Operationalizing AI: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Coastal Defense By Alexander Sleeman, Grace Hollenbach, and Charles Barnhart

We present an overview of the challenges of learning-based control, both online and offline. We then present a specific use case to which the students contributed: learning a policy for "defending" a coastal region against extreme weather. The students are building a reward function for a reinforcement learning agent to use in optimizing decisions on where to put interventions geared toward mitigating flooding.

By Alexander Sleeman, Grace Hollenbach, and Charles Barnhart, mentored by Jared Markowitz (REDD)

Biology

Microwave Impact on Environmental Microbes by Michael Valerio

Frost Fighters: Expressing and Purifying Antifreeze Proteins by Noor Mahmoud

Chemistry

CO2 release from seawater and reduction to fuels using electrochemistry by Kyle Merkle

A Study in the Versatility of Low Temperature Metallurgy as a Method of Recycling End of Life Electronics by Emily Mitroka

Computer Science

Rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge by Matthew Urban

Producing Hyper-Realistic, Synthetic Faces From a Single Image by Lay Shah, Tiffany McCormick, and Elisabeth Min

Reconnaissance Blind Chess Mobile App - Human Versus Human Functionality by Tommy Diep

ETA—Extraterrestrial Arrival: A Fast-Paced Shooter Investigating AI for Combative Environments by Kenny Wang, Annchi Liu, and Evan Khanna

Applications of Generative Artificial Intelligence at APL by Timothy Lee

Evaluating the Impact of Data Poisoning and Enhancing Robustness of Classification Models by Kathryn Jung

Next-Gen Surgical Safety: Instrument Detection Using YOLO by Zenia Haroon

RAG Lookup: Getting More from your Documents by Ella Hu

Rapid Prototyping for Aviation Surveillance Data Visualization Tools Using Generative AI by Ebby Basil and Ayesha Shareef

Can we break the Physics in Neural radiance Field? by Alex Xiang

Materialist AI Chess Player by Shuya Li

Integrating Cameo Enterprise Architecture Documents and Confluence: Streamlining Collaboration by Connor Wu

LLM-Guided Program Exploration and Analysis of Computer Security Challenges by Albert Cao

Emotion Detection using Facial Expressions by Eeshawnee Kotaru

BVR Air Combat Modeling and Agent Development by Sai Siddhish Chandra Sekaran and Connor Wu

Creating a Chess AI using heuristic algorithms and dynamic image visualization by Daniel Cho and Charlie Barnhart

Leveraging LLMs and NER tools to Create Knowledge Graphs by Diya Shah

Implementing Optimized Cosine Similarity Search for the Network Analysis of Countries' Domestic Interests by Aryan Sharma and Jaden Li

Operationalizing AI: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Coastal Defense By Alexander Sleeman, Grace Hollenbach, and Charles Barnhart

Robotic Manipulation Learning with Behavior Trees by Jacob Zhang

Linting for Improved Software Quality by Andrew Xiong

Engineering

Designing and Building an Autonomous Research Drone for Optical Guidance and Communication by Jin Cao, Willie Henry, Yusuf Shabazz, Danielle Kwon, and Eliza Schuster

Development of a Rocket Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) Test Facility by Sophie Nguyen

Drone Derby by Jadon Chu, Javesh Sood, Myles Eley, Noah Bemnet, Sristi Gupta, Samuel Choi, Jordan Caldwell, and Sanjeet Suthrave

Building Bridges: The Art of Systems Engineering by Maya Kirshtein and Ved Roychowdhury

Robotics Arms from simulation to real operation, and Visuomotor Training by Angela Dong and Ian Vance-Kim

NEED for SPEED: Nanomaterials Engages Energetic Differences for Superparamagnetic PulsEd Electronic Devices by Riley Frevert, Miram Elag, and Anna Keffer

RAPTOR (Rapid Aerial Precision and Timed Orbital Racing) by Bezawit Gessesse, Bianca Pena, Boyan-jise Tiwang, Brianna Dheming, Darrion Boadu, and Gianna Ozurumba

