# College Center for Research and Fellowships
**Source**: https://ccrf.uchicago.edu/office-undergraduate-research/research-scholars-2025-2026
**Parent**: https://ccrf.uchicago.edu/undergraduate-research
## **2025-2026 Research Scholars**
## **[Winter Quad Research Scholars](https://ccrf.uchicago.edu/undergraduate-research/quad-undergraduate-research-scholars-program)**
### **Supported by the Natasha and Niccolo De Masi Undergraduate Research Fund**
- **Sal Ochoa**, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Improving the Synthesis of Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles*
- Mentor: Chin-Tu Chen
### **Supported by the Stuart J. Freedman Undergraduate Research Fund**
- **Elisa Gao**, Third-Year, Astrophysics, Theatre and Performance Studies
- Project Title: *X-ray Emission of Supernova 2023ixf*
- Mentor: Vikram Dwarkadas
- **Vivi McDermott**, Third-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: *Continuum Models For Diffuse Buckling Fronts in Auxetic Lattices*
- Mentor: Heinrich M. Jaeger
- **Kate Wandrisco**, Second-Year, Physics
- Project Title:*Searching For New Particles at a 10 TeV Muon Collider*
- Mentor: Karri DiPetrillo
- **Crystal Wang**, Second-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: *A Flexible Test-Vector Generation Pipeline for ATLAS Hardware and Algorithm Testing*
- Mentor: David Miller
### **Supported by the Global Health Research Fund**
- **Jason Chang**, Fourth-Year, Economics
- Project Title: *Investigating the combined effects of gingipains from Porphyromonas gingivalis and Toxoplasma gondii on the neurodegeneration in neuronal cell lines and human brain organoids*
- Mentor: Rima McLeod
- **Brian Chao**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Economics
- Project Title: *Developing a Toxoplasma gondii Vaccine for Humans*
- Mentor: Rima McLeod
- **Jordan Hanna**, Third-Year, Economics
- Project Title: *Regulatory Mechanisms Against Toxoplasma Gondii Infection for Pregnant Women*
- Mentor: Rima McLeod
- **Sofia Perri**, Third-Year, Neuroscience, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *RNA Splicing as a Biomarker for Multiple Sclerosis*
- Mentor: Anthony Reder
- **Ray Yang**, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Tracing Past Epidemics through Metagenomic Screening of Ancient Human Genomes*
- Mentor: Maanasa Raghavan
### **Supported by an unrestricted gift from Google**
- **Ky Julian McBride**, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering, Philosophy
- Project Title: *Microscale and Nanoscale Quantum Sensing for Biomedical Applications*
- Mentor: Peter Maurer
### **Supported by the Insight Undergraduate Research Fund**
- **Irmak Altinok**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Investigating how local mechanical interactions impact pattern formation in the Drosophila retinal epithelium*
- Mentor: Ilaria Rebay
- **Ciara Balanza**, Second-Year, Neuroscience, Fundamentals
- Project Title:*The Localization of the human tRNA Splicing Endonuclease Complex*
- Mentor: Cassandra Hayne
- **Diego Bey**, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: *Sythesis of Polymer Bound Bistrip*
- Mentor: Viresh Rawal
- **Kira Bhatia**, First-Year, Physics
- Project Title: *How Mechanical Interactions Between Cells Shape Organ Development*
- Mentor: Noah Mitchell
- **Israel Brown Jr.**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Statistics
- Project Title: *Elucidating Fiber Metabolic Networks and Essential Genes through Metagenomic Analysis*
- Mentor: Alice Cheng
- **Katherine Chen**, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: *Foundation model-assisted characterization of mixed rejection of renal allograft*
- Mentor: Madeleine Torcasso
- **Evelyn Chua**, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Immunotherapy Influence on cf-RNA Signatures*
- Mentor: Jing Chen
- **Ualype de Andrade Uchoa**, Third-Year, Physics, Astrophysics
- Project Title: *A New Analysis of the S8 Tension: Constraining the Clustering of Matter using DES and Early-Universe Priors*
- Mentor: Scott Dodelson
- **Nathan Gehl**, Second-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: *Integrated Circuit Design and Layout for Rapid Waveform Sampling*
- Mentor: Henry Frisch
- **Ishaan Gunjati**, Second-Year, Biological Sciences, Neuroscience
- Project Title: *Regulation of ADGRG6 Signaling through Isoform-Specific Antibodies*
