Apply for the UPLIFT Program

Eligibility:

  • Students must be first year students in NEUs College of Engineering 
  • Only students who have attended UPLIFT seminars in Fall 2024 are eligible to apply
    • If you attended in-person (virtual or in-person), your attendance has been noted
    • If you watched the recorded presentations asynchronously, please ensure you’ve completed the attendance survey for each video.

Application Info
Opens: 11/26/2024
Due: 12/15/2024
Notification: 12/22/2024

Required Documents:
Application (SurveyMonkey)
Seminar Attendance (SurveyMonkey)

Application Process:

  • Attend at least 3 UPLIFT seminars in the Fall semester prior to application
  • Completed Seminar Attendance Survey x3 at minimum
  • Complete Application Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/uplift2025-apply
    • One short-answer question:
      Why do you feel undergraduate research would benefit you? [200 words]
  • Once accepted, we will connect you with your professors


Past Research Opportunities from Spring 2024:

Bioengineering (BioE) Labs
• (BioE) w/ Prof Mingyang Lu: Machine Learning of Gene Regulation using Single-cell RNA Sequencing Data
• (BioE/MIE) w/ Prof. Sandra Shefelbine: Musculoskeletal Mechanobiology

Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Labs
• (EnvE) w/ Prof. Khaled Ghannam: Water Resources in a Warming Climate
• (Civ.E) w/ Prof. Eleonora Tronci: Adapting Data-Driven Modeling for Structural Health Monitoring
• (MarineE) w/ Prof. Qin Jim Chen: 3D Printing of Boston Harbor
• (Env.Eng.) w/ Prof. Ryan Wang: Air Quality and Human Mobility

Chemical Engineering (ChemE) Labs
• (ChemE) w/ Prof. Joshua Gallaway: Operando Raman Spectroscopy of Battery Electrodes
• (ChemE) w/ Prof. Steve Lustig: 2-Dimensional Polymers
• (ChemE) w/ Prof. Richard West: Computational Modeling of Complex Chemical Reactions
• (ChemE) w/ Prof. Rebecca Willits: Materials for Tissue Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Labs
• (Elect.E) w/ Prof. Siddhartha Ghosh: Microacoustic RF Signal Processing Devices
• (Elect.E/CS) w/ Prof. Francesco Restuccia: AI/Machine Learning for Wireless Systems
• (Elect.E/CS) w/ Prof. Aatmesh Shrivastava: AI Design Tool Development
• (Elect.E) w/ Prof. Mario Sznaier: Learning Enabled Modeling and Control 

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Labs
• (Mech.E) w/ Prof. Ruobing Bai: Soft Active Materials and Machines
• (Mech.E) w/ Prof. Hongwei Sun: Co-Flow Millifluidic Device for Nanoparticle Synthesis
• (Mech.E) w/ Prof. Cynthia Hajal: Microfluidic Models for Tissue Engineering, Cancer, and Drug delivery
• (Mech.E) w/ Prof. Yi Zheng: Sustainable Energy Materials (virtual lab)
• (Indust.E) w/ Prof. Xubo Yue: Federated Conformal Prediction and Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification

Interdisciplinary Labs
• (Physics/Materials) w/ Prof. Paul Stevenson: Probing Rotational Motion with Nanodiamonds
• (Physics/Materials) w/ Prof. Alberto De la Torre Duran: Using Light to Engineer Quantum Materials (virtual lab)
• (Biology/ECE): w/ Prof. Dagmar Sternad: Human-Robot Collaboration: Control and Learning