WILLIAM A. LEE (MS'79, PHD '82) AWARDEES

Josef Daniels
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Selectively Catalyzing Primary Silane Homocoupling Reactions by Low-Valent Molybdenum Isocyanide Complexes
Faculty Advisor: Joshua Figueroa

Aakash Davasam
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Revealing Burkholderia cepacia lipase function in diverse sea spray microenvironments: A molecular dynamics study
Faculty Advisor: Rommie Amaro

Emily Dinh
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: ACKR3 Nanobody Characterization
Faculty Advisor: Tracy Handel

Pavitra Goyal
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: A Biotin Targeting Chimera (BioTAC) System to Map Small Molecule Interactomes in situ
Faculty Advisor: Fleur Ferguson

Juliette Hamid 
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Human neurodegenerative disease proteins drive mitochondrial fragmentation in yeast
Faculty Advisor: Brian Zid

Trinidad Kellemen 
Biology
Research: The impact of nutrients and growth rate on gene expression in yeast cells
Faculty Advisor: Brian Zid

Christian Kim
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: OmpT, A Protein Barrel that Cleaves Peptides: A Model System for Membrane Protein Folding
Faculty Advisor: Judy Kim

Ershuang Lu
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Aliphatic Cyclic alkyl amino carbenes
Faculty Advisor: Guy Bertrand

Jessica Nino 
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Using Cryo-Electron Tomography to Determine the Global Structure of Type I Polyketide Synthase in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Faculty Advisor: Navtej Toor

Avery Ontiveros 
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Investigating the effects of transcriptional pausing on MRPP1/2 methyltransferase activity in the mitochondria
Faculty Advisor: Tatiana Mishanina

Dominika Sandel
Biology
Research: Functional Characterization of the MUTYH Mutant D271G Enabled Through Base Editing Technology
Faculty Advisor: Alexis Komor

Ady Schwarz
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Developing a Generalized Prodrug Method for PROTAC Development
Faculty Advisor: Fleur Ferguson

GENERAL ATOMICS AWARDEES

Omkaar Kulkarni
Mathematics
Research: Modeling Oxygen Hydration with Data-Driven Many-Body Models
Faculty Advisor: Francesco Paesani

Adolfo Partida
Physics
Research: Spiking Neural Networks for Temporal Auditory Analysis and Neuromorphic Applications
Faculty Advisor: Alex Frano

Quinn Picard
Physics
Research: Spiking Neural Networks for Temporal Auditory Analysis and Neuromorphic Applications
Faculty Advisor: Alex Frano

Yutong She
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: The effect of light intensity and water concentration on the rate of oxidation of mesoporous silicon and oxidative trapping method
Faculty Advisor: Michael Sailor

Ayush Singh
Engineering
Research: Deep Neural Network for Beta Identification
Faculty Advisor: Liang Yang

Ke-Chieh “Jay” Sun
Physics
Research: The role of memory (time-nonlocality) in the correlated neuronal dynamics and implications for computing.
Faculty Advisor: Massimiliano Di Ventra

Mingze Wan
Physics
Research: Coherent Diffractive Imaging: Algorithms And Techniques For Phase Retrieval
Faculty Advisor: Oleg Shpyrko

Justin Wang
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Kinetics of Ester Hydrolysis in Bulk and Microdroplet Phases
Faculty Advisor: Vicki Grassian

Tian Cong Xu
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Advances in pi-conjugated polymer synthesis via direct arylation polymerization
Faculty Advisor: Nathan Romero

Melissa Zamora
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: A Mechanistic Approach to Synthesizing Boryl Ethers Using Ambiphile Addition
Faculty Advisor: Erik Romero

Junxiao Zhang
Physics
Research: Optical Studies of Dynamics and Control in Quantum Materials
Faculty Advisor: Richard Averitt

KENNETH ABELOE (BS '91) AWARDEES

Gabriel Brewster
Physics
Research: COSI Spectral Plotting and Fitting
Faculty Advisor: Steven Boggs

Alexander Cagle
Mathematics
Research: Taxonomic classification of shotgun metagenomic sequencing data using deep learning
Faculty Advisor: Rob Knight

Bhavya Gupta
Physics
Research: Simulating the Impact of Dark Matter Subhalos on Stellar Streams
Faculty Advisor: Tongyan Lin

Jason Weitz
Physics
Research: Autoencoder Model Compression and Optimization for Anomaly Detection
Faculty Advisor: Javier Duarte

Lexu Zhao
Physics
Research: Spectral Typing all of Gaia Data Release 3: A Study of Low-Resolution Spectra
Faculty Advisor: Quinn Konopacky

JEFFREY MARKS (PHD '80) AWARDEES

Yale Huang
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Incorporating Photocleavable Sulfonium Linkers into Polyurethanes for Photodegradable Thermoset and Thermoplastic Polymers 
Faculty Advisor: Nathan Romero

Wilson Lubeck
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Chemoenzymatic generation of a minor cannabinoid library for pharmacological research
Faculty Advisor: Bradley Moore

Sophia Nguyen
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Evaluation of Bioactivities of a Diversity Chemical Library Compounds against a Free-Living Amoeba Naegleria fowleri
Faculty Advisor: Anjan Debnath

David Stephens
Chemistry & Biochemistry​​​​​​
Research: Reaction Chemistry of Side-On Bound Diphosphorus to a Mononuclear Iron Center
Faculty Advisor: Joshua Figueroa

INFORMATION SYSTEMS LABORATORIES (ISL) AWARDEES

Linghao Zhang
Mathematics
Research: Optimizing Polynomial Functions over Unions of Semialgebraic Sets
Faculty Advisor: Jiawang Nie

Ruolun Zhang
Physics
Research: Rotor Devices and Nanomechanical Resonator
Faculty Advisor: Monica Allen

FRANCESCA SILVA AWARDEES 

Ruixuan Wen
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Local chirality in RNA investigated by Fluorescence-Detected Circular Dichroism
Faculty Advisor: Yitzhak Tor

ELISSA SEIDENGLANZ AWARDEE 

Caroline Kohler Lunelli
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Understading the mechanism of cAMP-dependent activation by mutation and structure studies of PKA type I holoenzyme
Faculty Advisor: Susan Taylor

 LOIS YU AWARDEE

Alyssa Walker
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Exploring Molecular Assembly for Protein Weaving
Faculty Advisor: Akif Tezcan

ROHUN KSHIRSAGAR AWARDEE

Tianyi (Irene) Chen
Mathematics
Research: The early worm catches the bacteria: An exploration of foraging in C. elegans
Faculty Advisor: Sreekanth Chalasani