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Join us on May 1st for the School of Engineering and Technology Research Showcase, a dynamic afternoon celebrating innovation, collaboration, and research excellence across SET. This year’s showcase features faculty, graduate, and undergraduate research through lightning talks and two rounds of research posters, including a concurrent judging session. Guided lab tours will offer a behind-the-scenes look at cutting-edge work, with additional time for networking and connection throughout the afternoon. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with everything research at the School of Engineering and Technology and connect with researchers, collaborators, and colleagues across disciplines.
At-a-Glance Agenda
Student Research
All listed posters and lighting talks' abstracts can be found in the 2026 Booklet.
| # | Poster | Author(s) | Program(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From Shadow AI to Secure AI: Enabling Secure Enterprise Generative AI On-Premises* | Syed Huzaifa Bin Afzal†, Justin L. Bowman, Renee Chiang, Ayush Singh, Wenjun Fan | Master of Cybersecurity & Leadership, Information Technology |
| 2 | Just‑In‑Time Access for Machine Identities: Reducing Exposure Windows in Microservices* | Rupali Singh†, Corrazon Ogot, Wenjun Fan | Master of Cybersecurity & Leadership, Information Technology |
| 3 | STAR Suite: Integrating transcriptomics through AI-assisted software engineering* | Ling-Hong Hung†, Ka Yee Yeung | Computer Science & Systems |
| 4 | SPAgent: using an AI‑agent to facilitate interpretation of spatial proteomics analysis* | Naga Venkata Sai Rama Krishna Rohan Avireddy†, Shrey Srivastava, Bryce Fukuda, Jocelyn Wright, Kimberly Smythe, Cecilia Yeung, Ling-Hong Hung, Ka Yee Yeung | Computer Science & Systems |
| 5 | Interactive data integration dashboard for the MorPhiC program* | Patrick McKeever†, Jesse Flores, Bryce Fukuda, Ling-Hong Hung, Ka Yee Yeung | Computer Science & Systems |
| 6 | Mind the Attack: How security threats are shaping software deployed on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles* | Xiaoling Wei†, Jacob Klymenko, Damiano Torre, Davide Fucci | Computer Science & Systems |
| 7 | Rules of Engagement: How Video Games Justify State Violence* | Kevin Michalson†, Joanne Clarke Dillman | Computer Science & Systems, Global Honors |
| 8 | Real-Time Linear Prediction Coding of Speech on STM32F7 Discovery Board | Kadyrzhan Tortayev, Jie Sheng | Electrical & Computer Engineering |
| 9 | Real-Time Power Quality Monitoring and Disturbance Detection using DSP Techniques on the STM32F746G Discovery Board | Tanmaya Sreeshekhar, Jie Sheng, Thillainathan Logenthiran | Electrical & Computer Engineering |
| 10 | Software-Engineering Benchmarks for Explainable Intrusion Detection Systems in Autonomous Platforms | Yanhong Miao, Damiano Torre | Computer Science & Systems |
| 11 | A Systematic Evaluation Of Accessibility Policies In U.S. Shared Micromobility Programs |
Brandon Meyers, Jeff Walters, Alexander Brown, Mikell Smith, Robin Watkins, Angela Kitali, Heather Dillon, Anne Brown | Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering |
| 12 | Optimizing Hydrothermal Alkaline Treatment at Milder Conditions for PFAS Remediation | Ansaf V. Karim, Brian Pinkard, Annie Heble, Conrad Austin, Joel Baker, Emese Hadnagy | Civil Engineering |
| 13 | Tales of Scales: The Relationship Between Hydrodynamics and Antifouling in Pleuronectidae | Isabella Claeson, Megan L. Vandenberg, Karly E. Cohen, Ellen Misun Pak, Cassandra Donatelli | Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Sciences, Biology |
