Distinguished Written Papers and Oral Presentations

Each year during the Research Science Institute (RSI), five presentations and five written papers are selected for honors by a distinguished panel of experts.  The papers are listed in alphabetical order.  For most of these papers, the paper title is linked to a full copy of the paper.

2023

Distinguished Written Papers

Radostin Cholakov, Distributional Quantization of Large Language Models

Yifan Kang, CNOT-Optimal Circuit Synthesis

Jerry Liu, Precision and Efficiency: An Automated System for Laser Alignment in Optical Experiments

Naomi Park, A Comprehensive Framework for Visualization of Natural and Anthropogenic Radioactivity for Applications in Environmental Monitoring

Hanming Ye, The Stable Picard Groups of the Exterior Algebras E(n)

Distinguished Oral Presentations

Alan Bu, Concatenations of Two Incidence Matrices, Spanning Trees in Planar Graphs: Two Related Problems

Radostin Cholakov, Distributional Quantization of Large Language Models

Evrim Sude Dzhon, Investigating Factors Correlated with Patient Response to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression

Alexa Fein, Decoding Familial Cancer: Whole-genome Sequencing of Multiple Myeloma Families Enables Identification of Candidate Genes

Kah Shuen Gan, Yeast-based High-throughput Screening of Plasmodium falciparum Phosphodiesterase Beta (PDEβ) for Malaria Drug Discovery

2022

Distinguished Written Papers

Shriya Bhat, Cloning and Mutagenesis of the ampC Gene Encoding for β–lactamase in Pseudomonas aeruginosa to Identify Potential Allosteric Binding Sites on β–Lactamase

Michelle Hua, 3D Acoustic Simulation and Optimization for Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Delivered with Stereotactic Robotics

Michael Huang, Effective Automated Stellar Substructure Detection using the Supervised Neural Clustering Algorithm

Iliyas Noman, On Small Spherical 2-Distance Sets in n-Dimensional Euclidean Space

Patrick Wahlig, Towards a System for Modeling the Impact of Ocean Acidification on Sea Scallops (Placopecten magellanicus) in Massachusetts Bay

Distinguished Oral Presentations

Shriya Bhat, Cloning and Mutagenesis of the ampC Gene Encoding for β–lactamase in Pseudomonas aeruginosa to Identify Potential Allosteric Binding Sites on β–Lactamase

Madeleine de Belloy, Computing the Mosaic Number of Reduced Projections of Knots and Links

AnAn Desimone, Engineering Eukaryotic RNA-guided DNA Endonuclease for Genome Editing

Arvind Seshan, Automated Neuron Activity Classification in C. elegans

Alex Wang, Spatially Multiplexed Gold Leaf Electrodes for Affordable Pathogenic Detection