List of Presenters and Talk Titles

Materials Synthesis & Processing

1. Tanvir Ahmed, (Advisor: B. Erath) Flow behavior of an axisymmetric vortex ring impingement on solid three-dimensional axisymmetric hemispherical cavities of different curvatures

2. Kyle Cassidy (Advisor: D. Shipp) Functional Colloids from Thiol-ene Chemistry

3. Kassapa Gamagedara (Advisor: D. Roy) Tribo-electrochemical investigation of Tungsten CMP

4. Ngoc-Tram Le (Advisor: S. Krishnan) Monitoring the Aza-Michael Reaction of Chitosan and Poly(ethylene glycol) Diacrylate using Rheology and NMR Spectroscopy

5. Rebecca Meacham (Advisor: D. Shipp) Dynamic Covalent Exchange in Polyanhydrides

6. Collin Reff (Advisor: D. Roy) In-Situ Electrochemical Investigation of Post-CMP Cleaning with the Incorporation of Tribology

7. Joshua Roys (Advisor: R. Brown) Investigating Kinetic Pre-Alignment with Naphthalene Derivatives

8. Jihoon Seo Challenges and solutions for post STI-CMP cleaning

9. Kelly Tillman (Advisor: D. Shipp) Dynamic Covalent Exchange in Poly(thioether anhydrides)

10. S. S. R. K. Hanup Vegi (Advisor: S.V. Babu) Post CMP Cleaning Solutions for Removal of Organic Contaminants with Reduced Galvanic Corrosion at Copper/Cobalt Interface for Advanced Cu Interconnect Applications

11. Cheng Wang (Advisor: E. Podlaha-Murphy) Electrodeposited Co-Mo-P-TiO2 Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

12. Shen Wei (Advisor: D. Roy) Investigation of the Mechanism of Copper CMP in Abrasive-Free Slurry Solutions of Malonic Acid

13. Yongneng Wu (Advisor: D. Shipp) Thiol-containing copolymers: Synthesis and characterization

Structural Materials

1. Cole Cappon (Advisor: C. Merrett) Composite Creep Tests

2. Sandeep Khadka (Advisor: P. Yuya) Microstructural and Nanomechanical Properties Characterization of AlCuFeNiTi High Entropy Alloy Manufactured by Direct Energy Deposition

3. Kimberly Konar (Advisor: M. Martinez) Development of a Distributed Sensing Fiber Optic App for Principal Strain Calculations

Materials & Devices

1. Arash Bahrololoomi (Advisor: E. Podlaha-Murphy) Electrodeposition of Nickel-Iron Nanoclusters onto Glassy Carbon for Low-Cost Detection of Organic Pollutants

2. Madhura Bellare (Advisors: A. Melman & E. Katz) Electrochemically stimulated molecule release associated with interfacial pH changes

3. Damir Borovac (Advisor: Chee-Keong Tan) Wide Bandgap III-Nitride Semiconductors for Electronics and Optoelectronics Applications

4. Vasantha Kadambar (Advisors: A. Melman & E. Katz) Electrochemical control of catalytic activity of immobilized enzymes

5. Madeline Masi (Advisor: E. Katz) Sensing Interfaces for Stimulated Biomolecule Release

Computational Materials Design

1. Goodarz Ahmadi Aerosols Transport, Dispersion and Deposition- Applications to Industrial, Environmental and Biological Flows including Transmission of COVID-19

2. Kuangxu Chen (Advisor: C. Liang ) A 3D Parallel High-Order Spectral Difference Solver with Curved Local Mesh Refinement for Predicting Arterial Flow Through Stenoses of Varied Constriction Degrees

3. Peter-John King (Advisors: A. Achuthan, S.Banerjee, & N. Banerjee) Using Computer Vision Techniques to Automate Microscope Control and Material Characterization

4. Xiaoli Liu (Advisor: Chee-Keong Tan) Ultrawide Bandgap III-Oxides

5. Ioannis Mastorakos Multiscale Modeling of Nanoporous Copper/Nickel Alloys

6. Ian McCrum Better by Design: (Electro) Catalysis for Renewable Energy Conversion, Storage, and Chemical Production

7. Sohaib Obeid (Advisor: G. Ahmadi) Design of Closed-loop Controller for Active Control of Flow over Flapped Airfoil

8. Alireza Pirnia (Advisor: B. Helenbrook) Horizontal Ribbon Growth (HRG) for Silicon Wafer Production: Let’s Have a Better Understanding of the Physics!

9. Sean Willis (Advisor: I. Mastorakos) Effects of Grain Boundary - Dislocation Interaction on High Entropy Alloy Strengthening

10. Da Yang (Advisor: S. Dhaniyala) Using CFD method to study the particle transportation characteristics through a critical orifice

Materials of Next Generation Healthcare

1. Chethani Athukorala (Advisor: S. Dhaniyala) Design of an Electrical Gelation Chamber to Synthesize Alginate Microparticles for Inhalational Delivery of Anti-tubercular Drug

2. Kavindra Kumaragama (Advisors: S. Sur & S. Dhaniyala) Study of Airborne Microbes in University Environment Using a Portable Electrostatic Bioaerosol Collection Device

3. Amir Abdollahi Mofakham (Advisors: B. Helenbrook, G. Ahmadi, B. Erath, A. Ferro & D. Brown) Explore the Transmission of COVID-19 by Respiratory Aerosol and Droplet Emission during Speech

4. Temitope Orimolade (Advisor: S. Krishnan) Flocculation and Removal of Harmful Cyanobacteria from Water using Surface-Engineered Polymer Additives

5. Chinmay Sahu (Advisors: M. Banavar & S. Dhaniyala) Bio-aerosol source localization in an indoor environment using low cost particle measuring sensors

6. Arielle Santefort (Advisor: D. Shipp) Dynamic Covalent Exchange of Polyanhydride Copolymers for Potential Bone Cement Applications

7. Mohsen Motie Shirazi (Advisor: B. Erath) Development and validation of a method for measuring the contact pressure of the vocal folds