- Mentor: Demet Arac
- **Rohan Haack**, Second-Year, Physics
- Project Title: *Cytokine Dynamics Following a Point Source Perturbation*
- Mentor: Elizabeth Jerison
- **Angela Joo**, Third-Year, Economics
- Project Title: *The Aftermath of the Ban on Universal Injunctions on Chapter 15 and the U.S. Foreign Bankruptcy Court’s Remedial Powers*
- Mentor: Antony Casey
- **Wael Kouki**, Third-Year, Chemistry, Geophysical Sciences
- Project Title: *Controllable behaviors of vesicle electrofusion*
- Mentor: Jack Szostak
- **Yannik Leuz**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Assessing the Cross-Reactivity of Mouse and Human Cytokines*
- Mentor: Juan Mendoza
- **Ethan Li**, Third-Year, Chemistry, Economics
- Project Title: *Structural Integration of a New Eukaryotic Organelle (Nitroplast) and its Remodeling During the Day*
- Mentor: Mohammed Kaplan
- **William Li**, Third-Year, Computer Science, Neuroscience
- Project Title: *Effects of Expressive Behaviors of Robotic Arms*
- Mentor: Sarah Sebo
- **Nicole Liu**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Investigation of Hypoxia-Inducible Factors in CAF State Decisions Under Nutrient Stress*
- Mentor: Simon Schwörer
- **Mouhamed Mbengue**, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: *Implementation of a 2-Dimensional Optical Dipole Trap for an Atomic Quantum Mixture*
- Mentor: Cheng Chin
- **Dinah Megibow-Taylor**, Second-Year, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts
- Project Title: *Is Freedom of Expression Hindered by the Pursuit of Happiness?*
- Mentor: Shigehiro Oishi
- **Evie Miller**, Second-Year, Linguistics, Psychology
- Project Title: *Ape-Homesign Project*
- Mentor: Susan Goldin-Meadow
- **Yonu Oh**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Computational design and biochemical validation of PDCD10-binding peptides in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC)*
- Mentor: Le Shen
- **Adriana Ortega**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *The Role of HIF-1? and Reactive Oxygen Species in Lung Inflammation*
- Mentor: Parker Woods
- **Jay Shen**, Fourth-Year, Physics, Computer Science
- Project Title: *Pruning fluid dynamics foundation models*
- Mentor: Dorian Abbot
- **Kiran Simon**, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: *Checkpoint Receptor-medicated Regulation of T Cells in Healthy Tissues*
- Mentor: Martina Damo
- **Samuel Smith**, First-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: *Data-Driven Modeling of the Mechanicals Driving Egg Chamber Elongation in Drosophila*
- Mentor: Noah Mitchell
- **Alitza Soiffer**, Second-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: *Asymmetric Photocatalyzed Vinylcyclopropane Rearrangement*
- Mentor: Alex Cusumano
- **Youssef Tazoui**, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: *Effects of External Magnetic Fields on the Crystalline Structure of Binary Superlattices*
- Mentor: Dmitri Talapin
- **Sarah Thau**, Fourth-Year, Chemistry, Biochemistry
- Project Title: *Improving Quality of Zirconium-89 Radiopharmaceuticals for Pancreatic Cancer Imaging*
- Mentor: Satish Chitneni
- **Campbell Vander Heiden**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Investigation of MAT1A as a novel ATF4 target gene required to maintain S-Adenosylmethionine levels during pancreatic cancer tumorigenesis*
- Mentor: Kay Macleod
- **Isabel Vargas-Hurlston**, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: *Transient Absorption Spectroscopy on MoOCl2*
- Mentor: Sarah King
- **Jacob White**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Creative Writing
- Project Title: *Investigating the impact of the ZAP70 proline-rich motif on TCR signaling and thymic development*
- Mentor: Lin Shen
- **Annabel Yarborough**, Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: *Illuminating WASP-18 b : UV/Optical Secondary Eclipse Observations with HST*
- Mentor: Jacob Bean
- **Kevin Yuan**, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Genetic Characterization of Moth Fly Anterior Posterior Axis Development*
- Mentor: Urs Schmidt-Ott
### **Supported by the Liew Family Research Fund**
- **Tianhe Chen**, Second-Year, Art History
- Project Title: *Archival Research on Exhibiting Chinese Experimental Art in Chicago*
- Mentor: Ellen Larson
- **Orion Douglas**, Fourth-Year, Environment, Geography, & Urbanization, Global Studies
- Project Title: *Art’s Block History Research*
