2023 Student Project Showcase

2023 29 B2
Analysis of the Mechanism of Filopodia-based WNT1 Transport
By: Amayrani Villegas-Parra
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kai (Laura) Burrus

2023 30 B2
Synaptic Protein Localization in the Prenatal Development of the Rod Photoreceptor Cell and Its Changes in the Leucoraja erinacea Retina
By: Beatriz Rubio
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ivan A. Anastassov

2023 31 B2
The Effects of Lithium Toxicity on Vacuole Function and Dynamics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
By: Daniel Knapp, Gabriela Turcios
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mark Chan

2023 32 B2
Metagenomics-Based Analysis of Population-Level Genomic Variation in Hot Spring Microbial Communities
By: Daniel Hogan, Andre's Williams
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. José R. De La Torre

2023 33 B2
Systematic Nitric Oxide Signals Cardiac Progenitors During Early Cardiogenesis in the Chick Embryo
By: Danielle Peterson
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wilfred Denetclaw

2023 34 B2
Defining the Anatomy of Rod Pathways in the Simplex Retina of L. erinacea
By: David Umbertus
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ivan A. Anastassov

2023 35 B2
Role of miR-190 on Cell Fate Determination During Mitosis in Drosophila Neuroblasts
By: Gerson Ascencio
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Blake Riggs

2023 36 B2
Characteristics and Kinetics of Chromosome Breakage in Fission Yeast S. pombe
By: Jiayu Luo
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sally Pasion

2023 37 B2
Optimizing Biochemical Production in S. cerevisiae
By: John Gonzales
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mark Chan

2023 38 B2

Exploring Epigenetic Inheritance of HIS-35 and HTAS-1 and their Role in Transcriptional Regulation
By: Keiko Hokeness, Emma Harms
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Diana Chu

2023 39 B2
Discovering Viruses of Thermophilic Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea Using de novo Analysis of Terrestrial Hot Spring Metagenomes
By: Marwin Fernandez
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. José R. De La Torre

2023 40 B2
Antibiotic Resistance and Plasmids
By: MaryGracy Antony, Marisol Fermin Flores, Jacqueline Valentino
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Pleuni Pennings

2023 41 B2

Role of DUF647 Containing Proteins in Vitamin B6 Homeostasis
By: Melissa Hassmer
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Zachary He

2023 42 B2
Expression of CXCR7 and CXCR4 in Breast Cancer Disparities
By: Mohseen Fathima Syed Sultan Mohideen, Crystal Lee
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Nicole Salazar Velmeshev, Dr. Annette Chan, Dr. Scott Roy

2023 43 B2
Pushing Microcontrollers to the Limits: Real-time High-density Surface Electromyography Signals Interface on the Edge
By: Peter Chudinov
Department: Biology, Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Xiaorong Zhang, Dr. Zhuwei Qin

2023 44 B2
Defining CLS-2 Function in Central Spindle Assembly in C. elegans Male Sperm Meiosis
By: Sebastian Gomez
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Diana Chu

2023 45 B2
Somite-derived Muscle Precursor Cells Migrate into Early-Forming Limb Buds in Response to Molecular Signals in Chicken Embryos
By: Tanya Velasco
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wilfred Denetclaw

2023 46 B2
Identifying Bipolar Cell Diversity in the Simplex Retina of Leucoraja erinacea (little skate)
By: Emma Alejandra Alvarez Castaneda
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ivan A. Anastassov

2023 47 B2
3D-EM Analysis Of Dendritic Tree Ultrastructure and Rod Convergence in Two Types of Horizontal Cells in a Functionally Plastic Retina
By: Yaqoub Yusuf
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ivan A. Anastassov

2023 48 B2
Analyses of Proteins Homologous to SpeG and hSSAT Provide Insight Toward the Evolutionarily Relationships Among Polyamine Acetyltransferases
By: Huy Do
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Misty Kuhn

2023 49 B2
Exploring the Size-Scaling of Microviscosity within the Crowded Environment of the Cell
By: Patra Holmes, Michelle Chong, Lika Chhit, Maureen Montes
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Raymond Esquerra

2023 50 B2
Structure Function Studies of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Protein PA2271
By: Patricia Faye Uychoco
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Misty Kuhn

2023 51 B2
Establishing a Genetic Toolbox for the Archaeon Nitrosocaldus yellowstonensis via an Integrating Mobile Genetic Element
By: Matthew Dominguez
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. José R. De La Torre

