Past Researchers and Conference Winners

***First time the conference was held remotely, using Easy Virtual Fair software***

The oral presentation winners, announced at the event, are: 

First Place: Aryan Nabidur Rashid 
Second Place: Jack Wawrow 
Student’s’ Choice Award: Melissa Spiegel  

The video research presentation winners, announced at the event, are: 

First Place: Koko Nanahji 
Second Place: Sara Hajari 
Third Place: Julia Ferri  

First Place Students’ Choice Award (Morning Session): Sara Kashanchi 
Second Place Students’ Choice Award (Morning Session): Daphne-Eleni Archonta 
Third Place Students’ Choice Award (Morning Session): Chester Wyke  

First Place Students’ Choice Award (Afternoon Session): Mohammad Sotoudehfar 
Second Place Students’ Choice Award (Afternoon Session): Karen Abogadil 
Third Place Students’ Choice Award (Afternoon Session): Rashiq Shahad 

The booth winners, announced at the event, are: 

Best Booth Graphic Award: Daphne Archonta 

The oral presentation winners, announced at the event, are:

First Place: Mohammadreza Karimi (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, supervised by Hossein Kassiri) – “Seizure Detection Using Brain EEG Signal Processing”;
Second Place: Brittany Danishevsky (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, supervised by John Tsotsos) – “Object Detection in Nursing Homes for Autonomous Wheelchair Guidance”; and
Student Choice: Daphne-Eleni Archonta (Mechanical Engineering, supervised by Pouya Rezai) – “On-demand Electric Field Induced Egg Laying of Caenorhabditis Elegans.”

The poster presentation winners, announced at the event, are:

First Place: Dhruvikumari Desai and Antonia Pennella (Mechanical Engineering, supervised by Garett Melenka) – “Manufacture and Analysis Of Braided Composite Structures”;
Second Place: Julia Ferri (Civil Engineering, supervised by John Gales) – “Movement Profiles and Accessible Design”;
Third Place: Maeve Wildes, Syyeda Zainab and Yash Dhamija (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, supervised by Franck van Breugel) – “PROMISE: The world’s largest benchmark suite for probabilistic model checking”;
Honorary Mention: Constantinos Kandias (Mechanical Engineering, Ronald Hanson) – “Design and Optimization of the Contraction and Corner Sections of a Closed Loop Wind Tunnel”;
Session 1 Student Choice: Ariella Kantorowitz (Earth & Space Science & Engineering, supervised by John Moores) – “Illumination Models of Martian Craters to Support Space Exploration”; and
Session 2 Student Choice: Ryan Karaba (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, supervised by Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh) – “Non-invasive Micro-Electrode Array Electrophysiological Recordings.”

The oral presentation winners, announced at the event, are:

First Place: Kyra McLellan – Piezoresistive Polymer Nanocomposites as Smart Sensing Materials. (Mechanical – Dr. Sunny Leung)
Second Place: Sam Guraya – Machine Learning Approaches for Seizure Detection using Frontal Scalp Electrode Recordings, Spectral Energy Bands, Phase Synchrony and Electrode Position based Feature Extraction. (EECS – Dr. Hossein Kassiri)
Students’ Choice Award: Kyra McLellan – Piezoresistive Polymer Nanocomposites as Smart Sensing Materials. (Mechanical – Dr. Sunny Leung)

The poster presentation winners, announced at the event, are:

First Place: Tiffany Joseph – Exploring the Effectiveness of Reaction Wheels as Attitude Control Systems for Nanosatellites. (ESSE – Dr. Regina Lee)
Second Place: Matteo Timpano – The Effects of Micro-and-Nanostructuring on Increasing Efficiency of Triboelectric Nanogenerators (TENGs). (Mechanical – Dr. Sunny Leung)
Third Place: Michael Dowling – Automatic Curation of Amateur Hockey Video using Visual and Auditory Cues. (EECS – Dr. James Elder)

Honourable Mention: Connor Dear – Automatic Single-View Camera Parameter Estimation for Linear Highway Scenes. (EECS – Dr. James Elder)
Honourable Mention: Can Unlusoy – Determination of Flexural Behavior of Bio-Based 2D Biaxial Tubular Braided Composites. (Mechanical – Dr. Garrett Melenka)

Students’ Choice Session 1: Ragheb Abunahla – Texture Mapping Single-View 3D Architectural Reconstructions using High Resolution Imagery. (EECS – Dr. James Elder)
Students’ Choice Session 2: Pooria Shafia and Zainab Fatmi – A Fully-Flexible 8-Channel Active-Electrode Wireless Wearable Device for Surface EEG Recording with Motion Artifact Removal. (EECS – Dr. Hossein Kassiri)

