Samueli Endowed Fellowship Awarded to Twenty Engineering Students

Ceren Babayigit
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research project: LiNbO3-based Synaptic Sensors
Adviser: Ozdal Boyraz

Youngeun Bae
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research project: Adoption and Demand Models of Alternative Fuels in Heavy-duty Vehicle Fleets in California
Adviser: Stephen Ritchie

Jiahui Cao
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research project: Thermal Characterization of Metal Silicide Nanostructures for Thermoelectric Applications
Adviser: Jaeho Lee

Noelia Civico Dorado
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research project: Application of Neural Networks for Medical Imaging
Adviser: Nader Bagherzadeh

Jawad Fayaz
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research project: Statistical Frameworks for Improved Seismic Demand Analysis of Bridge Structures
Adviser: Farzin Zareian

Laurielyse Girod-Williams
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research project: Active Cell Balancing Circuit for Lithium-Ion Battery Management System for Electric Vehicles and Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Adviser: Keyue Smedley

Wesley Groves
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research project: Understanding and Building the Interface Between Synthetic Polymers and Living Cells; Engineering 3D-Printable Living Composite Materials
Adviser: Seunghyun Sim

Salla Kim
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research project: Cardiovascular Biomechanics and Ventricular Function with the End Goal of Improving Cardiovascular Health
Adviser: Naomi Chesler

Oyku Deniz Kose
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research project: Machine Learning Algorithms on Graphs
Adviser: Yanning Shen

Chengheng Lyu
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research project: Semantic Visual Recognition
Adviser: Phil Sheu

Elliot Makhani
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Research project: Nanoparticle Adhesion Dynamics Simulation
Adviser: Jered Haun

Naomy Marrufo
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Research project: Electronic Properties of Conductive Peptide Nanowires
Adviser: Allon Hochbaum

Sangjun Noh
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research project: Two Electrode Biosensor, 3D Printable Display for Sensors
Adviser: Rahim Esfandyar-Pour

Mohammed Ombadi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research project: Applications of Causal Inference, Graph Theory and Data Mining in Hydro-Meteorological Systems
Adviser: Soroosh Sorooshian

Charles Owens
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research project: Investigating Thermal Transport Phenomena in 3D Manufactured Lattice Structures (Microlattices)
Adviser: Jaeho Lee

Omobayo Salawu
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research project: Advanced Materials for the Removal of Emerging Contaminants from Water
Adviser: Adeyemi Adeleye

Mojtaba Taherisadr
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research project: Designing Human-in-the-Loop Context-Aware IoT Systems with Focus on Performance, Privacy, Reliability, and Adaptability
Adviser: Salma Elmalaki

Isaac Valdez
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Research project: Additive Manufacturing of High Entropy Metals and Studying Defects in Additively Manufactured Components

Jiaxuan Xie
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Project: Explanations for the Graph Neural Networks  
Adviser: Yanning Shen

Siavash Zare
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research project: Carbon Sequestration in Divalent Metal Silicates
Adviser: Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini Qomi