2023 52 B3
CRISPR-modulating Genes Involved in Insulin Sensitivity in Adipose Tissue to Treat Obesity-Induced Type 2 Diabetes
By: Breanna Paredes
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Lily Chen, Dr. Nadav Ahituv (UCSF)

2023 53 B3
Defining the Potential of Mural Progenitor Cells in Human Brain Development
By: Edward Valenzuela
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Lily Chen, Dr. Christopher Moffatt, Dr. Elizabeth Crouch (UCSF)

2023 54 B3
Harnessing Vascular Stem Cells to Grow Brain Organoids
By: Janeth Ochoa Birrueta
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Lily Chen

2023 55 B3
In Utero Injection Model of Sacrococcygeal Teratomas
By: Marco Cordero
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Lily Chen

2023 56 B3
Preventing Germline Genome Editing with miRNA-tagged Payload
By: Travis McCreary
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Lily Chen

2023 57 B3
Understanding Cellular Mechanisms of Breast Cancer Cell Death through Au-nanoparticle-mediated Photothermal Therapy in Diverse Ancestry Cell Lines
By: Angelo Orozco, Daria Chernova
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Nicole Salazar Velmeshev

2023 58 B3
Assessing the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance in E.Coli Through Phylogenetic Analysis
By: Florentine van Nouhuijs, Erica Tate, Aleyna Isik, Fayeeza Shaik
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Pleuni Pennings

2023 59 B3
Functional Assays of Breast Cancer Cell Lines
By: Jocelyne Milke
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Nicole Salazar Velmeshev

2023 60 B3
Immunohistochemistry Used to Identify Neurons Involved in Pain Signaling in the Model Organism, Manduca sexta
By: Negeen Mostarshed
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Megumi Fuse

2023 61 B3
Using Calls and Genes to Understand the Taxonomy of Pacific Chorus Frogs
By: Chariya Eligia Cotas, Samantha Sandoval
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Alejandro Vélez Meléndez, Dr. Colleen Ingram

2023 62 B3
The Embryotic Development of Leptasteria in Contrasting Habitats
By: Berenice Baca-Ceballos
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. C. Sarah Cohen

2023 63 B3
Isolating Antimicrobial Producing Bacterial Strains from Soil
By: Michael Gaerlan, Juan Carlos Gomez
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Brinda Govindan

2023 64 B3
The Effects of Larval Wing Disc Tissue Damage in The Hornworm, Manduca sexta, on the Symmetry of Wing Development
By: Andrea Silva
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Megumi Fuse

2023 65 B3
Towards Characterizing the Neural Circuitry Mediating the Defensive Strike Response in Manduca sexta
By: Christian Valtierra
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Megumi Fuse

2023 66 B3

A 3-Dimensional Connectome of the Axonal Tracts within an Octopus Arm
By: Diana Neacsu
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Robyn Crook

2023 67 B3
Which Biotic and Abiotic Factors Influence Dominance and Vagrancy in Hummingbird Communities?
By: Elizabeth Mathiasen, Dikshita Germilla, Sierra Ekmalian, Jesus Ovalle
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Derrick Groom, Dr. Lisa Tell (UC Davis)

2023 68 B3
The Effects of Radiation-Induced Imaginal Disc Damage on Wing Allometry in the Tobacco Hornworm, Manduca sexta
By: Leslie Flores
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Megumi Fuse

2023 69 B3
Intersecting Neuroscience and Mouse Research: Examining the Relationship Between Environmental Cues and the Brain's Response
By: Christopher Saavedra
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kala Mehta

2023 70 B3

Investigating Investigating the Flavin-Dependent Thymidylate Synthase (FDTS) Enzyme from Clostridioides difficile (C. diff)
By: Sidra Shaw, Sarenna Shaw, Chae Joon Lee
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Eric Koehn

2023 71 B3
Investigating Investigating Inhibitors of Flavin-Dependent Thymidylate Synthase (FDTS) from Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (M. tb)
By: Su Ozcan, Nisa Mostarshed
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Eric Koehn

2023 72 B3
Investigating the Role of SETD2 in Cell Fate Specification in the Developing Cortex
By: Gloria Anyanwu
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Lily Chen

2023 73 B3
Basic Characterization of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSC) Derived from Blood and Placenta Cells
By: Jessica Takemoto
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Lily Chen

2023 74 SBE
Analyzing Factors Associated with Telomere Attrition among Black Americans: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
By: Tyrine Bailey, Rizelle Jugarap, Rebecca Mendez, Adriana Lopez
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Cathy Samayoa

2023 75 SBE
Using a Culturally-Sensitive Approach to Monitor Health Benefits of Reclaiming Nature
By: Jalena Zapanta, Charles Edward Forehand Holmes
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leticia Marquez-Magaña

