Category: Seed Projects

Securing CMOS Integrated Circuits Using Nano-antenna-Based Optical Watermarks

SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  Ajay Joshi (Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering) Today CMOS integrated circuits (ICs) are pervasively used in practically all consumer electronics, critical defense technologies and municipal support systems such as power and water supply services. At the same time, the supply chain and development cycle of IC chips have […]

Identifying the Casual Impact of Network Structure: A Randomized Experiment on Twitter

SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  Dylan Walker (Information Systems, Questrom School of Business) Our day-to-day activities have become increasingly embedded in the digital realm, with online social networks spreading information between individuals at a massive scale, surpassing geographic constraints and social boundaries. While the digitization of our interactions has unquestionable relevance to social, economic and behavioral […]

Identifying Novel Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries with Materials Informatics

SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  Emily Ryan (Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering)  The development of integrated computational materials engineering methods is a critical aspect of the Materials Genome Initiative, which aims to reduce development time for advanced materials. The transformation of materials development from a trial and error experimental process to an integrated computational and […]

Ninja Game: Optimizing Neuroplasticity through Speech-driven Gameplay

SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  Cara Stepp (Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering) There are a host of speech disorders that can benefit from improved treatments, but limited understanding of what those treatments should look like. We know from basic neuroscience that more practice and more engaging practice is the key […]

Participation and Learning in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Study of Early Adopters

SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  Georgios Zervas (Marketing, Questrom School of Business)  This research is an empirical study of the mechanisms underlying consumer engagement in the sharing economy. As decentralized peer-to-peer markets continue to emerge as plausible alternative suppliers of goods and services, researchers seek to answer the following questions through data analysis: a) what […]

Efficient Likelihood Estimators for Multivariate Jump-Diffusions

SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  Gustavo Schwenkler (Finance, Questrom School of Business)  Financial markets regularly experience large shocks. From the great depression to the recent financial crisis – most financial market crises are characterized by large unexpected losses. These losses may affect corporations and governments in negative ways, reducing economic growth and increasing unemployment. This imposes real costs on society. It […]

Recruiting Subjects for Online Surveys: Facebook versus Mechanical Turk

SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  Dino Christenson (Political Science, College of Arts & Sciences) and Taylor Boas (Political Science, College of Arts & Sciences) Many fields of study, from public health to psychology to political science, increasingly use online surveys as a research method. This project constitutes the first head-to-head comparison of convenience samples of […]

Computational Modeling of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

SPRING 2013 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  James Galagan (Biomedical Engineering and Microbiology, College of Engineering) The goal of this project was to develop predictive models of the complete regulatory and metabolic networks of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). The aim is to use these models to computationally study the molecular programs that enable MTB to cause human disease in […]

Health Care at the Intersection of Economics and Computer Science

SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Benjamin Lubin (Information Systems, Quaestorum School of Business) and Keith Marzilli Ericson (Markets, Public Policy, and Law, Quaestorum School of Business) The operation of the health care system in the United States is extraordinarily complex, with many interactions among patients, doctors, insurers, governments, and other parties. This complexity also generates an extraordinary […]

Identifying Experts and Effective Teams of Experts

SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES  Evimaria Terzi (Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences) and Nachiketa Sahoo (Information Systems, Questrom School of Business) In many settings, individuals form teams and work together in order to complete a project. For example, within companies groups of employees perform tasks collectively in groups. Similarly, scientists merged their skills […]