UVA Engineering Research Symposium (UVERS)

Showcasing UVA Engineering Graduate Students' Research Excellence

UVERS is the Graduate Engineering Student Council's flagship annual event that highlights the groundbreaking research achievements from all departments and disciplines of the graduate body in UVA Engineering through poster and oral presentations. Student presenters are judged based on technical merit, impact, significance of their research, and the clarity of their presentations. Alumni and friends of the engineering school are welcome to attend and participate in events throughout the day.

About UVERS

This flagship GESC event exists to showcase the excellent graduate student research in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at UVA. It serves as an experiential professional development opportunity for graduate students in the school of engineering at UVA through:

  • Discovering the state of art research in different fields.
  • Finding possibilities for their research to be implemented in a professional setting and translated to industrial applications. 
  • Promoting inter-departmental collaboration and networking opportunities.
  • Fostering efficient communication skills by presenting their research to audiences of diverse backgrounds from various technical perspectives.

During each symposium, GESC will host a competitive poster session and podium session for selected graduate engineering students from each department to present their research and be judged based on technical merit, impact and significance of their research, and the clarity of their presentation.

The GESC academic co-chairs and the GESC academic committee will be responsible for the logistics of UVERS. The judges (for poster and podium sessions) and the abstract grading committee members will mainly consist of Post-docs and professors from each SEAS department.

Past UVERS events

Finalists

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

  • Kenneth Brown, (Chemical Engineering), Best Poster Presentation 1
  • Zakaria Mehrab (Computer Science), Best Poster Presentation 2
  • Benjamin Aronson (Materials Science and Engineering) Best Poster Presentation 3


POSTER DESIGN

  •  Kenneth Brown, (Chemical Engineering), Best Design 1
  • Javadi Parisa (Environmental and Civil Engineering) Best Poster Design 2
  • Dickson Riley (Chemical Engineering), Best Poster Design 3

 

19th UVA Engineering Research Symposium (UVERS 2023)