2023 76 SBE
Unexpected Research Results in a Biochemistry Laboratory Course Lead to New Avenues for Social Justice in Education
By: Danny Mendoza, Kristian Culla, Lubat Asadova, Helena Dommer
Department: Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Misty Kuhn

2023 77 SBE
TACCTI: Expediting Cultural Capital Identification in Student Reflective Journaling
By: Gian Carlo Baldonado
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Anagha Kulkarni

2023 78 SBE
The Nature of Pre-Calculus Students' Mathematics and Art Cognitions in Making and Testing Conjectures about the Fibonacci Spiral and the Great Wave off Kanagawa
By: Tuto LopezGonzalez
Department: Mathematics
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Shandy Hauk

2023 79 SBE
Exploring Benefits, Challenges, and Relational Dynamics in an Expanding Learning Assistant Program
By: Cynthia Ibrahim
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kimberly Coble

2023 80 SBE
Investigating The Impacts of Cultural Cosmology Project on Astronomy Majors
By: Long Le
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kimberly Coble

2023 81 SBE
They are the Best: The Significance of Others to Emerging Adults and Well-Being
By: Fernanda Amaya, Victoria Chou, Qudsia Khalid
Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jeff Cookston

2023 82 SBE
The Role of Virtual Social and Emotional Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic for Elementary School Children
By: Graciela Urias
Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Jae Paik, Dr. Shinchieh Duh (SJSU), Dr. Rita Rodriguez

2023 83 SBE
Critical Consciousness Development: Defining the Role of Privilege and Allyship Among Immigrant-Origin Youth
By: Jasmine Gabb
Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Juliana Karras

2023 84 SBE
Moderators of the Relationship Between Maternal Gatekeeping and Father Involvement: A Meta-Analysis
By: Qudsia Khalid
Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jeff Cookston

2023 85 SBE
Longitudinal Associations between Parenting Behaviors and Familism among Mexican American Adolescents
By: Victoria Chou
Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jeff Cookston
 

2023 86 SBE
Distance Learning Among School-Aged Children Early in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Which Parent Helped More and Did It Matter?
By: Willow Weibel, Valerie Astorga
Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jeff Cookston

2023 87 SBE
Association between Mindfulness, Workplace Spirituality and Employee Burnout
By: Shilpa Prabhakar
Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ryan Howell

2023 88 SBE
Developing a Time Perspective Curriculum to Reduce Discrimination and Tobacco Use Among Adolescents
By: Daniel Grafil, Juan Carlos Argueta Rodriguez, Jo Nisa Cabilogan, Nada Habash, Ilke Bayazitli, Betsy Centeno
Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Zena Mello

2023 89 SBE
Examining the Association Between Perceived Discrimination Based on Race/Ethnicity and Tobacco Use Among Asian American Adolescents
By: Jo Nisa Cabilogan, Sarah Purnell, Betsy Centeno, Ilke Bayazitli
Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Zena Mello

2023 90 SBE
Stimulus-Elicited Involuntary Cognitions: Response Conflict, Habituation, and Word-Frequency Effects
By: Natalie Wieczorek, Jamie Bueno, Sarah Brauer, Zaviera Panlilio, Anthony Velasquez
Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ezequiel Morsella

2023 91 SBE
Considerations for Alternative Responses to Harm
By: Zoe Fejes, Haze Brown, Carlos Cuevas-Vallejo, Alfonso Hinojosa-Chavarria, Shanai Leon, Laura Gutierrez, Molly Hamilton, Isabelle Madayag, Willy Ngo, Brianna Lopez
Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Amy Smith
 

2023 92 SBE
Above and Beyond Personality: Time Perspective and Academic Achievement Among Adolescents
By: Ilke Bayazitli, Betsy Centeno, Sarah Purnell, Jo Nisa Cabilogan, Tiffany Chiem Wong, Juan Argueta Rodriguez, Nada Habash, Daniel Grafil
Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Zena Mello
 

2023 93 SBE
Novice College Mathematics Instructor Communication About Cognitive Demand
By: Helena Almassy
Department: Mathematics
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Shandy Hauk

2023 94 SBE
Narcissism or Self-Esteem, Which is a Better Predictor for Selfie-Modification?
By: Divya Shettigar
Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Matsumoto

2023 95 P
Exploring Protein Dynamics in the Complex Cellular Milieu: Computational Folding and Hydrodynamics of Novel Bioengineered Protein Probes
By: Michelle Chong
Departments: Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Raymond Esquerra

