Congratulations to the winners of the GMiS 2021 Conference Research Poster Competition, sponsored by Boeing, NASA, Air Force STEM, and the SoCalGas Company!
The Research Poster Competition provides graduate and undergraduate students from traditionally underserved and underrepresented ethnic or racial groups in science, engineering, computer, and health-related disciplines the opportunity to compete and/or showcase their scientific and technical projects to top STEM professionals.
This year, GMiS had a record-breaking 95 entries, all of which were made possible by our Research Poster Competition sponsors – The Boeing Company, NASA Headquarters, Air Force STEM (or Research Laboratory), and the Southern California Gas Company.
Meet the winners:
Graduate – Math/Science
1st Place
Computer Vision for High-Throughput Quantitative Genetics for Yield Components and Disease Resistance in Sweet Corn
Juan M. Gonzalez
Doctoral Candidate, Agricultural Sciences
University of Florida
Graduate – Engineering
1st Place
Modeling of Separation Processes to Scale-Up the Production of Corn Stover to Biojetfuel
Marco Avendaño
Doctoral Student, Chemical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
2nd Place
Probing the Effects of Acid Electrolyte Anions on Electrocatalyst Activity and Selectivity for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Jose Zamora Zeledon
Doctoral Candidate, Chemical Engineering
Stanford University
Graduate – Computing
1st Place
HoneyPLC: A Next-generation Honeypot for Industrial Control Systems
Efren Lopez Morales
Doctoral Candidate, CyberSecurity
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
2nd Place
Data Visualizations of Reviews and Ratings on Yelp
Carlier Hernandez
Masters, Computer Engineering
Kean University
3rd Place
Efficient Greedy Algorithm for Virtual Network Function Placement
Shinaola Agbede
Masters, Computer Science
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Conceptual Abstract
1st Place
Advancing the UI/UX Design for Video Sharing Platforms
Varun Medidi
Senior, Instrumentation Engineering Technology
Kean University
2nd Place
A Music Recommendation System
David Serra
Senior, Computer Science
Kean University
Undergraduate – Math/Science
1st Place
The Impact of CSF and CHI3L1 Expression on Glioblastoma Malignancy (featured poster above)
Victoria Corcino
Senior, Health Sciences
University of Central Florida
2nd Place
Effects of Salvia Hispanica on Bone Metabolic Pathways in Mouse Osteoblastic Cells – a miRNA Analysis
Natasha Garcia-Rodriguez
Senior, Biomedical and Medical Engineering
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Undergraduate – Engineering
1st Place
Bringing Aerospace to K-12 Students Using Nontraditional Applications
Fernando Sesma
Senior, Aerospace Engineering
Texas A&M University
2nd Place
Development of a Leg Motion Intent Classifier Using Brain-Computer Interfaces and Machine Learning
Manuel Umana
Sophomore, Computer Engineering
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
3rd Place
Blockchain-Based Software For Power System Operation Decision-Making
Brayan Garcia Pong
Senior, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas at El Paso
Undergraduate – Computing: Honorable Mentions
Emotion Detection Using Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data
Maliha Haider
Sophomore, Computer Science
Kean University
Manipulation of Packet Behavior to Manipulate Smart Device Commands
Aspen Akunne
Senior, Computer Science
Kean University
Undergraduate – Computing
1st Place
Towards Automatic Dysarthric Speech Recognition
Lexdyel J. Mendez
Senior, Computer Science
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
2nd Place
The Use of Swarms for Space Resource Recollection, Scientific Data Release, and Statistics
Juan Ayala
Senior, Computer Science
University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo
3rd Place
Web Application for Home Network Vulnerability Scanning and Security Analysis Toolkit
Utku Yurter
Senior, Computer Science
Kean University
GMiS Conference registrants can view the winner’s abstracts and posters via the Conference Portal until December 15, 2021. Congratulations, students!