SMU's Research Day reflects variety of interests
SMU graduate and undergraduate students presented results of ongoing and completed SMU-based research on Feb. 26.
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SMU graduate and undergraduate students presented results of ongoing and completed SMU-based research on Feb. 26, in Hughes-Trigg Student Center.
This annual event fosters communication between students in different disciplines, gives students the opportunity to present their work in a professional setting, and shares the outstanding research being conducted at SMU with peers and industry professionals from the greater Dallas community.
This year saw a 50 percent increase in student participation. A cash award of $250 was given to the best presentation from each department.
Research Day 2014 Winners
| Department | Prize | Authors | Title of Presentation |
| Department of Anthropology | Dean’s Departmental Award | Christopher Kiahtipes | Connecting the Ethographic and Ecological Present: Paleoenvironmental Perspectives on Late Iron Age Archeaology in Central Africa |
| Department of Biological Sciences | Dean’s Departmental Award | Megan Romeo | Cooperation between the human T-cell leukemia virus type-1 p30(II) protein and host cellular factors during oncogenic transformation and retroviral carcinogenesis |
| Department of Biological Sciences | Du Shen Prize | Courtney Follit | Reversal of multidrug resistance by novel inhibitors of human P-glycoprotein in cell culture |
| Department of Biological Sciences | Du Shen Prize | Olena Odnokoz | The role of Drosophila mitochondrial peroxiredoxins in aging-associated pathways |
| Civil and Environmental Engineering | Dean’s Departmental Award | Hossein Hashemi | A Simulation Test -Bed for Evaluating Active Traffic Network Management Systems |
| Department of Chemistry | Dean’s Departmental Award (split) | Alan Humason, Wenli Zou, Dieter Cremer | Title of Presentation: What is the Longest Carbon-Carbon Bond Known in Chemistry - 11,11-Dimethyl-1,6-methano[10]annulene. |
| Department of Chemistry | Dean’s Departmental Award (split) | Ashutosh Pudasaini, Brian D. Zoltowski | Blue light photoreceptor Zeitlupe senses light fluence to regulate plant circadian clock |
| Computer Science and Engineering | Dean’s Departmental Award | Jake Drew, Michael Hahsler | Strand: variable length k-mer sequence comparison using map reduce and locality sensitive hashing |
| Computer Science and Engineering | Dean’s Departmental Award | Hadil Shaiba | Evaluation of Different Classification Methods for Predicting Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification Events |
| Computer Science and Engineering | Kent and Nancy Fuka Undergraduate Award | Stark Riedesel | Cost-Performance Analysis of Clustered Biometric Systems |
| Computer Science and Engineering | Kent and Nancy Fuka Undergraduate Award | John Wadleigh | Automatic Identification and Analysis of Websites Selling Counterfeit Goods |
| Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences | Dean’s Departmental Award (split) | Kara Jones | Refining Fault Structure and Seismic Behavior along the Kuril Islands, Russia, using Teleseismic Double-Difference Relocation |
| Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences | Dean’s Departmental Award (split) | Benjamin Phrampus | Ocean Warming Induced Gas Hydrates Instability on the US Beaufort Margin |
| Department of Economics | Dean’s Departmental Award | Kledis Ali | Durable Goods Leasing under Adverse Selection |
| Electrical Engineering | Dean’s Departmental Award | Yingsi Liang | The First All-Digital Atomic Clock for the Enhanced WWVB Broadcast |
| Electrical Engineering | Dean’s Departmental Award | Tao Zhang | A 10Gb/s Laser Diode Driver in 130 nm CMOS |
| EMIS - Engineering Management, Information, and Systems | Dean’s Departmental Award | Yuanyuan Dong | Maximizing profit for vehicle routing under time and weight constraints |
