Past Winners

ResearchFest 2017: Winners

• Svetlana Pavlova Ikonomova (ChBE): Best Presentation Award for 'Enhancing Resistance of Histatin 5 to Proteolytic Degradation'
   
• Hossein Salami (ChBE): Best Graduate Poster Award for 'Analysis of Reaction Networks for Thin-film Deposition Processes'
   
• Jinan Oubaid (BioE): Best Undergraduate Poster Award for ' Engineered Multivalency for Improved HER3 Downregulation and Cancer Therapy'

2017 Judges:

• Bani Cipriano (PhD 'o7 ChBE): Product Development Manager, Prasidiux LLC
   
• Omar Ayyub (B.S. '10, BioE; PhD '14, BioE): Chief Scientific Officer, Archimedes Bioengineering
   
• Tony Ying (PhD, MSE): Material Engineer, U.S. Mint; Guest Research Associate, NIST

ResearchFest 2016: Winners

First Place and Overall Winner

• Kerry DeMella (ChBE)

Second Place by Department

• Emily Gosselin (BioE)
• Adam Pranda (MSE)
• Hossein Salami (ChBE)

Outstanding Undergraduate Award

• Shailaa Kummar (ChBE)

ResearchFest 2016: Our Organizers

This year, our graduate student organizers and staffers were:

• Svetlana Ikonomova, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Graduate Student Association (CGA)
• Viviana Monje-Galvan, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Graduate Student Association (CGA)
• Laura Bracaglia, Bioengineering Graduate Student Society (BGSS)
• Michael Van Order, Materials Science Graduate Society (MSGS)

ResearchFest 2015: Winners

First Place and Overall Winner

• Elizabeth Tennyson (MSE): “High resolution mapping of solar cell open-circuit voltage”

Second Place by Department

• Krystina Hess (BioE): “Self-Assembly of Cationic Polymers and Regulatory Nucleic Acids to Control Autoimmunity”
• Derrick Ko (ChBE): “Mesh-Independence Study in the Shear Gap of a Slot-and-Tooth Rotor-Stator Mixer”
• Joshua Taillon (MSE): “3D Microstructural Characterization of Cathode Degradation in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells using FIB/SEM”

ResearchFest 2015: Our Judges

This year, our judges were:

• Dr. Martha Wang (Ph.D’13, bioengineering), consultant at JWE, LLC.
• Dr. Joshua Silverstein (Ph.D.’12, bioengineering), FDA
• Gregory Hitz (Ph.D. candidate,materials science and engineering)

The departments and our graduate societies would like to thank all of our judges for their generous donation of their time and efforts.

ResearchFest 2015: Our Organizers

This year, our graduate student organizers and staffers were:

• Svetlana Ikonomova, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Graduate Student Association (CGA)
• Viviana Monje-Galvan, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Graduate Student Association (CGA)
• Laura Bracaglia, Bioengineering Graduate Student Society (BGSS)
• Michael Van Order, Materials Science Graduate Society (MSGS)

ResearchFest 2014: Winners

First Place

• Tanya Gordonov (BioE): "Electronic Attenuation of Biochemical Signal Generation"

Second Place (3-way Tie)

• Sheryl Chocron (BioE): "Towards a Portable Device for Management of Schizophrenia Treatment"
• Anthony Melchiorri (BioE): "3D Printing Biodegradable Polymeric Vascular Grafts"
• Amin Zargar (BioE): "'Bacterial Vacuums' that Block Communication and Reduce Virulence"

ResearchFest 2014: Our Judges

This year, our judges were:

• Dr. Angela Fu (Ph.D. '13, bioengineering), Research Fellow, FDA
• Rich Suchoski (M.S. '13, materials science and engineering)

The departments and our graduate societies would like to thank all of our judges for their generous donation of their time and efforts.
 

ResearchFest 2014: Our Organizers

This year, our graduate student organizers and staffers were:

• Andrew Quinn, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Graduate Student Association (CGA)
• Elizabeth Tennyson, Materials SCince and Engineering Graduate Society (MSGS)

ResearchFest 2013: The Winners!

