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Mars Rover Design Analysis
Analyze the inovations and improvments of various rover designs and understand why the designs affect performance and durability.
Engineering
Wind Turbine Blade Design Optimization
Compare different blade shapes and materials to determine their effect on power generation, using online wind datasets and simulations.
Engineering
Solar Energy Under Different Weather Conditions
Analyze how temperature, cloud cover, and humidity affect solar panel output using real-world data from online sources and trend analysis.
Engineering
Why addressing climate change requires international cooperation
In this project, we will show how addressing climate change, a global problem that transcends national borders, requires international cooperation. Greenhouse gas emissions from one country contribute to rising temperatures, extreme weather, and environmental disruptions worldwide. No single nation can solve climate change alone; coordinated efforts are needed to reduce emissions, invest in renewable energy, and support climate adaptation. Developing countries, which often face the harshest impacts, require financial and technological support from wealthier nations. Agreements like the Paris Agreement demonstrate the importance of global collaboration in setting emissions targets and holding countries accountable. By working together, nations can create sustainable solutions, protect vulnerable communities, and ensure a livable planet for future generations.
Environmental Science
The ethics of neurostimulation
Recent advances in brain computer interfaces have led to promise in using electrical neurostimulation to not only help with speech and motor difficulties, but also to psychiatric disorders. With so called 'diseases of personality,' the lines can be blurry with regards to ethics. This project involves students reading on the ethics of different advances of treatments of psychiatric disorders, and developing ideas for how to ensure that these treatments are developed and used in a way that allows those treated to maintain agency over themselves.
Psychology, Physics, Computer Science, Math, Neuroscience
Visualization of Data in Greater than 3 dimensions
Learn and use Blender or Python to make dynamic visualizations of data in greater than 3 dimensions. This might include color, and an understanding of dimensionality reduction of datasets. Use a readily available open access neural dataset to try and visualize neural data in different ways to uncover any structure in neural data.
Psychology, Physics, Computer Science, Math, Neuroscience
How biodiversity loss impacts our food system
Biodiversity plays a crucial role in maintaining a resilient and sustainable food system. It enhances soil fertility, supports pollinators, and helps crops resist pests, diseases, and climate change. A diverse ecosystem ensures stable food production by providing genetic variation in crops and livestock, reducing the risks of monoculture farming. In this project, we will look at how the loss of biodiversity threatens food security by making agricultural systems more vulnerable to environmental shocks, reducing nutrient-rich food sources, and increasing reliance on chemical inputs.
Environmental Science
Using AI to Identify Pneumonia from X-Ray Images
Before beginning my PhD, I helped start a medical AI startup focused on detecting cancer in X-ray images. In this project, you’ll explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can help doctors diagnose pneumonia using chest X-ray images. You’ll learn about how computers “see” medical images, how machine learning models can recognize patterns, and how AI can support doctors in making faster and more accurate diagnoses. To start, you’ll gather a dataset of X-ray images that include cases of pneumonia and healthy lungs (public datasets are available). You’ll then use a simple machine learning model, like a convolutional neural network (CNN), to train an AI to distinguish between pneumonia and healthy lungs. No prior coding experience is required—you’ll follow guided tutorials to understand the basics of AI, Python, and image analysis. By the end of the project, you’ll create a mini research paper summarizing your findings. If you’re interested, you can also experiment with improving your model or visualizing how AI makes its decisions. This project gives you a hands-on introduction to AI in medicine and a great foundation for future research!
Healthcare, Computer Science, AI/ML
Decoding Intended Movement Directions from Neural Signals Using Deep Learning
This project aims to decode intended movement directions based on neural signals recorded from the motor cortex. Using a dataset of neuronal firing rates, we will preprocess the data, extract relevant features, and apply machine learning models—such as neural networks or LSTMs—to classify movement directions. The findings can be applied to brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) for prosthetic control, neurorehabilitation, and human-computer interaction.
Neuroscience, Engineering
Investigating the Impact of Genetic Variants on Drug Metabolism
In this project, you will learn about how differences in genes can affect how drugs are metabolized. You will determine a gene to study and a drug that is metabolized by the enzyme coded by the gene. You will learn how to critically review scientific papers and synthesize information from multiple scientific sources. This project would result in a review paper that may be submitted for publication in a scientific journal for high school students.
Biotech