| Department of Mathematics | Dean’s Departmental Award | David Gardner | Filters for the Improvement of Multiscale Data from Atomistic Simulations |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dean’s Departmental Award | Mahdi Jamshidinia | A New Concept in the Design and Manufacturing of Customized Dental Implants |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dean’s Departmental Award | Maurizio Manzo | Dome shaped micro-scale lasers as sensors for mechanical engineering applications |
| Department of Physics | Dean’s Departmental Award | Hang Qiu | A Plastic Solid Neutron Veto Design for SuperCDMS SNOLAB |
| Department of Psychology | Dean’s Departmental Award | Lindy Fields | Enhancing Autobiographical Beliefs through Simple Exposure |
| Department of Psychology | Dean’s Departmental Award | Kelli Sargent, Gabriella Jairala, Michael Ovalle, Chrystyna D. Kouros, E. Mark Cummings | Parentification as a Mediator of the Relation between Parental Depressive Symptoms and Youth Internalizing Problems |
| Department of Statistical Science | Dean’s Departmental Award | Bivin Sadler | The Information Function is a Fundamental Construct of IRT… But it’s Not Perfect! … Don’t Forget About the Bias! |
The Students and Their Projects:
Department of Anthropology
| Authors | Title of Presentation |
| Richard Anderson | Paleoindian Archaeology in the Badlands: Preliminary Results of New Investigations on the Little Missouri National Grasslands, North Dakota |
| Jenna Battillo | Archaeological facts from feces: dietary choice and subsistence change at Turkey Pen Ruin, Utah |
| Dawn Crawford | Experimental Jade Polishing: Replication of Ancient Maya Techniques |
| Alejandro Figueroa | How we got here: Tracking the effects of development on the archaeological heritage of Roatán island, Honduras |
| Whitney Goodwin, Alejandro Figueroa, Dawn Crawford | Temper over time: A comparison of the technical properties of common tempers from the Maya Preclassic to the Late Classic |
| Afshan Kamrudin | Psychological Well Being and Identity: Queer and Muslim in the US and South Africa |
| Christopher Kiahtipes | Connecting the Ethnographic and Ecological Present: Paleoenvironmental perspectives on Late Iron Age archaeology in Central Africa |
| Jessica Lott | Critical Intersections: Latinos/as, Reproduction, and Disability |
| Hannah Moots, Rachel Burger, Valeria Cantu, Kandi Doming, Suzy Hawkins, Christina Stewart, Amanda Thornton | Assessing Potential Sedentary Period Hohokam Clay Sources Through Experimental Archaeology |
| Margarette Pruitt, Richard Anderson | Stone Tool Raw Material Distribution in the Little Missouri Badlands |
| Hayley Wagner | Conceptualizing Medical Deservingness: Immigration and Health Care Utilization |
Department of Biological Sciences
| Authors | Title of Presentation |
| Marziyeh Badinloo, Marziyeh Badinloo, Vladimir Klichko, William Orr, Erwin Xia, Judith Benes, Olena Odnokoz and Svetlana Radyuk |
The Role of Peroxiredoxin5 in Aging and Immunity |
| Braden Barnett, Braden Barnett, Megan Romeo, Hayley Heatley, Jeffrey He, Rebecca Brady, Alexander McRae, Janice Kim, Jessica Chu, Mary Hancock, Rachel Luna, Rachel Gardner, and Robert Harrod | The human T-cell leukemia retrovirus type-1 p30II protein induces p53-dependent cell survival signals and promotes oncogene-activation in Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma tumor lymphocytes |
| Fran Brewer, Courtney A. Follit, Isolina R. Rossi, Christopher S. Wheelis, John G. Wise, Pia D. Vogel | Inhibition of Energy Transduction in P-glycoprotein |
| Courtney Follit | Reversal of multidrug resistance by novel inhibitors of human P-glycoprotein in cell culture |
| Nithya Mary Joseph | Takeout-dependent longevity is associated with altered Juvenile Hormone signaling and pheromone production |
| James McCormick, Pia D. Vogel, John G. Wise | Molecular Simulation of MsbA Flippase Activity |
| Olena Odnokoz | The role of Drosophila mitochondrial peroxiredoxins in aging-associated pathways |