2023 96 P
Synthesis of CuAlS2/ZnS Quantum Dots for Photocatalysis
By: Gabriela Vazquez, Fay Harris, Justin Tolentino
Departments: Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Michael Enright

2023 97 P
An Intriguing Investigation into the Effects of Carboxyl-Terminal Truncations on Protein Solubility
By: Dominic Guidry, Hazel Leiva
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Misty Kuhn

2023 98 P
Florescent Fusion Proteins for the Study of Styrene Monooxygenase Activity
By: Galilee Samuels, Kyle Cesar
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. George Gassner

2023 99 P
Optimizing Soluble Protein Expression of a Gcn5-related N-acetyltransferase through C-Terminal Truncations
By: Joshita Kamalakannan, Daniel Figueroa Paniagua
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Misty Kuhn

2023 100 P
Out of Nickel's Embrace: How Cation Exchange Chromatography Boosted Protein Purification Yield
By: Nam Him, Riya Maharjan, Grace Gonzales, Amir Chirar
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Misty Kuhn

2023 101 P
Successful Stabilization of an Enzyme Kinetic Assay for a Novel aAetyltransferase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa is Guanidine HCl Concentration Dependent
By: Pamela Caro De Silva
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Misty Kuhn

2023 102 P
Modeling a Series of GNAT proteins with N-terminal Polyhistidine Tags and Their Effects on Protein Expression and Purification
By: Phelan Glenn
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Misty Kuhn

2023 103 P
Composing Point Mutations of E33 in the VcSpeG Enzyme to Study Allosteric Effector Molecule Recognition and Effects on Enzymatic Activity
By: Tiffany Chambers
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Misty Kuhn

2023 104 P
Analysis of MD Simulations of Lithium diffusion in Amorphous Lithium Thiophosphate
By: Anastasia Ovchinnikov
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Nicole Adelstein

2023 105 P
Investigating Aminoglycoside Binding in the Acceptor Sites of AAC(6’)-Ig and AAC(6’)-Ih Enzymes
By: Daniel Capule
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Misty Kuhn

2023 106 P
Investigating Significant Bond Character Features in Superionic Metal Halides to Study Their Relationship with Cation Diffusivity
By: Salma Ahmed
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Nicole Adelstein

2023 107 P
Plasmon-Mediated Electrocatalytic Oxidation Reaction
By: Tucker Forbes, Lenimar Marques, Alexiz Romero, Timothy Lin
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jingjing Qiu

2023 108 P
Dispersion Relations for Space-Time Laminates
By: Paulina Svensson
Department: Mathematics
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ornella Mattei

2023 109 P
Identifying and Characterizing Red Stragglers and Sub-Subgiants in Globular Clusters using Multiwavelength HST Photometry
By: Cory Hoo
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Adrienne Cool

2023 110 P
The R-Process Alliance: Chemical Abundance Patterns of r-Process Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars Associated with Chemo-Dynamically Tagged Group
By: Jessica Agnos
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Charli Sakari

2023 111 P
Giant Radio Galaxies in MeerKAT Legacy Surveys
By: Preet Agnihotri
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Bill Cotton (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

2023 112 P
Finding Extra Tidal Stars and Percentage of Tidal Strip of Palomar 8
By: Vandana Ganesan Kaushik
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Charli Sakari

2023 113 P
High-Resolution Integrated Light Spectroscopy of M31 GCs B006 and B403
By: Allison Swart
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Charli Sakari

2023 114 P
Mode Coupling and Anderson Localization in Disordered Arrays of Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguides
By: Amir Hashemizad
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Huizhong Xu

2023 115 P
Dilaton Chiral Perturbation Theory at Next-to-Leading Order
By: Andrew Freeman
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Maarten Golterman

2023 116 P
Semimetal–Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Photodetectors for Wafer‐Scale Broadband Photonics
By: Hon-Loen Sinn
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Advisor: Dr. AKM Newaz

2023 117 P
Titania Nanopillar Waveguide Illuminated Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy at High Concentrations
By: Stephan OBrien, Cristian Rodriguez, Oskar Garcia, Daniel Castro
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Huizhong Xu

2023 118 P
Ionic Transport Across Disordered Interfaces with Atomic-Scale Simulations
By: Oskar Garcia
Department: Physics & Astronomy, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Nicole Adelstein

2023 119 ENV
Plasticity of the Behavior of the Sea Star Leptasterias spp. Found in Wave-Exposed and Wave-Protected Habitats
By: Princess Marguerite Guzman
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. C. Sarah Cohen

2023 120 ENV
The Impacts of Climate Change on Hummingbird Foraging Behavior
By: Samantha Walls
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Derrick Groom

