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- 2025
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2025 WINNERS FOR BEST TALKS!
SBU 3MT and Postdoc Spotlight 2025 Award Ceremony. From left to right: President of Stony Brook Alumni Association Neil Butterklee, Interim Director for the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs Molly Lotz, Antonio Novaes, Lissa Fortes Soares, Jonathan Plessis-Belair, Maryam Azmi (2nd Place), Chenyu Zhang (3rd Place), Sai Abasolo (1st and People's Choice), Graduate Dean Celia Marshik Award First Name Last Name Graduate Program Talk Title 1st and People's Choice Sai Abasolo Biomedical Engineering Growing Bones: Body Not Included 2nd Maryam Azmi Genetics Shrinking Brain's Superheroes! 3rd Chenyu Zhang Civil Engineering From Scribbles to Safety: Drones and AI for Smarter Bridge Inspections Location: Wang Center Lecture Halls 1 and 2 Date: Friday, March 28, 2025 | 10:00 am—2:00 pm
3MT 2025 Competitors
Name Program Talk Title and Video Recording Sai Abasolo Biomedical Engineering Growing Bones: Body Not Included Maryam Azmi Genetics Shrinking Brain's Superheroes! Ariek Barakat Norford Ecology & Evolution Monkeys: The Gardeners of the Forest Julia Brown English Flipping the Script in Healthcare Kevin Hatton Geosciences The Past is the Key to the Present Varun Kankanallu Chemical & Molecular Engineering Realizing Safer Batteries Sam Kim Molecular & Cellular Biology Tracking Cancer Cells On the Move Jackie Martin Neuroscience The Undead in Your Head: Targeting Zombie Cells in the Aging Brain Nikita Soni Computer Science Why Doesn't Your Smart Device Get YOU (Yet)? Pallavi Surana Biomedical Informatics Decoding Cancer Grace B. Wivell Linguistics One Little Language, So Much to Learn Chenyu Zhang Civil Engineering From Scribbles to Safety: Drones and AI for Smarter Bridge Inspections - 2024
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2024 WINNERS FOR BEST TALKS!
SBU 3MT 2024 Award Ceremony. From left to right: Stony Brook Alumni Association Past President Ahmed Belazi, Graduate Dean Celia Marshik, Shoumik Saha (3rd Place), Catherine Feldman (1st Place), Ashley Barry (2nd Place), Laiba Bilal (People's Choice), Stony Brook Alumni Association President-Elect Neil Butterklee Award First Name Last Name Graduate Program Talk Title 1st Catherine Feldman Physics & Astronomy FLASH Photography: Exploding Stars on Computers 2nd Ashley Barry Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies "Madness" in the Movies 3rd Shoumik Saha Chemical & Molecular Engineering Melting Alaska: Can Polymers Preserve the Last Frontier? People's Choice Laiba Bilal Electrical & Computer Engineering Unlocking Xenon's Super Powers Location: Wang Center Lecture Halls 1 and 2 Date: Friday, March 8, 2024 | 10:00 am—2:00 pm
3MT 2024 Competitors
First Name Last Name Graduate Program Advisor Talk Title Ashley Barry Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Lisa Diedrich "Madness" in the Movies Arghya Bhattacharya Computer Science Michael Bender Computing Efficiently with Shared Resources Laiba Bilal Electrical and Computer Engineering Anibal Boscoboinik & Mónica Bugallo Unlocking Xenon's Super Powers Mohammad Fauzan Molecular and Cell Biology Martin Kaczocha The Source of the Brain Taxi Catherine Feldman Physics and Astronomy Alan Calder FLASH Photography: Exploding Stars on Computers Caitlin Hetherington Chemistry Benjamin Levine Connecting the Dots to Save the Planet Marija Iloska Electrical and Computer Engineering Mónica Bugallo Making the Most of What We Can't See Charles Kocher Physics and Astronomy Ken Dill Life Wasn't Lucky Alexander Kwakye Genetics, Ecology and Evolution Krishna Veeramah How Rapid Evolution Happens Gönenç Moğol Physics and Astronomy Thomas Weinacht A Minute in the Life of a Molecule Shoumik Saha Chemical and Molecular Engineering Dilip Gersappe Melting Alaska: Can Polymers Preserve the Last Frontier? Sayantani Sikder Chemical and Molecular Engineering Anibal Boscoboinik Tracking the Dance of NOx Gurulakshmi Subramanian Physics and Astronomy Alexander Zamolodchikov The Dance of Stars in Gravity Anna Thonis Ecology and Evolution Resit Akcakaya Hurricanes Affect the Lizards, Too Yijie Tian Ecology and Evolution Krishna Veeramah Who Were the Barbarians? - 2023
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS FOR BEST TALKS!