- Mentor: Adrienne Brown
- **Charlotte Engrav**, Third-Year, Creative Writing, English Language/Literature
- Project Title:*The Craft Chronicle*
- Mentor: Erica Warren
- **Yuliia Ihnatesku**, Fourth-Year, Data Science
- Project Title: *Imagining a Sanctuary City: Newly Arrived Ukrainians in Chicago*
- Mentor: Ania Aizman
- **Chris Low**, Fourth-Year, Computer Science, Economics
- Project Title: *EnvAgent: Automating Software Environment Construction with Multi-Agent Systems*
- Mentor: Kexin Pei
### **Supported by the Davidow & Collins Undergraduate Neuroscience Research Fund**
- **Nina Bao**, Second-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: *NAD+ Metabolic Crosstalk Between Neurons and Glioma Cells*
- Mentor: Rong Grace Zhai
- **Leyla Campos**, Third-Year, Neuroscience, Cinema Studies
- Project Title:*The Neural Dynamics of Long-Term Memory with Repeated Learning*
- Mentor: Edward Vogel
- **Graham Hansen**, Second-Year, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Linguistics
- Project Title: *Impact of Natural Architecture on Cortical Activity and Attention Restoration*
- Mentor: Marc Berman
- **Jem Klancnik**, Second-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title:*SCA-6 Therapy*
- Mentor: Christopher M. Gomez
- **Tori Liu**, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: *The Role of p52 Signaling in Immune Evasion in Glioblastoma*
- Mentor: Bakhtiar Yamini
- **Thereza Pedrazini de Castilho**, Second-Year, Biological Chemistry, Neuroscience
- Project Title: *Nicotine-Induced Upregulation of ?4?2 Receptors is Shaped by ?2 Subunit-Dependent Glycosylation and Golgi Satellite Processing*
- Mentor: William Green
- **Anwita Revoori**, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: *Standardizing Virtual Reality Environments for Hippocampal Imaging: How Visual Cues Influence Training and Spatial Encoding*
- Mentor: Mark Sheffield
### **Supported by Collegiate Research Funds and other generous gifts from donors**
- **Jake Felsenthal**, Fourth-Year, Computer Science, Creative Writing
- Project Title: *Environmental Futures Through Critical Game Design*
- Mentor: Katherine Buse
- **Marcus Gao**, Fourth-Year, Economics, Psychology
- Project Title: *Epiphanies from Life Turning Points: How Negative Experiences Can Enrich the Good Life*
- Mentor: Shigehiro Oishi
- **Jenny Hu**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Economics
- Project Title: *Investigating the Role of RTCB in Stress Signaling and Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors*
- Mentor: Scott Oakes
- **Owen Mahan**, Second-Year, Physics, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Characterizing the Activity of the IDR of RbBP5*
- Mentor: Alexander Ruthenburg
- **BJ Moses-Rosenthal**, Fourth-Year, Sociology
- Project Title: *Scientific Racism*
- Mentor: Bernard Koch
- **Zhonghe Qin**, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering, Chemistry
- Project Title: *Synthesis of High-Entropy MXene via Lewis Acidic Molten Salt Etching*
- Mentor: Dmitri Talapin
- **Radha Ramanathan**, Third-Year, Economics
- Project Title: *Reconstructing Haiti’s Labor Economy: Archives, Race, and State Formation*
- Mentor: Martin Castillo Quintana
- **Ethan Sitzes**, First-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: *Linking Past to Present: How Children and Adults Understand Historical Structural Barriers*
- Mentor: Lin Bian
- **Meilin Song**, Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: *Effect of particle size on the shear rheology of silica-based colloidal gels*
- Mentor: Heinrich Jaeger
- **Arvin Wang**, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: *Development of Bifunctional Probes Targeting Neighboring Asp/Glu–Cys Motifs in Proteins*
- Mentor: Professor Chuan He
## **[Autumn Quad Research Scholars](https://ccrf.uchicago.edu/undergraduate-research/quad-undergraduate-research-scholars-program)**
### **Supported by the Global Health Research Fund**
- **Emmanuel Barajas**, Fourth-Year, Psychology, Comparative Human Development
- Project Title: *Reframing Help-Seeking: The Promise of Public Recognition in Motivating Boys to Seek Help*
- Mentor: Lin Bian
- **Hunter Bershtein**, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences, Economics
- Project Title: *The Therapeutic Potential of CD16hi Macrophages in Atherosclerosis Resolution*
- Mentor: Ada Weinstock
