Fourteen students presented their master’s thesis work in Biomedical Engineering this semester.

Luke Acuff (Advisor: Nicole McLaughlin)
Detecting Biomarkers of OCD Through the Use of Behavioral Tasks: Pilot Data Analysis and Task Validation

Eunsung (Ally Choi) and Yosman Dhar (Advisors: Marissa Gray & Celinda Kofron)
Innovations for Resource-constrained Settings: Opioid Crisis and Wound Care

Prutha Deshpande (Advisor: Anubhav Tripathi)
Simultaneous detection of 18 Antidepressants in Human Serum using a High-throughput Sample Preparation Method for LC-MS/MS

Syphong Ha (Advisor: Jason Richards)
Development of a Convolutional Neural Network for Generalized Periodic Discharge Classification in Cardiac Arrest Patients

Yasmin Karasu '21 (Advisor: Anubhav Tripathi)
A Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Models for Automated Multi-class Cervical Cancer Diagnosis Using Liquid Pap Smear Images

Dana Leichter '18 (Advisor: Richard Gilbert)
An Architectural Basis for Lingual Soft Tissue Mechanics

Andrea Lu (Advisor: Vikas Srivastava)
Response and Failure Behavior of HDPE and UHMWPE under Chemical, Biological, and Thermal Environment

Gavin Mays (Advisor: Vikas Srivastava)
Effect of pH Regulation on Chemotherapeutic Efficacy

Lisa Okazaki '21 (Advisor: Diane Hoffman-Kim)
Modeling Neuroinflammation in 3D Neuronal Spheroids After Single and Repeated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Jessie Rapoza '21 (Advisor: Jimmy Xu)
Molecular Chirality Detection via Optical Rectification in Spin-Momentum Locking

Stephanie Roser (Advisor: Kareen Coulombe)
Heparin-modified Alginate Based Hydrogels for Revascularization in Ischemic Cardiac Disease

Anna Rusnak (Advisor: Vikas Srivastava)
Using Convolutional Neural Network for Early Breast Cancer Detection

Ge Zhu (Advisor: He Li)
Infer the Hidden Dynamics in Blood Coagulation Cascade using System Biology-Informed Neural Networks