On Friday, Nov. 15, graduate ambassadors from the College of Engineering hosted the annual Engineering Research Symposium in the Digital Research and Transformation Hub on the Innovation Campus. The symposium was from 2 to 5 p.m. and consisted of a poster competition that enabled students to showcase their research projects, develop their presentation skills and compete for certificates with cash prizes. Following the symposium, there was a presentation of awards and dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. The winners were selected within three categories and are listed below.
Proficient
The Proficient category was for doctoral students with three or more years of advanced study and research experience, with first place earning a $1,000 prize, second place earning a $500 prize and third place earning a $250 prize.
- First place: Ali Asgari, “Physics-Informed Artificial Intelligence For Failure Prediction of Spacecraft”
- Second place: Adrian Arustei, “Spacecraft trajectory optimization using adjoint sensitivities”
- Third place: Sangar Shanthanam, “A Multi Criteria Load Prioritization Framework To Minimize Social, Technical and Economic Losses during Major Power Outages”
Emerging
The Emerging category was for master’s degree students and doctoral students with one and a half to three years of study, with first place earning a $750 prize, second place earning a $400 prize and third place earning a $200 prize.
- First place: Md Raihan Uddin, “Enhancing Scalability of Heterogeneous Systems using Tiny Transformer and Attention Based Multi Agent Proximal Policy Optimization”
- Second place: Adelyn Heuer, “Modeling Electric-Vehicle Infrastructure Impact Using an Agent based Simulation Approach”
- Third place: Reilly Jensen, “Detecting and Classifying Cerebral Hemorrhage Growth Using Radio Frequency Resonance and Deep Learning”
Novice
The Novice category was for bachelor’s degree students and doctoral students in the first year and a half of study, with first place earning a $500 prize, second place earning a $250 prize and third place earning a $150 prize.
- First place: Sachinth Viththarachchige, “Social Equity Based Optimal Power Flow Framework to Hedge Against Price Events”
- Second place: Elmira Salari, “Towards Generalizable ECG Classification with Large Language Models and Domain Adaptation”
- Third place: Mark Angelo Ronaldo Anacin, “Enhancing Noise Robustness in Anti-Spoofing Systems using Speech Enhancement and Multitasking Models”
In addition to the above, there were two Scholarly Presence Awards presented to College of Engineering departments. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering won an award for the highest student representation in the competition, and the Department of Industrial, Systems and Manufacturing Engineering won an award for the highest faculty representation at the competition.