Overall Winner:  

• Wei W. Yu
  "Paper SERS Devices for Chemical Detection and Medical Diagnostics"
  Advisor: Dr. Ian White
  Fischell Department of Bioengineering

The best presentation and poster from a representative of each department were also honored: 

• Janet Hsu
  "Interaction of ICAM-1-Targeted Polymer Nanocarriers with Different Brain Cell Types in Culture"
  Advisor: Dr. Silvia Muro
  Fischell Department of Bioengineering
• Wenbo Zhou
  "Morphological Changes to Surface Attached Bacterial Spores Subjected to Sub-second Thermal Stress"
  Advisor: Dr. Michael Zachariah
  Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Jiayu Wan
  "Intercalated Optoelectronics of 2D Materials"
  Advisor: Dr. Liangbing Hu
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering

ResearchFest 2013: Our Judges

This year, our judges were:

• Dr. Milind Ajinkya, Chemical Engineer, Exxon (retired)
• Dr. Tieren Gao, Research Associate, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Dr. Angela Fu (Ph.D. '13, bioengineering), Research Fellow, FDA

The departments and our graduate societies would like to thank all of our judges for their generous donation of their time and efforts.
 

ResearchFest 2013: Our Organizers

This year, our graduate student organizers and staffers were:

• Anthony Melchiorri and Amin Zargar, Bioengineering Graduate Student Society (BGSS)
• Chanda Arya and Andrew Quinn, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Graduate Student Association (CGA)
• Richard Sukoski, Materials Science Graduate Society (MSGS)

ResearchFest 2012: The Winners!

Left to right: Janet Hsu, Chia-Ying (Winnie) Chiang, Amy Marquardt, and Neville Fernandes.

Overall Winner:  

• Amy Marquardt
  "Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) Films as Diffusion Barriers for Silver Artifacts"
  Advisor: Dr. Ray Phaneuf
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Runners-Up (In Alphabetical Order):   

• Chia-Ying (Winnie) Chiang
  "Biological Templates for Anti-reflecting Surface & Current Collectors for Photoelectrochemical Cell Applications"
  Advisor: Dr. Sheryl Ehrman
  Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Neville Fernandes
  "Creating Polymer Hydrogel 'Hybrids' Combining Gels of Distinct Properties"
  Advisor: Dr. Srinivasa Raghavan
  Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Janet Hsu
  "Enhanced Kidney and Heart Delivery of α-Galactosidase by Modulating Enzyme Load and Carrier Bulk-Concentration of ICAM-1-Targeted Nanocarriers"
  Advisor: Dr. Silvia Muro
  Fischell Department of Bioengineering

ResearchFest 2012: Our Judges

This year, our judges were:

• Dr. Colin Hebert (Ph.D. '08, bioengineering)
  Dr. Hebert works at Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C. where he is developing antibody and label-free detection technologies.'
• Erin LaBarre (B.S./M.S. '06, materials science and engineering)
  Ms. LaBarre works at Johns Hopkins University in the Materials Division of the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL).
• Dr. Ivan Lee (Ph.D. '01, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  Dr. Lee works at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in the Catalysis and Fuel Chemistry Energy and Power Division.

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our judges for their time, participation, and feedback!

ResearchFest 2012: Our Organizers

This year, our graduate student organizers and staffers were:

• Stephen Banik, President, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Graduate Student Association (CGA);
• Rasa Ghaffarian, Bioengineering Graduate Student Society (BGSS) President;
• Rich Suchoski, President, Materials Science Graduate Society (MSGS); and
• CGA members Chanda Arya, Emily Chimiak, Kevin Diehn, Will Gibbons, and Annie Lu.

ResearchFest 2011: The Winners!

Kevin Diehn: "New Routes to Reverse Self-Assembly of Nanostructures
Via Commercially Available Lipids and Simple Salts."
Advisor: Srinivasa Raghavan.

Dwight Hunter: "Discovery of Giant Magnetostriction in Co_1-xFe_x Thin Film Alloys."
Advisors: Ichiro Takeuchi and Manfred Wuttig.

Yuting Zheng: "Measuring Carbon Flow Patterns In a Marine Diatom
and its Implications for Metabolic Engineering."
Advisor: Ganesh Sriram.

ResearchFest 2011: Our Judges

This year, our judges were alumni Oluwatosin Ogunsola (left, Ph.D. '05, chemical engineering) and Vivek Dwivedi (right, Ph.D. '10, chemical engineering). We'd like to take this opportunity to thank them both for their time, participation, and feedback!

ResearchFest 2010: The Winners!

First Place: Jane Cornett (MSE), "Thermoelectric Figure of Merit
Calculations for Nanowires–Moderate Confinement Regime."
Advisor: Oded Rabin (MSE).

News Story About Jane

Second Place: Pushkar Pendse (ChBE), "Probing Sugar Transport through
Lactose Permease of E. coli using Molecular Simulations."
Advisor: Jeffery Klauda (ChBE)

Third Place: Laleh Emdadi (ChBE), "Dispersion Polymerization at Low Temperature:
A Route to Encapsulate Biologically-Active Materials."
Advisor: Kyu Yong Choi (ChBE)

News Story About Pushkar and Laleh

Our 2010 Judges

Our 2010 Organizers