The Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego held its 31st annual Research Expo on Thursday, April 12, 2012. More than 230 graduate students presented their research results in our poster session. Search all Research Expo poster abstracts here. Read about the grand prize poster here.

Faculty from all six departments gave ten-minute talks; and students, faculty, alumni and other industry professionals from industry networked at the reception.

Many thanks to our corporate sponsors, Qualcomm, ViaSat and SAIC, as well as our Corporate Affiliates Program, the judges, students and attendees for making Research Expo a success. We look forward to seeing you again in 2013.

2012 Poster Winners

Rudee Outstanding Poster Award Research Expo 2012

• NanoEngineering

  195. Melting the Nanostructured Lipid Surface of Microbubbles to Increase Ultrasound-Modulated Fluorescence for Deep Tissue Optical Imaging
  Presenter: Carolyn Elizabeth Schutt
  Advisor: Sadik Esener
  
  

  Carolyn Elizabeth Schutt, Best Overall Poster, Rudee Research Expo Award, 2012. Read about Carolyn's research here. Watch Carolyn describe her research in this video interview on the Jacobs School YouTube Channel.

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Bioengineering Best Poster

• 29. Genome-Scale Modeling of Microbial Electrosynthesis for Electrofuel Production
  Presenters: Harish Nagarajan | Juan Nogales | Merve Sahin | Ali Ebrahim | Adam Feist
  Advisors: Bernhard O. Palsson | Karsten Zengler
  
  

  Harish Nagarajan, Bioengineering Best Poster Award Winner

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Computer Science and Engineering Best Poster

• 74. Manycore Architecture Augmented for Multiprogrammed Data Centers
  Presenter: Anshuman Gupta
  Advisor: Michael Taylor
  
  

  Anshuman Gupta, Computer Science and Engineering Best Poster Award Winner

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Best Poster

• 101. Pixel-by-Pixel Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Time-Intensity Curve Analysis for Automatic Tumor Diagnosis
  Presenter: Casey Nghia Ta
  Advisor: Andrew Kummel
  
  

  Casey Nghia Ta, Electrical and Computer Engineering Best Poster Award Winner

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Best Poster

• 146. Mechanical Properties of Vascular Endothelial Cells Exposed to Stretch
  Presenters: Kathryn Elizabeth Osterday | Thomas Chew | Phillip Loury | Manuel Gomez-Gonzalez
  Advisor: Juan Carlos del Alamo
  
  

  Kathryn Elizabeth Osterday and Thomas Chew, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Best Poster Award Winner

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NanoEngineering Best Poster

• 195. Melting the Nanostructured Lipid Surface of Microbubbles to Increase Ultrasound-Modulated Fluorescence for Deep Tissue Optical Imaging
  Presenter: Carolyn Elizabeth Schutt
  Advisor: Sadik Esener
  
  

  Carolyn Elizabeth Schutt, NanoEngineering Best Poster Award Winner and Rudee Research Expo Award 2012 Outstanding Poster. Watch Carolyn describe her research in this video interview on the Jacobs School YouTube Channel.

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Structural Engineering Best Poster

• 214. Non Linear Aeroelastic Analysis of Joined Wing Configurations
  Presenter: Rauno Cavallaro
  Advisors: David Benson | Luciano Demasi
  
  

  Rauno Cavallaro, Structural Engineering Best Poster Award Winner and Science & Engineering Library Award for Best Use of the Literature

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Honorable Mention

• Bioengineering

  
  31. PROXIMAL FEMORAL SHAPE VARIATIONS IN LEGG-CALVE-PERTHES DISEASE AND SLIPPED CAPITAL FEMORAL EPIPHYSIS
  Presenter(s): Elaine F Chan
  Advisor(s): Robert Sah
  
  33. TRYPSIN AND MMP-9 LEVELS INCREASE IN PLASMA AND LUNG AFTER HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK: POTENTIAL MECHANISM FOR MEMBRANE RECEPTOR DAMAGE
  Presenter(s): Angelina Esther Altshuler
  Advisor(s): Geert Schmid-Schönbein
  
  37. RAPID SELF-HEALING OF SYNTHETIC HYDROGELS VIA A PH-SENSITIVE REVERSIBLE MECHANISM
  Presenter(s): Ameya M Phadke
  Advisor(s): Shyni Varghese
  
  

• Computer Science & Engineering

  
  52. PERSONAL AIR QUALITY AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
  Presenter(s): Elizabeth S. Bales | Nichole Quick | Nima Nikzad | Celal Ziftci | Thomas Barbour | Piero Zappi
  Advisor(s): William Griswold | Ingolf Krueger | Tajana Simunic-Rosing
  