3MT 2023 Award Ceremony with SBU Alumni Association President Ahmed Belazi and Interim Graduate Dean Celia Marshik honoring
1st Place Katherine Kling (left), 2nd Place Kaushik Londhe (middle), and 3rd Place and People's Choice Samantha Chen (right)Award First Last Graduate Program 3MT Video 1st Katherine Kling Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences Paradise Lost in Madagascar? 2nd Kaushik Londhe Civil Engineering Can Radiation Solve Our Drinking Water Problem? 3rd and People's Choice Yen-Wen (Samantha) Chen Integrative Neuroscience How the Aging Brain Processes Loneliness Location: Wang Center Lecture Halls 1 and 2 Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 Time: 10:00 am—2:00 pm
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SBU 3MT 2023 AGENDA:
10:00am-10:15am Welcome and Ground Rules Lecture Hall 2 Welcoming Remarks:
Kathleen Flint Ehm, Assistant Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Initiatives, Graduate School
Celia Marshik, Interim Dean of the Graduate School10:30am-11:30am Round 1 Moderator: Avery Morris, Graduate Student, Music
Speakers:
Haley Akemi Briggles, Music
Mae Saslaw, Geosciences
Brianna Gonzalez, Integrative Neuroscience
Anand Aiyer, Computer Science
Katherine Kling, IDPAS
Danilo Segovia, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Zongxing Xie, Electrical and Computer EngineeringLecture Hall 1 Moderator: Ashley Barry, Graduate Student, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Speakers:
Kaushik Londhe, Civil Engineering
Jacob Feder, IDPAS
Yunting Yin, Computer Science
Jacob Crosser, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Yen-Wen (Samantha) Chen, Integrative Neuroscience
Joanne Saldanha, Genetics
Tanzir Pial, Computer ScienceLecture Hall 2 11:30am-11:50am Break Theater Lobby 11:50am-12:50pm Round 2 Competitors Announced and Round 2 Begins
Moderator: D. David O'Donoghue, Graduate Student, History, and Secretary, Graduate Student OrganizationLecture Hall 2 1:00pm-2:00pm Reception and Winners Announced
Ahmed Belazi, President of the Board, Alumni AssociationTheater Lobby Agenda subject to change.
3MT 2023 COMPETITORS:
First Name Last Name Graduate Program Advisor Title and Videos Anand Aiyer Computer Science I.V. Ramakrishnan Taming ‘Entangled’ Accessibility Forums Haley Akemi Briggles Music Stephen D. Smith Silencing the Stereotypes, not Asian Americans Yen-Wen (Samantha) Chen Integrative Neuroscience Turhan Canli How the Aging Brain Processes Loneliness Jacob Crosser Applied Mathematics and Statistics Braden Brinkman Much Ado About Brain Models Jacob Feder Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences Amy Lu Why Monkey Families Break Up Brianna Gonzalez Integrative Neuroscience Turhan Canli Your Brain on "Fake News" Katherine Kling Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences Patricia Wright and Catherine Markham Paradise Lost in Madagascar? Kaushik Londhe Civil Engineering Arjun Venkatesan Can Radiation Solve Our Drinking Water Problem? Tanzir Pial Computer Science Steven Skiena From 4 letter DNA to Natural Language Alignments Joanne Saldanha Genetics Hyungjin Kim A Fork in the Road to Cancer Therapy Mae Saslaw Geosciences Gregory Henkes Water in the Desert Danilo Segovia Molecular and Cellular Biology Adrian Krainer Understanding the Play of Life Zongxing Xie Electrical and Computer Engineering Fan Ye Wireless Sensing for In-home Health Monitoring Yunting Yin Computer Science Steven Skiena The Sound of Aging - 2022
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS FOR BEST TALKS!
