UB RISE 2025 Award Winners

Breast Cancer Detection with Quanvolutional Neural Networks #19
Advisor: Khaled Elleithy, Ph.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Program Coordinators’ and Alumni Perceptions: A Qualitative Study of CT Open Choice Program’s Mission #18
Advisor: Lauren Francese, Ed.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Educatio

Attention based Temporal Convolutional Network for Epileptic Seizure Detection #17
Advisor: Khaled Elleithy, Ph.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Engineering
Department Computer Science and Engineering

Astute Support System with Voice Feedback for Visually Impaired and Blind Assistance #15
Advisor: Khaled Elleithy, Ph.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Engineering
Department Computer Science and Engineering

Mitigating Quantum Decoherence Risk for Scalable Communication #14
Advisor: Khaled Elleithy, Ph.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Engineering
Department Engineering and Technology

Causative Factors of Paraeducator Attrition and Retention (PEAR) Rates#37
Advisor: Kerry Jones, Ed.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Education

An Analysis of Innocence Network Organizations #38
Advisor: Cassidy Haigh
College of Science and Society
Department of Criminal Justice and Human Security

Vision-Based Real-Time Wildfire Detection: Deep Learning Approach #56
Advisors: Ahmed El Sayed, Ph.D.; Navarun Gupta, Ph.D.; Xingguo Xiong, Ph.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Molecular Docking and Dynamics Simulations for Identifying Effective Antiviral Inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 #41
Advisor: Peiqiao Wu, Ph.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Design and Development of a Lightweight Chassis Frame for a One Passenger Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Vehicle (eVTOL) based on Jetson One #43
Advisor: Junling Hu, Ph.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Mpow3R visioN Smart Mirror: Enhancing daily life, one reflection at a time #79
Advisor: Sarosh Patel, Ph.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

3BT SmartAI Home Surveillance System #83
Advisor Ausif Mahmood and Ahmed El Sayed
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Engineering
Departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Lawnbot: Affordable Autonomous Lawnmower #81
Advisor: Sarosh Patel, Ph.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Engineering
Departments of Computer Science and Engineering

HailoUBot: Smart Navigation and Path Sharing #80
Advisor: Ahmed El Sayed, Ph.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering

ParkSense #84
Advisor: Sarosh Patel, Ph.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering

Determining the Clinical Profile of Trauma-Induced Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Experimental Design #109
Advisor: Dr. Helen Pushkarskaya and Avalon Moore, Sarah Reeves
Amity Regional High School

Comparing the Effectiveness of AlCl3-NaCl and Zeolite ZSM 5 Catalysts in the Pyrolysis of HDPE #115
Advisor: Kirk Shadle
Bridgeport Regional Aquaculture Science and Technology Education Center

Investigating the Level of Creativity and the Association With the Perception of Dissonance in Music in Western High School Students #110
Advisor: Sarah Reeves
Amity Regional High School

The Impact of Combined Bromelain and Papain Hydrogel on Wound Healing Processes Relative to Enhanced Enzyme Extraction Techniques #105
Advisor: Kirk Shadle
Bridgeport Regional Aquaculture Science and Technology Education Center

Evaluation of Potential Application of Cassiospea Xamachana’s Nematocysts as a Transdermal Drug Delivery System #106
Advisor: Kirk Shadle
Bridgeport Regional Aquaculture Science and Technology Education Center

Comparing the Effectiveness of AlCl3-NaCl and Zeolite ZSM 5 Catalysts in the Pyrolysis of HDPE #115
Advisor: Kirk Shadle
Bridgeport Regional Aquaculture Science and Technology Education Center

Comparison of Satellite vs. Ground-based Data of Ozone Concentrations #114
Advisor: Susan Dougherty
Stamford High School

W.E.T. (Water, Energy, Time) Gardens #112
Advisor: Shannon Hashemi, DBA, CMA
Easton Country Day School

Employee Attrition: Leveraging Machine Learning Explainability to Identify Key Predictors of Turnover #22
Advisor: Dan Tenney, Ph.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Engineering
Department of Technology Management

Prompt Engineering an AI Agent for Interpretation of ML Results #57
Advisor: Ali Baker, Ph.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
Ernest C. Trefz School of Business

Breast Cancer Detection with Quanvolutional Neural Networks #19
Advisor: Khaled Elleithy, Ph.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Live Forensic on Real Quantum Device Using Quantum Gates #20
Advisor: Khaled Elleithy, Ph.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Mitigating Quantum Decoherence Risk for Scalable Communication #14
Advisor: Khaled Elleithy, Ph.D.
College of Engineering, Business, Education
School of Engineering
Department Engineering and Technology