Apply for the Winter/Spring 2024 UPLIFT Program

Eligibility:

  • Students must be first year students in NEUs College of Engineering 
  • Only students who have attended UPLIFT seminars in Fall 2023 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.
  • There are a variety of faculty participating in this program. When you apply, you will be picking your preferred research labs. We will attempt to match you with one of these choices, but this is not guaranteed. Please see below for all faculty participating this semester.

 

Application Info
Opens: 11/21/2023
Due: 12/18/2023
Notification: 12/21/2023

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

Application Process:

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


List of Winter/Spring 2024 Confirmed Research Opportunities:

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