2023 121 ENV
Detecting Bromoform in Asapagagopsis and Local Seaweeds
By: Jadi Allen, Keiko Hokeness, John Gonzales
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Zachary He
 

2023 122 ENV
Analyzing Storm Patterns in ‘Pre’ and ‘Post’ Categorizations to Test for Behavioral Plasticity in Leptasterias
By: Nicole Hlushko, Cassandra Vaniotis
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. C. Sarah Cohen

2023 123 ENV
Population Demographics of a California Endemic Thistle: Cirsium fontinale Varieties fontinale, campylon and obispoense
By: Stephanie Kate
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jason Cantley

2023 124 ENV
Urbanization Affects the Morphology of Adaptive Traits in Galápagos Darwin's Finches
By: Adan Deeb
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Jaime Chaves, Dr. Jack Dumbacher (California Academy of Sciences), Dr. Kiyoko Gotanda (Brock University)

2023 125 ENV
Emerging Infectious Pathogens (Bd and Bsal) and San Francisco’s Urban Amphibian Communities
By: Andrés Patino, Allen Ramsey, Debbie Liao, Franchesca Terrado, Lilia Phan, Samson Hman, Surminder Sahota
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Vance Vredenburg, Dr. Andy Zink, Dr. Gretchen LeBuhn

2023 126 ENV
Building a Case Criteria for Newt Mass Die-off Events
By: Bria Boose
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Vance Vredenburg, Dr. Andy Zink

2023 127 ENV
Coping with City Noise: Assessing Environmental Noise and Hearing Abilities along an Urban-Rural Gradient
By: Carolyn Schwartz
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Alejandro Vélez Meléndez

2023 128 ENV
Turbulent Tidepool Temperature and Porcelain Crab Fitness: What's The Connection?
By: Joe Holdreith, Alexis Hopper
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jonathon Stillman

2023 129 ENV
Interactive Threats: Do Microplastics Mediate Response to Thermal Stress in a Marine Invertebrate?
By: Oliver Coyle
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Jonathon Stillman, Dr. Vance Vredenburg

2023 130 ENV
Investigating the Role of Marine Sediments as Sources of 14C-depleted Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Deep Ocean
By: Chelsea Allen
Departments: Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Tomoko Komada, Dr. William Cochlan, Dr. José De La Torre

2023 131 ENV
Using Molecular Techniques to Characterize the Diversity of Microorganisms in the Wetlands of the San Francisco Estuary
By: Erick Ortiz
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Michelle Jungbluth

2023 132 ENV
Survey and Sequencing of Tunicate Species on the Outer Coast Adjacent to San Francisco Bay
By: Emily Chapman, Erika Ono-Kerns
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. C. Sarah Cohen

2023 133 ENV
Measuring Evaporative and Respiratory Water Loss in Calypte Anna’s Hummingbirds
By: Cecilia Doan, Christian Guerzon
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Derrick Groom

2023 134 ENV
Micro-Plastic Effects on Pacific Mole Crab
By: Rafael Leon
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jonathon Stillman

2023 135 ENV
The Relative Importance of Thermoregulatory Mechanisms in Hummingbirds during Physical Activity and Temperature Change
By: Alexa Quintero
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Derrick Groom

2023 136 ENV
Evaluation of Evaporative Water Loss in Anna's Hummingbirds
By: Christian Guerzon, Cecilia Doan, Rachael Tang
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Derrick Groom

2023 137 ENV
How Does High Ambient Temperature Influence Behavior and Torpor in Anna's Hummingbirds?
By: Leonardo Rodriguez, Rachael Tang, Alexis Ayala, Sierra Ekmalian, Cecilia Doan
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Derrick Groom, Dr. Ravinder Sehgal, Dr. Jonathon Stillman

2023 138 ENV
Nature-Based Intervention Effects on Telomere Length and Cardiovascular Health
By: Isabella Ramirez, Jessi Jeronimo
Departments: Chemistry & Biochemistry, Biology
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Leticia Marquez-Magaña, Rebecca Margarita Mendez, Genievive del Mundo

2023 139 ENV
Climate Signals in California Western Junipers (Juniperus occidentalis) from Quantitative Wood Anatomy
By: Jonathan Pressley
Department: Earth & Climate Science
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Alexander Stine

2023 140 ENV
Mass Measurements of Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) Cell Structure Inform Understanding of California Climate Variability
By: Triana Anderson
Department: Earth & Climate Science
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Alexander Stine