| 14 | Numerical Simulation of Dielectric Rewarming to Prevent Thermal Runaway in Cryopreserved Organs |
Hwisung (Andrew) Kim, Rebekah Cureg, Ruidong Ma, Zhiquan (Andy) Shu | Mechanical Engineering |
| 15 | Towards Sustainable Energy-Storing Concrete: Zeolite as a Functional SCM for Supercapacitor Applications | Aspen Dyea, David Hernandez, Nara Almeida, Cassandra Donatello, Orlando Baiocchi | Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering |
| 16 | Subsurface Mapping from Historical Construction Data | Emmaly Larsson, Ryan Carson, Daniel Berton, David Hopkins, Raphaela Plameras, Lorne Arnold | Civil Engineering |
| 17 | Standardization of Power Distribution Centers (PDC) for Combined Cycle Power Plants (CCPP) | Qaturi Vaughn, Refaa Aziz, Alejandra J. Malca Perez, Muna Mohamed, Thillainathan Logenthiran, Joey Redmond | Electrical & Computer Engineering |
| 18 | Case Study of Digital Predistortion for Power Amplifier Linearization | Sheethal Christy Anthony, Jie Sheng, Mohammed Jasim | Electrical & Computer Engineering |
| 19 | Decentralized communication and Scheduling Microgrid Based PoolCoElectric Market | Beserat Tewolde, Thillainathan Logenthiran, Vahid Dargahi | Electrical & Computer Engineering |
| 20 | MIRA: Multi-Vector Retrieval with Hybrid Indexing and Adaptive Query Processing for Web-Scale Search | Solmaz Seyed Monir, Dongfang Zhao | Computer Science & Systems |
| 21 | LDP-MIC: Correlation-Aware Local Differential Privacy for Federated Learning under Untrusted Aggregation | Wenjun Yang, Eyhab Al-masri, Olivera Kotevska | Computer Science & Systems |
| 22 | QoS-Aware AI Agents for Intelligent API Selection and Composition | Ishwarya Narayana Subramanian, Eyhab Al-Masri | Computer Science & Systems |
| 23 | Enhanced Road Crack Detection | Reetika Chauhan, Sixian Zheng, Wei Cheng, Juhua Hu | Computer Science & Systems |
| 24 | Agentic AI Serverless Code Generation: Towards Autonomous Improvement of Performance, Cost, and Code Quality | Xinghan Chen, Robert Cordingly, Ling Hung-Hung, Wes Lloyd | Computer Science & Systems |
| 25 | Inference Profiler: Enabling Resource Utilization Profiling of LLM inferencing | Austin Bomhold, Morteza Nabavinejad, Wes Lloyd | Computer Science & Systems |
| 26 | Impacts to Public Key Infrastructure from Post-Quantum Cryptography | Sofian Abbasi, Jaren Thorsen | Computer Science & Systems, Information Technology, Master of Cybersecurity & Leadership |
* Research will be presented during the lightning talk section
† Author will be presenting correlated research during lightning talk section
All listed posters and lighting talks' abstracts can be found in the 2026 Booklet.
Previous Showcases
2025 Research Showcase
About
Join us on May 9th, 2025 from 12:00 PM to 5:15 PM for the School of Engineering and Technology Research Showcase, a dynamic afternoon highlighting innovation, collaboration, and student excellence. The event features up to 46 student research posters and lightning talks. Attendees can explore ideas through two expert panels—Engineering & Infrastructure, and Research & Industry in Collaboration—as well as participate in 1 of 2 concurrent sessions on Speed Granting and Networking with SET Alumni. Three guided lab tours will offer a behind-the-scenes look at cutting-edge work in Wireless IC, Information Assurance & Networking, and Civil Engineering. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with everything research at the School of Engineering and Technology!
