2023 SC EPSCoR State Conference

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2023 SC EPSCoR State Conference
Agenda

Conference Registration Opens
Location – Pre-function Corner

Poster Presentation Setup     
Location – Azalea C

Exhibitor Setup
Location – Pre-function on Side of Azalea

Conference Breakfast
Location – Pre-function in Front of Azalea

Conference Opening Session                                                   Location – Azalea A and Azalea B

Welcome Remarks

  • James Doolittle, Director of SC EPSCoR, South Carolina Research Authority
  • Susan Anderson Rivaleau, Assistant Vice President for Research, College of Charleston

 

NSF EPSCoR and NASA EPSCoR Presentations

  • Speaker – Dr. Sandra Richardson, NSF EPSCoR Section Head, National Science Foundation

Presentation Title – NSF EPSCoR: Advancing Geographic Diversity in STEM

  • Speaker – Dr. Mitch Krell – Deputy Project Manager, NASA EPSCoR, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Presentation Title – NASA EPSCoR Program Overview

 

Break

Concurrent Session                                                                 Location – Magnolia A 

  • Speaker – Dr. Minerva Brauss, Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Mathematics Instructor, Francis Marion University, Presentation Title – Coaching and Mentoring for Underrepresented Undergraduate Students in STEM
  • Speaker – Xiangxiong Kong – Coastal Carolina University
  • Speakers – Dr. Nishika Edwards, Education Research Program Coordinator, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville; Dr. Steffani Driggins, Associate Professor, Claflin University; and Dr. Larry Lowe, Professor and Department Chair, Benedict College
    Presentation Title – A Comprehensive Analysis of the Influence of Mentoring and Peer-Mentoring on STEM Recruitment and Retention


Concurrent Session                                                                 Location – Magnolia C

  • Speaker – Dr. Sudeep Popat, Associate Professor, Clemson University

Presentation Title – Anaerobic Co-digestion of Wastewater Sludge with Fats, Oils, and Grease (FOG): Insights From Studies Across Multiple Scales

  • Speaker – Cuizhen (Susan) Wang, Professor, University of South Carolina

Presentation Title – Drones for 3D Monitoring of Coastal Topography and 3D Marsh Mapping

  • Speaker – Dr. Jose Payero, Assistant Professor, Clemson University

Presentation – Using an Internet of Things (IoT) System to Improve Irrigation Water Management

Concurrent Session – Graduate Students                                Location – Dogwood A 

  • Speaker – Elham Jafarigol, Ph.D. Candidate, University of South Carolina

Presentation Title – Highly Stretchable, Injectable, and Self-healing Mxene-based Hydrogels With Tunable Gelation Behavior

  • Speaker – Gelareh Rezvan, Ph.D. Candidate, University of South Carolina

Presentation Title – Multifunctional Hybrid Membrane Based on the Controlled Assembly of 2D Mxene Nanoflakes and Spherical Nanoparticles

  • Speaker – Kyle George, Ph.D. Candidate, University of South Carolina

Presentation Title – Chiral Photonic Security Tokens Based on Polarized Structural Color for Physical Unclonable Functions

  • Speaker – Malek Alkayyali, Ph.D. Candidate, Clemson University

Presentation Title – Machine Learning Meets Nanoscale Physics: A Case Study of Grain Boundary Solute Segregation

 

Concurrent Session – Graduate Students                                Location – Dogwood C

  • Speaker – Omar Hussein, Ph.D. Candidate, Clemson University

Presentation Title – Topological Complexity During Solid-state Sintering

  • Speaker – Yasir Mahmood, Ph.D. Candidate, Clemson University

Presentation Title – Atomistic and Machine Learning Studies of Materials Interfaces: A Case Study of Grain Boundary Chemistry and Metastability

  • Speaker – Sepideh Norouzi, Ph.D. Student, University of South Carolina

Presentation Title – Soft Crystals Within Curved Confinement

  • Speaker – Alejandro Rodriguez, Ph.D. Student, University of South Carolina

Presentation Title – Million-Scale Data Integrated Deep Neural Network for Phonon Properties of Crystals Spanning the Periodic Table

Lunch                                                                                      Location – Azalea A and Azalea B

  • Speaker – Kim Christ, Director of SC Tech and CyberSecure SC, South Carolina Council on Competitiveness
  • Speaker – Prakash Nagarkatti, Senior Research Advisor to the President and Carolina Distinguished Professor, University of South Carolina

Presentation Title – The Impact of Geographic Inequality in Federal Research Funding: A Comparative Longitudinal Study of Research and Scholarly Outputs in EPSCoR versus Non-EPSCoR States

  • Speaker – Mr. Harold Singletary, Chief Executive Officer, BrightMa Farms

Presentation Title – Creating Circularity Ecosystems with Climate Smart AgTech Solutions

Break

Concurrent Session                                                                 Location – Magnolia A 

  • Speaker – Dr. Nabil Natafgi, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina

Presentation Title – A Platform to Enhance Teach-back Methods in Virtual Care Visits (POTENTIAL)

  • Speaker – Dr. Samuel Yeboah, Chief Medical Officer and Creative Director, Cogito, LLC

Presentation Title – Neuro-trauma Feedback System, An Investigational Study of Electroencephalography Variability Monitoring in Emergency Care Clinicians for the Early Detection of Acute Stress Disorder

  • Speaker – Dr. Alexander Brummer, Assistant Professor, College of Charleston

Presentation Title – Data-driven Discovery and Interpretation of CAR T-cell Killing Using Sparse Identification and Latent Labels

 

Concurrent Session – Undergraduate Students                       Location – Magnolia C 

  • Speaker – Duvall Dickerson-Evans, Undergraduate Student, Coastal Carolina University

