Students Share Their Good News

Saif Abbas

a biomedical enginering student received Institutional Review Board approval on a project that was started here at WVU. "Over the last summer I started work on an artificial intelligence ER triage system. This led me to meeting with many ER Doctors who are working with me on this to get it developed and implemented at WVU. I am excited about seeing something I started turning into reality before my very eyes. I was prepared by the Statler College, through the many resources available to me and the backing of professors such as Dr. Adjeroh who is working with us in the AI side."

Samuel Adeyemo

a chemical engineering doctoral student, had his research published in the peer-reviewed journal Computers & Chemical Engineering. Adeyemo’s work develops a new machine learning algorithm (BIDSAM) that outperforms popular existing methods like ALAMO and SINDy. The mentorship of his advisor Debangsu Bhattacharyya, GE Plastics professor in the chemical and biomedical engineering department, helped him fulfill this accomplishment.

Andrew Gautier

a computer science student, recently had the opportunity to present at the NASA IV&V facility in Fairmont and was awarded a NASA undergraduate fellowship. During the event, he engaged with experienced engineers and scientists, especially in the aerospace industry. Gautier’s research applies natural language processing and machine learning to the process of building better vulnerability forecasting models. Throughout the research process, Statler College has provided him with a solid support system and faculty mentors, Dale Dzielski research associate professor and Tom Devine teaching assistant professor both in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, have served as sources of encouragement. Looking towards the future, Gautier stated, “I am excited to finish my junior and senior year strong and want to keep producing better and better results.”

Jack Grushecky and Alec Poland

Jack Grushecky, a civil engineering major and Alec Poland, a mechanical engineering major, represented WVU at the Bassmaster College Series National Championship. They earned their spot in this competition by winning the Pennsylvania State Championship on Lake Erie in June and are now set to compete against approximately 150 teams from across the country for a National Championship. "The most exciting aspect of our accomplishment is the opportunity to represent WVU on a national stage at the Bassmaster College Series National Championship. Winning the Pennsylvania State Championship on Lake Erie was a significant achievement, but the chance to compete against top teams from across the country is incredibly thrilling and a great honor for both of us.The Statler College has prepared us by teaching us critical thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork. These skills are essential in competitive angling and have helped us succeed both academically and in our fishing endeavors."

Hamed Khosravi

Raphael Oladokun

a chemical engineering graduate student, recently had his second first-authored manuscript published in Nature Scientific Reports, the 5th most-cited journal in the world (Clarivate Analytics, 2023). The article was co-authored with Ezekiel O. Adekanmbi and the 2022 MESA Lab summer high school interns, Vanessa An and Isha Gangavaram, under the supervision of Soumya Srivastava, assistant professor in the chemical and biomedical engineering department.

Through this exciting publication, the group demonstrated how microfluidics are at the forefront of single cell analysis technology. The study investigated the dielectric properties of erythrocytes (red blood cells) and their responses to metabolic stress, temperature, and storage duration. Also highlighted was the relevance of this research in membrane physiology, clinical hematology, and transfusion medicine.

Reflective of this research, Raphael also won Student Travel Award for the Fall American Chemical Society 2024 Meeting to present his research on 'Dielectrophoretic characterization and COMSOL computational analysis of late carcinoma using peripheral blood.'

Oladokun recently received the 2024 NOBCChE Graduate Rising Star Award - Northeast during the 51st National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) National Conference held in Orlando, FL. The NOBCChE Graduate Rising Star Award recognizes the importance of student servant leaders who exemplify the mission of NOBCChE through excellence in education, research, and service. 

Md Hadisur Rahman and Nishat Binte Alam

Peter Yegorov

a computer science master's student, and the team from the SG-REAL lab recently published a paper proposing a Cyber Digital Twin intended for testing Smart Grid cybersecurity tools in a safe environment. Yegorov traveled to Asheville, NC to present the paper’s findings at the 2023 North American Power Symposium and won third place for the best student paper award. The Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources played an important role in this accomplishment, as Yegorov worked on the paper in the lab of Anurag Srivastava, professor and chair of the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, for one year as his senior capstone project.

LCSEE Research Week Poster competition winners

During the 2024 West Virginia University Research Week, LCSEE hosted a graduate student poster event coordinated by Dr. Jignesh Solanki. We had nineteen poster participants in poster symposium, with each poster evaluated by three judges. Our judging panel was diverse, consisting of 42% industry professionals, 36% from Statler Engineering, and 22% from other WVU colleges, particularly the WVU medical colleges. Following students received awards:

Poster Winners:
1st Place:
Kalyani Bhopi/Poster Title: Digital Calibration Source for 21 cm Cosmology Telescope
FNU Shivam (Presenter), Jacob Thrasher, Claire Davis, Kelsey Clodfelter, Mary Kelly /Poster Title: Segmentation of Maya glyphs through fine-tuned foundation models

2nd Place
Jacob Thrasher (Presenter), Alina Devkota, Ahmed Tafti, Binod Bhattarai /Poster Title: TE-SSL: Time and Event-Aware Self Supervised Learning for Alzheimer’s Dementia Progression Analysis
Md Fazley Rafy/Poster Title: Analyzing Cybersecurity of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) in the Electric Distribution Grid

3rd Place
Ram Zaveri (Presenter), Voke Brume/Poster Title: Few-Shot Adaptation for Morphology-Independent Cell Instance Segmentation
Sahar Rahimi Malakshan/Poster Title: Face Recognition with Sample-Level Weighting
Mehdi Jabbari Zideh/Poster Title: First Principles based Non-linear Uncertainty-aware Models for Complex Cyber-Physical Event Analysis in IBR-rich Systems
Solmaz Nazaralizadeh (Presenter), P. Banerjee/Poster Title: Battery Energy Management Systems and Health Monitoring

Honorable Mention:
Nima Najafzadeh, Alina Devkota/Poster Title: A Contrastive Objective for Multi-model Ensemble Learning
Banafsheh Adami/Poster Title: Advancing rPPGEstimation: Leveraging Generative Adversarial Networks with Multiple Discriminator
Rukesh Prajapati/Poster Title: Cloud-based Federated Learning Framework for MRI Segmentation