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Read below about AY 2024-25 supported projects

  • Sustained Excellence in Scholarship, Iris Stewart-Frey
  • Recent Achievement in Scholarship, Yi Fang

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  • “ParenteAI: Piloting an AI assisted parenting intervention in a community setting” Jasmin Llamas
  • “Designing Manufacturing Human-AI Nudging Interfaces in Consideration of AI Fairness”, Xiaoou Yang
  • “From GPU to PIM: Smart Skipping Techniques for Efficient LLM Inference Acceleration”, Hoeseok Yang
  • “The Invention of Gospel Literature: Bibliographic Imagination and the Politics of Reading in Early
  • Christianity”, Jeremiah Coogan
  • “Pre-colonial diversity and intensification of plant use at the archaeological site Thámien
  • Rúmmeytak (CA-SCL-128/H), located in present-day San Jose, CA”, Maia Dedrick
  • “Analysis and Design of Dynamically Reconfigurable Resonators for Agile Wireless Communications Beyond 5G”, Adham Naji
  • “DNA Computing Platform”, Dat Tran S.J
  • “War, Race and Sex: The French Army and its Colonial Troops in Indochina”, Jimia Boutouba
  • “Split and Conquer: Intelligent Traffic Distribution in WiFi 7 Multi-Link Networks”, Krishna Ramamoorthy
  • “Optimized RAG: A Practical Framework for Enhanced Retrieval and Generation”, Haibing Lu
  • “Attendance at the Turning Point Writers Workshop to facilitate the completion and preparation for trade publication of my book, Rock the Boat: A 70s Child Rethinks America’s Most Misunderstood Decade”, Michelle Burnham
  • “University Research Grant for measuring the thermodynamic parameters of folding and binding for an engineered DNA-binding protein”, Michelle McCully
  • “Gemstone, Jewellers, and Jewellery in Venice, 1350-1650: Facets of Splendour from the Global Renaissance”, Blake de Maria
  • “Unified Deep Learning Approach to Integrating Bézier, B-Spline, and NURBS Curve Parameterizations for Advanced 2D Curve Reparameterization”, Jun Wang
  • “Virtual Reality and Donation Behavior”, Rebecca Chae
  • “Product Sharing: A Threat or an Opportunity for Vertically Differentiated Manufacturers?”, Tao Li
  • “Afro-Indigeneity, Family Remembrance, and The Narragansett of Rhode Island”, Anthony Hazard
  • “Operational Metrics in Derivatives Adoption: Evidence from the Supply Chains”, Gangshu Cai
  • “A Systemic Review of Social Determinants of Health Interventions to Address Mental Health among Latiné Populations”, Alice P. Villatoro & Vanessa L. Errisuriz
  • “Preserving Japanese American Voices with the Japanese American National Library”, Takeshi Moro
  • “Exploring the experiences of students with minoritized identities of gender and sexuality in STEM in a Jesuit context”, Desiree Forsythe
  • “Gender Differences in Co-authorship across a Global Landscape: The Role of Network Structure in Men’s and Women’s Scientific Productivity”, Molly King
  • “Towards AI For Everyone: Enhancing Multicultural Representation in AI Models”, Oana Ignat
  • “By Us, For Us: A Qualitative and Longitudinal Study of the Academy for Future Educators, a Grow-Your-Own Program”, Omar Davila Jr.
  • “Addressing the Criminalization of Homelessness in Santa Clara County: Building Cross Disciplinary Public Health, Law & Society Experiential Learning Opportunities and Curricula at SCU”, Sonja Mackenzie
  • “BENJAMIN MOORE’S WHITE”, Robin Tremblay-McGaw
  • “Queerness Uncovered: Translating and Analyzing Queer Religious Imaginations in Modern Japanese Literature”, Haruka Umetsu Cho
  • “Real-Time Scheduling for AI Inference on Heterogeneous Devices”, Yidi Wang & Younghyun Cho
  • “Multi-modal Vector Analytics for Precision Medicine and Health”, Shiva Jahangiri & Hamed Akbari
  • “How does the rapid rise in data centers for generative AI impact water availability in California’s most vulnerable regions?”, Iris Stewart-Frey
  • “AI For Versatile Visual Coding”, Ying Liu
  • “Bridging the Gender Gap in Generative AI Adoption: Evaluating the Role of Sentiment in Educational Interventions”, Amber Liu & Jingbo Hou
  • Building climate change resilience through a forecasting app that incorporates traditional, sustainable agricultural practices in Southeastern Mexico, Iris Stuart-Frey
  • “Equitable Expansion of EV Charging Infrastructure and Cross-Brand Effects on EV Sales”, Xiaojin Dong
  • The Ohlone Augmented Reality Tour: Developing an AR Toolkit for Social Justice Walking Tours”, Kai Lukoff, Danielle Heitmuller, Amy Lueck
  • “Judge Shopping”, Christian Helmers, Brian Love
  • “Understanding the Use of Generative AI for Mental Health: A Machine Learning Analysis of Social Media Data”, Xiaochen Luo, Smita Ghosh
  • “Robotic Service Dogs for People with Different Abilities”, Maria Kyrarini, Danielle Heitmuller