  • Wednesday, March 16th, 2023, Newcomb Hall
  • UVERS Organization Team
    • GESC Academic co-chairs:
    • Academic committee members:
      • Yunkai Sun (MSE), Harsh Anand (ESE), Reagan Portelance (BME), Sid Shenoy (CPE), Prashanth Wagle (CS), Mikhail Arefev (MSE), Candace Lei (BME), Sami Felton (BME), Tyler Daspit (MAE), Anushruti Huilgol (CS), 
  • Guest Speakers
    • Gery Stafford (Research Chemist, NIST, Materials Science and Engineering Division)
      • "From UVa to NIST – in 20 minutes, or less"
    • Doug Garland (Associate Dean of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, SEAS, UVA)
      • "Waves of tech innovation and their effect on the economy" 
  • Invited Panelists:
    • Frederick Epstein, Associate Dean for Research, SEAS, UVA
    • Blair Okita, UVA SEAS CHE advisory board member and President at BioPCS Consulting, LLC
    • Sandhya Dwarkadas, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, SEAS, UVA
    • Amrie Grammer, Founder and President, AMPEL BioSolutions
  • Networking External Participants:
    • Owens Corning
    • AMPEL BioSolutions
    • BioPCS Consulting, LLC
  • Award winners
    • Podium
      • 1st place: Charles Leroux (CHE)
      • 2nd place: Jiacheng Guo (MAE)
      • 3rd place: Jordan Reed (BME)
    • Posters
      • 1st Place: Victor Wallemacq (MSE)
      • 2nd Place: Ian Brummel (MSE)
      • 3rd Place: ​John Kelly (MAE)
  • Finalists
    • Podium 
      • Charles Leroux (CHE): Transport Property Modulation via Solvent Specific Behavior in Cross-Linked Non-Aqueous Membranes
      • Mohammad Samin Yasar (CPE): Learning transferable representations for nonstationary environments 
      • Abdullah-Bin Siddique (EE): Improving the Maturity of Cardiomyocytes through Nanowire Integrated Diaphragms for Mechanical Stimulation
      • Mohamad El Iskandarani (ESE): Investigating the Effect of Time Pressure and Reward Value on Visual Search Behavior in a Real-World Virtual Environment
      • Jiacheng Guo (MAE):  Hydrodynamics of dolphin in forward propulsion
      • Jordan Reed (BME): A novel role for fat distribution GWAS genes in adipocyte differentiation and Wnt signaling
      • Ana Estrella-You (Civil): Rechargeable gels designed to release chlorine for inactivation of pathogens in water
      • Fateme Nikseresht (CS): Adaptable Sensor-free Occupancy Detection using WiFi Fine Time Measurement
      • William Moffat (MSE): Investigation of Laser Ablation Coating Removal for Steel Surface Cleaning and Coating Adhesion
    • Poster 
      • Delaney Fisher (BME): Focused Ultrasound Blood-Brain Barrier Opening Controls and Prevents Cerebral Cavernous Malformations
      • Mackenzie Grubb (BME): High-Throughput Hydrogel Platform for the Investigation of YAP/TAZ Signaling in Senescent Fibroblasts
      • Areli Rodriguez (BME): Cell-scale pores in microporous annealed particle (MAP) hydrogel implants promote regeneration in volumetric muscle loss injuries
      • Rhea Braun (CHE): Using Agent-Based Modeling to Evaluate the Role of Shear Flows in Limiting Bacterial Chemotactic Response to NAPL Chemoattractant Sources Under Flow Near an Interface
      • Anukriti Shrestha (CHE): Effects of Domain Size and Support Composition on the Reactivity and Reducibility of Oxide-supported Tungsten Oxide Clusters
      • Jenna Sumey (CHE): Hydrogel mechanics regulate fibroblast DNA methylation and chromatin condensation
      • Wade Fritzeen (Civil): An Integrated Assessment of Leading Pathways Toward A Decarbonized Petrochemical Sector
      • Suzanne Nguyen (Civil): Applying Electrochemical Levers to Drive Carbonate and Crystalline Calcium Silicate Hydrate (CCSH) Formation in a Lower-Carbon Calcium Silicate Cement System
      • Jamie Harris (Civil): Improving Silver-Based Household Water Treatment with a Novel Copper Addition
      • Xingbo Fu (CPE): Federated Graph Learning with Graphless Clients
      • Binchi Zhang (CPE): Adversarial Attacks on Fairness of Graph Neural Networks
      • Sergiu Mosanu (CPE): FreezeTime: System-level Emulation through Architectural Virtualization
      • Galen Harrison (CS): Predictability of Vaccination Surges and Google Search Trends
      • Md Aashikur Rahman Azim (CS): UnifiedSense: Enabling Without-Device Gesture Interactions Using Over-the-shoulder Training Between Redundant Wearable Sensors
      • Spencer Keefer (CS): Dynamic Vibrotactile Controller Toolkit
      • Sree Sourav Das (EE): SnSe2: A promising candidate for thermoelectric applications
      • Yimin Gao (EE): AI-RISC: Scalable RISC-V processor with quantized AI extensions and system-level emulation
      • Yushun Dong (EE): On Structural Explanation of Bias in Graph Neural Networks
      • Adrian Savovici (MSE): Direct Evidence of the Novel L1’ Phase in Bulk Fe-Pd Alloys
      • Ian Brummel (MSE): Technique for Measuring the Fundamental Mechanisms of Ion Conductivity Across Grain Boundaries
      • Victor Wallemacq (MSE): Copper ion release in copper-based alloys: implications on the transmission of coronaviruses from human contact with fomite surfaces.
      • John Kelly (MAE): Hydrodynamic Benefits of Fish Swimming in Large Schools
      • Rachel Newman (MAE): Biomechanical Considerations for a Cartilage Implant for Repair of Femoral Articular Cartilage Injury
      • Ruoxi Chen (MAE): Cotton-Derived Fe/Fe3C-Encapsulated Carbon Nanotubes for High-Performance Lithium−Sulfur Batteries
      • Zeyu Mu (ESE): Cooperative Platooning with Mixed Traffic on Urban Arterial Roads
      • Giovanna Camacho (ESE): Can't We Just Agree with the HAT? Agreeableness in Human Agent Teaming
      • Zhiyuan Wang (ESE): CAMSA: Context-Aware Micro-Interventions for Social Anxiety
  • Judges
    • Abstract selection judges
      • Zongli Lin (Professor, CPE)
      • Gustavo Rohde (Professor, BME & CPE)
      • Miaomiao Zhang (Professor, CPE)
      • Tanvir Ferdousi (Post-doc, CPE)
      • Tommy Tracy (Research Scientist, CS)
      • Tianhao Wang (Professor, CS)
      • Yangfeng Ji (Professor, CS)
      • Abdullah Maghrabi (Post-doc, CS)
      • Andreas Beling (Professor, EE)
      • Harry Powell (Professor, EE)
      • Kyusung Lee (Professor, EE & MSE)
      • Mona Zebarjadi (Professor, EE & MSE)
      • Gavin Garner (Professor, MAE)
      • Daniel Quinn (Professor, MAE & CPE)
      • Robert Salazar (Professor, MAE)
      • Tariq Iqbal (Professor, Systems & CS)
      • John Hott (Professor. CS)
      • Sifat Moon (Post-doc, Systems)
      • Majid Shafiee-Jood (Professor, Civil)
      • Negin Alemazkoor (Professor, Civil)
      • Arsalan Heydarian (Professor, Civil)
      • Phillip Taylor (Professor, CHE)
      • Lakeshia Taite (Professor, CHE)
      • Rachel Letteri (Professor, CHE)
      • Nick Vecchiarello (Professor, CHE)
      • Chris Paolucchi (Professor, CHE)
      • Ji Ma (Professor, MSE)
      • Stephen McDonnell (Professor, MSE)
      • Tao Sun (Professor, MSE)
      • Robert Kelly (Professor, MSE)
      • Mohammad Mazharul Islam (Research Associate, BME)
      • Mete Civelek (Professor, BME)
    • Podium judges
      • Avik Ghosh (Professor, ECE)
      • Giovanni Zangari (Professor, MSE)
      • James Aylor (Professor Emeritus, ECE)
      • Gery Stafford (NIST)
      • Nikolaos Sidiropoulos (Professor, ECE)
      • Samuel Lake (Assistant Director of Research Communication, PhD+, UVA)
    • Poster judges
      • Julianne Quinn (Professor, ESE)
      • Donald Griffin (Professor, BME)
      • Kelly Oman (Assistant Director of Research Communication, PhD+, UVA)
      • Luca Kim (Post-doc, CHE)
      • Zhuoran Gan (Post-doc, CHE)
      • Hossein Nouri Alavijeh (Post-doc, CHE)
      • Daniel Rau (Post-doc, MSE)
      • Kate Owen (AMPEL BioSolutions)
      • Samantha Rubeck (Owens Corning)
      • Brandon Williams (Owens Corning)
      • Grace Jang (Owens Corning)

18th UVA Engineering Research Symposium (UVERS 2022)

  • Monday, March 28th, 2022, Newcomb Hall, event link
  • UVERS Organization Team
    • ​Academic chair:
      • Golam Morshed (ECE) 
    • Academic committee:
      • Maria Rossetti (Civil), Colby Whitcomb (CHE)
  • Finalists
    • Poster
      • Mohammad Samin Yasar (CPE): Robots That Can Anticipate and Learn in Human-Robot Teams
      • Sergiu Mosanu (CPE): PiMulator: a Fast and Flexible Processing-in-Memory Emulation Platform
      • Carly Cocke (MSE): Does the location of galvanic corrosion on an aerospace component with varying local stresses undergoing fatigue loads matter?
      • Bingxu Li (ESE): Individual differences impacting skin deformation and tactile discrimination with compliant elastic surfaces
      • Jessica Besnier (Civil):  Modeling the current drought in La Plata River Basin using remote sensing
      • Ryan Grimes (MSE):  A first-principles investigation of the near-infrared radiative and optical properties of gadolinium zirconate
      • Xugui Zhou (ECE):  Strategic Safety-Critical Attacks Against an Advanced Driver Assistance System
      • Wade Fritzeen (Civil):  A global perspective using GCAM to assess the opportunities and barriers for alternative (carbon neutral) feedstocks in the decarbonization of the chemical manufacturing industry
      • Alec Menzer (MAE):  Manta Swimming: Towards Understanding the Hydrodynamic Role of Pectoral Fin Pitching
      • Yuchen Gong (MAE):  Effect of horizontal wave on aerodynamic performance and wake structures in snake-like gliding
      • Benjamin Goffin (Civil):  Changes in the Meuse Water Balance and Drivers Leading to the July 2021 Flooding
      • Samantha Felton (BME):  Characterizing the role of polysaccharide lyase Smlt1473 in microbial pathogenesis
      • Divya Duvvuri (ECE):  An Antenna-Coupled Supply,Temperature, and Interference-Robust Ultra Low Power Wake-Up Receiver with −78.3-dBm Sensitivity at 4.9 GHz
      • Anika Kao (MAE):  Using Digital Image Correlation to Quantify Skin Deformation with Von Frey Monofilaments
      • Natalia Diaz Montenegro (CHE):  Effects of SO2 Poisoning and Regeneration on Spinel-containing CH4 Oxidation Catalysts
      • Rob Barnes (BME):  Upregulation of ST6GAL1, HMGB1 and SIGLEC10 in monocyte-derived Tumor-Associated macrophages increases likelihood of CD52-SIGLEC10 mediated self- and cell-cell immunosuppression in colorectal cancers
      • M Ceylan Morgul (ECE):  Circadian Rhythm Recovery for Everlasting Flash Memories
      • Mohammad Nazmus Sakib (ECE):  TEMPiM: Processing-in-Memory with Temporal Encoding
      • Hayden Deverill (ESE): Modeling Candidate Success Using Military Assessment and Selection Data
    • Podium:
      • Keithen Orson (MSE): Composition and Thermal Stability Analysis of Passive Films on NiCr and NiCrMo Alloys
      • Megan Haase (BME): Incorporation of spatial cellular migration and diffusion of cytokines into an agent-based model of muscle regeneration
      • Bethany Gordon (Civil):  Effects of place-based critical history on perceptions of justice in infrastructure climate adaptation
      • Nicholas Coronato (ESE):  Functional Data Methods for Understanding Human Physiological System Responses to Exercise
      • William Smith (MAE):  Using Shannon Entropy for Large Scale Autonomous 3D Map Refinement and Quantifying Map Completeness
      • Israt Jahan Duti (CHE): Engineering biomaterials with tunable mechanics and proteolytic stability
      • Tyler Spears (CPE):  Super-Resolution of Manifold-Valued Diffusion MRI with Deep Learning Refined by Multi-Modal MRI
      • Vaibhav Verma (ECE): Complete hardware to software stack co-design for accelerating IoT Edge AI applications
  • Judges
    • Abstract selection judges:
      • William Lamberti (Post-doc, CS)
      • Mohammad Mazharul Islam (Post-doc, BME)
      • Daniel Abebayehu (Post-doc, BME)
      • Chris Paolucci (Professor, CHE)
      • Geoff Geise (Professor, CHE)
      • William Epling (Professor, CHE)
      • Julianne Quinn (Professor, ESE)
      • Venkataraman Lakshmi (Professor, ESE)
      • Marek-Jerzy Pindera (Professor, ESE)
      • Jim Smith (Professor, ESE)
      • Brad Campbell  (Professor, CS and ESE)
      • Nikhil Shukla (Professor, ECE and MSE)
      • Zongli Lin (Professor, ECE)
      • Cong Shen (Professor, ECE)
      • Andreas Beling (Professor, ECE)
      • Sarah Sun (Professor, MAE)
      • Richard Kent (Professor, MAE)
      • Eric Loth (Professor, MAE)
      • Chloe Dedic (Professor, MAE)
    • Podium and poster presentations were selected based on abstract scores

17th UVA Engineering Research Symposium (UVERS 2021)