| Vidya Pandarinath | Cell cycle regulation in Trypanosoma brucei: The case for Aurora kinase as a target for therapy |
| Stefan Rinaldi | Investigating the mechanism of p53-dependent longevity in the insulin producing cells of D. melanogaster |
| Megan Romeo | Cooperation between the human T-cell leukemia virus type-1 p30(II) protein and host cellular factors during oncogenic transformation and retroviral carcinogenesis |
| Ablat Tursun | Exploring proton channels in complex I from E. coli |
Department of Chemistry
| Authors | Title of Presentation |
| Zahra Bassampour | Selective nucleophilic replacement reactions of substituted silanes |
| Jian Cao | Novel Chemiluminescent Probes for Sensing H2S |
| Alan Humason, Wenli Zou, Dieter Cremer | Title of Presentation: What is the Longest Carbon-Carbon Bond Known in Chemistry - 11,11-Dimethyl-1,6-methano[10]annulene. |
| Jameela Lokhandwala, Brian Zoltowski , Ashutosh Pudasaini | Characterization Of Blue Light Sensitive Proteins |
| Katie Powers | Photochemical Characterization of LOV domain containing photoreceptors from Oryza Sativa |
| Ashutosh Pudasaini, Brian D. Zoltowski | Blue light photoreceptor Zeitlupe senses light fluence to regulate plant circadian clock |
| Dani Setiawan, Robert Kalescky, Elfi Kraka, Dieter Cremer | A New Approach for a Quantitative Description of Aromatic and Antiaromatic Molecules Based on Vibrational Spectroscopy |
| Thomas Sexton, Marek Freindorf, Elfi Kraka, and Dieter Cremer | The Mechanism of the Cycloaddition Reaction of 1,3-dipole Molecules with Acetylene: an Investigation with the Unified Reaction Valley Approach |
Department of Economics
| Authors | Title of Presentation |
| Kledis Ali | Durable Goods Leasing under Adverse Selection |
| Shraman Banerjee | Teachers' Incentive Pay: an Experimental Investigation of a Moral Hazard Problem |
| William Caylor | Replacement choice for consumer electronics |
| Sanchari Choudhury | Addressing Endogeneity While Evaluating the Impacts of Decentralization on Corruption |
| Zhihong Dong | Price dispersion, Search frictions and Signaling Quality through Prices |
| Yingyuan Lin | The Effects of Ability Tracking on Labor Market Outcomes: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis |
| Di Yu | Mutual Fund and Asset Pricing |
Department of Mathematics
| Authors | Title of Presentation |
| Young Ok Choi |
Numerical Solutions Of Transient Stokes Flow Using Galerkin Boundary Element Method |
| Edward Downes | Numerical Studies Of Raman Scattering by Induced Filaments |
| David Gardner | Filters for the Improvement of Multiscale Data from Atomistic Simulations |
| Chang Young Jang | An Analysis of Dispersion and Dissipation Properties of Hermite Methods Applied to Two-Dimensional Linear Hyperbolic Equation |
| Fritz Juhnke | Summation by parts boundary closures for finite difference methods |
| Mahnprit Jutley | The effect of vapor diffusion on the evaporation of a sessile droplet on a heated substrate |
| Christiaan Ketelaar, Vladimir Ajaev | The effect of structuring on the stability of electrolyte films |
| John LaGrone | Stable Implementation of Complete Radiation Boundary Conditions in Finite Difference Time Domain Solvers for Maxwell's Equations |
| Glen Pearson | Derivation of jump conditions for the immersed interface method with a triangular mesh of an interface |
| Jessica Schoenfeld | The application of modulation theory to PT-symmetry preserving coupled nonlinear van der Pol oscillators |
| Arnaud Zimmern | Braiding Red Riding Hood |
Department of Physics
| Authors | Title of Presentation |
| Joshua Abramoitch | Development of a Silicon PIN Diode X-Ray Detector |
| Tingting Cao | Combination of the Higgs boson main properties measurements using the ATLAS detector |
| David Clark, Fred Olness | Nuclear corrections to W/Z Boson production at the LHC |
| Govinda Dhungana, Robert Kehoe | Photometric and Spectroscopic analysis of Supernovae |