Program Details
Student Research Posters
| # | Poster Title | Authors | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Development of Signal Interface for Band-Switchable RF Transceiver IC* | Raunaq Ray, S. Babak Hamidi, Debasis Dawn | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| 2 | Development of a Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) Systems Interface for RF Transceiver IC | Conrad Motis, S. Babak Hamidi, Debasis Dawn | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| 3 | Enhancing Grid Reliability Through Precise Forecasting and Supply-Demand Optimization* | Kasra Amirsoleymani, Thillainathan Logenthiran | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| 4 | Optimized Renewable Energy Management in a University-Hospital Microgrid Using the Dragonfly Algorithm | Janice Ayuso, Thillainathan Logenthiran | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| 5 | Power Systems Fault Detection Using Machine Learning | J.S.S Aditya, Thillainathan Logenthiran, and Jie Sheng | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| 6 | A Study on Airplane Power Distribution | Huy Quang Tran, Thillainathan Logenthiran | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| 7 | Design and FPGA implementation of an Optimized AES Encryption Core | Yi Zhang, Jenny Sheng | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| 8 | Comparing Audio Data with SAD Architechture | Ashleigh Roppolo, Jenny Sheng | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| 9 | Cryoprotectant Development to Reduce Thermal Runaway under Dielectric Heating in Cryopreservation* | Ruidong Ma, Hwsung Kim, Rebekah Cureg, Zhiquan Shu | Mechanical Engineering |
| 10 | Design and Evaluation of a New, Student-Centered Multidisciplinary Course in Mechanical Engineering: Artificial Organs | Ruidong Ma, Frank Gao, Renee Desing, Zhiquan Shu | Mechanical Engineering |
| 11 | Self-reflection: Lessons learned from three years of teaching as an international Ph.D. student engineering instructor | Ruidong Ma, Renee Desing, Zhiquan Shu | Mechanical Engineering |
| 12 | Designing an Effective Broadband Resonant Cavity for Rewarming Cryopreserved Samples of Various Sizes | Ruidong Ma, Wenzhao Wang, Zhiquan Shu | Mechanical Engineering |
| 13 | A Study of Temperature and Concentration Impacts on the Viscosity of Cryoprotective Agent Solutions | Jade Nascimento, Nathanael Konwent, Vyn Mamaril, Ziyuan Wang, Ruidong Ma, Dayong Gao, Zhiquan Shu | Mechanical Engineering |
| 14 | pySLAMMER: A Modern Tool for Legacy Analysis* | Donald Garcia-Rivas, Lorne Arnold | Civil Engineering |
| 15 | Automated Detector Comparison for the North Pacific Fin Whale using Low-Frequency Hydrophone Data* | Carla L. Peterson, Heather Dillon, Ben Tribelhorn, Juhua Hu | Mechanical Engineering Computer Science and Systems |
| 16 | AI-based Conversational Agents to Augment Tuberculosis Care* | Daniil Filienko, Mahek Nizar, Javier Roberti, Denise Galdamez, Haroon Jakher, Sarah Iribarren, Weichao Yuwen, Martine De Cock | Computer Science and Systems |
| 17 | Advancing Privacy-Preserving AI: UW Tacoma as a NAIRR Pioneer* | Sikha Pentyala, Shane Menzies, Jineta Banerjee, Paulo Barreto, Daniil Filienko, Luca Foschini, Steven Golob, Geetha Sitaraman, Martine De Cock | Computer Science and Systems |
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| 19 | PartFlow: A Visualization Tool for Application Partitioning and Workload Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing | Boda Li, Minghao Li, Jian Zhao, Wei Cai | Computer Science and Systems |
| 20 | From the Benchtop to the Bedside: Revealing objective targets for management of Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC)* | Andrew Cole, Thomas Dahlstrom, Jesse Flores, Bryce Fukuda, Ling-Hong Hung, Ka Yee Yeung | Computer Science and Systems |
| 21 | Clustering Multimodal Spatial Transcriptomics Data* | Ruize Jia, Ling-Hong Hung, Ka Yee Yeung | Computer Science and Systems |
| 22 | Single Cell RNA/Perturb Sequencing and gRNA Enrichment Data Processing Pipelines | Ling-Hong Hung, Bryce Fukuda, Thomas Dahlstrom, Ka Yee Yeung | Computer Science and Systems |
| 23 | Graphical and Containerized Spatial Proteomics Image Analysis Workflow | Pritpal Singh, Bryce Fukuda, Jocelyn H. Wright, Kimberly S. Smythe, Ling-Hong Hung, Cecilia CS Yeung, Ka Yee Yeung | Computer Science and Systems |