- **Sabrina Chang**, Second-Year, Biology, Data Science
- Project Title: *Characterizing the effects of smoking on age-associated DNA methylation*
- Mentor: Brandon Pierce
- **Vivian Chang**, Third-Year, Neuroscience, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Longitudinal Structural MRI Signatures of Resistance and Resilience in SuperAging*
- Mentor: Adam Martersteck
- **Ephraim Craddock**, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: *An IL-2-TGF-β Fusion Protein Expands Tregs and Induces Tolerance of Transplants*
- Mentor: Maria-Luisa Alegre
- **Emilio Del Angel**, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: *Assessing the Effect of Weight Cycling on Neutrophil Recruitment and Development*
- Mentor: Ada Weinstock
- **Ahtziri Fernandez**, Third-Year, Neuroscience, Spanish
- Project Title: *Identifying the sex-specific roles of the gut microbiome-brain axis in aged Alzheimer’s Disease APPPS1-21 and NLF/PS1 (M146V) knock-in Mouse Models*
- Mentor: Piyali Saha
- **Bella Hobaugh**, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience, Philosophy
- Project Title: *Empathy and the Doctor-Patient Relationship*
- Mentor: Peggy Mason
- **Jeffrey Ke**, Fourth-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: *Long term effects of IFN-β therapy in Multiple Sclerosis*
- Mentor: Anthony Reder
- **Layne Kohler**, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Weight Cycling Effect on Female Reproductive Function*
- Mentor: Ada Weinstock
- **Alison Lafayette**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Extracellular Vesicle RNA as Biomarkers of Glycocalyx Injury and Graft Dysfunction in Liver Transplantation*
- Mentor: Kentaro Noda
- **Diya Mishra**, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Designing Case-Control Studies to Assess Road Traffic Injury Risks in India*
- Mentor: Kavi Bhalla
- **Rishi Purayil**, Third-Year, Statistics
- Project Title: *Analysing Transparency of Conflict-of-Interest Disclosures by Trauma Surgery Researchers*
- Mentor: Timothy Plackett
- **Nicole Reed**, Fourth-Year, Biology, CEGU
- Project Title: *Tractor Rollovers and Road Safety in India*
- Mentor: Kavi Bhalla
- **Sophia Sasaki**, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Spontaneous breathing and diaphragm protection in mechanically ventilated patients*
- Mentor: Bhakti Patel
- **Hannah Thier**, Fourth-Year, Biology, HIPS
- Project Title: *Impact of Physician Anti-Bias Intervention on Care Satisfaction for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease*
- Mentor: Austin Wesevich
- **Akanksha Varanasi**, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: *Gene Expression and Immune Mechanism Profiles of Interferon-Treated Multiple Sclerosis Patients Across Subtypes*
- Mentor: Anthony Reder
- **Jazmine Vitela**, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Impact of color tint maps on regions of interest for radiomic feature extraction in ultrasound images*
- Mentor: Heather Whitney
- **Luna Wang**, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Impact of Alteration of the Microbiome During Critical Illness on Long-term Clinical Outcomes*
- Mentor: Krysta Wolfe
- **Alexandra Zhou**, Third-Year, Economics, Applied Mathematics
- Project Title: *Proximate Causes of the Global Fertility Decline*
- Mentor: Anup Malani
### **Supported by the Hoeft Family Research Fund**
- **Sammy Alderden**, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering, Chemistry
- Project Title: *Testing the Permeability and Conductivity of Cationic Mesoporous Membranes*
- Mentor: Shrayesh Patel
- **Maya Atassi**, Third-Year, Astrophysics, Physics
- Project Title: *Calibrating the Cosmos: Precision Polarization for the Simons Observatory*
- Mentor: Jeff McMahon
- **Jeff Baek**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *The investigation of the expression pattern of BMP9, Smad 1/5/8, and Runx2 in mouse cranial suture development via hybridization chain reaction*
- Mentor: Russell Reid
- **Mia Bocian**, Third-Year, Psychology, Economics
- Project Title: *The Autonomic Ear: Auditory feedback controls autonomic regulation*
- Mentor: Howard Nusbaum
- **Carmen Cox**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Assessing the Anatomy and Function of Fish Pectoral Fins*
- Mentor: Mark Westneat
- **Clarissa Ding**, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: *Effects of SNF2H Residue Character on RNA Binding Interactions*
