Best Poster Presentations 

College of Business & Public Administration

Jeevan Sai Gali
Graduate, Information Systems and Technology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nima Molavi
Predicting Late Deliveries in International Healthcare Logistics Using Machine Learning Models

Koa Young
Undergraduate, Information Systems and Technology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Becerra
Correlation Between Health Insurance and Social Determinants Using Data Science

College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Itzayana Garcia
Graduate, Social Work
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Caroline Lim
Structural Barriers Undocumented Individuals Face Pursuing Professional Licensure

Valdrex Philippe
Undergraduate, Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cari Goetz
Correlates and Influences on Desire for Children

College of Natural Sciences

Ashley Horn
Undergraduate, Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. April Karlinsky
One of These Bodies is Not Like the Others: Contrast Effects Emerge When Rating Body Sizes of Individuals Presented in Groups

Edgar Rolon
Graduate, Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nicole Bournias-Vardiabasis
Passive Electronic Cigarette Exposure Initiates Squamous Metaplasia in a Developing 3D Human Tracheobronchial Epithelial Tissue In-Vitro Model

College of Arts & Letters

Kendra Tallchief-Stanley
Undergraduate, English
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Erin Hall
Using an Automated Tool to Compare the Vowel Production of Spanish-English Bilinguals With and Without a History of Language Disorder

College of Education 

Camille Rhyne, Sasha Tesoro, Jasmin Escalante

Graduate, Education

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lisa Looney

Engagement, Consistency, and Care: How Research Assistants Support Students in Cognitive Training

Best Oral Presentations

Mohammed Arfa Uruj
(Session 1) Graduate, Computer Science, Natural Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nabeel Alzahrani
Cancer Detection Using Deep Learning: A Survey of Modern Techniques

Rachel Kanter
(Session 2) Undergraduate, Psychology, Social & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Christina Hassija
Moral Injury as a Mediator Between High Betrayal Trauma and Mental Health Symptoms

Jessica Swan-Prung
(Session 3) Graduate, Psychology, Social & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brittany Bloodhart
Women in STEM and Parental Influence Using the Expectancy-Value-Cost Theory

Jessica Andrews
(Session 4) Undergraduate, Child Development, Social & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stacy Morris
Charisma Check: Exploring Social Skills in Adolescents Through Dungeons and Dragons

Emma Avila
(Session 5) Undergraduate, English, Arts & Letters
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kate Simonian
Boy and Butcher Girl

Alewa Anaya
(Session 6) Graduate, Psychology, Social & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nicolaas Brunet
The Impact of Eyewear on Early and Mid-Latency ERP Components of Face Processing

Luis Trejo and Rene Toribio
(Session 7) Undergraduate, Biology, Natural Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nicole Bournias-Vardiabasis
Evaluating the Effect of Nicotine Exposure on Drosophila melanogaster, a Model for Respiratory Diseases

Maria Fernanda Esqueda
(Session 8) Graduate, Social Sciences and Globalization, Social & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rajrani Kalra
Whittier: The City of Displaced Angels – A Geospatial Analysis of Gentrification in Whittier, California

Logan Ashbaugh
(Session 9) Graduate, Computer Science, Natural Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yan Zhang
A Comparative Study of Sentiment Analysis on Customer Reviews Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Rudy Garcia
(Session 10) Undergraduate, Sociology, Social & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. King-To Yeung
Pathways to Transformation: Higher Education and Cognitive Resilience for Formerly Incarcerated Students

Vishwa Bhatt
(Session 11) Graduate, Computer Science, Natural Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Jin
Prompt Engineering & AI-Assisted Learning: Improving ChatGPT’s Response Quality

Alejandra Lujan, Marissa Sanchez, Angie Martinez
(Session 12) Graduate, Psychological Sciences, Social & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cynthia Crawford
Impact of Adolescent Nicotine Exposure on Methamphetamine Reward

Apolo Ibanez-Rincon
(Session 13) Graduate, Biology, Natural Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Angela Horner
Effects of Early-Life Exercise on Tendon Morphological and Material Properties

Saul Arias
(Session 14) Undergraduate, Mathematics – Teaching Mathematics Concentration, Natural Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Laura Wallace
Instruct Mathematics: Reconnect with Effectiveness

Del Gerard
(Session 15) Graduate, Entrepreneur, Business & Public Administration
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michelle Russen
Lifting Black Leaders: A Bottom-Up Approach to Facilitating Hospitality Leadership

Harleen Kaur Maroak
(Session 16) Graduate, Public Health, Natural Sciences
Faculty Mentors: Kathleen Ragsdale, Terezie Tolar-Peterson, Dr. Kendra Byrd
Macronutrient Evaluation Results: ComFA+Fish Instant Porridge – A Novel Complementary Food Targeting Childhood Stunting in Zambia

Paola Lopez
(Session 17) Graduate, Industrial Organizational Psychology, Social & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mark Agars
Clocking out: Experiences of Customer Sexual Harassment, Coping, and Psychological Well-Being Among Waitresses

Calvin Glisson
(Session 18) Graduate, Computer Science, Natural Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Qiuxiao Chen
HSDA: High-Frequency Shuffle Data Augmentation for Bird’s-Eye-View Map Segmentation

Farheen Akhter
(Session 19) Graduate, Computer Science and Engineering, Natural Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Qingquan Sun
Deep Learning Based on Bed Posture Recognition Using Pressure Sensor Arrays