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Apply for the UPLIFT Program
Eligibility:
• Students must be first year students in NEU’s College of Engineering
• Only students who have attended UPLIFT seminars in Fall 2025 are eligible to apply
• Students can attend in-person, virtually, or asynchronously
• Must complete seminar attendance survey for each attended seminar
Application Process:
• Attend at least 4 UPLIFT seminars (in-person, virtual, or asynch)
• Complete Seminar Attendance Survey at minimum 4 times
• Application opens on 11/21/2025 and closes 12/15/2025
• Complete Application Survey by deadline: once accepted, we will connect you with faculty in January
• One short-answer question: why do you feel undergraduate research would benefit you? [200 words]
Past Research Opportunities:
Bioengineering (BioE) Labs
• Mingyang Lu: Machine Learning of Gene Regulation
• Sandra Shefelbine: Musculoskeletal Mechanobiology
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Labs
• Qin Jim Chen: 3D Printing of Boston Harbor
• Khaled Ghannam: Water Resources in a Warming Climate
• Eleonora Tronci: Adapting Data-Driven Modeling for Structural Health Monitoring
• Ryan Wang: Air Quality and Human Mobility
Chemical Engineering (ChemE) Labs
• Joshua Gallaway: Operando Raman Spectroscopy of Battery Electrodes
• Steve Lustig: 2-Dimensional Polymers
• Richard West: Computational Modeling of Complex Chemical Reactions
• Rebecca Willits: Materials for Tissue Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Labs
• Siddhartha Ghosh: Microacoustic RF Signal Processing Devices
• Francesco Restuccia: AI/Machine Learning for Wireless Systems
• Aatmesh Shrivastava: AI Design Tool Development
• Mario Sznaier: Learning Enabled Modeling and Control
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Labs
• Ruobing Bai: Soft Active Materials and Machines
• Cynthia Hajal: Microfluidic Models for Tissue Engineering, Cancer, and Drug delivery
• Hongwei Sun: Co-Flow Millifluidic Device for Nanoparticle Synthesis
• Xubo Yue: Federated Conformal Prediction and Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification
• Yi Zheng: Sustainable Energy Materials
Interdisciplinary Labs
• Paul Stevenson [Physics]: Probing Rotational Motion with Nanodiamonds
• Alberto De la Torre Duran [Physics]: Engineering Quantum Materials with Light
• Prof. Dagmar Sternad [Biology]: Human-Robot Collaboration: Control and Learning