- Mentor: Alexander J. Ruthenburg
- **Shelley Fernando**, Third-Year, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry
- Project Title: *Dissecting the Role of the JK3 Locus in Immunity*
- Mentor: Marcus Clark
- **Rafael Gutierrez**, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: *Examining the role of ventral muscles in larval fly movement*
- Mentor: Elizabeth Heckscher
- **Luis Hernandez**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Mitochondrial Transfer between Cancer Cells and Neutrophils*
- Mentor: Yuxuan (Phoenix) Miao
- **Alex Hu**, Third-Year, Fundamentals, Germanic Studies
- Project Title: *The Political Novel Today: Problems and Possibilities*
- Mentor: Sophie Salvo
- **Sayana Isaac**, Third-Year, Economics, South Asian Civilizations
- Project Title: *The Role of IL6-ST on Cancer-Associated Fibroblast Inflammation and Cell State Transitions*
- Mentor: Simon Schwörer
- **Badis Labbedi**, Second-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: *Axion Dark Matter Field Correlations via Entangled Photon Cavities*
- Mentor: LianTao Wang
- **Elena Lill**, Second-Year, Biological Chemistry, Business Economics
- Project Title: *Recombination Mechanism for SCCmec*
- Mentor: Phoebe Rice
- **Desanka Malinovic**, Second-Year, Political Science
- Project Title: *‘Po naški’ Through Fiction: A Structured Reader of Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian Prose*
- Mentor: Nada Petkovic
- **Julia Mastracci**, Fourth-Year, Biological Chemistry, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Investigating the Function of Individual and Combined TetraThymosinβ Domains*
- Mentor: David Kovar
- **Nicole Millan Ortiz**, Fourth-Year, English Language and Literature, Romance Languages and Literature / Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Project Title: *Postwar Artists' Books: An Investigation into the Curiosities of the Book Form*
- Mentor: Christine Mehring
- **Gaby Morin**, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: *High-Throughput Development of Redox-Active Polymers as Electrodes for Organic Batteries*
- Mentor: Stuart Rowan
- **Gabe Nelson**, Third-Year, Biology, Chemistry
- Project Title: *Biomechanical Modeling of Feeding Mechanisms in the Marine Butterflyfishes, Family Chaetodontidae*
- Mentor: Mark Westneat
- **Michael Qiu**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Elucidating the Roles of U4 sRNA structures in 5’ Splice Site Selection of pre-mRNA Splicing and Neurodevelopmental Disorder*
- Mentor: Jonathan Prescott Staley
- **Ismael Robles-Razzaq**, Third-Year, Statistics, Computer Science
- Project Title: *The Geometry of Representations in Mouse Latent-Context Decision-Making*
- Mentor: Ramon Nogueira Manas
- **Eva Schultz**, Third-Year, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Visual Arts
- Project Title: *Development of an Integrating Sphere as a Thermal Calibration Source for Cosmic Microwave Background Observations*
- Mentor: Jeffrey McMahon
- **Rebecca Sias**, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry, Chemistry
- Project Title: *Investigating Cytokine-Specific eQTMs in Airway Smooth Muscle Cells*
- Mentor: Carole Ober
- **Victoria Sullivan**, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Investigating the Spatial Regulation of Kibra by Apical Polarity Protein Interactions in Epithelial Cells*
- Mentor: Richard Fehon
### **Supported by the Kemper Foundation**
- **Yorik Chuang**, Second-Year, Economics, Public Policy Studies
- Project Title: *A Century of Accounting Ideas: Quantifying Impacts of Standard-Setters on Innovation in Accounting Practices*
- Mentor: Anthony Le
- **Paolo Diaz Andrade**, Third-Year, Sociology, Cinema and Media Studies
- Project Title: *Latin-American Elites’ Perspectives on Poverty and Inequality: A Mixed-Methods Approach*
- Mentor: Pilar Manzi
- **Nathaniel Kim**, Third-Year, Computer Science, Media Arts and Design
- Project Title: *Using LLMs to Model the Strength of Non-English Passwords*
- Mentor: Blase Ur
- **Spencer May**, Fourth-Year, Mathematics, Physics
- Project Title: *Regression Discontinuity Design Methodology Improvement*
- Mentor: Nikolaos Ignatiadis
- **Jacob Neplokh**, Fourth-Year, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts
- Project Title: *Leadership and Democracy*
- Mentor: John P. McCormick
- **Antonio Persi**, Second-Year, Anthropology, Political Science
