2023 Station1 Frontiers Fellowship (SFF) Capstone Ceremony and Undergraduate Research Symposium on Socially-directed Science and Technology




Friday, August 11, 2023




2023 SFF Capstone Ceremony: 

12noon - 1pm ET | 11am - 12noon CT | 10am- 11am MT | 9am - 10am PT

Welcome Remarks

Alumni Keynote Address: Aziza Mirsaidova, 2021 Station1 Fellow Alumni, Northwestern University (M.S.) and Microsoft Machine Learning and AI Researcher, Undergraduate Research Intern, Summer 2021, Station1 Partner Green Info Network

Acknowledgement of the 2023 Station1 Fellows



2023 SFF Capstone Poster Presentations

1pm - 2pm ET | 12noon - 1pm CT | 11am- 12noon MT | 10am - 11am PT

 

Advancing Sustainable Construction through Natural Language Processing (NLP) Multiparameter Search Optimization

Endrit Berberi (1,2,3), Cherubel Kefyalew (1,2,4), Nicodemos Varanava (2)

(1) Station1 (Lawrence, MA), (2) 2050 Materials (London, UK), (3) University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida), (4) George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia)

 

The Standardization of Data Management Practices in the Additive Manufacturing

Josh Lamothe (1,2,3), Yosra Abdulwahid (1,2,4), Mike Vasquez (2)

(1) Station1 (Lawrence, MA), (2) 3Degrees(Chicago, IL), (3) Tufts University (Medford, MA), (4) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL)

 

Utilizing Artificial Intelligence to Improve Adverse Weather Predictions for Operational Stability of Tethered Aerostats

Melissa De La Cruz (1,2,3), Davina Russell (1,2,4), Wei Guo (2), Jon Everitt (2)

(1) Station1 (Lawrence, MA),(2) Altaeros (Somerville, MA),(3) University of California, San Diego (La Jolla,CA), (4) University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)

 

Optimizing Woodpack Production with Fluid Dynamics

Sebastian Pena (1,2,3), Micheal Mendizabal (1,2,4), Paloma Gonzalez-Rojas (2) , Jose Tomas Dominguez (2)

(1) Station1 (Lawrence, MA), (2) Atacama Biomaterials (Boston, MA), (3) Florida International University (Miami, FL), (4) UC Berkeley (Berkeley,CA)

 

Community Empowerment through Computational Learning

Amari Wofford (1,2,3), Kwabena Sekyere-Boateng (1,2,4), Jola Idowu (2)

(1) Station1 (Lawrence, MA), (2) MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (Cambridge, MA), (3) George Mason University (Fairfax County, Virginia), (4) Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.)

 

Life Cycle Assessment of Biodegradable Plastics Packaging Subject to Comprehensive Organic Sorting

Vu Anh Le (1,2,3), David Zoro (1,2,4), Mike Waggoner (2)

(1) Station1 (Lawrence, MA), (2) Corumat, Inc (Yakima, WA), (3) Beloit College (Beloit, Wisconsin), (4) University of Washington (Seattle, WA)

 

Designing an Agricultural Mechanism for Collecting, Compressing, and Storing Crop Waste

Elvira Castillo (1,2,3), Jancarlos Negron (1,2,4), Onkar Siddheswar (2)

(1) Station1 (Lawrence, MA), (2) Craste (Madhya Pradesh, India), (3) Texas A&M University (College Station, TX), (4) University of Puerto Rico (Mayagüez, Puerto Rico)

 

Mitigating Stress in the Workplace Through Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Positive Psychology

Tayler Fearn (1,2,3), Jayda Hughes (1,2,4), Carter Jernigan (2)

(1) Station1 (Lawrence, MA), (2) Frictionless Systems (Cambridge, MA), (3) Tayler Fearn (Orem,Utah), (4) Jayda Hughes (Baltimore,Maryland)

 

Strategic Disease Mapping Assessment of STEM Cell Based Research Therapeutic Applications for Rare Diseases

Eunice Akinade (1,2), Florence Larsonneur (1,2), Emal Lesha (2), Mark Zaki (2)

(1) Station 1 (Lawrence, Massachusetts), (2) GC Therapeutics, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

 

Batch Reverse Osmosis: A New Way to Perform Desalination

Madeline Schneider (1,2,3), Mikayla Darville (1,2,4), Quantum Wei (2)

(1) Station1 (Lawrence, MA), (2) Harmony Desalting (Cambridge, MA), (3) San Jose State University (San Jose, California), (4) Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia)

 

Analyzing and Visualizing Sustainability in Envision Verified Projects: A Quantitative and Qualitative Approach

Rama Alsharif (1,2), Ethan Medeiros (1,2),  Judith Rodriguez (2)

(1) Station1 (Lawrence, Massachusetts), (2) Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (Washington, DC)

 

Development of a Prototype for In-Toilet Urinalysis

John Intoppa (1,2,3), Immanuel Battle (1,2,4), Kelvin M. Frazier (2)

(1) Station1 (Lawrence, MA), (2) Intake Health (Raleigh, North Carolina), (3) Massachusetts College of Art & Design (Boston, MA), (4) Georgia State University Perimeter (Covington, GA)

 

The Ripple Effect: Relationships Between River Communities, Water Quality and Aquatic Life

Sha'Nya Calixte (1,2,3), Stephanie Garcia (1,2,4), Ryan O'Donnell (2)

(1) Station1 (Lawrence, MA), (2) Ipswich River Watershed Association (Ipswich, MA), (3) Sha'Nya Calixte Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL), (4) Stephanie Garcia Middlesex Community College (Lowell, MA)

 

Installation of a Tidal-Genset Hybrid Power System For Cuttyhunk Island

William Blakey (1,2,3), Giada Brandes (1,2,4), John Miller (2)

(1) Station1 (Lawrence, MA), (2) Marine Renewable Energy Collaborative (Marion, Massachusetts), (3) Washington State University (Seattle, Washington), (4) Boise State University (Boise, Idaho)

 

Interoperability: A Simple Word, Multi-Billion Dollar Problem. A Case Study of the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and MDAnalysis, a Molecular Dynamics Structural Analysis Platform

Karen Bekhazi (1,2,3), John Ong (1,2,4), Richard Gowers (2), Hugo MacDermott-Opeskin (2)

(1) Station1 (Lawrence, MA), (2) MDAnalysis (Austin, TX), (3) Smith College (Northampton, MA), (4) University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT

 

The Scientific, Technological, and Social Impact of Lithium-Based Batteries

Laura Rodriguez1,2,3, Minh Pham1,2,4, Joe Adiletta, Mouda Abusukheila2

(1) Station1 (Lawrence, MA), (2) Sylvatex (Alameda CA), (3) Middlesex Community College (Lowell, MA), (4) University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)

 

Fighting Climate Change by Transforming Massive Amounts of Waste Biomass

Samuel Luzuriaga (2,3), Cheyenne Bajani (1,2,4) Kevin Kung (2)

(1) Station1 (Lawrence, MA), (2) Takachar(Cambridge, MA), (3) Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA), (4) George Mason University (Fairfax, VA)