  • “A Made Thing”, Ryan Carrington, Daniel Sumerhill
  • “A Black Theology of the Holy Spirit”, Karl Lampley
  • “Certification Program in Trauma Therapy”, Ling Lam
  • “From the Favela to the Slum: Race, Nation, and Realism in the Photographs of Gordon Parks and Henri Ballot”, Ian Erickson-Kery
  • “Creating a Trauma-Informed Faculty Handbook for Santa Clara University: Integrating Trauma Theory and Jesuit Pedagogical Principles”, Steve Del Chiaro
  • “Enhancing Pedagogical Practices through AI-Driven Tutoring: A Professional Development Initiative”, Giorgio Lagna
  • “Identities In Motion: Literary and Cultural Representations of Asia in Latin
  • America”, Yurim Kim
  • “From Colony to Capital: Amman, City in the Middle, 1878 to the Present (Book Project)”, Marwan Hanania
  • “Teaching with Case Seminar by Harvard Business Publishing”, Vahideh Abaeian
  • “Improving Consumer Responsiveness and Social Welfare with Enhanced Routing Strategies”, Thunyarat Amornpetchkul
  • “Facilitating Professional Growth in Engineering Education and Leadership
  • Through Conference Attendance and Participation”, Jessica Kuczenski
  • “Writing instruction at SCU: Two studies about evolving practices”, Denise Krane
  • “Conference Presentation: Business Culture in the Chinese-speaking World”, Yujie Ge
  • “Facilitating Professional Growth in Engineering Education and Leadership Through Conference Attendance and Participation”, Marie Bertola
  • “Dual-Omics Approach Unveils Novel Perspective on the Quality Control of Genetically Engineered Exosomes”, Bill Lu
  • “Biomechanical Risk Classification in Repetitive Lifting Using Multi-Sensor EMG Data, RNLE and Deep Learning”, Fatemeh Davoudi Kakhki
  • “AlphaBoot: Accelerated Container Cold Start using SmartNICs”, Sean Choi
  • “God's Migrant Caravan: Exodus Rhetoric as Missionary Strategy”, Roberto Mata
  • “Neural-Network-Based Active Vibration Control of Rotary Machines”, Mohammad Ayoubi
  • “Eight Theories of Justice: Perpectives from Philosophical and Theological Ethics”, Matthew Gaudet
  • “A history of susceptibility to parasites and divergence of solitary, gregarious and agonistic behavior of embiopterans“, Janice Edgerly-Rooks
  • “Expectation-Driven Boom-Bust Cycles”, Vito Cormun
  • “Characterizing full-time, non-tenure track teaching faculty in biology”, Desiree Forsythe
  • “Breast cancer detection on dual-view sonography via data-centric deep learning, Yuling Yan
  • “The Relationship Between Perceptions Towards Advertising and Consumption of Energy-Dense Nutrient-Poor Foods Among Adults in the United States: Results From a National Survey”, Chan Thai
  • “A Blockchain-empowered Multi-Aggregator Federated Learning Architecture in Edge Computing with Deep Reinforcement Learning Optimization”, Xiao Li
  • “Multivariate Segment Expandable Encoder-Decoder Model for Time Series Forecasting”, David Anastasciu
  • “Immigration Policy and Latinx/é Children from Mixed-Status Families: Mental Health Consequences and Recommendations for Mental Health Providers”, Lucila Ramos-Sanchez
  • “College Algebra Students’ Perceptions of Exam Errors and the Problem-Solving Process”, Linda Burks
  • “Native Persistence at a California Mission Outpost: The Bioarchaeology and History of the Asistencia de San Pedro y San Pablo”, Lee Panich
  • “Strategic XFC Charging Station Placement in Equilibrium Traffic Networks”, Haibing Lu
  • “Journal Article”, Justen Whittall
  • Vulnerability to Natural Disasters and Sustainable, Rebecca Chae
  • “Beatriz Suite”, Bruno Ruviaro
  • “Side information-driven image coding for hybrid machine-human vision”, Ying Liu
  • “Otras iluminaciones. Narrativa, cultura y psicodélicos”, Alberto Ribas-Casasayas
  • “Vulnerability to natural disasters and sustainable consumption: Unraveling political and regional differences”, Rafay Siddiqui
  • “AlphaBoot: Accelerated Container Cold Start using SmartNICs”, Sean Choi
  • “Research on Developing ERDOS-KO-RADO Type Theorems in Algebraic Geometry”, Shamil Asgarli
  • “Efficient and Equitable Newborn Screening Through Race-Blind Policies”, Hussein El Hajj
  • “The Beginning of Scripture: Writing, Truth, and Presence in Early Judaism”, James Nati
  • “Voice Your Preferences: Personalized Music Recommendation with Personal Voices”, Jun Wang
  • “Observed Choice and Stated Satisfaction: Evidence from a Social Preferences Experiment”, John Ichfer
  • “Legacy of Johann Adam Möhler (1796–1838) for Catholic Ecclesiology, Theological Anthropology, and Ecumenical Dialogue”, Elyse Raby
  • “Investigating the Effects of Phubbing on Intimate Relationships “, Kieran Sullivan
  • “Building an Ethical Cyber-Physical-Social Manufacturing Future Work”, Cary Yang
  • “Strategic Goal Alignment Across Teams”, Esther Sackett