  61. REAL-TIME HIGH CONTENT OPTICAL MAPPING SYSTEM
  Presenter(s): Pingfan Meng
  Advisor(s): Ryan Kastner
  
  72. UTILIZING GREEN ENERGY PREDICTION TO SCHEDULE MIXED BATCH AND SERVICE JOBS IN DATA CENTERS
  Presenter(s): Jagannathan Venkatesh
  Advisor(s): Tajana Simunic-Rosing
  
  

• Electrical & Computer Engineering

  
  79. STACKED FET Q-BAND AMPLIFIER IN 45-NM CMOS WITH SATURATED OUTPUT POWER ABOVE 21 DBM
  Presenter(s): Hayg-Taniel Dabag | Bassel Hanafi | Fatih Golcuk
  Advisor(s): Peter M Asbeck | James Buckwalter | Larry Larson
  
  93. REACTIVE SELF-TRACKING SOLAR CONCENTRATION
  Presenter(s): Katherine A Baker
  Advisor(s): Joseph Ford
  
  109. AN EFFICIENT FULL DIGITAL FREQUENCY HOPPING MODEM BASED ON POLYPHASE FILTER BANKS
  Presenter(s): Xiaofei Chen | Elettra Venosa
  Advisor(s): Bhaskar Rao | Fredric Harris
  
  124. PROBABILISTIC ACTIVE LEARNING-BASED DETECTION OF VEHICLES BY PARTS
  Presenter(s): Sayanan Vinoth Sivaraman
  Advisor(s): Mohan Trivedi
  
  128. BEYOND VISUAL SEMANTICS: USING CROSS-MODAL CONTEXT FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
  Presenter(s): Mandar Dilip Dixit
  Advisor(s): Nuno Vasconcelos
  
  

• Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

  
  147. SMELL-O-VISION: REMOTELY ON-OFF SWITCHABLE ODOR-RELEASING CAPSULES
  Presenter(s): Calvin James Gardner | Hyunsu Kim
  Advisor(s): Sungho Jin
  
  151. MODELING OF HYDROGEN RETENTION IN THE BULK OF METALLIC PLASMA FACING COMPONENTS
  Presenter(s): Jerome Guterl
  Advisor(s): Sergei Krasheninnikov | Roman Smirnov
  
  152. A QUANTIZED-INPUT CONTROL LYAPUNOV APPROACH FOR MOTOR DRIVES
  Presenter(s): Gideon Andrew Prior
  Advisor(s): Miroslav Krstic | Massimo Franceschetti
  
  160. DYNAMIC DEFORMATION BETWEEN TRICUSPID AND BICUSPID AORTIC VALVES IN VITRO
  Presenter(s): Kai Wah Szeto
  Advisor(s): Juan Lasheras
  
  177. TURBULENCE GENERATION AND PARTICLE DYNAMICS IN SHOCKED PARTICLE-LADEN FLOW
  Presenter(s): Sean Lin Sheng Davis
  Advisor(s): Sutanu Sarkar
  
  

• NanoEngineering

  
  193. PROTEIN DETECTION BY NANODUMBBELL PROBES
  Presenter(s): Phyllis Xu
  Advisor(s): Jennifer Cha
  
  198. SOLAR THERMOCHEMICAL HYDROGEN PRODUCTION PLANT DESIGN
  Presenter(s): Jesse Littlefield
  Advisor(s): Richard K. Herz | Jan Talbot
  
  

• Structural Engineering

  
  224. NONLINEAR SEMI-ANALYTICAL FINITE ELEMENT ALGORITHM FOR INTERNAL RESONANCE ANALYSIS IN COMPLEX WAVEGUIDES - APPLICATION TO THERMAL STRESS AND BUCKLING DETECTION IN RAILS
  Presenter(s): Claudio Nucera
  Advisor(s): Francesco Lanza di Scalea
  
  228. ULTRA LOW-POWER SENSOR NODE FOR SHM NETWORKS
  Presenter(s): Scott Anthony Ouellette
  Advisor(s): Michael Todd
  
  

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Science and Engineering Library Award for Best Use of the Literature

• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  147. Smell-o-Vision: Remotely On-Off Switchable Odor-Releasing Capsules
  Presenters: Calvin James Gardner | Hyunsu Kim
  Advisor: Sungho Jin
  

• NanoEngineering

  211. High Efficient Microrockets and Their Biomedical Applications
  Presenter: Wei Gao
  Advisor: Joseph Wang
  

• Structural Engineering

  214. Non Linear Aeroelastic Analysis of Joined Wing Configurations
  Presenter: Rauno Cavallaro
  Advisors: David Benson | Luciano Demasi
  

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