2023 141 ENV
An Eco-Friendly, Low-Cost, Resilient, and Off-Grid Mobile Tiny Home
By: Imani Ware
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Adrienne Cool

2023 142 ENV
Evaluation of PCR of Borrelia Pathogens in Ixodes Ticks
By: Adriel Evaristo
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Andrea Swei

2023 143 ENV
Hydrogen Fuel an Alternative Fuel
By: Ricardo Miura
Departments: Engineering, Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Advisor: Aaron White

2023 144 ENV
Estimating Carbon Fluxes in Montane Meadows Using Remote Sensing of Phenology
By: William O'Brien
Department: Geography & Environment
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Leonhard Blesius, Dr. Andrew Oliphant, Dr. Jerry Davis

2023 145 CSM
Characterizing Opiate Misuse Using Large-Scale Analysis of Social Media as a Novel Data Source
By: Ezra Player
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Rahul Singh

2023 146 CSM
Enhancing User’s Presence in VR
By: Ashwini Managuli
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sharukh Humayoun

2023 147 CSM
Identification and Tracking of SARS-CoV-2 Variants with Dynamic Networks
By: Fiona Senchyna
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Rahul Singh

2023 148 CSM
Algorithms for Segmenting Parasites for High-Throughput Schistosomiasis Drug Discovery
By: Jiadong Yu
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Rahul Singh

2023 149 CSM
VR Engine - Structural Engineers 3D VR Training Environment for Post-Hazard Assessment
By: Khanh Nguyen, Prathiba Ramesh, Purva Zinjarde, Steffi Win
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Jenna Wong, Dr. Shahrukh Humayoun

2023 150 CSM
Quantitative Measures of Online Health Information (QMOHI): Broadening the Impact through Improved Usability, Applicability, and Effectiveness
By: Miho Shimizu
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Anagha Kulkarni

2023 151 CSM
Visual Analytics Support for Exploring Twitter Data for Events
By: MST Jasmine Jahan, Chuting Yan, Ilya Nemtsov
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Shahrukh Humayoun

2023 152 CSM
A Visual Analytics Environment to Analyze and Explore Software Microservices Architecture and Workflow
By: Mujtabauddin Furqan Mohammed
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Shahrukh Humayoun

2023 153 CSM
Interactive Visualization Support for Comparing and Analysis of Multi-class Classifier Problems in Machine Learning
By: Nina Mir
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Shahrukh Humayoun

2023 154 CSM
Radiation Shield using AI Modeling
By: Utkrisht Sharma
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Shahrukh Humayoun, Dr. Isabel Hyo Jung Song

2023 155 CSM
Vertex2Image: Construct Human Figure Based On A Monocular Video
By: Zihao Wang
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Shahrukh Humayoun

2023 156 CSM
Project Jim
By: Brian Nguyen, Julian Manaois, Jaden Faustino
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tom Holton

2023 157 CSM
Cell Type Prediction with Advanced Machine Learning Approaches Using Single-Cell T-Cell Receptor Repertoire Sequencing Data
By: Michael Brennan
Department: Mathematics
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tao He

2023 158 CSM
Application of the Fractional Fourier Transform to Functionally Graded Materials
By: Miriam Sanchez, Angela Perez
Department: Mathematics
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ornella Mattei

2023 159 CSM
Bounds on the Response of Viscoelastic Two-Phase Composites with Continuous Relaxation Spectrum
By: Charlie McMenomy
Department: Mathematics
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ornella Mattei

2023 160 CSM
Causal Inference on Smokers' Online Friends
By: Vaidhervi Kansal
Department: Mathematics
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Luella Fu

2023 161 CSM
Physics-Informed Multi-LSTM Networks for Metamodeling of Nonlinear Structures
By: Tashi Rai
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Cheng Chen

2023 162 CSM
Segmentation Modalities of Gliomas in MRI Scans
By: Alex Sanchez, Cevat Güleç
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Illmi Yoon

2023 163 CSM
A Visual Analytics Environment to Co-locate People’s Tweets with City Factual Data
By: Snehal Patil
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Shahrukh Humayoun

2023 164 CSM
Loan Default Prediction
By: Giang Vu
Department: Mathematics
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tao He

2023 165 CSM
Characterization of Primary Decomposition of Adjacent Minors of Matrices and Tensors
By: Aswin Rangasamy Venkatesan
Department: Mathematics
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Serkan Hosten

2023 166 CSM
Optimized Machine Learning for Automated Breast Ultrasound Segmentation: Improving Efficiency and Accuracy in Breast Cancer Diagnosis
By: Aleyna Isik, Young So
Departments: Biology, Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ilmi Yoon