LIFELINE (Location Intelligent Finder for Emergency LIne, Navigation and Extraction) by Leah Negash, Donte Abney, Solomie Negash, Cam Lora, Valerie Lizzeti Jimenez, and Sophie Nguyen

Space Weather Effects on Earth-Orbiting Satellites by Naomi Tewelde

Evaluating Thermal Performance of Dragonfly 80-20 Modular Box with Ansys Fluent CFD by Aiden Zhang

Control Systems Design via Ball Balance Device by William Riesselman

Detection of Slow Moving Objects in a Heavy Clutter Background by Ian Basumallick

Exploration of Thermal Metasurfaces in High-Temperature Applications by Shreyas Sasanakoti

Digital Engineering Modeling & Simulation Cost Performance Trades Study Analysis of a Quadcopter System by Alexandra Linden

Mechanical design and fabrication of a small remotely controlled truck by Kavya Shah

Wing Strike Reduction by Julia Reitman

Optimizing Design of 3D Lattice Structure for Efficient Energy Absorption by Brandon Jeon

Implementing Space Broadcasting Standard DVB-S2 Using GNU Radio by Rishi Rajadhyaksha and Caitlin DeBoy

Autonomously Hovering Drone by Erin Yi

Dragonfly DCDC Testing by Alyssa Kwon

Information Technology & Cybersecurity

Cyber Hunting by Priya Giri

Showcasing the Large-Scale Generation of GenAI based disinformation in Multi-lingual media platform by Veronika Makowski

Quantifying Enhancements in Anomalous Cyber Detections from Supervised Training of ML Models by Vishva Rao

Detecting Drones using Deep Neural Networks

IMAP Cleanroom Inventory Management Tool by Nitya Mahawar

Designing and Developing a Secure Password Management System by Samuel Murphy, Kevin Hwang, and Kashvi Mehta

Documentation Made Easy by Dimitrios Kokkinakos

Demonstration of personal-adaptive GenAI based Spear Phishing Attack by Aarav Sethi

International Trade Analysis by Francesca Strockbine, Sena Williams, and Kassy Paulemon

Mathematics & Data Analysis

Terror by Tularemia: Strategies for Effective Treatment in Bioterrorism Scenarios by Oyujin Damdinsuren and Ashley Zhang

Title: Methodologies for Dependent Data Fusion & Equivalences Derived from Information Filtering by Alex Michos

Mathing Monsoons by Vivi Phan

Measuring Trust: Implications of Vaccine Hesitancy Rates and Eye-Tracking with Trust in Public Health by Kavya Zaveri and Pallavi Deroy

Advance Data Analytics For Public Safety Applications by Deborah Anteneh

Rapid Meta Analysis of Cognitive Implications of Cochlear Implants by Ava Basham

Healthcare Dashboard: Enhancing Public Awareness and Emergency Preparedness for Socially Vulnerable Communities by Sasha Ummethala

Predicting the Unpredictable: A Comparison of Two Machine Learning Price Forecasting Techniques by Ethan Shaw and Justin Zhu

Developing a Genetic Algorithm to Interpret Thermogravimetry Data by Alex Chen

Other

Putting meaning into MESA: developing STEM curricula for grades 3-12 by Saran Toure and Joyce Martinez

Physics

Electric Field Sensing and Mapping by Kiyoma Algama and Arshia Labibah

Tracking Quantum Device Stability by Katherine Hua and Neha Chandran

Discovery of Hard Materials using Machine Learning by Sophia Papadakis

Planetary Science

Increasingly Accessibility to Astronomy Concepts through Visual Arts by Isha Chaudhuri

Supporting Planning and Visualization Software for the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer by Jessica Gogol

Using Meteorites to Analyze the Chemistry of Early Solar System Metallic Cores by Elizabeth Mitroka

Mineral Mapping in East Melas, Mars by Zahrah Arjoon