| Huanzhao Liu, Robert Kehoe, Amitabha Das | Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in Dilepton Final States at DØ experiment |
| Mayisha Zeb-Nakib Matthew Bruemmer, | Radon Plateout on Copper to ilLUMINAte Background Levels in the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Experiment |
| Hang Qiu, | A Plastic Solid Neutron Veto Design for SuperCDMS SNOLAB |
| Xiandong Zhao, Li Zhou | LAr Front-end Signal Process Simulation |
Department of Psychology
| Authors | Title of Presentation |
| Grace Boyers | Examining The Relation Between Positive And Negative Affect Over Time |
| Deanna Denman, Andrea R. Graham, Valerie G. Loehr, Austin S. Baldwin | The Moderating Effect of Body Mass Index (BMI) on Affective Forecasting Errors in Exercise |
| Jenna Ellison | Interplay between Relationship Attributions and Conflict Behaviors in Predicting Depression Symptoms |
| Lindy Fields | Enhancing Autobiographical Beliefs through Simple Exposure |
| Hani Gazal | The Relation of Parental Stress and Mothers’ Use of “Verbal Negatives” |
| Julie Kangas | Time Perspective as a Moderator of Daily Perceptions of Exercise Benefits and Satisfaction with Regular Exercise |
| Anne Kleinsasser | An Online Bystander Intervention Program for the Prevention of Sexual Violence |
| Valerie Loehr | Unpacking the expectancy violation effect in physical activity: Examining the effect of retrospective, peak, and average reports of experiences |
| Victoria Mueller, Ernest Jouriles, Renee McDonald, David Rosenfield | Children’s Appraisals and Involvement in Interparental Conflict: Unique Relations with Child Adjustment |
| Elizabeth Neil | The Effect of Task Valence on Social Skills among Individuals with a Severe Mental Illness |
| Kelli Sargent, Gabriella Jairala, Michael Ovalle, Chrystyna D. Kouros, E. Mark Cummings | Parentification as a Mediator of the Relation between Parental Depressive Symptoms and Youth Internalizing Problems |
| Ashley Schneider, Dr. Thomas Ritz; Chelsey Werchan | NIOXX Longitudinal Study |
| Ashton Steele, Noelle B. Smith, Ana Trueba, Alicia E. Meuret | Exploring the Longitudinal Relation between Experiential Avoidance and Depressive Symptoms |
| Nicole Vu, Ernest Jouriles, Renee McDonald, David Rosenfield | Children’s Appraisals of Conflict and Externalizing Problems in Families Characterized by Severe Intimate Partner Violence |
| Chelsey Werchan, Ashton Jeter, Thomas Janssens, Thomas Ritz | Development of the COPD Exacerbation Trigger Inventory (CETI) |
Department of Statistical Science
| Authors | Title of Presentation |
| Ou Bai | A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Meta-Analysis of Rare Binary Adverse Event Data |
| Changxing Chen | Alternative method of analyzing time varying frequency series |
| Amy Nussbaum | Estimation of Transient Error in Personality Assessments |
| Bivin Sadler | The Information Function is a Fundamental Construct of IRT… But it’s Not Perfect! … Don’t Forget About the Bias! |
| Sudharshan Samaratunga | A New Method for Estimating the Index Parameter of a Stable Distribution |
| Jian Zhang | Statistical Inference of Component Lifetimes with Location-Scale Distributions from Censored System Failure Data with Known Signature |
| Xiujun Zhu |
Comparison Of Quasi-Alignment Methods For Metagenomic Classification |
Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences
| Authors | Title of Presentation |
| Joseph Batir, David Blackwell, Maria Richards | Updated Surface Heat Flow Map of Alaska |
| Matthew Clemens | 23 Million Year Old Frogs from the Miocene of Mush, Ethiopia |
| John Graf | New Fossil Baleen Whales From Angola And Their Implications For The Early Evolution Of Pygmy Right Whales (Neobalaenidae) |
| Yanjun Hao, Maria Beatrice Magnani, Kirk McIntosh, Brian Waldron, Lei Guo | High-Resolution Marine and Land Seismic Reflection Imaging of the Meeman-Shelby Fault, near Memphis, Tennessee |
| Jesse Howard | Infrasound Amplitude Variations and Wind Corrections in the Southwestern US |