- Project Title: *Violence, Authority, and Aid: Rethinking State-Building in Contemporary Haiti*
- Mentor: Martin Castillo-Quintanna
- **Allison Row**, Third-Year, Statistics, Economics
- Project Title: *How Artificial Intelligence Agents Interpret Subjective Human Values: An Audit of Personalization in Large Language Models*
- Mentor: Blase Ur
- **Noah Sher**, Second-Year, Sociology
- Project Title: *Entangled Oligarchies: The Hidden Deals Reshaping US-China Power Relations in Offshore Financial Centers*
- Mentor: Kimberly Kay Hoang
- **Isabella Summe**, Fourth-Year, Data Science
- Project Title: *Neural Signatures of Human and LLM-Derived Surprise in Story Listening*
- Mentor: Monica Rosenberg
- **Shreya Thota**, Third-Year, Economics, Computer Science
- Project Title: *Language Background And Infants' Attention Toward Native And Foreign Language Speakers*
- Mentor: Yiyi Wang
### **Supported by the Liew Family Research Fund**
- **Henry Baldwin**, Fourth-Year, Environment, Geography, & Urbanization
- Project Title: *In Human Scale: The Search for Ecological Proportion in Nineteenth-Century Literature*
- Mentor: Benjamin Morgan
- **Rohan Buluswar**, Fourth-Year, Mathematics
- Project Title: *Physics in Generative Diffusion Models*
- Mentor: Lorenzo Orecchia
- **Onofrio De Michele**, Fourth-Year, Anthropology
- Project Title: *Displaying Disappearing WIldlife: The Field Museum 1896 Expedition and Taxidermy in the 21st century*
- Mentor: Jessica Landau
- **Sebastian Deery**, Fourth-Year, Mathematics, Computer Science
- Project Title: *Projected Score Matching for Generative Modeling and Inverse Problems in Chaotic Systems*
- Mentor: Nisha Chandramoorthy
- **Cleo Delogu**, Fourth-Year, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cinema and Media Studies
- Project Title: *“Kidnapped”: Capital, Migration and Childhood in Comparative Print Culture 1820-1870*
- Mentor: Josephine McDonagh
- **Sofya Fadeeva**, Second-Year, Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Project Title: *Measuring Changes in Astronomical Sources over a Timescale of a Century*
- Mentor: Richard Kron
- **Lydia Gafford**, Third-Year, Art History, History
- Project Title: *The Craft Chronicle*
- Mentor: Erica Warren
- **Jaehyeon Han**, Third-Year, History, Germanic Studies
- Project Title: *The Political Novel Today: Problems and Possibilities*
- Mentor: Sophie Salvo
- **Daniel Hernandez**, Second-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: *Interpretable Latent Structure of an AI Emulator of Stochastic Sudden Stratospheric Warmings*
- Mentor: Dorian Abbot
- **Emma Kirwin**, Third-Year, Creative Writing, Cinema and Media Studies
- Project Title: *Environmental Futures Through Critical Game Design*
- Mentor: Katherine Buse
- **Larry Li**, Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: *Measuring the Relative Branching Ratio of KL-> 3pi0 / KL->pi+pi-pi0*
- Mentor: Yau Wah
- **Elektra Makris**, Fourth-Year, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: *High Throughput Validation of de novo Protein Binders to Probe Mechanisms of Inner-Ear Mechanotransduction*
- Mentor: Marcos Sotomayor
- **Giovanni Maya**, Fourth-Year, Computer Science, Data Science
- Project: *Voice vs. Visual Interfaces for Robot Personalization: Evaluating Control and Transparency Tradeoffs*
- Mentor: Sarah Sebo
- **Viresh Mittal**, Third-Year, Computer Science, Economics
- Project Title: *Quicksilver*
- Mentor: Ben Y. Zhao
- **Eliana Schiller**, Third-Year, Astrophysics, Anthropology
- Project Title: *Characterizing the Baryon Cycle Around Galaxies via Integral Field Spectroscopy*
- Mentor: Hsiao-Wen Chen
- **Junfei Sun**, Fourth-Year, Mathematics, Computer Science
- Project: *Asynchronous heavy-tailed Optimization*
- Mentor: Tian Li
- **Richmond Yeung**, Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: *Design and Development of PSEC5b and PSEC6: A Waveform sampler for fast-timing detectors in Particle Accelerators, Medical Imaging and Astrophysics*
- Mentor: Henry Frisch
- **Aine Zhang**, Second-Year, Statistics, Sociology
- Project Title: *Degrowth as a Game Design Problem*
- Mentor: Katherine Buse
### **Supported by the NK Cheung Chemistry Research Fellowship**
- **Michael Bolgov**, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: *Multiple turnovers of RNA methylation by methyltransferase ribozymes*
- Mentor: Matthew Tirrell
