Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Lei Xing
Talk Title: Unified Autonomous Quality Assurance System with a Multi-Platform Web-Based User Interface
Event: 2017 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Annual Meeting and Exhibition

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Automation of High Dose Rate Brachytherapy Quality Assurance: Development of a Radioluminescent Detection System for Simultaneous Detection of Activity, Timing, and Positioning
Event: 2016 American Association of Physics in Medicine Annual Meeting (AAPM)

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: Automating LINAC QA: design and testing of an image acquisition and processing system utilizing a combination of radioluminescent phosphors, embedded x-ray markers and optical measurements
Event: 2015 AAPM Annual Meeting & Exhibition - Cesare's talk was a featured presentation at the conference. As one of the 15 highest scoring abstracts at the conference, it was awarded with a Best in Physics designation.

Awarded in 2014
Talk Title: Visualizing and quantifying radiation therapy in real-time using a novel beam imaging technique
Event: 2014 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Annual Meeting & Exhibition

Home Department: Structural Biology
Faculty Advisor: Roger Kornberg
Talk Title: Architecture of interphase chromosomes
Event: 2014 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on Nuclear Organization & Function

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dmitri Petrov
Talk Title: Soft selective sweeps in complex demographic scenarios
Event: Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) 2014

Home Department: Applied Physics
Faculty Advisor: Surya Ganguli
Talk Title: Optimal high dimensional M-estimation
Event: International Conference on Statistical Physics 2014

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dmitri Petrov
Talk Title: Fitness Pleiotropy and the phenotypic basis of adaptation in experimentally evolving yeast
Event: GSA (Genetics Society of America): The Allied Genetics Conference 2016

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: Characterizing independent adaptive mutations in yeast experimental evolution using DNA barcodes
Event: Evolution 2014

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: David Camarillo
Talk Title: Model-less control of a flexible robotic catheter
Event: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation - Michael's poster won the Best Paper award at this event.

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Hydrogels with Dual Gradient of Biochemical and Mechanical Cues Induces Cartilage Tissue Formation in 3D that Mimics Tissue Zonal Organization
Event: 2016 10th World Biomaterials Congress

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: A Microfluidic-based Platform for High-Throughput Screening of Stem Cell-Niche Interactions in 3D Gradient Hydrogels
Event: 2015 4th TERMIS World Congress

Awarded in 2014
Talk Title: Mimicking tissue zonal organization by engineering hydrogels with biochemical and mechanical gradients
Event: 2014 Materials Research Society

Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Dmitri Petrov
Talk Title: Mutational patterns in Drosophila melanogaster
Event: The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC) 2016

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: Deep sequencing of natural and laboratory populations of Drosophila melanogaster reveals new insights into the spectrum of de novo deleterious mutations
Event: Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2015

Awarded in 2014
Talk Title: Staggered sweeps: The obstruction of adaptation in diploids by recessive, strongly deleterious alleles
Event: Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2014

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: A Light Sharing, Charge Multiplexed Time-of-Flight Depth-of-Interaction PET Detector
Event: 2015 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference - In addition to his talk, Matthew presented a poster, "Effects of SiPM Multiplexing on Timing Performance," which was selected as a Premium Student Poster and was a finalist for the best student paper award.

Awarded in 2014
Talk Title: Analog electro-optical readout of SiPMs for compact, low power ToF PET/MRI
Event: 3rd PET/MR and SPECT/MR Conference: Paradigms for Combined Modalities in Molecular Imaging

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Electronic skin for biomedical applications
Event: 1st Annual Winterschool on Bioelectronics