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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Start Time: September 18 2023 - 5:00 PM
End Time: September 18 2023 - 8:00 PM
Ann Vernon-Grey
Saurabh Mallela
Towards Automated Epilepsy Diagnosis
Eshu Venkataswamy
Individual Rats’ Stress Coping Mechanisms and Extinction of Fear
Aryan Roy
Using Deviance Residuals to Improve the FIBERS algorithm
Ethan D Abraham
Enrichment of Chiral Vibrational Modes in Chiral Structures
Daniella Oluwadamilola Oyenuga
Neurobiology of Stress Resilience
Caroline Chen
A Phase-field Model Using Deep Neural Operator
Simon G Roling
  • Minnie Kim
  • Allison Mi
Assessing Smartphone Use in Ghana
Luiza Louback Fontes
Fostering Belonging and Inclusivity Through Multilingual and Multimodal Writing Practices: An Exploration Within an International Context
Eric Tal Myzelev
Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Tracking the Hemodynamics of Dissected Aorta
Celine Adomakoh
Identification of Metagenomic Determinants of Disease Severity in Children from the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health(PERCH) Study
Aisha Uwamwezi
  • Willa Xun
Usability Testing for the Adolescent Health Questionnaire: Exploring Confidentiality and Health Behavior Disclosure
Harley A Haas
Subanesthetic ketamine’s antidepressant potential: In vivo recording of a mouse memory circuit
Madeeha Mirza
GAD, MDD, and COM : Threat and Reward Response in Daily Life
Jenny Z Li
Exploration of Feature Selection Strategies in DNA Methylome-based Cancer Classification
Alice Wu
Spectral Energy Distribution Modeling for the Roman Space Telescope
Millie Gu
Optimizing Tools to Facilitate Deliberation Research
Kayleigh Mooney
Community Engagement Neuroscience
Anthony Senouillet
  • Anthony Senouillet
Examining the Role of Enhancers in Regulating Nuclear-Content-to-Cytoplasm Ratio-Dependent Genes in Drosophila Embryos
Vernon Wells
“Pragmatic” Politics of Dispossession and Institutionalized Knowledge Among the Ayta Magbukun
Lilian Li
Utilizing AI-based 2D Segmentation for 3D Medical Imaging Analysis
Kerry Zhao
Discovering Cosmological Relations With Symbolic Machine Learning
Ananya Varshneya
Household Finance Policy Research in South Africa
Anirudh Bharadwaj
A Machine Learning-Based Approach to Real-Time Anomaly Detection in pp Collisions at the LHC
Liam Phillips
In Search of New Russian Readership: Communal Experience and Literary Form in Mikhail Kuzmin's Wings
Title Sort descending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Cell-Free DNA Methylation as a Biomarker of Malignant vs. Benign Lung Nodules: Cross-Validation of 2022 and 2023 Patient Cohorts ​ Prishna Martinez
Siri Dandu
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Prishna Martinez
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Erica L. Carpenter, MBA, PhD
  • Jeffrey C. Thompson, MD
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Cellular Distribution of E-Cadherin upon the Deletion of RhoA in Keratinocytes Jane Yang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dana Graves
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Characterization of alternatively-spliced isoforms in the PERK-coding gene EIF2AK3 under ER stress Avinash Singh College of Arts & Sciences
  • Elena Alvarez Periel
  • Kelly Jordan-Sciutto
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Characterizing Clinician Emotional Reactions and Anxiety When Working with Suicidal Patients Annalisa Fang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Emily Becker-Haimes
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Characterizing The Accretion Behavior Of AB Aurigae, A Potential Young Planet Host Star Edward Lopez Velazquez College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Lauren Biddle
  • Dr. Shardha Jogee
Other
Characterizing the Behavior of HVSS for EOS Rohan Panday Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Joseph Kroll
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Characterizing the Efficacy of a GLP-1R Agonist to Reduce Cocaine Seeking in Female Rats Austin Pothikamjorn College of Arts & Sciences
  • Heath D. Schmidt
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Chargino Pair RPV Decay to Higgs Boson and Leptonic Tau Joshua George College of Arts & Sciences
  • Evelyn Thomson
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Climate Risk, Pollution, and Childhood Inequalities in Low- and Middle-income Countries Nayab Khurshaidi
Emily Roberts
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Emily Hannum
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes in Pediatric Hypertension Using EHR Data Nikhita Pabbaraju College of Arts & Sciences
  • Levon Utidjian
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Cognitive Aging in Chile and the Context of Chile's Indigenous Population Zarah Meek
  • Irma Elo
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Communication: Mechanics of Conversation Evelyn Huang
Michael Chen
Wharton
  • Maurice Schweitzer
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Community Benefits Agreements and the Quest for Equitable Urban Development Joey Jung College of Arts & Sciences
  • Elaine Simon
Jumpstart for Juniors, Other
Community Engagement Neuroscience Kayleigh Mooney College of Arts & Sciences
  • Loretta M. Flanagan-Cato
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Comparison of Perihematomal Edema (PHE) around Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH) on CT versus MRI scans Sana Yooseph College of Arts & Sciences
  • Jens Witsch
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Computational Comparative Institutional Analysis Across Political and Macroeconomic Domains Julian Weng Wharton, Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Leandro S. Pongeluppe
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Consonant Clarity in Infant-Directed Speech Logan Fleming
  • Daniel Swingley
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Consonant Clarity in Infant-Directed Speech Lucy Fekade
  • Daniel Swingley
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Correcting the stiffness calibration for optical traps Jason Wang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Tobias Baumgart
Other
Correlating the Effect of the Size and Location of TBI Induced Lesions on the Likelihood of Developing Epilepsy Through Functional Connectivity Mapping Shivek Narang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. James J Gugger
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
CURED: Classification Using Restriction Enzyme Diagnostics Elizabeth Qian Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Ahmed Moustafa
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Deciphering the Genetic Code behind Single-Cell Chromatin Accessibility-- Interpreting scBasset: a Sequence-based Convolutional Neural Network Tianhao Luo Wharton, College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Peter Koo
Other
Delineating the Clinical and Genetic Spectrum of Speech Disorders in 52,143 Individuals Jan Magielski College of Arts & Sciences
  • Ingo Helbig
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Depression Prevalence Among US Women on Welfare: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis Miette Gourlay
Dara Jih-Cook
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Jacqueline Corcoran, PhD
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program