| Time |
Research Project Title |
Presenter(s), Advisor(s) |
| 10 – 10:05 a.m. |
Welcome – Vice President for Research, UDC |
Dr. Victor McCrary |
| 10:05 – 10:10 a.m. |
Welcome and Introduction - Event Coordinator |
Dr. Esther Ososanya |
| 10:10 – 10:15 a.m. |
Welcome – Professor and Chair, Civil Engineering Associate Dean of Research |
Dr. Pradeep Behera |
| 10:15– 10:20 a.m. |
Welcome – Chief Academic Officer, UDC |
Dr. April Massey |
| 10:20 – 10:30 a.m. |
OpenSim based Workflow for Estimation of Joint Load Muscle Activation in Reduced Gravities. |
Dr. Ji Chen |
| 10:30 – 10:40 a.m. |
Comparison of Joint angles calculated using VICON Nexus workflow and OpenSim workflow. |
Dr. Ji Chen |
| 10:40 – 10:50 a.m. |
Monte Carlo Simulation of Spintronics Devices |
Juan Hernandez, Christopher D’Angelo, Omari Kirkland
Advisor: Pawan Tyagi |
| 10:50 – 11 a.m. |
The impact of dog walking on gait kinematics and variability. |
Samatha Morrison and Michael Bennett
Advisor: Dr. Alex Peebles |
| 11 – 11:10 a.m. |
Effects of backpain history on jump-landing biomechanics. |
Maurice McKenzie and Rukudzo Chikowero
Advisor: Dr. Alex Peebles |
| 11:10 – 11:20 a.m. |
Engaging Female Students in Computing. |
Onyinye Ukeneru-Steve
Advisor: Dr. Lily Liang |
| 11:20 – 11:30 a.m. |
Multilayer Nanoscale Molecular spintronics |
Babu Sankhi, Hayden Brown
Advisor: Pawan Tyagi |
| 11:30 – 11:40 a.m. |
Deep Learning-Driven Predictive Frame Generation. |
Carlos Sac Mendoza
Advisor: Dr. Lily Liang |
| 11:40 – 11:50 a.m. |
Thermal Conductivity measurement of Lumber materials using both experimental and simulation approach to support the development of Highly Efficient Multi-Effect Drying Systems. |
Patrick Adegbaye
Advisor: Dr. Jiajun Xu |
| 11:50 – 12 p.m. |
Investigating the effect of changing the thickness of VO2 and BaF2 thin films on emissivity for passive thermal control on spacecrafts. |
Mohamed Ibrahim
Advisor: Dr. Jiajun Xu |
| 12- 12:10 p.m. |
Low-Temperature Sintering Study for Aerosol Jet Printed Flexible Electronics Across Diverse Substrates. |
Mariona Franco
Advisor: Dr. Jiajun Xu |
| 12:10 - 12:20 p.m. |
Blast Plate Empirical Modeling to Characterize Lithium-ion thermal runaway phenomenon: Cell Venting and Ejection. |
Mawussi Nzonou
Advisor: Dr. Jiajun Xu |
| 12:20 - 12:30 p.m. |
Atomic Level simulation of the atomic layer deposition process. |
Tanjee Afreen
Advisor: Dr. Jiajun Xu |
| 12:30 - 12:40 p.m. |
A Novel Approach to Deepfake Detection using LIME. |
Sandra Delancy
Advisor: Dr. Lily Liang
|
| 12:40 - 12:50 p.m. |
Enhancing Cybersecurity Risk Assesment through Machine Learning. |
Kymani Brown
Advisor: Anteneh Girma |
| 12:50 – 1 p.m. |
Securing the Future Healthcare: Machine Learning-Driven Threat Detection for loT Devices in Medical Environments. |
Abdoulaye Berry, John Irungu
Advisor: Anteneh Girma |
| 1 – 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
|
| 1:30 – 1:40 p.m. |
Financial Information Systems Security Manager: A Role Recommendation to Implement & Meet Cybersecurity Baseline for Government Information Systems. |
Lionel Stephen Castro, Jr.