  • Wednesday, April 7, 2021, Virtual, event link
  • UVERS Organization Team
    • ​Academic co-chairs:
      • Toriqul Islam Sadik (ECE)
      • Colby Whitcomb (CHE)
    • Academic committee:
      • Golam Morshed (ECE), Beverly Miller (CHE)
  • Award winners
    • Podium
      • 1st place: Naomi Miyake (CHE)
      • 2nd place: Kiumars Aryana (MAE)
      • 3rd place: Kristen Fread (BME)
      • People’s Choice: Naomi Miyake (CHE)
    • Posters
      • 1st Place: Devanshi Gupta (CHE)
      • 2nd Place: Bev Miller (CHE)
      • 3rd Place: Prakrut Kansara (ESE)
      • People’s Choice: Haoyi Ma (ECE)
  • Finalists
    • Poster
      • Rhea Braun (CHE): Sonification Assay of Bacterial Chemotaxis
      • Arash Tavakoli (ESE): How Much Do I Look Around While Driving? A Naturalistic Data-Driven Study
      • Sayak Mukherjee (MAE): Control of Human Body Kinematics using Reinforcement Learning
      • Vanamala Venkataswamy (CS): GEAR: Renewable Energy Aware Job Scheduler for Green Data Centers
      • Sarah Jordan (Civil): Advancing the representation of reservoir operations in SWAT to evaluate alternative water management strategies: A case study in the Omo River Basin, Ethiopia
      • Nurani Saoda (CPE): ALTAIR: A Platform to Enable Battery-less Smart Sensing
      • Md Mofijul Islam (ESE): Robust Multimodal Representation Learning Approaches for Human Activity Recognition
      • Devanshi Gupta (CHE): Analysis of Chemical and Electrochemical Lithiation/Delithiation of a Lithium-Ion Cathode Material
      • Haoyi Ma (ECE): TARA: Tracking with Aspect Ratio Adaptability
      • Jacob Higgins (ECE): Negotiating Visibility for Safe Autonomous Navigation in Occluding and Uncertain Environments
      • John Kelly (MAE): Swim Smart: Understanding Dolphin Fluke Cross-Section in Efficient Swimming
      • Prakrut Kansara (ESE): Analyzing impacts of vegetation cover change on the intensity and frequency of forest fires in Amazon using MODIS products
      • Vaibhav Verma (ECE): AI-RISC: Scalable open-source processor for Artificial Intelligence applications at the edge of Internet-of-Things
      • Junyu Wang (BME): High resolution spiral simultaneous multi‐slice first‐pass perfusion imaging with whole-heart coverage at 1.5 T and 3 T
      • Samarth Singh (ESE): Exploring the benefits of integrated energy-water management in reducing economic and ecological tradeoffs
      • David Olson (MAE): Dynamic microstructural and physical property evolution during thermal cycling of ytterbium silicate-silicon thermal and environmental barrier coating systems
      • Beverly Miller (CHE): Addressing a Clinical Need: Tissue Engineering to Improve Pelvic Organ Prolapse Repair
      • Prathyush Sambaturu (CS): Effective Intervention Strategies to Contain Equidemics on Networks: A Stochastic Optimization Based Approach
    • Podium:
      • Kristen Fread (BME): Cell Trajectory Mapping of Murine in vitro Neurogenesis by Single-cell Mass Cytometry and Comparison to in vivo Neural Development
      • Naomi Miyake (CHE): Understanding the Ag/ZrO2/SiO2 Catalyst in the Ethanol-to-Butadiene Reaction
      • Jaime Harris (Civil): MadiDrop+ Improves Disinfection Performance of Point-of-Use Water Filtration System
      • Yan Zhuang (CPE): Video-based Facial Weakness Analysis
      • Arpan Sinha (ECE): Nanosecond Pulsed Laser Patterning of Interdigitated Back Contact Heterojunction Silicon Solar Cells
      • Samantha Jaszewski (MSE): Impact of High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering Parameters on Crystallization, Microstructure, and Ferroelectric Behavior of Hafnium Oxide Thin Films
      • Kiumars Aryana (MAE): Interface controlled thermal resistances of ultra-thin chalcogenide-based phase change memory devices
  • Judges
    • Ali Khalilimeybodi (Post-doc, BME)
    • Rekha Singh (Research scientist, ESE)
    • Venkataraman Lakshmi (Professor, ESE)
    • Teresa Culver (Professor, ESE)
    • John Robbie Hott  (Professor, CS)
    • Seongkook Heo (Professor, CS)
    • Sean Agnew (Professor, MSE)
    • Cori Watson-Kassa (Research scientist, MAE)
    • Bin Fang (Post-doc, ESE)
    • Jeff Steffensen (Commissioning Engineer at Affiliated Engineers)
    • Alan Mulroney (ECE)
    • William Epling (Professor, CHE)
    • Geoffrey Geise (Professor, CHE)
    • Rachel Letteri (Professor, CHE)
    • William Scherer (Professor, ESE)
    • Anil Vullikanti (Professor, CS)
    • Brad Campbell (Professor, CS, and ECE)
    • Derek Henderson (Lab Manager, Civil)
    • Mohammad Fallahi-Siochani (Professor, BME)
    • Marc Oettinger (Licensing Manager, UVA Licensing & Ventures Group)
    • Sonali Majumdar (Associate Director of Graduate Professional Development, PhD+)
    • Baoxing Xu (Professor, MAE)
    • Julianne Quinn (Professor, ESE)
    • James Smith (Professor, Civil)
    • Marek-Jerzy Pindera (Professor, ESE)
  • Invited Speakers:
    • Gulu Gambhir, SEAS alumnus; UVA Engineering Foundation trustee; Director, Professional Services Aerospace & Satellite, Amazon Web Service
    • Pam Norris, Frederick Tracy Morse Professor Emeritus, MAE
    • Young Professional Panel:
      • Bonaventure Agata (Biogen)
      • Sarah Bauer (ESE alumini, Rowan University)
      • Katie Jackson (ESE alumini, AAAS)
      • Ridwan Alam (ESE alumini, Post-doc at MIT)

16th UVA Engineering Research Symposium (UVERS 2020)

