The Bio-X Travel Awards Program gives graduate students and postdocs the opportunity to develop their public speaking skills, to travel and network with like-minded peers, and to learn new ideas that could potentially and positively affect their research.
Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Adam Wang
Talk Title: Fast kV switching for improved material decomposition with photon counting X-ray detectors
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging 2022
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Strain-Insensitive Intrinsically Stretchable Transistors and Circuits
Event: 2021 MRS Fall Meeting
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Eric Appel
Talk Title: Polymer Nanoparticle Hydrogels for Improved Cell Transplantation
Event: 2021 AIChE Annual Meeting
Abigail gave two talks virtually and one in person. She received 2nd place in the Graduate Polymer Science Awards session and 3rd place in the Graduate Biomaterials Awards session.
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Topological Supramolecular Network Enabled Highly Conductive and Stretchable Organic Bioelectronics
Event: 2021 MRS Fall Meeting
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Juan G. Santiago
Talk Title: An integrated RT-lamp and CRISPR assay for nucleic acid detection in a single microfluidic chip
Event: microTAS 2021
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Self-propulsion of a freely-suspended, rotationally-symmetric swimmer enabled by viscoelastic normal stresses
Event: American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics 2021
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Iterative Solvent Molecule Tuning for High-Performance Lithium Metal Battery Electrolytes”
Event: 2021 MRS Fall Meeting
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Molecular Design of Stretchable/Elastic Polymer Semiconductors with High Electrical Performance
Event: 2021 MRS Fall Meeting
Home Department: Pathology
Faculty Advisor: Garry Nolan
Talk Title: HIV Pathogenesis and Cure
Event: Keystone Symposia on HIV Pathogenesis and Cure 2021
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Adam Wang
Talk Title: Empirical energy weighting optimization for fast grayscale image generation with photon counting CT
Event: RSNA 2023 Annual Meeting
Awarded in 2022
Talk Title: Empirical optimization of energy bin weights for compressing measurements with photon counting x-ray detectors
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging 2022
Awarded in 2021
Talk Title: Analytical model for pulse pileup in photon counting detectors with seminonparalyzable behavior
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging 2021