2023 167 CSM
Multislice Multimodality Tumor Segmentation
By: Abdoulfatah Abdillahi, Brandon Bahr Maravilla, Yoonji Lee
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ilmi Yoon

2023 168 CSM
Multi-modal MRI Image Segmentation of Brain Tumors for Multi-class Segmentation
By: Justin Luong, Seyoung Kim
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ilmi Yoon

2023 169 E1
Tiny Foldable Homes
By: Alfredo Juarez Cruz, Kyle Kor, Taylor Olbrantz, Samantha Ramirez, Robert Maneclang
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Cheng Chen, Dr. Jenna Wong

2023 170 E1
Gated Heaven
By: Cecilia Barrientos, Alfredo Patino, Misael Macias, Jack Sheets, Douglas Linares, Ranju Dewan, Yazmin Gama
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tim D'Orazio

2023 171 E1
Dream Chaser Truss Bridge
By: Chukwuebuka Oduozo, DiAngelo Gleaves, Jacob Russell
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Cheng Chen, Tim D'Orazio

2023 172 E1
The Ravester
By: Daniel Garcia, Kristian Alarcon, Michael Garcia, Kenneth Resillas, Matthew Ambon, Edward Johnson, Ravi Johnson
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jenna Wong

2023 173 E1
Arch-Truss Bridge
By: Eduardo Villalobos, Jade Voong, Jose Valenzuela, Jose Nila, Vidal Urbina, Salvador Lopez
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Zhaoshuo Jiang

2023 174 E1
ENGR 696- Steel Bridge Project
By: Giuliana Arias, Cody Stephenson, Abdulwahab Mohammad, Henry Babits, Adnin Rudaba, Manuel Melendez Siliezar, Evelin Garibay
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Cheng Chen

2023 175 E1
Clementine's Crossing
By: Jade Zaleski, Bekah Roth, Erin Harvie, Elza Ramos, Jeffrey Blancas Gomez
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jenna Wong

2023 176 E1
Seismic Tower A
By: Joseph Pledger, Alex Morte, Vincent Jon Hernandez, Matthew Militante, Joshua Villanueva
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Cheng Chen

2023 177 E1
The Design and Construction of an Educational Wind Tunnel for High-Rises Shape Optimization
By: Lauren Williams, Connor Galvin
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Zhaoshuo Jiang, Dr. Tim D'Orazio

2023 178 E1
Seismic Tower Group B
By: Noah Sanchez, Karla De Los Santos, Sudaba Shams, Ithiel Diana Agcaoili, Alejandro Ruiz Granados, Sengchhay Ly, Daniel Wahba
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Cheng Chen

2023 179 E1
Seismic Force of Nonstructural Components in Based Isolated Buildings
By: Sepehr Shakeri
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jenna Wong

2023 180 E1
Seismic Performance of Tiny Homes
By: Steffi Win
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jenna Wong

2023 181 E1
The LightDeck
By: Andrew Bowen
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. George Anwar

2023 182 E1
ENGR 697: Automatic Refillable Tabletop Electronic Machine Mixing In Spices (ARTEMMIS)
By: Candace Castro
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Dr. George Anwar, Dr. Fatemeh Khalkhal 

2023 183 E1
Folding Kayak Caddy
By: Edward Gutierrez, Isaias Huaracha, Matthew Reed
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. George Anwar

2023 184 E1
Autonomous Firefighting Robot
By: Jason Luong, Nnaemeka Onyebuenyi, John Barajas
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tom Holton

2023 185 E1
PCCS - Passive Camber Control System
By: Jason Ludwig, Jonathan Foster, Egan Chiu
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. George Anwar

2023 186 E1
Developing an Intelligent System for Stroke Hand Therapy using an Open-Source ExoGlove
By: Jocelynn Nazarit
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Dr. David Quintero, Dr. George Anwar

2023 187 E1
Tamper-resistant Cat Feeder
By: Joey Conway, David Neri, Andrey Villones
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tom Holton

2023 188 E1
Archimedes Crew
By: Joseph DiGiulio, Derrick Compas, Nepthalie Urquico
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Quintero

2023 189 E1
Adjustable Braking System for Rollator Walkers
By: Kai Griner, Angelica Angeles, Ryan Hartnett, Vincent Fortney
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. George Anwar

2023 190 E1
Da Vinci Helicopter Swashplate
By: Karen Sanchez, Sean Coffey, James George
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Quintero

2023 191 E1
Adaptive Cutting Device
By: Max Rybold, Kenneth Chan, Omar Jarrad
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. George Anwar