  • Tuesday, April 7, 2020, Virtual, event link
  • UVERS Organization Team
    • ​Academic co-chairs:
      • Gail Hayes (ESE)
      • Naomi Miyake (CHE)
    • Academic committee:
      • Kristen Fread (BME), ​Sadegh Eghdami (ESE), Toriqul Islam Sadik (ECE)
  • Award winners
    • Podium
      • 1st place: Sebastian Giudice (MAE)
      • 2nd place: John Corbett (Systems)
      • 3rd place: Shraddha Praharaj (Civil)
      • People’s Choice: Naomi Miyake (CHE)
    • Posters
      • 1st Place: John Moore (ECE)
      • 2nd Place: Hyunglok Kim (Civil)
      • 3rd Place: Beverly Miller (CHE)
      • People’s Choice: A. Jasmin Melara (Civil)
  • Finalists
    • Poster
      • Prince Verma (CHE): Controlling the orientation of NU-1000 crystals
      • Bev Miller (CHE): Addressing a Clinical Need: Tissue Engineering to Improve Pelvic Organ Prolapse Repair
      • Devanshi Gupta (CHE): Analysis of Chemical and Electrochemical Lithiation/Delithiation of a Lithium-Ion Cathode Material
      • John Tomko (MSE): Long-lived plasmon modulation via ballistic thermal injection
      • Hao Huang (MSE): Molecular dynamics simulation study of laser fragmentation in liquid
      • Mary Cecilia Mulvaney (MSE): Investigating Hot Cracking in Al 7075 Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication Deposits
      • Junyu Wang (BME): High resolution spiral simultaneous multi‐slice first‐pass perfusion imaging with whole-heart coverage at 1.5 T and 3 T
      • Kristen Fread (BME): Cell Trajectory Mapping of Murine in vitro Neurogenesis by Single-cell Mass Cytometry 
      • Colleen Roosa (BME): Utilizing Microporous Annealed Particle Scaffold as a Platform for Studying Biomaterial-Mediated
      • Sayak Mukherjee (MAE): Developing computational models of human lower extremities for injury predictions in impact 
      • Yucheng Zhou (MAE): Upcycling of Paper Waste for High-performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
      • Emily Dooley (MAE): Differences in Over Ground Walking and Stair Climbing between Ankle Arthroplasty Candidates and Controls
      • Marzieh Lenjani (CS): Fulcrum: a Simplified Control and Access Mechanism toward Flexible and Practical In-memory Processing
      • Anshuman Suri (CS): One Neuron to Fool Them All
      • Lijing Wang (CS): TDEFSI: Theory Guided Deep Learning Based Epidemic Forecasting with Synthetic Information
      • A. Jasmin Melara (Civil): Is aquatic bioenergy with carbon capture and storage a sustainable negative emission technology?: Insights from a spatially explicit environmental life-cycle assessment
      • Hyunglok Kim (Civil): Estimation of Global-scale Soil Moisture Variability Using Advanced Satellite Systems and Data Assimilation Technology
      • Arash Tavakoli (Civil): A Human Centered Multi Modal Driving Study in the Wild
      • Shannon Devlin (Systems): How Shared Visual Attention Patterns of Pairs Unfold Over Time whenWorkload Changes
      • Sanjana Mendu (Systems): SocialText: A Generalized Framework for Understanding the Relationship between Social Media Discourse and Mental Health 
      • Vaibhav Verma (ECE): AI-RISC: Scalable open-source processor for Artificial Intelligence applications at the edge of Internet-of-Things
      • John Moore (ECE): Rapid Assessment of C. difficile Spore Germination Using Label-Free Microfluidic Devices
      • Paul Bonczek (ECE): Cumulative Sign Detector for Stealthy Sensor Attacks on Mobile Robotic Swarms
    • Podium:
      • Shraddha Praharaj (Civil): Data Predictive Approach to Estimate Recurrent Flooding Impacts on Roadway Networks
      • Mohamed Salah Ibrahim (ECE): Cell-edge Interferometry
      • John Corbett (Systems): Utilizing Behavioral Profiles in a Multistage MPC to Improve Post-Meal Glucose Control for People with Type 1 Diabetes
      • Ankur Sarker (CS): Brake Data-Based Location Tracking in Usage-Based Automotive Insurance Programs
      • Jessica Hung (BME): High-Throughput Analytic Selections of Novel Targeting Ligands for Chronic Pancreatitis 
      • Naomi Miyake (CHE): Understanding the role of Ag and ZrO2 in the catalytic activity of the Ag/ZrO2/SiO2 catalyst for the ethanol to butadiene reactions
      • Sebastian Giudice (MAE): Development of a Novel Biomechanics-Based Imaging Modality
  • Judges
    • Abstract selection judges:
      • Dan Abebayehu (Post-doc, BME)
      • Pim Oomen (Post-doc, BME)
      • Bill Epling (Professor, CHE)
      • Rachel Letteri (Professor, CHE)
      • Chris Highley (Professor, CHE)
      • Mehdi Boukhechba (Research scientist, ESE) 
      • Rekha Singh (Research scientist, ESE)
      • John Miller (Adjunct Faculty, ESE)
      • Sean Agnew (Professor, MSE) 
      • Zan Gao (Post-doc, MAE)
      • Shawn Russell (Professor, MAE)
      • Cori Watson (Post-doc, MAE)
      • Jiadeng Zhu (Post-doc, MAE)
      • Jie Lian (Post-doc, ECE)
      • John McGrath (Post-doc, ECE)
      • John "Robbie" Hott (Professor, CPE/CS)
    • Podium judges:
      • Doug Garson (Garson Inc., UVA ChE alum (1978),SEAS Trustee)
      • Derek Henderson (PhD grad, ESE)
      • Nancy Callahan (UVA Engineering Foundation trustee, UVA SEAS Alumna)
      • Leslie (Bland) Miller (PhD grad, MSE)
      • Nancy Dutta (PhD grad, Civil)
      • Steve Marazita (US Army, UVA Alum (1994, BS; 1996, ME; 1999, PhD)) 
      • Kyoko Yoshida (Post-doc, BME)
      • Sonali Majumdar (Associated Director of Graduate Professional Development, PhD+)
      • Marlit Hayslett (Director of Communication Training & Strategy, PhD+)
      • David Touve (Director, UVA iLab)
    • Poster judges:
      • Scott Barker (Professor, ECE)
      • Scott Remer (PhD grad, Systems)
      • Don Griffin (Professor, BME)
      • Doug Garson (Garson Inc., UVA ChE alum (1978),SEAS Trustee)
      • Derek Henderson (PhD grad, ESE)
      • Nancy Callahan (UVA Engineering Foundation trustee, UVA SEAS Alumna)
      • Jeff Steffensen (Commissioning Engineer, Affiliated Engineers)
      • Rekha Singh (Research Scientist, Civil)
      • Dudley White (Zeta Associates (retired), Engr ’76, ’77) 

15th UVA Engineering Research Symposium (UVERS 2019)