| Kara Jones | Refining Fault Structure and Seismic Behavior along the Kuril Islands, Russia, using Teleseismic Double-Difference Relocation |
| Mason MacPhail | Seismic Noise Analysis at Cherwon, South Korea using Power Spectral Density Probability Density Functions |
| Harrison Oldham | Preliminary Earthquake Relocations near Azle, TX |
| Benjamin Phrampus | Ocean Warming Induced Gas Hydrates Instability on the US Beaufort Margin |
| Christopher Strganac | Late Cretaceous paleoenvironment at the South Atlantic margin, Bentiaba, Angola, inferred through stable isotopes of marine bivalve shells and marine reptile tooth enamel |
| Vanshan Wright, Matt Hornbach , Cecilia McHugh | Lake Enriquillo Water Level History and Its Implications For Future Flooding in Southwestern Dominican Republic |
| Lu Zhu | Paleosol morphologies and estimations of paleoatmospheric pCO2, North-central Texas |
Civil and Environmental Engineering
| Authors | Title of Presentation |
| laelsadat Badakhshaneian, Andrew Quicksall, Lindsay Dietrich | Size & Age Dependent Surface Structure and Reactivity of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles |
| Haddijatou Bayo, Emily Moses | Aqueous Vanadium Removal Using Iron Oxide Nanoparticles |
| Leven Deputy | Catenary Methods Employed in Progressive Collapse Mitigation: A Second Order Approach |
| Hossein Hashemi |
A Simulation Test-Bed For EvaluatingActive Traffic Network Management Systems |
| Safa Mahjoub | Exploring the precipitation conditions and properties of new material to be used in biogrouting |
| Aliaksei Patsevich | Discrete Element Model Study of Seismic Effects on Retaining Walls |
| Kaitlyn Thomas | Characterization of Rock Plate Specimens |
| Myra Wilson, A. Fernandez, A. Quicksall, D.M. Aleto, K.E. Grant | Kinetics of electrochemically generated free chlorine for iron removal and disinfection of drinking water |
Computer Science and Engineering
| Authors | Title of Presentation |
| Soha Alhelaly | Security and Trust Issues in 3D ICs |
| Matthew Bolanos | Moving Generator - Infrastructure for Evolving Streams in R |
| Sudheer Chelluboina, Sudheer Chelluboina, Michael Hahsler | A novel trajectory partitioning method based on elastic bounding box |
| Zizhen Chen | Determining Backbones in Wireless Sensor Networks |
| Jake Drew, Michael Hahsler | Strand: variable length k-mer sequence comparison using map reduce and locality sensitive hashing |
| David Houngninou, Mitch Thornton | Simulation and Implication using a Transfer Function Model for Switching Logic |
| Mihai Tudor Panu, David Matula | Reducing Latency and Power in Multiplicative Division |
| Sohail Rafiqi | Cognitive and Context-Aware User Interfaces |
| Stark Riedesel | Cost-Performance Analysis of Clustered Biometric Systems |
| Hadil Shaiba | Evaluation of Different Classification Methods for Predicting Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification Events |
| Xi Shen, Jennifer Dworak | The Poet vs. the Scientist, reconfiguring on-chip test for different users |
| Micah Thornton, Marie Vasek | Analysis of DDoS on Bitcoin Services |
| Marie Vasek, Tyler Moore | Identifying Risk Factors for Webserver Compromise |
| Fernando Vilas, David Matula | Two Applications of the Maximum Adjacency Search |
| John Wadleigh | Automatic Identification and Analysis of Websites Selling Counterfeit Goods |
| Fanchen Zhang, Micah Thornton | Enhancing Structural Test with Probabilistic Functional Information |
| Adam Zygmontowicz | Securing P1687 Scan Chains using LSIBs and the Comparison of Common Test Hardware Security Methods |
Electrical Engineering
| Authors | Title of Presentation |
| Neda Adib | Weighted Stansfield Algorithm In Three Dimensions |
| Andrew Blanchard | Identification of Errant Pixels Through Variance Analysis |
| Pengfei Cui | Leveraging White Space Opportunity in Metropolitan Area |
| Saeed Dehghan Manshadi | Secure & Efficient Smart Grids Wide Area Monitoring Scheme |
