Course Name: Independent Design
Oravi: Immersive Virtual Environments for Language Learning
Acquiring fluency in a foreign language is a challenging prospect, yet many people desire to do so for a variety...
A BioMEMS Sensor for Monitoring and Controlling Biological Fluid Flow
Hydrocephalus is a neurological condition caused by excess cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) within the cerebral ventricles. With symptoms ranging from nausea...
Redesign of the Orthopedic Walking (CAM) Boot
One of the best parts about being a young adult is feeling invincible, pushing one’s boundaries to the extremes. However,...
Redesigning Scrambler Therapy: A Neuropathic Pain Treatment Device
Neuropathic pain effects between seven and ten percent of Americans; it lowers patients’ productivity, ability to sleep, and general quality...
An Apparatus for Precise Data Collection from Stroke Patients
One out of 20 deaths in America are caused by stroke; on average, American suffers from stroke every 40 seconds....
Kirby Leo
Cartilage damage and imperfections in the facial region, especially the nose, drastically affect patient quality of life. Rhinoplasties are performed...
Marion Pang
Prostate cancer is a highly prevalent and fatal disease – it is estimated that 1 in every 6 men would...
Sandeep Kambhampati
Spinal cord injury (SCI) affects approximately 2.5 million people worldwide. Ensuring the recurrence of blood flow to the spinal cord...
Sanjana Eranki
Oral administration is currently the most common form of drug delivery to the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. This, however, presents numerous...
Shanelle Mendes
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the major causes of blindness among those over 50 in the United States,...
Sun Jay Yoo
sojourner is a single-molecule tracking analysis software and graphical user interface (GUI) built as a R package. In order to allow...
DIR-GAN: Generative Deep Learning for Image Registration with Applications to COPD
We present a fast deep learning-based framework for deformable, pairwise image registration (DIR-GAN). Whereas conventional registration methods require an iterative...
Design of a Metabolic Analog to Inhibit SARS-CoV-2 Cellular Entry
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has infected over 100,000,000 individuals and killed over...
Design of a Quantitative Method for Assessing Neurosurgical Retractor Efficacy
Access to deep-seated brain lesions (e.g., tumors, aneurysms, hematomas, and other malformations) is challenging due to the potential for retraction-induced...
Lucky Inserter: Re-envisioning Corneal Transplants for Canines
The goal of this study was to present a comprehensive overview of endothelial dystrophy as it occurs in canines and...
Deep Learning Guided Design of Peptide Binders
The ability to generate proteins with desired properties remains one of the most complex yet impactful problems in biology and...
Optimization of an Assay for High Throughput Measurement of Lysyl Oxidase Activity
Activity assays quantitatively measure enzyme activity and investigate the effectiveness of drugs. Reagents that react specifically with functional groups created...
Evaluation of current bursitis treatments and directions for future treatment technology
Bursitis is a widespread and common issue of soft tissue pain. The majority of bursitis patients will obtain long-term pain...
Design of a Remotely Accessible Imaging Lab for the Virtual Classroom
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended in-person learning across the globe. While most learning experiences have been impacted, adapting hands-on lab...
Automated Analysis of Cardiac Arrhythmia Activation Patterns
Computer simulation of electrical conduction in the heart’s atrium is essential to computer guided ablation treatment for the cardiac disease...
scEntropy: Transcriptomic entropy quantifies cardiomyocyte maturation at single cell level
The immaturity of pluripotent stem cell (PSC)-derived tissues has emerged as a universal problem for their biomedical applications. While efforts...
Designing a More Precise, User-Friendly Tool for Gene Regulatory Network Reconstruction from Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data
Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) are the sets of all genes, transcription factors (TFs), and their interactions that determine genetic expression...