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Apply for the UPLIFT Program
Eligibility:
• Students must be first year NEU engineering students*
• Note: upperclass students: look into other research opportunities on campus
• Only students who have attended (virtual, in-person, or asynch) UPLIFT seminars in Fall 2025 are eligible to apply
• Must complete seminar attendance survey for each attended seminar
• Students at other campuses are eligible to apply, as we will have research placements at Oakland and virtually
• *Oakland/NYC students (i.e. students who are abroad their entire first year) must wait until they are back on the Boston campus to apply. Therefore, they can participate as second year students (i.e their first year on NEU’s Boston Campus).
Application Process:
• Attend at least 4 UPLIFT seminars (in-person, virtual, or asynch)
• Complete Seminar Attendance Survey at minimum 4 times
• Applications are closed.
• Application closed Monday, 12/15/2025 at 11:59pm
• 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]
Research Experience for Undergraduates [REUs]:
REUs are a chance for undergraduate college students to conduct research at colleges around the country in the summer. UPLIFT scholars are strongly encouraged to apply for REUs. Research and information regarding REUs can be found on our REU page here. Do note that applications for summer REUs usually close between January-March.
Confirmed Research Opportunities (2026):
Bioengineering (BioE) Labs
• Mingyang Lu: Machine Learning to Establishing Systems Biology Models
• Sandra Shefelbine: Hip Health in Female Athletes
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Labs
• Khaled Ghannam: Wind Flow / Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations in Boston
Chemical Engineering (ChemE) Labs
• Damilola Daramola: Engineering Approaches to Environmental Problems
• Ysabel Del Fierro: Biomaterials for Nerve Regeneration
• Joshua Gallaway: Operando Raman Spectroscopy of Battery Electrodes
• Francisco Hung: Molecular Simulation of Elastic Liposomes for Drug Delivery
• Luke Landherr: STEM Education Impacts Through Comics / Visual Learning Tools
• Richard West: Computational Modeling of Chemical Reaction Kinetics
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Labs
• Marco Colangelo: Superconducting Nano Devices
• Alireza Ramezani: Morphing Robots
• Carey Rappaport: Radar Detection of Mines in Foliage
• Francesco Restuccia: Resilient AI and Networking for Cyber Physical Systems
• Yuan Yuan [Oakland]: Optoelectronic Devices and Photonic ICs
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Labs
• Ozan Ozdemir: Metal 3D Printing
• Shahin Shahrampour: Understanding Computational Challenges in LLMs
Interdisciplinary Labs
• Sergey Aityan [Oakland] (MGEN): Various AI Applications
• Juliet Davidow (Psychology): Motivated Learning in Adolescence
• Alberto De la Torre (Physics): Analysis of X-Ray Crystallography Data in Quantum Materials
• Abdolreza Mosaddegh [Oakland] (MGEN): Application of LLMs in Medical Diagnosis