Home Department: Psychology and Neurosciences Institute
Faculty Advisors: Anthony Wagner and Ian Gotlib
Talk Title: Characterizing white matter connectivity in major depressive disorder: Automated fiber quantification and maximum density paths
Event: 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging - Matthew also received awards from the Stanford University Center for Mind, Brain, & Computation (MBC) and the Biosciences Office of Graduate Education. These awards were based on the acceptance of two 4-page papers that were presented as talks at the conference.

Awarded in 2012
Talk Title: Frontal lobe contributions to deterministic and probabilistic learning: Evidence for dissociable feed-back-related processes
Event: 2012 Society for Neuroscience

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Beth Pruitt
Talk Title: Multi-functional sensor for the environment
Event: 25th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Steven G. Boxer
Talk Title: DNA-mediated fusion between small vesicles and a planar tethered bilayer patch
Event: Biophysical Society Meeting 2012

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Xiaolin Zheng
Talk Title: Flame synthesis of WO3 nanotubes and nanowires for efficient photoelectrochemical water-splitting
Event: 34th International Symposium on Combustion

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Flame synthesis and applications of transition metal oxide nanostructures
Event: Materials Research Society Fall Meeting 2011 - Pratap received the Silver Medal Graduate Student Award for his talk.

Awarded in 2010
Talk Title: Flame Synthesis of Tungsten Oxide Nanostructures on Diverse Substrates
Event: The 33rd International Symposium on Combustion

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Beth Pruitt and Miriam Goodman
Talk Title: Body mechanics regulate the force threshold for gentle touch sensation in the nematode C. elegans
Event: Biophysical Society 56th Annual Meeting

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Protein engineered biomaterials for bioactive coatings
Event: 3rd International Conference: Strategies in Tissue Engineering

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Drew Endy
Talk Title: Engineered transmission of DNA messages among bacteria
Event: DNA18: The 18th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: David Paik
Talk Title: Mathematical modeling of the interactions between cellular programs in response to oncogene inactivation
Event: 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering - Chinyere's research won second prize in the student paper competition.

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Leonidas Guibas
Talk Title: Soft maps between surfaces
Event: Symposium on Geometry Processing 2012

Awarded in 2011

Talk Title: An optimization approach to improving collections of shape maps
Event: Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2011

Home Department: Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Rajat Rohatgi
Talk Title: Regulation of the Hedgehog pathway by oxysterols
Event: 2012 Hedgehog Signaling Meeting - Sigrid's work was later published in Nature Chemical Biology.