Award First Last Graduate Program 3MT Video 1st Derek Pope Science/STEM Education Imagine Actually Understanding Math? Student teachers' beliefs about
how math should be taught2nd and People's Choice Xinan Chen Applied Math and Statistics How Do Neuro-Degenerative Diseases Affect Our Brain? 3rd Farzana Ali Biomedical Engineering Let Your Watch Pick Your Medicine! 3MT 2022 COMPETITORS:
First Name Last Name Graduate Program Advisor Title and Round 1 Videos Farzana Ali Biomedical Engineering Christine DeLorenzo Let Your Watch Pick Your Medicine! Caitlyn Cardetti Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Daniel Bogenhagen What Does this Protein Do? A Case Study on Neugrin Allen Chen Neuroscience Qiaojie Xiong Dopamine, Your Brain's Best Hearing Aid Xinan Chen Applied Math and Statistics Allen Tannenbaum How Do Neuro-Degenerative Diseases Affect Our Brain? Marcy Ekanayake-Weber Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences Andreas Koenig Computer Simulations Show How to Avoid Food Fights Shrin Feiz Disfani Computer Science IV Ramakrishnan Enabling Blind People to Fill Out Paper Forms Lesia Guinn Biomedical Engineering Gabor Balazsi Infections Made Predictable Moises Hassan Bendahan Hispanic Languages and Literature Kathleen Vernon What Does It Mean to be Asian or Latinx in an American Comic? Jessica Hautsch English Amy Cook Thinking, Feeling, Reading Kathryn Hill Neuroscience Ramin Parsey Binging and the Reward Center: Chicken or the Egg? Erwei Huang Chemistry Ping Liu (BNL) How the Simple Addition of Water Can Make a Difference in the Utilization of Natural Gas Samruddhi Jewlikar Biochemistry and Structural Biology Peter Tonge Unraveling the Role of Light in Biological Functions Sin-Ying Lin Clinical Psychology Nicholas Eaton Making Mental Health Care Transparent with Computational Techniques Yu Chung Lin Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Miriam Rafailovich A Solution for Enhancing the Strength of 3D Printed Plastic Xiaoyang Liu Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Yu-Chen Karen Chen-Wiegart Studying Molten Salt Corrosion Enables Future Nuclear Power Plants Devon Lukow Genetics Jason Sheltzer Cancers Evolve Drug Resistance by Shuffling Their Chromosomes Alok Mishra Computer Science Barbara Chapman Making Applications Run Faster on Supercomputers Giancarlo Pasquini Social and Health Psychology Stacey Scott What Can Personality Say About Dementia? Derek Pope Science/STEM Education Angela Kelly Imagine Actually Understanding Math? Student teachers' beliefs about how math should be taught Anthony Ripa Computer Science Aaditya Rangan Computing with Insight Deborah Rupert Neuroscience Stephen Shea Call of the Child: Rebalancing the Auditory Cortex Heidi Schneider Music Jeremy Little Is Your Favorite Song Designed with You in Mind? Damion Scott Philosophy Harvey Cormier The Future of Race: Transracialism as Fact and/or Fiction Alyssa Stansfield Atmospheric Science Kevin Reed Why Are Hurricanes Getting Rainier? Liu Yang Electrical Engineering Petar Djuric Can Machines See What We Can't See? - 2021
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS FOR BEST TALKS!
Award First Last Graduate Program 3MT Video 1st Chun-Hao Pan Molecular and Cellular Biology Targeting Keratin 17 in Pancreatic Cancer: A Therapeutic Window Opens 2nd and People's Choice Sara Santos English Living in the End of the World 3rd (tie) Shruti Iyer Genetics Solving Genetic Puzzles to Understand Cancer 3rd (tie) Amanda Russo Integrative Neuroscience, Psychology Getting Rid of Traumatic Memories 3MT 2021 COMPETITORS:
