Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships
Fall Research Expo 2023

Over 350 undergraduates are eager to share their research with you, so enjoy learning about the array of opportunities embraced by students at one of the world’s leading research universities.

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September 18 2023 - 5:00 PM - September 18 2023 - 8:00 PM
Ann Vernon-Grey
Eric O Ryu
  • Felipe Flores Cruz
Justice James Wilson Biography
Sam Charney
An Analytic Model for Galaxy Cluster Shocks
Joy Gong
A Meta-Learned Neural Network Model of the Hippocampus with Brain-like Sparsity and Learning Rate Patterns
Beatrice Han
Optimizing Cytokine Cocktails in Pancreatic Islet Organoids to Investigate Maturation-Related Vulnerability to Demise from Pancreatic Islet-Directed Autoimmunity
Sydney Sun
What Emotion Do You Hear? Paving the Way of Music Emotion Recognition
Anna Vazhaeparambil
  • Eda Orakci
Teamwork Decoded: Developing Virtual Experiments to Analyze Group Dynamics
Kunwoo Kim
Thermal Flow Simulation and Cooling Design Optimization for a Formula SAE Electric Car Battery Pack
Ryan Lim
Investigating RASA2 Overexpression to Reduce CAR T Cell On-Target Off-Tumor Toxicity
Siri Dandu
  • Prishna Martinez
Cell-Free DNA Methylation as a Biomarker of Malignant vs. Benign Lung Nodules: Cross-Validation of 2022 and 2023 Patient Cohorts
Madison A Shelton
Understanding the Metabolic Pathway of Malaria Through HAD 3
Benjamin Cohen
BEYOND GUANTÁNAMO: RESTORING THE RULE OF LAW TO THE LAW OF WAR
Terrance Ji
Matching for Evaluating Dynamic Treatment Regimes
Rajat Ramesh
Investigation of p300 Catalytic Activity through Core Domain Variation
Prishna Martinez
  • Siri Dandu
  • Prishna Martinez
Cell-Free DNA Methylation as a Biomarker of Malignant vs. Benign Lung Nodules: Cross-Validation of 2022 and 2023 Patient Cohorts ​
Caroline Solus
Determining the Shortest Length of Time for EEG Power Measure
Fatima Seisay
Screening of Simple Hydrocarbons as Anesthetic Antagonists
Madeline Hatola
Evaluating AED Access Across Pennsylvania School Districts: Senate Bill 375 Economic and Cost Analysis
Rawan Rabayah
Theoretical Exploration into Atmospherically Significant Oxidative Pathways
Sarah Ortiz-Polanco
Investigating Roles of a Mobile Transcription Factor on Leave Polarity and Shape
Iris Horng
Algorithmic Generation of DNA Self-Assembly Graphs
Austin Pothikamjorn
GLP-1R Activation Increases Neural Activity in Central Amygdala GABAergic Neurons
Rhea Bakshi
Impact of Targeted Inhibition of TGFβ Receptor on TGFβ-induced Fibroblast Differentiation and Matrix Remodeling
Cassidy Schuman
  • Evan Grove
Pediatric Automatic Defacing to Protect Patient Privacy
Aravind Krishnan
The BLM helicase enables Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres to allow cancer cells to achieve telomerase-independent cellular immortality
Title Sort descending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Broker Bankruptcies in the London Stock Exchange during the 1820s Nicholas Angellino
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Yamin Phyu Phyu
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Marc Flandreau
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Treaty-making, Colonial Policies, and Indigenous Subjugation in New South Wales and Aotearoa (1788-1840) Anjie Wang
  • Emma Hart
Gelfman International Summer Fund
“Pragmatic” Politics of Dispossession and Institutionalized Knowledge Among the Ayta Magbukun Vernon Wells College of Arts & Sciences
  • Andrew Carruthers
Gelfman International Summer Fund
"Log Kya Kahenge”: Understanding Perceptions of Risk, Genetic Testing, and Breast Cancer within the South Asian Diaspora Simran Rajpal
  • Robert Aronowitz
Jumpstart for Juniors
3D Anisotropic Scattering Transformation Michael Jacob
Sanjit Kobla
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Bhuvnesh Jain
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
A candidate-based screen to identify genes involved in sleep maturation Hayle Kim College of Arts & Sciences
  • Matthew Kayser
  • Jeffrey Rosa
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
A Case Study of Digital Humanities: David Oppenheim's Printed Texts and the History of Jewish Books Hannah Shumsky College of Arts & Sciences
  • Joshua Teplitsky
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
A Case Study on the Federal Reserve & Silicon Valley Bank Lisel Ndrecka College of Arts & Sciences
  • Cary Coglianese
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
A Machine Learning-Based Approach to Real-Time Anomaly Detection in pp Collisions at the LHC Anirudh Bharadwaj Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Dylan Rankin
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
A Meta-Learned Neural Network Model of the Hippocampus with Brain-like Sparsity and Learning Rate Patterns Joy Gong College of Arts & Sciences
  • Anna Schapiro
Other
A Phase-field Model Using Deep Neural Operator Caroline Chen Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Lu Lu
  • Anran Jiao
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
A Study of Patient Digital Usage Habits, Access, and Attitudes at an Eye Hospital in Southern India Sage Leland
  • Dhivya Ramasamy
University Scholars
Achieving Near-Atmospheric Levitation of Micron-Thick Materials Josh Leshinskie Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Igor Bargatin
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Activation of endogenous CeA -> NAc projections attenuates cocaine reinstatement Suraj Neelamagam College of Arts & Sciences
  • Heath Schmidt
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Adherence To A Meal Plan On a Daytime vs Delayed Eating Schedule Maria Wahba
  • Kelly Allison
US National Institutes of Health Grants
AI in the Administrative State Ella Sohn College of Arts & Sciences
  • Cary Coglianese
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Algorithmic Generation of DNA Self-Assembly Graphs Iris Horng College of Arts & Sciences
  • Cory Johnson
  • Amanda Harsy
NSF-REU
All in One — Concurrent Genetic and Epigenetic Sequencing Jojo Zhu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Rahul Kohli
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Alternate Choice & Social Integration at Work Victor Kogo Wharton
  • Samir Nurmohamed
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
An Analytic Model for Galaxy Cluster Shocks Sam Charney College of Arts & Sciences
  • Bhuvnesh Jain
Other
An Assessment of Need for Automatic External Defibrillators by Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Region in Pennsylvania Public Schools Maliha Rahman College of Arts & Sciences
  • Victoria Vetter
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
An in vitro study of scaffolds for cartilage repair Sophia Klessel Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Riccardo Gottardi
  • Hannah Bonelli
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
An independent replicability study of MesoNet for automated segmentation and landmark identification in functional widefield optical imaging in mice Aurora Yuan College of Arts & Sciences
  • Brian R. White
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Analysis of Two Neurons Underlying Sickness Sleep Behavior in C. Elegans Jason Chen College of Arts & Sciences
  • David Raizen
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant