Students are strongly encouraged to participate in one or more research projects during their degree studies. Research enables students to gain a deeper appreciation for the discipline, clarify career goals, and establish relationships with faculty members. The experience builds both hard and soft skills that are easily transferable – in graduate school and the job market -- and give you extra insight into a field or topic you are passionate about.
As part of their overall participation in research projects, in collaboration with their professors, the students write scientific reports and papers for publication in scientific peer reviewed journals and present their work at local, regional, national and international conferences.
Most recently, our students have been authors on the following publications (student authors are bolded, faculty authors are italicized):
Aizenberg, I., Herman, J., & Vasko, A. (2022). A convolutional neural network with multi-valued neurons: A modified learning algorithm and analysis of Performance. 2022 IEEE 13th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON). https://doi.org/10.1109/uemcon54665.2022.9965659
Ashley, A., Thrope, B., Choudhury, M.R., & Pinto, A.H. (2022). Emerging investigator series: Photocatalytic membrane reactors: Fundamentals and advances in preparation and application in wastewater treatment. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 8(1), 22–46. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ew00513h
Bohling, M. E., & Udeigwe, L.C. (2022). The spiking neuron model. Foundations for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics, 127–152. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08564-2_5
Cirincione. A., Verrier, R., Bic, A., Olaiya, S., DiCarlo, J., Udeigwe, L., & Marques, T. (2022). Implementing divisive normalization in CNNs improves robustness to common image Corruptions. Proceedings of SVRHM 2022 Workshop @ NeurIPS. https://openreview.net/pdf?id=KAAbo44qhJV
Fan, J., Gilmartin, K., Octaviano, S., Villar, F., Remache, B., & Regan, J. (2022). Using human serum albumin binding affinities as a proactive strategy to affect the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of preclinical drug candidates. ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science, 5(9), 803–810. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsptsci.2c00115
Fisher, R. & Wilkins B.J. (2022). In vivo crosslinking and mass spectral analysis of the yeast nucleosomal protein interactome. The FASEB Journal, 36(S1). https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.2022.36.s1.r3748
Gilmartin, P., & Horn, B. (2021). Observable relics of the simple harmonic universe. Annals of Physics, 434, 168626. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aop.2021.168626
Kemp, T. M., Kawakita, T. A., Mehta, R., & Pineda, A.R., (2023). Optimizing data acquisition in under sampled magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using two alternative forced choice (2-AFC) and search tasks. Medical Imaging 2023: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment. In press.
O'Neill, A.G., Lingala, S. G., & Pineda, A.R. (2022). Predicting human detection performance in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with total variation and wavelet sparsity regularizers. Medical Imaging 2022: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2608986
Ong, M.D., Vasquez, I., Alvarez, B., Cho, D.R., Williams, M.B., Vincent, D.V., Ali, M.A., Aich, N., Pinto, A.H., & Choudhury, M.R. (2023). Modification of cellulose acetate microfiltration membranes using graphene oxide–Polyethyleneimine for enhanced dye rejection. Membranes, 13(2), 143. https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes13020143
Pepaj, F., & Wacker, S. (2022). The role of a regulatory protein in the differing biofilms of wild isolates. The FASEB Journal, 36(S1). https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.2022.36.s1.l7772
Shockey, B.J., White, E., Anaya, F., & McGrath, A. (2023). A new proterotheriid (mammalia, Litopterna) from the Salla Beds of Bolivia (upper oligocene): Phylogeny and Litoptern patellar pit knee locks. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2022.2162409
Thrope, B., Ferreira Lima, A. R., & Pinto, A.H. (2022). From the periodic properties of metals to the Rietveld refinement of the pharmaceutical molecule naproxen: Three remote experiments about X-ray diffraction. Journal of Chemical Education, 99(5), 2055–2066. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00831