First Name Last Name Graduate Program Advisor Title and Round 1 Videos QINGQING CAO Computer Science Aruna Balasubramanian and Niranjan Balasubramanian Answering Questions in a Faster and Greener Way CHUANKAI CHEN Genetics Richard Lin Fighting Pancreatic Cancer: A Race Against Time CAITLIN DUFFY English Susan Scheckel America: Land of the Free, Home of the Gothic FIRMAN FIRMANSYAH Technology, Policy, and Innovation Todd L. Pittinsky Why Are Your Friends Usually Like You? LINGQING GAN Electrical Engineering Petar M. Djuric Discovering Hidden Networks: Who is Influencing Who? JON HEGGESTAD English Elyse Graham Imagining a Family for Everyone MEGAN HINES Art History and Criticism Katy Siegel The Art of Biotechnology: Seeing the Biotech Revolution through the Eyes of Artists YIXIN HU Molecular and Cellular Biology Bruce Stillman How DNA Replication Machinery and Gene Silencing System Evolve Together? SHRUTI IYER Genetics W. Richard McCombie Solving Genetic Puzzles to Understand Cancer CONG LIU Chemistry Ken Dill Speed Up Searching for Needles in a Haystack ZAHRA MALEKI SHAHRAKI Civil Engineering Xinwei Mao Wastewater Treatment in Your Backyard TAYLOR MEDWIG-KINNEY Genetics David Matus What Drives Cells to Invade? ADELLE MOLINA Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Janet Nye The Impact of Climate Change on New York Blue Crab Populations: A Warmer and Crabbier Future KEVIN MURPHY History Jennifer Anderson Promises and Power in Early America NATALIA NAVAS Sociology Daniel Levy How People Change Politics from Abroad CHUN-HAO PAN Molecular and Cellular Biology Kenneth Shroyer and Luisa Escobar-Hoyos Targeting Keratin 17 in Pancreatic Cancer: A Therapeutic Window Opens RACHEL PERLMAN Interdepartmental Doctoral Program In Anthropological Sciences Andreas Koenig and Amy Lu Why Grass-Eating Monkeys Like “Potatoes” Too CHARUTA PETHE Computer Science Steve Skiena Can AI Break Down a Story into Meaningful Pieces? DREW ROSEN Science Education Angela Kelly Learning Alone Together AMANDA RUSSO Integrative Neuroscience, Psychology Ryan Parsons Getting Rid of Traumatic Memories SARA SANTOS English Justin Johnston Living in the End of the World VIDUSHI SHARMA Physics Marivi Fernandez-Serra Learning to Thrive with Dihydrogen Monoxide ZARED SHAWVER Cognitive Science, Psychology Richard Gerrig Can Mysteries Change How You Think? XIAONING WU Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Kevin Reed and Christopher Wolfe Ocean Memories of Hurricanes CHENYU ZHOU Materials Science Mingzhao Liu Water to Fuel: Fiction or Fact? YICONG ZHU Applied Mathematics and Statistics Yuefan Deng Defeating the Number 1 Killer in the World - 2020
Award First Last Graduate Program 3MT Video 1st Sonali Gera Physics and Astronomy Building a Quantum Computer, One Particle at a Time 2nd and People's Choice Xiaoqing Zhang Heath and Rehabilitation Sciences Children Left Behind in Rural China--"I can Be Resilient and Happy" 3rd Keffy Kehrli Genetics Evolution: Comparing more than Just the Sequences of Our Genes 3MT 2020 COMPETITORS:
First Name Last Name Graduate Program Advisor Title and Round 1 Videos Aniska Chikhalya Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Patrick Hearing Understanding the Relationship: The Race to Find a Cure Mallesham Dasari Computer Science Samir Das Video is Eating the World! How to Deal with It? Yifan Fang Physics and Astronomy Harold Metcalf Controlling Motion of Atom with Laser Sonali Gera Physics and Astronomy Eden Figueroa Building a Quantum Computer, One Particle at a Time Jinyoung Jin Cultural Analysis and Theory Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood Can Painting Be a Form of Truth? Kelli Johnson Cognitive Science Christian Luhmann Improving Medicine using Math and Psychology Keffy Kehrli Genetics Joshua Rest Evolution: Comparing more than Just the Sequences of Our Genes Heeyoung Kwon Computer Science Niranjan Balasubramanian Getting AI to Say Why Brandon Marshall Political Science Stanley Feldman How Elections Encourage Division Shachee Mishra Computer Science Michalis Polychronakis The Art of Self-Defense. App Vs. Attack Samia Mohammed Molecular and Cellular Biology Yusuf Hannun A Small Victory in the Quest to Cure Yiyao Tian Materials Science and Engineering Anatoly Frenkel What Could Material Scientists Do to Protect our Soldiers? Brett Vaughn Chemistry Eszter Boros Harnessing Radioactive Metal to Fight Cancer Lei Wang Materials Science and Engineering Javier Concepcion What Can We Do with Excess C02? Xiaoqing Zhang Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Sharon Ray Children Left Behind in Rural China--"I can Be Resilient and Happy" - 2019
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS FOR BEST TALKS!
