Graduate Poster Session
SMU graduate students and postdocs will present results of ongoing and completed SMU-based research. The goal of this event is to foster communication between graduate students and postdocs in different disciplines, give them the opportunity to present their work in a professional setting, and share the outstanding research being conducted at SMU with their peers and industry professionals from the greater Dallas community. Refreshments will be available. View the program:
Graduate Poster Session Program 2023
Prizes
A cash prize of $250 will be awarded to the best poster from each department or judging group.
Poster Requirements and Dimensions
Congratulations to last year's Dean's Award Winners:
- Applied Physiology: Claire Trotter, “Spontaneous Cardiovagal Baroreflex Sensitivity in Females with Multiple Sclerosis”
- Education (two awards): Murphy K Mogensen, Education, “Writing Interventions for Students with Learning Disabilities: A Preliminary Scoping Review”
- Education (two awards): Mai Zaru, “From Resilient Books to Resilient Kids: A Content Analysis”
- Higher Education: Emily Rasch, “Sisterhood or Cis-terhood: Trans-Inclusive Admissions Policies at Historically Women's Colleges”
- Biology: Kelsey Paulhus, “Understanding How Specific Cardiac and Brain Autonomic Regions Contribute to Cardiorespiratory Dysfunction in the Context of Sudden Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)”
- Chemistry: Joshua Plank, “Functional Surface Patterning via Photolysis of Aryl diazoacetates”
- Theoretical and Computational Chemistry: Hao Tian, “Exploring Protein Conformational Space with Variational Autoencoder”
- Earth Sciences: Weiyu Zheng, “Bayesian Monte Carlo Inversion of InSAR Time Series Deformation Induced by Wastewater Injection: a Case Study in West Texas”
- Economics: Shuo Qi, “Estimating Treatment Effects with Spillovers in Unobserved Networks”
- Mathematics (tie): Sabrina Hetzel, “Pure Quartic Solitons in Novel Laser Designs”
- Mathematics (tie): Steven Walton, “3-Wave Kinetic Equations: Numerical Approximation of Non-Stationary Solutions”
- Physics: Santosh Parajuli, “Search for Higgs Boson Pair Production in the Multi-lepton Final State Using Proton-Proton Collision Data at $\sqrt{s} =13$ TeV from the ATLAS Detector”
- Psychology (tie): Melissa Sitton, “Adolescents Who Have Experienced Sexual Abuse: Non-Supportive Responses, Self-Blame, and Trauma Symptoms”
- Psychology (tie): Sumaiyah Syed, “Depression, Inflammation, and the Moderating Role of Metformin: Results from the MIDUS Study”
- Biostatistics: MaryLena Bleile, “Optimizing the Combination of Radiotherapy with Immunotherapy using Reinforcement Learning”
- Statistical Science: Louis Vazquez, “Extension of Deletion-based Influence Diagnostics to Generalized Estimating Equations for Nominal Multinomial Response Data”
- Civil & Environmental Engineering (two awards): Kostas Kalfas, “Can We Protect Our Structures Sustainably Against Natural Hazards?”
- Civil & Environmental Engineering (two awards): Hussam Khresat, “Vehicle-Bridge Strike Classification Using Real-World & Synthetic Data”
- Computer Science (two awards): Clayton Harper, “SNR-Boosted Automatic Modulation Classification”
- Computer Science (two awards): Ethan Potthoff, “Simulation Data Mining to Explore Soil Liquefaction”
- Electrical and Computer Engineering: David Wang, “A Control-theoretical Brain-Computer Interface for Modulating Hippocampal Oscillations via Deep Brain Stimulation of the Posterior Cingulate Cortex”
- Mechanical Engineering: Jaime da Silva, “Sensors Based on Evanescent Field Perturbation of Microresonators”
- Operations Research and Engineering Management: Yulan Bai, “A Composite Index Method for Optimization Benchmarking”
- Combined Group: Samantha Lagos, “Where My Ladies At? The Fight to Erase the Gender Gap in Research Publications”
- Undergraduate Group: Abigail Hays, “Surface Air Entrapment in Small-Scale Fin Propulsion”