| Chung Cheng Ho, Scott C Douglas | An Angular Sampling Theorem for the Frequency Interpolation of Antenna Array Calibration Measurements |
| Pengda Huang | Bounds on the Overhead of Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio |
| Jin Huang | High power 780-nm AlGaAs semiconductor broaden waveguide lasers |
| Ting Li, Papamichalis Panos |
A Novel Total Variation Optimization Method And Its Application On Blind Super-Resolution |
| Yingsi Liang |
The First All-Digital Atomic Clock For The Enhanced Wwvb Broadcast |
| Hui Liu | Outlier Detection for Training-Based Adaptive Protocols |
| Catriona McClowry, Chelsea Rickel, Matthew Bolanos, Adam Gourley, Kyle Tabler | ADS-B Radar Display |
| Indranil Sinharoy | Iris acquisition with Scheimpflug cameras for extended volume |
| Kexu Sun | Calibration Techniques for High-Speed Time-Interleaved SAR ADCs |
| Meiling Xu | Optimization over Positive Polynomials |
| Tao Zhang | A 10Gb/s Laser Diode Driver in 130 nm CMOS |
Engineering Management, Information, and Systems
| Authors | Title of Presentation |
| Yuanyuan Dong | Maximizing profit for vehicle routing under time and weight constraints |
| Razan Kattoa | Improved Demand Forecasting with the tBISA Distribution |
| Anthony Klinkert | Networ Topology Optimization for Smart Grid, Machine to Machine and The Internet of Things |
| Angelika Leskovskaya, Richard Barr | Interval-flow Generalized Networks: Models and Applications |
Mechanical Engineering
| Authors | Title of Presentation |
| Amir Ahmed |
A Novel Micro-Photonic Electric Field Sensor For Brain-Machine Interface |
| Ahmas Alshorman |
Locomotion Modes Of A Family Of Linear, Open Chain Mechanisms |
| David Case, Behzad Taheri, Edmond Richer | Suppression of Severe Pathological Tremor with Magnetorheological Orthosis |
| Julie Griffin | Using the Velocity of Ultrasound to Determine the Long Term Effects of SRS on the Cervical Spine |
| Masoud Harooni | Real-Time Detection of Defects in Laser Welding of AZ31B Magnesium Alloy by a Spectroscopic Analysis |
| Mahdi Jamshidinia | A New Concept in the Design and Manufacturing of Customized Dental Implants |
| Mohammad Kashki |
Inertially Actuated Robots: New Generation Of Locomotive Robots |
| Perry Leggett, Harooni Masoud | Surface Quality in Laser Welding of 6061 Aluminum Alloy in Coach-Peel Configuration with Dual-Beam Arrangements |
| Bin Li, Jeong Ho You | Self-powered SSHI circuits for vibration energy harvesting |
| Shuang Liu | Development of laser hot-wire cladding |
| Wei Liu | Real-time Monitoring of the Laser Hot-wire Welding Process |
| Gazi Mahmud | Detection of Arsenic in Drinking Water Using Whispering Gallery Mode (WGM) Principle |
| Maurizio Manzo | Dome shaped micro-scale lasers as sensors for mechanical engineering applications |
| Mehdi Mazar Atabaki | Hybrid/laser arc welding of dissimilar materials |
| Edoardo Rubino, Tindaro Ioppolo | Magnetic Field-Induced Morphology-Dependent Resonances of a Coupled Composite Metglas Slab with a Polymeric Optical Resonator |
| Matt Saari, Collin Clay, Adam Cohen, Edmund Richer, Paul Krueger | Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing of Soft Robot Bodies with Integrated Arrays of Sensors and Actuators |
| Vahid Sadri | Numerical Study of Formation and Interactions of Concentric Vortex Ring |
| Lin Zhu, Jeong Ho You | Probing Effect of Defects on Ferroelectricity in Ferroelectric Thin Films |
Others
| Authors | Department | Title of Presentation |
| Harley Goldsmith | English | Does Crusoe Shit in the Woods?: Sovereignty and Economy on Robinson's Island Kingdom |
| Spencer C. Bogle | Religious Studies | Religion and Development: Chasing and Challenging the Kantian Kingdom of God on Earth |
| Ruben Arellano | William P. Clements Department of History | LA CAUSA CHICANA IN THE “BIG D;” Radicals and Reformers in Dallas, Texas |
| Samantha Robinson | Art History | Porcellana Ficta in Paint: The Pictorial and Material Structure of The Feast of the Gods |