Presentation Title – i360°VR: An Interactive, 360-Degree, Virtual Reality Tool for STEM Education

  • Speaker – Darnell Coicous, Undergraduate Student, Benedict College

Presentation Title – A Study of Heusler Alloy

  • Speaker – Nicholas Orlando, Undergraduate Student, College of Charleston

Presentation Title – Creation and Breakdown of Medically Relevant PCI Polymers

  • Speaker – Ashne Desai, Undergraduate Student, University of South Carolina

Presentation Title – The Effects of Demographic and Pharmocological Factors Within the Genders Diagnosed with Late-Onset and Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Speaker – Brison Shira, Undergraduate Student, College of Charleston

Presentation Title – Gaining Insight into Tandem Mass Spectrometry (MS/MS) Analysis of Biopolymers With Sequence and Structural Diversity

 

Concurrent Session – Graduate Students                                Location – Dogwood A 

  • Speaker – Brendan Reidy, Master Student, University of South Carolina

Presentation Title – Real-time Transformer Inference on Edge AI Accelerators

  • Speaker – Nawraj Sapkota, Ph.D. Candidate, Clemson University

Presentation Title – Interface Modification Technique for Realizing High-Performance Durable Silicon-based Anodes

  • Speaker – Janak Basel, Ph.D. Candidate, Clemson University

Presentation Title – Electrolyte Optimization for Sodium-Sulfur Batteries

  • Speaker – Daniel Moore, Ph.D. Student, Clemson University

Presentation Title – At the Frontiers of Additive Manufacturing: Exploring the Benefits of Laser Beam Shaping

 

Concurrent Session – Graduate Students                                Location – Dogwood C

  • Speaker – Xiwen Chen, Ph.D. Student, Clemson University

Presentation Title – Diversity Enabling Methods for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Traffic Safety Monitoring

  • Speaker – Jeremy Money, Ph.D. Student, University of South Carolina

Presentation Title – Leveraging Blue Phase Liquid Crystals for Architected Materials Design

  • Speaker – Basanta Ghimire, Ph.D. Student, Clemson University

Presentation Title – Focused X-ray Luminescence Imaging With Gadolinium Oxysulfide Nanophosphors Contrast Agent

  • Speaker – Evan Watkins, Ph.D. Student, Clemson University

Presentation Title – Optothermal Conductivity of 2D Materials

Break

Poster & Networking Session

Location – Azalea C

 

Break

Concurrent Session                                                                 Location – Magnolia A 

  • Speaker – Dr. Jessica Larsen, Assistant Professor, Clemson University

Presentation Title – Nerve Regenerative Nanoparticles for Treatment of Sciatic Nerve Injury

  • Speaker – Ramakrishna Podila, Associate Professor, Clemson University

Presentation Title – Sulfurized Polymer Electrodes for Li-S Batteries: Myths, Mechanisms, and Metrics

  • Speaker – Dr. Yu Gong, Assistant Professor, College of Charleston

Presentation Title – Ultrafast Microscopy and Control of THz Coherent Phonon Dynamics in Layered van der Waals Materials

 

Concurrent Session                                                                 Location – Magnolia C 

  • Speaker – Dr. Sri Sritharan, Professor, Iowa State University

Presentation Title – Land-Based Wind Power Generation Potential for South Carolina

  • Speaker – Wesam Al-Jeddawi, Executive Director of Laboratory Services, DiscoverFresh Foods Inc.

Presentation Title – Effect of Pre-Treatment and Freezing of the Polyphenol Oxidase Activity and Color Stability of Sliced Peaches

Concurrent Session – Graduate Students                                Location – Dogwood A

  • Speaker – Nancy Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Clemson University

Presentation Title – Kinetics of Lithium Ion Diffusion in Porous Silicon Nanostructures

  • Speaker – Peshal Karki, Ph.D. Candidate, Clemson University

Presentation Title – Niobium Pentoxide as a Highly Stable, Fast-charging Electrode Material for High-performance LIBs

  • Speaker – Gene Yang, Ph.D. Student, University of South Carolina

Presentation Title – Strain Effect on Oxygen Reduction Reaction of Epitaxial La0.8Sr0.2CoO3 Thin Films

  • Speaker – Hazim Alzorgan, Ph.D. Student, University of South Carolina

Presentation Title – A Study Into The Control of an Overhead Manipulator Equipped UAV Using Reinforcement Learning Strategies

 

Concurrent Session- Graduate Students                                                                      Location – Dogwood C 

  • Speaker – Jie Ji, Ph.D. Student, Clemson University

Presentation Title – Spatial-Temporal Data Overfitting for High-Quality and Efficient Video Delivery

  • Speaker – Mohammad El Loubani, Ph.D. Student, University of South Carolina

Presentation Title – Effect of Strain on the Thermoelectric Properties of Epitaxial La0.8Sr0.2CoO3 Thin Films

  • Speaker – Peyton Chandarana, Ph.D. Student, University of South Carolina

Presentation Title – Energy-Efficient Deployment of Machine Learning Workloads on Neuromorphic Hardware

  • Speaker – Sayed Pedram Haeri Boroujeni, Ph.D. Student, Clemson University

Presentation Title – Efficient Deep Learning Framework for RGB-to-IR Image Translation for Wildland Fire Detection and Monitoring Applications

Break

Plenary Session                                                                        Location – Azalea A and Azalea B

  • Speaker – Dr. Jennifer Becker, DEPSCoR Program Manager, Basic Research Office, Department of Defense – Presentation Title – DoD Basic Research and DEPSCoR
  • Speaker – Kevin Limehouse, Strategic Partnerships Manager and Program Administrator, Charleston County Government, CORE SC – Presentation Title – Preparing SC for the New Space Economy – CORE SC, NASA, and Partners

 

                        Conference Adjourn