The oral presentation winners, announced at the event, are:

First Place Oral Presentation Award: Brittney Cooper from ESSE is working with Dr. John Moores on characterizations of Martian water-ice cloud crystal geometries from phase functions derived using Marci image data
Second Place Oral Presentation Award: Austin Martins-Robalino from Civil Engineering is working with Dr. Magdalena Krol on electrical resistance heating for soil and groundwater remediation
Third Place Oral Presentation Award: Coby Davis from EECS is working with Dr. Michael Jenkin on localization and SLAM with a unique landmark

Students’ Choice Oral Presentation Award: Austin Martins-Robalino from Civil Engineering is working with Dr. Magdalena Krol on electrical resistance heating for soil and groundwater remediation

The poster presentation winners, announced at the event, are:

First Place Poster Award: Bita Yousefi Pihani from Civil Engineering is working with Dr. Ahmed EIDyasti on biological denitrification system using hydrogen gas under anoxic condition
Second Place Poster Award: Ragheb Abunahla from EECS is working with Dr. Gerd Grau on the modelling and development of a circuit-printing optimization algorithm
Third Place Poster Award: Constantine Papakonstantinou from Mechanical Engineering is working with Dr. Alidad Amirfazli on understanding the drop adhesion and shedding to facilitate dropwise condensation by shearing air flow

Honorary Mention: Farouk Wahsh from Mechanical Engineering is working with Dr. Alex Czekanski on the effect of high strain rate on the piezo properties of elastomers with carbon nanotubes
Honorary Mention: Brandon Loy from ESSE is working with Dr. Mark Gordon on pilot balloon tracking
Honorary Mention: Michael Soto from Civil Engineering working with Dr. Dan Palermo on repair and retrofit through nonlinear modelling of a post tensioned concrete bridge pier with FRP sheets

Students’ Choice Poster Award: Josh Karon from ESSE working with Dr. Mojgan Jadidi on public transit: big data analytics and visualization
Students’ Choice Poster Award: Bita Yousefi Pihani from Civil Engineering working with Dr. Ahmed Eidyasti on biological denitrification system using hydrogen gas under anoxic condition
Students’ Choice Poster Award (Honorary): Nicole Valkova and Hasma Habibiy are high school students working with Dr. Usman Khan on water conservation at York University.

The oral presentation winners, announced at the event, are:

First Place: Joel George & Amanda Jass. Characterization of the FRQ-less Oscillator System in Neurospora Crassa Using Oxidation and Reduction Cycles of Peroxiredoxin as a Biological Marker of Circadian Rhythms. (Science- Biology) Supervisor: Patricia Lakin-Thomas
Second Place: Yosef Bisk. Monte Carlo Methods for Pattern-Avoiding Permutations. (Science- Mathematics) Supervisor: Neal Madras 
Third Place: Cristofaro Timpano. Passive Micromixing via the Use of Multi-orientation Microbridges. (Lassonde- Mechanical) Supervisor: Pouya Rezai

Students’ Choice Award: Juan Guzman. Micro-Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer (SHS) UAV Payload. (Lassonde- ESSE) Supervisor: Regina Lee
Honourable Mention: Parastoo Baghaei Ravari. On-chip Spirometer. (Lassonde- EECS) Supervisor: Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh
Honourable Mention: Ashraf Altesha. Sequencing and Transcript Localization of GPA2/GPB5 in the Blacklegged Tick Ixodes Scapularis. (Science- Biology) Supervisor: Jean-Paul Paluzzi 
Honourable Mention: Bita Yousefi Pihani. Influence of BioStremes on Biological Wastewater and Sludge Treatment Processe. (Lassonde- Civil) Supervisor: Ahmed Eldyasti

The poster presentation winners, announced at the event, are:

First Place: Boris Barron. Investigation of Allan Variances of Homebuilt Diode Lasers. (Science – Physics) Supervisor: Anatharaman Kumarakrishnan
Second Place: Semi Hasaj. COTS Star Imager for Nanosatellite Applications. (Lassonde – ESSE) Supervisor: Regina Lee 
Third Place: Mohammed Kagalwala. Mechanical Design of the Fabry-Perot Spectrometer for Balloon Flight. (Lassonde – ESSE) Supervisor: Jinjun Shan
Students’ Choice Award: Semi Hasaj. COTS Star Imager for Nanosatellite Applications. (Lassonde – ESSE) Supervisor: Regina Lee