Advisor: Anteneh Girma |
| 1:40 - 1:50 p.m. |
Monitoring Threat Intelligence and Analysis of Cybersecurity Risk and Privacy Using Artificial Intelligence. |
Antione Searcy
Advisor: Anteneh Girma |
| 1:50 – 2 p.m. |
AI-Driven Prediction of High-Risk Protected Health Information Breaches. |
Chidera Igwebuike
Advisor: Anteneh Girma |
| 2-2:10 p.m. |
Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting for Wireless and Remote Sensory Monitoring. |
Ervin Graddick
Advisors: Dr. Esther Ososanya and Behjat Forouzandeh |
| 2:10-2:20 p.m. |
Embedded System Development using FPGA. |
Paul Wilson
Advisor: Drs. Esther Ososanya and Wagdy Mahmoud |
| 2:20-2:30 p.m. |
Online Battery Power Monitoring System: Energy Monitoring Through Cloud Services. |
Kevin Leatham
Advisors: Drs. Esther Ososanya and Harish Panth |
| 2:30-2:40 p.m. |
Wave Share Robotic |
Temeche Sisaye
Drs. Esther Ososanya and Harish Panth |
| 2:40-2:50 p.m. |
A Radio Frequency (RF) Signal Processing Technique using Artificial Intelligence as a Proposed Solution for Drone Detection in Cyber Physical Infrastructure. |
John Irungu
Advisor: Anteneh Girma |
| 2:50-3 p.m. |
Adapting Key's cubic convolution kernel to interpolate non-periodic, solenoidal vector fields on regular grids. |
Ludwig C. Nitsche |
| 3-3:10 p.m. |
Eco-friendly Solutions: Experimental Study of Sustainable Additives for Soil and Slope Stability. |
Rahman, Md Razibur
Advisors: Dr. Ujwalkumar Patil and Dr. Denis Max |
| 3:10-3:20 p.m. |
Quantum BioAI |
Khadijah Talib |
| 3:20-3:30 p.m. |
Sustainable Agriculture: Life Cycle Assesment and GHG Emissions Reduction in Hydroponic vs. Conventional Farming. |
Sudhir Yadav (presenter) Medyaf AI. Roushan, Frederick Rischmiller, Komol Hassan, Nejat Erkan, Harris Trobman, Dr. Peter May, Juliet Eden, Marisa Finucan, Micheal Choi Advisor: Dr. Hossain Azam |
| 3:30-3:40 p.m. |
Optimization and Exploring Sustainability of Hydroponics/Aquaponics and Agrivoltaics. |
Medyaf AI
Roushan (presenter) Sudhir Yadav, Frederick Rischmiller, Komol Hassan, Nejat Erkan, Andrew Blunk, Elshan Baloghlanov, Dr. Pat Millner
Advisor: Dr. Hossain Azam |
| 3:40-3:50 p.m. |
Enhancing Settling and Clarifier Capacity through Physical Selection and SRT Decoupling. |
Maria Camila Mendoza (presenter) Arame Diop, Sakib Ahmad, Yuang Li, Nam Ngo, Hossain Azam, Haydee De Clippeleir
Advisor: Dr. Hossain Azam |
| 3:50-4 p.m. |
Sustainable Agriculture: Life Cycle Assessment and GHG Emissions Reduction in Hydroponic vs. Conventional Farming |
Sudhir Yadav (presenter)
Medyaf AI. Roushan, Frederick Rischmiller, Komol Hassan, Nejat Erkan, Harris Trobman, Dr. Peter May, Juliet Eden, Marisa Finucan, Michael Choi
Advisor: Dr. Hossain Azam |
| 4-4:10 p.m. |
Optimization and Exploring Sustainability of Hydroponics/Aquaponics and Agrivoltaics |
Medyaf AI Roushan (presenter) Sudhir Yadav, Frederick Rischmiller, Komol Hassan, Nejat Erkan, Andrew Blunk, Elshan Baloghlanov, Dr. Pat Millner
Advisor: Dr. Hossain Azam |
| 4:10-4:20 p.m. |
Lesson Learned from Startup PdNA Pilot Scale with Methanol and Fermentation |
Md Sadikul Islam
Advisor: Dr. Hossain Azam |
| 4:20-4:30 p.m. |
Enhancing Settling and Clarifier Capacity through Physical Selection and SRT Decoupling |
Maria Camila Mendoza (presenter) Arame Diop, Sakib Ahmad, Yuang Li, Nam Ngo, Haydee De Clippeleir
Advisor: Dr. Hossain Azam |
| Poster Presentations & Project Demos |
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Concurrent Sessions:
1:30-3 p.m.
3:30-4:30 p.m.
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Design and Testing of a land rover for space exploration. |
Cheick Dore, Patrick Ngako, and Danny Seguintaah
DC Space Grant Consortium |
| Methodology development to autonomously control rover teams for space exploration. |
Viviana Puebla-Napier, Justin An, and Julio Ramirez-Reyes
DC Space Grant Consortium |
| Drone Projects |
Axel Orellana, Jeremy Mejia, Tchindro Sossa, Ryan Tinney, Kevin Leatham.
Sponsor: Innovative Engineering Consortium (IEC) 2-to-4 Scholarship Program. |
| Introduction to Engineering 2024 Design Project |
Dr. Alex Peebles |
UDC’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is driving technological progress through research that addresses critical challenges in cybersecurity, renewable energy, artificial intelligence (AI) and more. As a key player in UDC’s strategic plan to further its role as a research and innovation hub addressing the District’s critical needs, SEAS is expanding its capabilities and interdisciplinary collaboration, and preparing students to lead in the ever-expanding STEM fields.