  • Thursday, March 28, 2019, Newcomb Hall
  • UVERS Organization Team
    • ​Academic chair:
      • ​Sadegh Eghdami (ESE)
    • Academic committee:
      • Lavina Backman (MSE), Gail Hayes (ESE), Erin Robartes (ESE), Kristen Fread (BME), ​Arash Tavakoli (ESE), Kevin Chang (CHE), John Xia (MSE), Alex Jarama (MAE), Bev Miller (CHE), Drew Miller (BME), Saringi Agata (CHE), Matthew Diasio (MSE)
  • Industry panelists
    • Micron Technologies
    • Riverside Research Org
    • NGIC
    • Mitre
    • SPAWAR (Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic)
    • George's
    • Oracle
    • ORNL
    • SMART Scholarship
  • Award winners
    • Podium
      • 1st place: Beverly Miller (CHE)
      • 2nd place: William Blades (MSE)
      • 3rd place: John-Paul Donlon (MAE)
      • People’s Choice: William Blades (MSE)
    • Posters
      • 1st Place: Benjamin Bowes (ESE)
      • 2nd Place: Elaheh Sadredini (CS)
      • 3rd Place: Laura Dunphy (BME)
      • People’s Choice: Qiang Zhong (MAE)
  • Finalists
    • Poster
      • Laura Dunphy (BME): Contextualization of metabolic adaptations in the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa following evolution of antibiotic resistance
      • Thanh Tran (BME): Clinical trial evaluation of a new feeding mechanism for babies born with cleft palate
      • Xueying Zhao (CHE): Chemotactic Response of Marine Bacteria to Hydrocarbons: Experimental and Theoretical Analysis
      • Kevin Gu (CHE): Cold Start NOx Emission Control Using Passive NOx Adsorber
        Elaheh Sadredini (CS): Arithmetic Resolution and Hardware Support for Deep Neural Networks 
      • Tao Jin (CS): Rank Aggregation via Heterogeneous Thurstone Preference Models
      • Pouyan Bassirian (ECE): Using Co-Designed CMOS-MEMS Technologies for Near-Zero Power Wakeup Receivers
      • Vaibhav Verma (ECE): Energy-efficient deep neural network accelerator with dynamically reconfigurable hardware and processing-in-memory architectures
      • Hyunglok Kim (ESE): Estimation of Global-scale Surface Soil Moisture Using Satellite Observations and Data Assimilation
      • Benjamin Bowes (ESE): Machine Learning to Forecast Groundwater Table in a Flood Prone Coastal City
      • Kristen Reynier (MAE): Evaluating the effect of muscle activation on head motion during non-injurious impact in human volunteers
      • Qiang Zhong (MAE): How dorsal fin sharpness affects fish swimming performance
      • William Moffat (MSE): Implementation of Laser Assisted Coating Removal of Steel Components on Virginia Bridges 
      • Emmelyn Luu (SOM): Development of a Scalpel Incision Guide to Reduce Vessel Puncture Complications During Vascular Access.
    • Podium
      • Catherine Gorick (BME): Sonoselective Transfection of Cerebral Vasculature with Focused Ultrasound 
      • Beverly Miller (CHE): Electrospun Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels 
      • Faizan Ahmad (CS): A Girl Has No Name: Automated Authorship Obfuscation using Mutant-X 
      • Andrew Jones (ECE): Mid-infrared detection of biological agents 
      • Wenjian Jia (ESE): Would You Consider a “Green” Vehicle? Investigating Virginian’s Preferences for Electric Vehicles 
      • John-Paul Donlon (MAE): Restraint Biomechanics in Frontal Crashes with Inboard-Leaning Occupants 
      • William Blades (MSE): From Alloy to Oxide: Capturing the Early Stages of Oxidation on Ni-Cr Alloys
  • Judges
    • Abstract selection judges
      • Dan Abebayehu (Post-doc, BME)
      • Julien Dimastromatteo (Instructor of Research, BME)
      • Pim Oomen (Post-doc, BME)
      • Mohammad Sadegh Azimi (Research Associate, BME)
      • Bill Epling (Professor, CHE)
      • Geoff Geise (Professor, CHE)
      • Nisha Sosale (Research Scientist, CHE)
      • Mehdi Boukhechba (Research Scientist, ESE)
      • Nicholas Napoli (Research Scientist, ESE)
      • Rekha Singh (Research Scientist, ESE)
      • John Miller (Adjunct Faculty, ESE)
      • Sean Agnew (Professor, MSE)
      • Zan Gao (Post-doc, MAE)
      • Shawn Russell (Professor, MAE)
      • Cori Watson (Post-doc, MAE)
      • Jiadeng Zhu (Post-doc, MAE)
      • Jie Lian (Post-doc, EE & CPE)
      • John McGrath (Post-doc, EE & CPE)
      • John "Robbie" Hott (Professor, CS)
    • Podium judges
      • Joseph Keum (Riverside Research)
      • Ryan Lyburn (George’s)
      • Paul Moruza (NGIC)
      • Brady Genz (US Army National Ground Intelligence Center)
      • Carlos Polanco (ORNL)
      • Parans Paranthaman (ORNL)
    • Poster judges
      • Ahmed Rasin (Research Associate, MSE)
      • Mehdi Boukhechba (Research Associate, ESE)
      • Robbie Hott (Professor, CS)
      • Muhammad Sherif (Post-doc, ESE)
      • Prasanna Balachandran (Professor, MSE & MAE) 
      • Donna Chen (Professor, ESE)
      • Derek Henderson (PhD grad, ESE)
      • Rich Martukanitz (Director, Center for Innovative Materials Processing, Materials Research Institute, Penn State)
      • Jeff Steffensen (Commissioning Engineer, Affiliated Engineers)
      • Don Griffin (Professor, BME)
  • Guest Speakers
    • Les Williams (Partner and Chief Revenue Officer at Risk Cooperative, Certified Risk Manager)
    • Kathryn Harris (Senior Vice President for Growth and Strategy at Govini, Senior Advisor to the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Professor at Georgetown University)

14th UVA Engineering Research Symposium (UVERS 2018)