Award First Last Graduate Program 3MT Video 1st Olivia Swanson Neuroscience Brain in Motion 2nd and People's Choice Xiaoyu Zhao Molecular and Cellular Biology Social Network of Cancer Genes 3rd Bhavya Ghai Computer Science Let's Make Technology Fair Again! 3MT 2019 COMPETITORS:
First Name Last Name Graduate Program Advisor Title and Round 1 Videos Andrew Rimby English Susan Scheckel A Queer Meeting: Whitman and Wilde in Camden, NJ Andy Eicher Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Lisa Diedrich Looking to the Past to Think About the Future Bihua Yu Applied Math Evangelos Coutsias Cracking the Folding Puzzle Bhavya Ghai Computer Science Klaus Mueller Let's Make Technology Fair Again! Brian Hartwig English Susan Scheckel Stage to Page in the Progressive Era Chaudhry Hassan Biomedical Engineering Yi-Xian Qin Let it flow! Javier Gastón-Greenberg Hispanic Languages and Literature Kathleen Vernon Hero Genesis Jinelle Wint Molecular and Cellular Biology Howard Sirotkin Fishing for a Cure Joelle Mann English Stacey Olster Viral Voices and Novel Forms of Expression Lauren Ruiz Art Ian Paul DNA and Disposables: Nothing Disappears Mohammad Mahdi Javanmard Computer Science Rezaul A Chowdhury and Robert J Harrison How to Make Dynamic Programming Algorithms Faster Nusnin Akter Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Anibal Boscoboinik and Taejin Kim Toxic Gas Removal from Car Exhaust Olivia Swanson Neuroscience Arianna Maffei Brain in Motion Pawan Sharma Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Prithvi Shah Freedom from Hand Paralysis Prithviraj Rajebhosale Neuroscience David Talmage and Lorna Role Tracking Trauma in the Brain Stephanie Bonvissuto Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Mary Jo Bona We Are Where We Can Enter Tara Holmes Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Liz Montegary How the Movies Made Me A Lesbian Xiaoyi Hu Mechanical Engineering Thomas Cubaud Miniature Waves Xiaoyu Zhao Molecular and Cellular Biology Scott Powers Social Network of Cancer Genes - 2018
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS FOR BEST TALKS!
Award First Last Graduate Program 3MT Video 1st and People's Choice Yi Zheng Psychology How Do We Understand Foreign Accents? 2nd Molly Graffam SoMAS Nitrogen - Public Water Enemy #1 3rd Anusha Shankar Ecology and Evolution The Surprising Secrets of Sleeping Hummingbirds 3MT 2018 COMPETITORS:
First Name Last Name Graduate Program Advisor Title and Round 1 Videos Barbara J. Brennan Social Welfare Shelly Cohen Siblings: The Hidden Casualities of the Opioid Epidemic Shrinath Deshpande Mechanical Engineering Anurag Purwar Machine Design for Motion Tasks using Artificial Intelligence Molly Graffam School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Nils Volkenborn Nitrogen - Public Water Enemy #1 Stacey Greengold Science Education Keith Sheppard Those Who Understand, Teach...Chemistry! Lis Henderson School for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Janet Nye How Fish Survive the Long Hot Summer Kelly Hacker Jones History Nancy Tomes The Point of Alternative Medicine Chang Kyung (Joanna) Kim Pharmacological Sciences Vincent W. Yang Trust your gut Corinna Kirsch Art History Zabet Patterson Life and Death in Art's First Computer Age Tilsa Ore Monago Economics Yair Tauman Should you switch? On the race to make you stay Vihitaben Patel Biomedical Engineering Clinton Rubin Good Vibrations: Buzzing Your Way to Metabolic Fitness Anusha Shankar Ecology and Evolution Catherine Graham Why Hummingbirds Peeing at Night is Exciting News Martin Smyth Technology and Society Debra Dwyer Predicting Mass-Mobilization Political Phenomena Tatiana E. Tchoubar Technology and Society Lori L. Scarlatos How Can People Get to Know Things? Cognitive Model of Virtual Information Communication Estefania Vergara Economics Steven Stern Small Changes, Big Impact: Measuring and predicting the economic effects of changes in business games Jingming Wang Pharmacological Sciences Hyungjin Kim Getting Cancer From Your Broken DNA Yi Zheng Psychology Arthur Samuel How Do We Understand Foreign Accents? Weibo Zhou Economics Meta Brown Family Structure Matters: How parents help pay for college study - 2017
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS FOR BEST TALKS!
Award First Last Graduate Program 3MT Video 1st and People's Choice (tie) Zoya Vallari Physics and Astronomy Capturing ghost particles and telling apart real from fake 2nd Rajapillai Pillai Neuroscience How to peer into the brain safely (and cheaply!) 3rd and People's Choice (tie) Elizabeth Trimber Cognitive Science, Psychology How can we predict who will make impulsive decisions? With reward learning! People's Choice (tie) Pratik Kumar Chemistry Illuminating the Brain Circuits, one cell at a time 3MT 2017 COMPETITORS:
- 2014
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS FOR BEST TALKS!
Award First Last Graduate Program 3MT Video 1st Katarzyna Sawika Biomedical Engineering Development of a Novel Immunization Platform 2nd Nadia Jaber Molecular and Cellular Biology You've got (too much) mail