- **John Brownridge**, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering, Religious Studies
- Project Title: *Mechanically-Initiated Polymerization Mediated by Piezochemistry for Bone Repairing*
- Mentor: Yixiao Dong
- **Felice Chan**, Fourth-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: *Modeling Fluorescent Proteins as Living Qubits*
- Mentor: Greg Engel
- **Azeem Currah**, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: *A Use Case for Ni3THT2 as a Heavy-Metal Sensor*
- Mentor: John Anderson
- **Josh Gonzalez**, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: *Determination of the Functional Composition of Volume-Regulated Anion Channels During CD4+ Cell-Mediated Immune Response*
- Mentor: Axel Concepcion
- **Phoebe Hsu**, Second-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: *Regulation of RNA targets by the tRNA splicing endonuclease (TSEN) complex*
- Mentor: Cassandra Hayne
- **Arnav Modak**, Second-Year, Chemistry, Economics
- Project Title: *Spin-valley Control of Monolayer MoS2 via Molecular Functionalization*
- Mentor: Sarah B. King
- **Samarth Ram**, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: *Leveraging Machine Learning to Predict IscB-mediated Genome Editing*
- Mentor: Weixin Tang
- **Marco Sanchez**, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: *Multiple Turnovers in Non-Enzymatic RNA Replication at the Origin of Life*
- Mentor: Jack Szostak
- **Juliette Shapiro**, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: *Efforts Towards the Synthesis of Dhilirolide A*
- Mentor: Scott Snyder
- **Richard Song**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: *Characterization of Actin Cytoskeleton Changes by Pharmacological Inhibitors of Volume-Regulated Anion Channels*
- Mentor: Axel Concepcion
- **Ashok Tate**, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: *Self-Tethering Viologens for Facile and Durable H2O2 Electrosynthesis*
- Mentor: Anna Wuttig
- **Della Waldman**, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: *Reconstituting Actin Stress Fiber Repair Through Protein Phase Separation*
- Mentor: Margaret Gardel
- **Jeffery Zhang**, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: *Characterizing environmentally responsive condensing proteins in Synechococcus elongatus in vitro*
- Mentor: D. Allan Drummond
### **Supported by Collegiate Research Funds and other generous gifts from donors**
- **Jacques Attinger**, Second-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: *Printing Superconducting Quantum Circuits using a Miniaturized Molecular Beam Epitaxy*
- Mentor: Shuolong Yang
- **Naomi Gelfer**, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: *Investigating the pH Dependence of Fluorescent Protein Qubits for Cellular Biosensing*
- Mentor: Peter Maurer
- **Colleen Kim**, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: *Nb Thin Film Growth Optimization*
- Mentor: Supratik Guha
- **Siqi Liu**, Fourth-Year, Physics, Applied Mathematics
- Project Title: *2D Au*
- Mentor: Chong Liu
- **Ramon Rivas Varela**, Fourth-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: *Enhancing Quantum Thermometry in Living Cells Using Robust ZFS Extraction Methods*
- Mentor: Peter Maurer
- **Ha Do**, Fourth-Year, Astrophysics, Race, Diaspora, & Indigeneity
- Project Title: *A chemical investigation of Milky Way stellar streams*
- Mentor: Alexander Ji
- **Zvi Gomez Fisher**, Second-Year, Linguistics, Public Policy
- Project Title: *A Descriptive Phonology of Anabar Dolgan*
- Mentor: Lenore Grenoble
- **Avivit Ashman**, Third-Year, Art History
- Project Title: *Art of the Munich Olympics*
- Mentor: Christine Mehring
- **Iris Badezet-Delory**, Third-Year, Physics, Classical Studies
- Project Title: *Weather Gridlock: The Dynamics of Back-to-Back Heatwaves in Climate Hot-Spots*
- Mentor: Noboru Nakamura
- **Aubrey Barb**, Third-Year, Biochemistry, Chemistry
- Project Title: *Hybrid Proline-Rich Proteins in Systems of Plant Immunity*
- Mentor: Jean Greenberg
- **Jace Chen**, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering, Economics
- Project Title: *Identifying targetable vulnerabilities in extrachromosomal DNA–positive cancers.*
- Mentor: Lixing Yang
- **Charlie Davis**, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: *In-silico Deployment of Thoracic Aortic Stents to Model Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Disease Progression*
- Mentor: Luka Pocivavsek