  • Thursday, March 22th, 2018, Newcomb Hall, event link
  • UVERS Organization Team
    • GESC ​Academic chair:
      • John Xia (MSE)
    • GESC Academic committee:
      • James Kammert (CHE), Mattew Diasio (MSE), Kristen Fread (BME), Samantha Perez (BME), Basak Ozaslan (Systems), Gail Moruza (Civil), Heimir Thorisson (Systems), Kevin Gu (CHE), Erin Robartes (Civil), Sarah Bauer (Civil), Katie Nunnelley (Civil)
  • Finalists
    • Poster
      • Kellen Chen (BME): Multiscale model of the effects of mechanical loading on tendon healing
      • Ruixi Zhou (BME): Cardiac and Respiratory Self-Gated Motion-Corrected Free-breathing Spiral Cine Imaging
      • Erica Hui (CHE): Viscoelastic hyaluronic acid hydrogels to study hepatic stellate cell mechanobiology
      • Yuanyuan Ji (CHE): Specific co-ion sorption and diffusion properties influence membrane permselectivity 
      • Charles Burgis (Civil): How Does Green Stormwater Infrastructure Handle Road Salt? 
      • Benjamin Goffin (Civil): Karst Detection using Low-Cost Electrical Resistivity Meter
      • Avinash Kalyanaraman (CPE/CS): Sherlock Homes: Towards Practical Person Tracking in Homes 
      • Huazheng Wang (CPE/CS): Efficient Exploration of Gradient Space for Online Learning to Rank
      • Vaibhav Verma (ECE): Very-low voltage open-source processor and deep neural network accelerator in 14nm FinFET technology 
      • Zeming Sun (ECE): Laser Annealing to Enhance Performance of All-Laser-Based Silicon Back Contact Solar Cells
      • John Tomko (MSE): Tunable thermal transport and reversible switching in protein-based, biomimetic materials 
      • Noelle Easter Co (MSE): Where do fatigue cracks in corroded aerospace alloys initiate?
      • Brandon Perry (MAE): Dermestidae Aided Diagnosis of Foot-Ankle-Leg Injuries Caused by Axial Impact
      • Yosyp Schwab (MAE): Ferromagnetic Nanoparticle-Assisted Polysulfide Trapping for Enhanced Lithium-Sulfur Battery
      • Heimir Thorisson (Systems): Operations Optimization and Simulation at Container Ports 
      • Steven Hauser (Systems): Imaging the 3-D Deformation of the Finger Pad When Interacting with Compliant Materials 
    • Podium:
      • Lauren Russell (CHE): Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cell Proliferation and Maturation is Dependent on 3D Hydrogel Mechanics and Topography
      • Laura Caggiano (BME):Surgical Reinforcement Alters Collagen Alignment and Turnover in Healing Myocardial Infarcts
      • Rebekah Webster (MSE): Mitigation Strategies for Calcium-Magnesium-Aluminosilicate (CMAS) Attack on Environmental Barrier Coatings
      • Carolyn Roberts (MAE): Vulnerability of Female Occupants in Automotive Crashes
      • Austin Angulo (Civil): User recognition at midblock crossings via connected vehicle technology
      • Daniel Truesdell (ECE): Ultra Low Power Integrated CMOS Thermal Sensing Based on Quantum Tunneling Currents
      • Qingyun Wu (CS): Interactive Bandit Learning in Recommender Systems
      • Thibault Gautier (Systems): Defining fasting glucose from continuous glucose monitoring in patients with type 1 diabetes
  • Judges
    • Abstract selection judges:
      • Lindsay Ivey Burden (Professor, Civil)
      • Woohang Kim (Visiting Professor, Civil)
      • Keegan Gumbs (Lab Manager, Civil)
      • Rasin Ahmed (Post-doc, MSE)
      • Valentina Avincol (Post-doc, MSE)
      • Ashutosh Giri (Research Scientist, MAE)
      • Mohammad Al Boni (Post-doc, Systems)
      • Mehdi Bouckhechba (Post-doc, Systems)
      • Yuan Tian (Visiting Professor, CPE/CS)
    • Podium judges:
      • Fran O'Sullivan (General Manager, IBM Global Business Services, UVA alum)
      • David Touve (Director, UVA iLab)
      • Doug Garson (Garson Inc., UVA ChE alum (1978),SEAS Trustee)
      • Steve Marazita (US Army, UVA Alum (1994, BS; 1996, ME; 1999, PhD))
    • Poster judges:
      • Donna Chen (Professor, Civil)
      • Jeff Bush (MITRE Corporation, Associate Department Head for the Network & Communications Engineering Department)
      • Jason Brewster (Director, UVA iLAB)
      • Don Griffin (Professor, BME)
      • Jon Goodall (Professor, Civil)
      • Prasanna Balachandran (Professor, MSE & MAE)
      • Brian Smith (Professor, Civil)
      • Tony Singh (Environmental Laboratory Manager, Civil)
      • Daniel Weller (Professor, ECE)
      • Valentina Avincola (Post-doc, MSE)
      • Kelly Cunningham (Graduate Writing Lab, SEAS)
  • Invited Speaker:
    • “How to Communicate Research in a Business Setting” by Adam Ferrari, Vice President of Engineering, Salsify (Kaleidoscope Room)

13th UVA Engineering Research Symposium (UVERS 2017)

  • Thursday, March 30th, 2017, Newcomb Hall
  • UVERS Organization Team
    • GESC ​Academic chair:
      • Ben Foley (CHE)
    • GESC Academic committee:
      • Katie Nunnelley (Civil), Leighann Larkin (Eng. Phys.), James Kammert (CHE), Sarah Bauer (Civil), Alex Mait (MAE), Dani Perez-Rapela (MAE), Mattew Diasio (MSE), Tamal Batabyal (ECE), Kristen Fread (BME), Samantha Perez (BME), Basak Ozaslan (Systems)
  • Finalists
    • Poster
      • Lauren Russell (CHE): Oligodendrocyte Survival, Proliferation, and Intracellular Redox State is Dependent on 3D Hydrogel Mechanics
      • Naidi Sun (BME): Photoacoustic Microscopy of Oxygen Metabolism at the Microscopic Level
      • Michael Melia (MSE): Reduced Corrosion Rate of a Mg alloy by Laser Surface Modification and Pulsed Laser Deposited Coatings
      • Mallory DeCoster (MAE): The Effects of Substrate Porosity on the Thermal Conductivity of PbSe/PbTe Superlattice Thin Films
      • Zhuoyi Zhang (Civil): Impact of Ridesharing on Operational Efficiency of Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicle Fleet: A Seattle Case Study
      • Walter Varhue (ECE): Microfluidic Deformabity-Cytometry and Sorting of Cellular Aggregates
      • Sarah Masud Preum (CPE/CS): Preclude: Conflict Detection in Textual Health Advice
      • Basak Ozaslan (Systems): Quantifying The Effect Of Antecedent Physical Activity On Prandial Glucose Control In Type 1 Diabetes: Defining Activity On Board
      • Colin Qi (CHE): Flow Power: A Lithium-ion Battery with Flowing Electrodes for Solar Farms and Electric Vehicles
      • Rui Cao (BME): Photoacoustic Microscopy of Cerebral Hemodynamic and Metabolic Responses to Anesthetics
      • Hayley Williamson (MSE): Examining the response of three key species in the Martian exosphere to solar wind conditions
      • Junshi Wang (MAE): Computational Investigation of Lift Enhancement mechanism of Wing-Body Interaction in Hummingbird Forward Flight
      • Courtney Hill (Civil): Electrolytic Silver Release for Drinking Water Disinfection in Resource Limited Settings
      • Tannaz Farrahi (ECE): New Fabrication Techniques for NbTiN-Based Superconductor Junctions
      • Xinfei Guo (CS/CPE): Exploring Aging Issues in Low-Power Internet of Things (IoT) Applications
      • Ayedh Almutairi (Systems): Modeling and Simulation of Intermodal Freight Capacity Investments at a Major Container Port
    • Podium
      • Yuanyuan Ji (CHE): Modifying polymer dielectric properties to selectively control water/ion transport in polymeric membrane for clean water and energy generation
      • Elizabeth Pereira (BME): Single-Cell Misregulation of NRF2 in Basal-like Breast Cancer
      • Noelle Easter Co (MSE): Effect of Corrosion Features and Alloy Microstructure on the Fatigue Initiation and Crack Growth Behavior of AA 7050-T7451
      • Lee Gabler (MAE): Development of an Improved Kinematic Brain Injury Criterion for Diverse Head Impact Conditions
      • Kassandra Grimes (Civil): Integrated Algae-WWTP Systems Deliver Enhanced Nutrient Removal and Energy: Can they Also Reduce Downstream Antibiotic Resistance?
      • Ridwan Alam (ECE): Behavioral and Environmental Sensing and Intervention for Dementia Care
      • Ritambhara Singh (CPE/CS): DeepChrome+ : Predicting and Understanding Gene Regulation by Histone Modifications using a Deep Learning-based Attention Network
      • Abhiraj Deshpande (Systems): Investigation of Cognitive Gains in Object Assembly by using Augmented Reality
  • Judges
    • Abstract selection judges
      • Steven Allen (Post-doc, BME)
      • Juliana Passipieri (Post-doc, BME)
      • Redouane Aherrahrou (Post-doc, BME)
      • Vincent Yeh (Post-doc, BME)
      • Geoff Geise (Professor, CHE)
      • Arian Ghorbanpour (Post-doc, CHE)
      • Archie Holmes (Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, UVA; Professor, ECE)
      • Vinh Quang (Post-doc, CS)
      • Dimitris Diochnos (Post-doc, CS)
      • Valentina Avincola (Post-doc, MSE)
      • Ahmed Rasin (Post-doc, MSE)
      • Rekha Singh (Post-doc, Civil)
      • David Poulard (Post-doc, MAE)
      • Katarzyna Rawska (Research Specialist, MAE)
    • Poster judges
      • ​Nini Asikin (University Recruiting Lead, Booz Allen Hamilton)
      • Valentina Avincola (Research Associate, MSE)
      • Thomas Barker (Professor, BME)
      • Jason Brewster (iLab Incubator Program Director, UVA)
      • Chase Cornelison (Post-doc, BME)
      • Keivan Esfarjani (Professor, MAE)
      • Geoff Geise (Professor, CHE)
      • Jose Gomez (Lecturer, Civil)
      • Tarun Gupta (Google Access, Google)
      • David Kahler (Water and Health in Limpopo Fellow, UVA)
      • Leidy Klotz (Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Architecture, UVA)
      • David Perry (Corporate VP & Chief Global Business Development Officer, Northrup Grumman)
      • Andrew Rindos (Head, IBM RTP Center for Advanced Studies)
      • Mona Zebarjadi (Professor, MSE)
    • Podium judges
      • Amy Clobes (Director of Professional Development, UVA)
      • Doug Garson (Consultant of Higher Education, Garson Inc.)
      • Frances O’Sullivan (General Manager, IBM Global Business Services)
      • David Reichert (Global Business Development Manager, DuPont)
      • David Touve (Director, iLab, UVA)
  • Invited Speaker:
    • “The Art of Brag” Presentation by Jennifer Cornell, Principal, Cornell Consulting Services, LLC (Gallery)

