Chiral Molecular Doping
Faculty Advisor: Wei Xiong

Vicente Galicia
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Effects of Vibrational Strong Coupling
Faculty Advisor: Wei Xiong

 

Information Systems Laboratories Awardees

Weixiang Zhao
Mathematics
Research: Machine Learning in Image Classfication
Faculty Advisor: George Obaido

Joshua Evans
Physics
Research: Modeling X-ray spectroscopy data
Faculty Advisor: Alex Frañó

 

Francesca Silva Awardees

Natalie Birouty
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Structural characterization of the mitochondrial inner membrane import machinery via the mortalin-PAM complex
Faculty Advisor: Mark Herzik

 

Elissa Seidenglanz Awardees

Zoey Litt
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Analysis of the Promoter vs Open Reading Frame Mechanism Driving mRNA Localization to the Mitochondria Under Translational Elongation Controlled Conditions
Faculty Advisor: Brian Zid