May 2025: Statler Circuit Department Digest and Awards

Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

During the AI Symposium AI in Action: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities Across Domains undergraduate and graduate student participating in a poster competition. Winners below:
Graduate Student Award Category:

1st Place: Student Name - Jacob Thrasher

Poster Title: Toward Robust and Reliable Survival Models for Disease Progression Analysis

Student Name - Ghazaleh Mirzaee

Poster Title: Multi-label Classification using Self-Supervised Learning: Addressing Class Inter-Dependency and Data Imbalance

2nd Place: Student Name - Alina Devkota

Poster Title: Federated Foundation Model for GI Endoscopy Images

Student Name - Mehdi Jabbari Zideh

Poster Title: Domain-Knowledge-Aware Computational Intelligence Models for Stochastic Analysis of Cyber-Power Events in IBR-Rich Grids

 

3rd Place: Student Name - Maher Al Islam

Poster Title: AI in Autonomous Vehicles Under Siege

Student Name - Raphael Oladokun 

Poster Title: Integrating AI and Dielectrophoresis to Profile Biomarkers for Early Breast Cancer Detection

Student Name - Mohammed Mustafa Hussain

Poster Title: Safe-Grid: A Hybrid ML-Driven Spatio-Temporal Explainable Intrusion Detection System for Smart Grid

Undergraduate Student Award Category:

1st Place: Student Name - Jonathan Dofka, Andrew Gautier and Peter Sorrentino

Poster Title: AI Integration with Educational Microgrid

2nd Place: Student Name - Azain Uqaily, Elijah Motter and Matthew Knospe

Poster Title: Identifying Lightning-Induced Faults in Transmission Systems through Current Surge Analysis and Environmental Correlation

In graduate student category, first place winners will receive $250 each, second place winners will receive $175 each and third place winners will receive $75 each towards their education credit. If you have multiple student participated in your research poster – we will leave the decision to share the award amount to first author and faculty advisor.

In undergraduate student category, first place poster winner will receive $125 total, second place poster winner will receive $75 total towards their education credit. 

Wadsworth Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 

Austin Jarrell, a civil engineering graduate student, for placed first in the prestigious ASCE Region 4 DV Terrell Competition! This prestigious competition has been held for over 60 years and commemorates Dean Terrell's many years of work and service to the Society and especially his leadership in the establishment of the District Council System, the predecessor of the Region 4 Assembly. All members, associate members or affiliates of ASCE (not including student members) who are 35 years of age or less. Jarrell's work in professional ethics earned top honors at the 2025 Spring Assembly in Indianapolis.

---