12th UVA Engineering Research Symposium (UVERS 2016)

  • Friday, April 1st, 2016, Newcomb Hall
  • UVERS Organization Team
    • ​GESC Academic chair:
      • Mattew Diasio (MSE)
    • GESC Academic committee:
      • Katie Nunnelley (Civil), Leighann Larkin (Eng. Phys.), James Kammert (CHE), Sarah Bauer (Civil), Alex Mait (MAE), Dani Perez-Rapela (MAE), Ben Foley (CHE), Tamal Batabyal (ECE), Leslie Bland (MSE), Wei, Ritu, Sophia
  • Finalists
    • Poster
      • Joshua Heuslein (BME): Regulation of arteriogenesis by microRNAs and DNA methylation: a potential epigenetic approach for treating peripheral arterial disease
      • Thien-Khoi Phung (BME): Effect of Ablation Pattern on Mechanical Function in the Atrium: A Finite-Element Study
      • Kassandra Grimes (Civil): Navigating the Water-Energy Nexus - Integrated Algae Systems Simultaneously Deliver Clean Water and Clean Energy
      • Kathryn Nunnelley (Civil): A New Method for Nanosilver Application in Ceramic Water Filters
      • Joanna Adadevoh (CHE): Chemotaxis Increases the Residence Time Distribution of Bacteria in Granular Media Containing Distributed Contaminant Sources
      • Zachary Young (CHE): Aldol Condensation of Acetaldehyde over Titania, Hydroxyapatite and Magnesia
      • Bo Chunkun (CS): DNA Alignment Acceleration using Micron's Automata Processor
      • Deepyaman Maiti (ECE): Modified Nonlinear Decision Feedback Equalizer for Long-Haul Fiber-Optic Communications
      • Nazia Tabassum (ECE): Speckle Removal and Change Detection by Distance-Driven Anisotropic Diffusion of SAR Temporal Stacks
      • Bode-Oke Ayodeji (MAE): Hydrodynamics of Swimming with a Prosthetic Tail: New Science behind the Dolphin Tale
      • Ann Bailey (MAE): Development of an Injury Criterion for the Human Leg Exposed to High-Rate Axial Loads
      • Noelle Co (MSE): Galvanic Corrosion Induced Fatigue Crack Initiation and Propagation Behavior in AA7050-T7451
      • Zachary Harris (MSE): Do Hydrogen-Deformation Interactions Aid Intergranular Cracking?
      • Debajyoti Datta (Systems): An intelligent conversational agent for Interprofessional Educational Scenarios
      • Hassan Jafarzadeh (Systems): An innovative cooperative real-time path planning algorithm for autonomous vehicles
  • Judges
    • Abstract selection judges
      • Daniel Auger (BME)
      • Joshua Choi (CHE)
      • David Kahler (Civil)
      • Andrei Ramniceanu (Civil)
      • Min Ren (ECE)
      • Jimmy Burns (MSE)
      • Leonid Zhigilei (MSE)
      • David Poulard (MAE)
      • Bronek Gepner (MAE)
      • Cody Fleming (Systems)
    • Poster judges
      • Nam Lee (Post-doc, Naval Research Laboratories)
      • Amy Clobes (Director of Professional Development, UVA)
      • David Kahler (Center for Global Health Equity, UVA)
      • Keith Holland (Professor, James Madison University)
      • Robert Prins (Professor, James Madison University)
      • Michael Palmer (Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, UVA)
      • Ross Thomas (Visiting Professor of Engineering, UVA)