GSRC 2025 Winners

Ph.D. program:

1st place:  Jay Pimprikar (An Electrochemical Microfluidic Platform for Screening High-Value Metabolites )

2nd place:  Mohamed Elsayed Awad Mohamed (Adaptive Hierarchical Feature Difference Auto-Encoder for Robust RGB-T Object Tracking )

3rd place: Oluwabusayo Ladipo (Network Digital Twin Enhanced Personalized QoE Optimization for Multi-service 6G Networks )

M.Sc. program:

1st place:  Sepehr Ghamari (OODFusion: A Deep Diffusion-Based Blind Image Super Resolution Scheme)

2nd place:  Amirreza Karimi (Optimized Human Digital Twin Placement in 6G-Enabled Mobile Edge Computing: A Lyapunov-Based Approach)

3rd place:  Shaghayegh Ghasemi (A Hierarchical Incentive Mechanism Design in Clustered Federated Reinforcement Learning with Budget Limitation: A Contract-Stackelberg Framework )

M.Eng. program:

1st place: Zunao Hu (Smart Hydration: A Water Bottle-Based Tracking and Reminder System )

GSRC 2024 Winners

Ph.D. program:

1st place  (Tie):  Goutam Yelluru Gopal (Separable Self and Mixed Attention Transformers for Efficient Tracking )

1st place  (Tie):  Chiara Leal Alves (Droplet-Based Microfluidics For Yeast Strain Development )

2nd place:  Christineh Shahbazian (The Diminished Edge Diffraction Effect  Bull's Eye Antenna )

3rd place:  Zhiyang Deng (‘Finding a needle in a haystack’ - Rare sample sorting  and recovery using a microfluidic device )

M.Sc. program:

1st place:  George Butt (Exploring Granular Scaling Laws via parabolic flight experiments to advance  Lunar rover mobility predictions )

2nd place:  Alexander Demishkevich (Predicting rover mobility in slope and point turns from flat-ground single wheel experiments )

3rd place:  Thomas Paulin-Bessette (PV and Wind Utilization Analysis for a Canadian Small Arctic PV-Wind-Diesel Hybrid Microgrid )

M.Eng. program:

1st place: Siamak Rajabi (Exploring Stochastic and Circadian Rhythms  Features in Depression Classification )

GSRC 2023 Winners

Ph.D. program:

1st place: Samuel R. Little (An automated platform for engineering primary human T-cells with digital microfluidics)

2nd place: Solihah Sharief Sheikh (Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Based Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor with Mechanical Faults)

3rd place: Akram Saleh (A Novel Construction Technique for Some Classes of Quasi-Cyclic Codes)

M.Sc. program:

1st place: Tolga Osmancik (An electric vehicle circuit for powering independent loads)

2nd place: Alexander Demishkevich (Predicting rover mobility in slope and point turns from flat-ground single wheel experiments)

3rd place: Mohammad Jasim Usmani (Accelerating Graph Networks for Real-Time Physics Simulations)

M.Eng. program:

1st place (Tie): Gargee Vaidya (Microcontroller based smart parking system)

1st place (Tie): Irtifa Nasim (Air damping in MEMS (Micromirror))

1st place (Tie): Mohammad Alikhani Zanjani (Cloud-based Temperature Control System)

GSRC 2022 Winners

Ph.D. program:

1st place(Tie): Tamanwè Payarou (A Novel Integrated Multipurpose Power Electronics Interface for Electric Vehicles)

1st  place(Tie): Adriana Daca (Evaluating 1-g testing methods for predicting planetary rover mobility in reduced gravity)

2nd place(Tie): Salah Harb (A Reconfigurable Implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography over GF (2^n))

2nd place(Tie): Yupeng Liu (Power Electronic Converter-Based Induction Motor Emulator with Stator Winding Fault)

3rd place(Tie): Md Ashikuzzaman (Unfolding Tissue Pathology through Ultrasonic Strain Imaging)

3rd place(Tie): Ali Sarafnia (Employment of A Spectral Entropy-based Evaluation Measure For Design of First-Order Differential Microphone Arrays)

M.Sc. program:

1st place: Ziuwin Leung (Tri-droplet electroporation module on Digital Microfluidics for automated engineering of mammalian cells)

2nd place(Tie): Armin Nabaei (Enhanced Multi-Scale Feature Extraction using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Face Emotion Detection)

2nd place(Tie): Felipe Perez (Isolation of Single Mammalian Cells Following Time-Lapse)

3rd place: Pierre-Lucas Aubin-Fournier (Vibration-Based Wheel-Terrain Slip Detection For Skid-Steer Rovers)