| 24 | Scaling Complex Bioinformatics Workflows Using Asynchronous Execution and a Hybrid HPC/cloud Architecture | Patrick McKeever, Varun Mittal, Ka Yee Yeung, Ling Hong Hung | Computer Science and Systems |
| 25 | Disaster Ready Cybersecurity Guidelines: Building Resilient Support Systems for Domestic Violence Survivors* | Naomi Meyer, Dea Angeles Quiroz, Alex Worsham, Jessie Lowell, PhD, Andrew Wolfe | Information Technology |
| 26 | Maximum Information Correlated Differential Privacy: Enhancing Utility in Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis | Wenjun Yang, Eyhab Al-masri, Olivera Kotevska | Computer Science and Systems |
| 27 | Toward Comprehensive Computer Vision based Sign Language Research | Yiming Ni, Jiayu Li, Zhiqi Cheng, Wei Cheng | Computer Science and Systems |
| 28 | Distributed FaaSRunner: Enabling Reproducible Temporal and Spatial Function-as-a-Service Endpoint Testing | Tomoki Kondo, Austin Bomhold, Robert Cordingly, Wes Lloyd | Computer Science and Systems |
| 29 | Sky Computing for Serverless: Towards Infrastructure Prediction and Performance Enhancement | Robert Cordingly, Wes Lloyd | Computer Science and Systems |
| 30 | Large language models for Serverless Function Generation: An Investigation on Performance and Code Quality | Xinghan Chen, Vishnu Priya Rajendran, Robert Cordingly, Wes Lloyd | Computer Science and Systems |
| 31 | GraphQL vs. REST interfaces - Performance and Cost Investigation for microservice and database APIs | Runjie Jin, Robert Cordingly, Dongfang Zhao, Wes Lloyd | Computer Science and Systems |
| 32 | VecLSTM: A Vectorized Deep Learning Framework for Scalable Trajectory Prediction and Activity Recognition | Solmaz Seyed Monir, Dongfang Zhao | Computer Science and Systems |
| 33 | A Point-Based Algorithm for Distributional Reinforcement Learning in Partially Observable Domains | Larry D. Preuett | Computer Science and Systems |
| 34 | A Markov Decision Process for Trauma Patient Resuscitation | Larry D. Preuett, Catherine Beni, Qian Qui, Blake Murphy, Grant O'Keefe, Ankur M. Teredesai | Computer Science and Systems |
| 35 | RAGE: RAG Enhanced LLM Explainer for Heterogeneous Graphs | Raghvi Baloni, Yihui Chong, Ankur Teredesai | Computer Science and Systems |
| 36 | MIRAGE: Medical Image Retrieval Augmented Generation for Enhanced Pneumonia Diagnosis | Nicole Guobadia, Jay Estacio, Grant O'Keefe, Juhua Hu | Computer Science and Systems |
| 37 | Customized Multiple Clustering via Multi-Modal Subspace Proxy Learning | Jiawei Yao, Qi Qian, Juhua Hu | Computer Science and Systems |
| 38 | Older Adults and Comfort in Sharing the Road Alongside Autonomous Vehicles: An Examination of Travel Stress, Labeling, and Dedicated Lanes | Panick Kalambay and Angela Kitali | Civil Engineering |
| 39 | Low-Temperature Alkaline Treatment of PFAS Precursors | Ansaf V. Karim, Emese Hadnagy, Joel Baker, Brian Pinkard, Annie Heble, Conrad Austin | Civil Engineering |
| 40 | Identifying Key Drivers of Habitability Loss Reveals Pathways for Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific | Emily Nabong, Jeff Walters, Aaron Opdyke | Civil Engineering |
| 41 | Bioinspired Design from Fish Armor: Mechanics, Hydrodynamics, and Engineering Applications | Cassandra M. Donatelli, Karly E. Cohen, Jonah W Armendariz, Inaya Kamal, James A Kimpel, Bryan Lemus, Ellen Pak, Cody T Peradotto, Megan L. Vandenberg | Civil Engineering |
| 42 | Assessment of end-of-life Design in Consumer Coffee Makers | Ryan Lindbom, Kara Nichols, Dennis Tanner, Seung-Jin Lee, Heather E. Dillon | Mechanical Engineering |
| 43 | The Importance of “Place” in the Building and Establishment of a New Engineering Program | Mark Pagano, Michael Sullivan | Mechanical Engineering |
| 44 | Time Series Analysis and Clustering for Cybersecurity | Hongtai Yang, Shiva Kumara, Raed Alashor, DC Grant, Greg Dalcher | Information Technology |
| 45 | Small Business Data Breaches: How Does Poor Data Quality Impact Data Governance? | Deveeshree Nayak, Kush Juneja, Andres Gamboa | Information Technology |
| 46 | Small Business Data Breaches: The Role of Data Quality Dimensions | Kush Juneja, Deveeshree Nayak | Information Technology |
*Poster will be presented by one of the authors during the lightning talk section
All of the listed research posters' abstracts can be found on the 2025 Booklet.
