COEIT Student Summer Project Awards

Student Name: Sharddha Baral; Major/Area of study: Computer Science; Faculty Mentors: Sudip Chakraborty and Josephine Namayanja; Project Title: Detecting the Changes in the Habitats of Antarctic Penguins from Satellite Images using Artificial Intelligence

Student Name: Shrikant Bhatnagar; Major/Area of study: Computer Engineering; Faculty Mentor: Keke Chen; Project Title: Failure-Aware Episodic Memory for Autonomous Penetration-Testing Agents

Student Name: William Bowman; Major/Area of study: Computer Science – Cybersecurity; Faculty Mentor: Enis Golaszewski; Project Title: Formal-Methods Security Analysis of SEAL

Student Name: Damien Holland; Major/Area of study: Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics; Faculty Mentor: Ankit Goel; Project Title: Modeling and Simulation of a Two-Legged Walking Robot under Hybrid Contact Dynamics 

Student Name: Xavier Isangedighi; Major/Area of study: Chemical Engineering; Faculty Mentor: Christopher Hennigan; Project Title: Modeling the Dispersion of Emissions from the Bresco Waste Incinerator in Baltimore Using Aermod

Student Name: Josephine Kuo; Major/Area of study: Mechanical Engineering; Faculty Mentor: Jorge Almodovar; Project Title: Biodegradable Microneedle Patch

Student Name: Ololade Lawrence; Major/Area of study: Chemical Engineering; Faculty Mentor: Mark Marten; Project Title:  How cell wall genetics and processing conditions impact the strength of mycelial materials

Student Name: Nikita Lobo; Major/Area of study: Computer Science; Faculty Mentor: Jamie Gurganus; Project Title: Gamified Education Impact Model

Student Name: Josh McGraw; Major/Area of study: Mechanical Engineering; Faculty Mentor: Janelle Clark; Project Title: Vestibular Stimulation Seat for Motion Sickness Mitigation and Neurodivergent Sensory Regulation

Student Name: Rebecca Mekasha; Major/Area of study: Computer Engineering; Faculty Mentor: Ergun Simsek; Project Title: Design and Optimization of Inverse Taper Edge Couplers for Efficient Fiber-to-Chip Coupling

Student Name: Donovan Peyton; Major/Area of study: Mechanical Engineering; Faculty Mentor: Molly Mollica; Project Title: Automating Traction Force Microscopy: A Machine Learning Pipeline for High-Throughput Platelet Mechanobiology

Student Name: Aima Waheed; Major/Area of study: Computer Science; Faculty Mentor: Dong Li; Project Title: Earphone Acoustic Sensing for Cardiovascular Monitoring: A Literature Survey and Prototype Development

Read more about the COEIT Student Summer Projects (CSSP) Program.

Undergraduate

Student Name: Bharg Barot; Department: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering; Faculty Mentor: Roberto Yus; Project Title: IoT Foundation Models via Synthetic Sensor Generation through Behavior‑Driven Digital Twin

Student Name: Emily Piazza; Department: Chemical, Biochemical & Environmental Engineering; Faculty Mentor: Lee Blaney; Project Title: Development of hybrid anion-exchange resins for selective removal of (ultra)short-chain PFAS

Student Name: Julia Chapman; Department: Mechanical Engineering; Faculty Mentor: Ankit Goel; Project Title: Data-Driven Optimization of an Energy Harvester

Student Name: Khoi Nguyen; Department: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering; Faculty Mentor: Adam Bargteil; Title: Machine Learning for Near-real-time Validation in a Wildfire Digital Twin

Student Name: Matthew Quintanilla; Department: Chemical, Biochemical & Environmental Engineering; Faculty Mentor: Mark Marten; Project Title: The Impact of Cell Wall Strength on Mycelial Material Mechanical Properties

Master’s

Student Name: Srikar Sistla; Department: Information Systems; Faculty Mentor: Michael Brown; Project Title: Drug-Induced Autoimmunity Prediction Model using Ensemble Machine Learning

Student Name: Trevor Whitfield; Department: Mechanical Engineering; Faculty Mentor: Molly Mollica; Project Title: Platelet Contraction Under Macrofluidic Simulation of Vessel Shear Rates

Doctorate

Student Name: Muhammad Hasan Ferdous; Department: Information Systems; Faculty Mentor: Md. Osman Gani; Project Title: Generalized Decomposition-based Causal Discovery (G-DCD)

Student Name: Pratik Shukla; Department: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering; Faculty Mentor: Milton Halem; Project Title: DUNE2: A Physics-Informed Deep Learning Model for High-Resolution, Long-Lead ENSO Forecasting

Student Name: Zahid Hassan Tushar; Department: Information Systems; Faculty Mentor: Sanjay Purushotham; Project Title: Deep-AeroCloud: Deep Learning-Based Retrieval of Aerosol and Cloud Properties from PACE-OCI Observations