- **Nurai El Ashry**, Third-Year, Biochemistry, Neuroscience
- Project Title: *Optimization of FISH and IF Protocols in FFPE Tissue*
- Mentor: Jingyi Fei
- **Alex Garcia**, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: *Investigation of the effect of separator on the performance of low temperature molten salt electrolytes in lithium metal batteries*
- Mentor: Chibueze Amanchukwu
- **Geordan Haynes**, Fourth-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: *Caregiver Responsiveness Project*
- Mentor: Susan Goldin-Meadow
- **Kalea Hidalgo**, Third-Year, Neuroscience, Psychology
- Project Title: *PIE-Sequencing ATXN2, the RNA-Binding Protein*
- Mentor: Paschalis Kratsios
- **Nathan Hu**, Third-Year, Chemistry, Statistics
- Project Title: *Fabrication of Electrically Tuneable Pressure-Sensitive LCE Adhesive Materials System*
- Mentor: Stuart Rowan
- **Mia Karathanasis**, Third-Year, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Studies
- Project Title: *Individual Variability in Perceptual Assimilation: The Relationship Between Spanish Perception and English Production*
- Mentor: Melissa Baese-Berk
- **Ernest Leong**, Fourth-Year, Romance Languages & Literatures: French
- Project Title: *Translating Charles Perrault's "Le Parralèle des Anciens et des Modernes"*
- Mentor: Larry F. Norman
- **Isaac Loh**, Third-Year, Biology, Economics
- Project Title: *Catfish Staging for Odontode Research*
- Mentor: Neil H. Shubin
- **Matheus Martino-Wojciechowski**, Third-Year, Neuroscience, History
- Project Title: *Thoracic Aortic Disease Modeling*
- Mentor: Luka Pocivavsek
- **Marina Mendes Ferreira**, Second-Year, Biological Sciences, History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine (HIPS)
- Project Title: *Disarming plant defenses: spatial expression of detoxification genes in Pieris rapae*
- Mentor: Marcus Kronforst
- **Gabby Moon**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *How Does BNIP3 Deletion Impact Skeletal Muscle?*
- Mentor: Kay Macleod
- **Deqa Muse**, Fourth-Year, Chemistry, History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine
- Project Title: *Modeling Conical Structures and Surgical Geometries*
- Mentor: Nhung Nguyen
- **Kyle Obermeyer**, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: *Inflammation and Disease Progression in a Genetic Mouse Model of Prion Disease*
- Mentor: James Mastrianni
- **Nic Restivo**, Third-Year, Geophysical Sciences, Environmental Sciences & Chemistry
- Project Title: *Calibrating Biomarker Proxies for Fires in Savannas*
- Mentor: Tyler Karp
- **Hanna Ruiz**, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry, Economics
- Project Title: *The Dosage-Dependent Effect of Interferons on CD28 and 4-1BB CAR T-cells*
- Mentor: Jun Huang
- **Sara Selig**, Second-Year, Computer Science, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Sensorimotor cortical activity and perceptual detection of intracortical microstimulation in somatosensory cortex*
- Mentor: Nicholas Hatsopoulos
- **Noah Sodickson**, Second-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: *An Information-Theoretic Approach to Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis*
- Mentor: Vincenzo Vitelli
- **Evalds Viguls**, Second-Year, Biochemistry, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: *Epigenetic Regulation of DNA Double-Strand Break Repair*
- Mentor: Stephen J. Kron
- **Elijah Wakefield**, Third-Year, Mathematics, Chemistry
- Project Title: *Scent Mixture Discrimination*
- Mentor: Leslie Kay
- **Stacey Zhao**, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: *Dissecting the Immune Crosstalk Driving tSC-Dependent Tumor Relapse*
- Mentor: Yuxuan (Phoenix) Miao
- **Ahan Datta**, Third-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: *Design of PSEC6: An Application Specific Integrated Circuit for Picosecond Timing*
- Mentor: Henry Frisch
- **Benedikt Nagele**, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering, Chemistry
- Project Title: *Exploring Mechanisms of Resistance to Trastuzumab Deruxtecan in Endometrial cancers*
- Mentor: Sridevi Challa
- **Andrew Arzac**, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering, Phyiscs, Mathematics
- Project Title: *PSEC6*
- Mentor: Henry Frisch
- **Graydon Schulze-Kalt**, Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: *PULSE-A Electronics Design, Integration, and Test*
- Mentor: Tian Zhong