2023 192 E1
Hot off the Press
By: Timon Eggebrecht, Clarisse Bayani, Alexander Montgomery
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Quintero

2023 193 E1
Engr 364: Automatic Refillable Tabletop Electronic Machine Mixing In Spices (ARTEMMIS)
By: Candace Castro
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Fatemeh Khalkhal, Dr. George Anwar

2023 194 E1
Go-Kart Brake Pedal Redesign
By: Miles Phillips, Justin Baskin
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Fatemeh Khalkhal

2023 195 E1
Wheelchair Incline Advantage System
By: Christopher Smith, Elijah Bobis, Alex Lee
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. George Anwar

2023 196 E1
3D Printed Monitor Mount
By: Mario Acuna, Carlos Acuna
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Fatemeh Khalkhal

2023 197 E1
A Low-Cost and Reversible Protein Purification Method Based on Optogentic Tools
By: Zachary Pope, Evan Forrest
Department: Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Raymond Esquerra

2023 198 E1
Infinity Bridge
By: Darren Garza, Maria Ruiz Vega, Kevin Phan, Jason Martinez, Faisal Abdelli, Roland Galeano
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tim D'Orazio

2023 199 E1
Automatic Wine Processing Machine
By: Andrew Bowen, Jennifer Diaz, Eric Delgado, Max Rybold
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Quintero

2023 200 E1
Solar-Electric Kettle
By: Raymond Zerulla
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Quintero

2023 201 E2
RoboCam: A Flexible High-Throughput Machine for Biological Research
By: Sergio Gonzalez, Jr.
Department: Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Raymond Esquerra, Thomas Zimmerman (IBM)

2023 202 E2
Smart Tracking Spotlight
By: Brenton Yee, Zubair Shaik, Fahad Alwahaibi
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Hao Jiang

2023 203 E2
Automated Rotating Shelf
By: Christie Lai, Elizabeth Kirwan, Michelle Chow
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. George Anwar

2023 204 E2
Smart Crib
By: Jared Richardson, David Zhou, Brian Miranda, Cesar Lopez
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. George Anwar

2023 205 E2
Virtual Reality Game Utilizing An Electromyography Sensor
By: Joel Arias-Elizardo, Joe Pazmino
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Hao Jiang

2023 206 E2
Performance Tracking App
By: Marilyn Vazquez, Jesse Avendano, Eron Yueng, Ian Brewer
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. George Anwar

2023 207 E2
Gesture Recognition Home Automation
By: Muhammad Anwar, Jomarc Julius Silos, Ricardo Campos, Favienne Lopez
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. George Anwar

2023 208 E2
Project ADV (Autonomous Delivery Vehicle)
By: Nikita Shpak, Justin Hong, Joseph Gorny
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tom Holton

2023 209 E2
Anti-Fog Mask
By: Olimpia Aguillon, Edgar Torres, Elon Goliger Mallimson, Lianna Cubias
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. George Anwar

2023 210 E2
Efficient EMG Pattern Classification-based Control Interface for Exoskeleton Gloves Using Mahalanobis Distance to Handle Undefined Classes
By: Yuriah Lydon
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Xiaorong Zhang, Dr. Zhuwei Qin and Dr. David Quintero

2023 211 E2
MAJ. Stroller
By: Aaron Chen, Michele Nguyen, Joseph Yonezawa
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. George Anwar

2023 212 E2
On-Device Machine Learning for Privacy-Preserving Person Detection
By: Benediction Simeons
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Zhuwei Qin, Dr. Tom Holton

2023 213 E2
Modular Aerial Gimbal Camera
By: Brandyn Byrnes, Oscar Vazquez, Anthony Sebbo, Carlos Zheng
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. George Anwar

2023 214 E2
Fully Enclosed Mushroom Growing Chamber
By: Oscar Barajas, Chris Farnsworth, Seth Rehmann
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tom Holton

2023 215 E2
Gesture Controlled Robot Arm
By: Ryan Scott, Fazliddin Hotamov
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Hao Jiang

2023 216 E2
The Coffey Cup (ENGR 697)
By: Gabriel Ruiz, Bryan Pineda, Sean Coffey
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. George Anwar

2023 217 E2
Scuba Buddy Monitor
By: James George, Timon Eggebrecht, Allou Marie Umadhay
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tom Holton

2023 218 E2
Automate Irrigation System
By: Robert Sillona, Lena Mirzada
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Hao Jiang

2023 219 E2
Retainerbyte: A Smart Dental Retainer
By: Nathaniel Lara, Runjun Su
Department: Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Hao Jiang