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2026 Undergraduates
Department: Management Science and Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Craig Heller
The Effect of Intermittent Palm Cooling During Fatiguing Bench Press on DOMS, EMG and Lactate
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Kevin Shea
Adductor Canal Nerve Block’s Effect on Landing Biomechanics at Return-to-Sport
Paul Bergeron
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Kevin Shea
A Synthetic Pediatric Meniscus for Evaluating Surgical Repairs
Department: Bioenineering + Pre-med
Faculty Advisor: Carlos Milla
Impact of Environmental Stressors on Asthmatic Athletes in Vitro
Department: Undeclared
Faculty Advisor: Emily Kraus
Physical Activity During Pregnancy and Postpartum Bone Mineral Density in Female Endurance Runners
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Scott Delp
Smartphone-Based ACL Injury Resilience Screening Detects Cueing-Induced Movement Changes
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Matthew Smuck
Biobehavioral Phenotypes of Chronic Low Back Pain: Longitudinal Trajectories and Insights from Wearable Activity Monitoring
Department: Cellular, Molecular, and Organismal Biology
Faculty Advisor: Nidhi Bhutani
Immune Profiling and Machine Learning for Early Osteoarthritis Detection in High-Risk Groups
Department:Symbolic Systems, Management Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor:Constance Chu
Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) qMRI Changes Over the Menstrual Cycle
Department:Human Biology
Faculty Advisor:Seth Sherman
Comparison of Motion Capture Software: ACL Gold vs OpenCap for Drop Vertical Jump Biomechanics
Jason Liu
Department:Computational Biology
Faculty Advisor:Jamie Zeitzer
Exercise at an Unanticipated Time’s Impact on Circadian Desynchrony
Department:Undeclared
Faculty Advisor:Scott Delp
Division I Football Hamstring Injury Risk Study
Department:Human Biology
Faculty Advisor:Emily Kraus
Understanding Adolescent Female Athlete Perceptions of Athletic Education
Department:Chemistry
Faculty Advisor:Michael Lin
Small-Molecule Rescue of Mitochondrial Membrane Potential Following Rotenone-Induced Dysfunction
Department:Undeclared
Faculty Advisor:Scott Delp
Proposed Testable Condition-Based Training Model
Department:Biology
Faculty Advisor:Craig Heller
Heat, Cooling, and Human Performance: Measuring Lactate, Work Volume, and HRV During Anaerobic Exercise
Department:Hasso Plattner Institute of Design
Faculty Advisor:Kevin Shea
Biomechanical Evaluation of a Novel Patellar Tendon-Tibial Periosteum Graft for ACL Reconstruction in Skeletally Immature Patients
Department:Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor:Yunzhi Peter Yang
Development and Characterization of Biocompatible Rod-shaped Magnesium Implants with Tunable Biodegradability
Emily Thompson
Department:Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor:Matthew Wheeler
Investigating BAG3 Gene Expression Following Electrical Pulse Stimulation in C2C12 Muscle Cells
Department:Biology
Faculty Advisor:Katrin Svensson
Pharmacokinetic Optimization of BRP A Novel Anti-Obesity Peptide with Lean Mass-Preserving Effects
Department:Biology
Faculty Advisor:Seth Sherman
Evaluating a Medically-Tuned Large Language Model for Return-to-Sport Prediction and Injury Management in Collegiate Football
Department:Undeclared
Faculty Advisor:Eun Young Choi
Normative Tractography of the Central Lateral Thalamic Nucleus Relevant to Autobiographical Memory after Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Department:Biomechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor:Michael Longaker
Tuning Implant Mechanics through THBS1 to Disarm Foreign Body Response
Department:Researcher
Faculty Advisor:Scott Delp
Predicting Mobility and Demographics from Large-Scale OpenCap Data
2025 Undergraduates
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Matthew Smuck
Analyzing mobility impairment of stroke patients using a single wearable sensor
Paul Bergeron
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Kevin Shea
Is the luggage tag suture the future for repairing pediatric meniscus root radial tears?
Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Seth Sherman
Establishing an enhanced baseline for orthopaedic vital signs using smartphone-based motion capture analysis
Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Maléne Lindholm
Comparative effects of HIIT and MICT on metabolic hormones and proteomic signatures over 12 weeks in sedentary adults
Department: Biology with Neuroscience Concentration
Faculty Advisor: Joseph Donahue
Does cardio-locomotor synchronization explain the high incidence of false positive treadmill-based cardiopulmonary exercise stress testing, particularly in female patients?
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Seth Sherman
Predicting post-surgical rehabilitation phase transitions following knee procedures using OpenCap motion analysis software
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Judith Frydman
Continuous psychophysics in brain injury for diagnostic and disease monitoring
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Marily Oppezzo
Assessing lower limb strength in resource-limited settings: Can time-to-failure wall sit substitute gold-standard dynamometry?
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Joshua Knowles
Knockdown of handgrip strength gene (GBE1) causes mitochondrial dysfunction in skeletal muscle
Department: Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Michael Zeineh
Closed-head impact on porcine models using MRI validated by histology
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Kevin Shea
3D motion analysis of single-leg hop biomechanics in pediatric patients following ACL reconstruction with and without meniscus repair
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Michaelle Mayalu
Modeling the effects of probiotics on recovery from exercise-induced inflammation in athletes
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Ashwin Ramayya
Continuous psychophysics dot tracking task for brain injury diagnosis and disease monitoring by assessing predictive and reactive decision making
Department: Symbolic Systems
Faculty Advisor: Laura Gwilliams
Investigating real-time comprehension: Surprisal and auditory cues
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Maléne Lindholm
Comparative analysis of mitochondrial haplogroups in elite athletes
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Justin Sonnenburg
Impact of exercise and diet on intestinal mucosal thickness: A comparative imaging study
Department: Biomedical Computation
Faculty Advisor: Jonathan Long
Investigating SLC transporters in the cellular trafficking of BHB-amino acid metabolites
Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Scott Delp
Using OpenCap to evaluate the impact of surface type on ACL injury-related kinematics
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Scott Delp
Optimizing max jump height by validating kinetics predictions during volleyball attacks using machine learning
Department: Data Science
Faculty Advisor: Matthew Wheeler
Analyzing metabolomic responses to endurance training in human adults
2024 Undergraduates
Department: Psychology, Sociology
Faculty Advisor: Jamie Zeitzer
From pillow to podium: Investigating the relationship between wearable sleep technology, student-athlete mindset, and orthosomnia
Department: Symbolic Systems
Faculty Advisor: Anthony Wagner
Effects of short-form media on attention and memory
Department: Mathematical and Computational Science
Faculty Advisor: Ehsan Adeli
Decoding frailty with computer vision
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Emily Kraus
Enhancing return-to-run protocols for female endurance athletes: Impact of integrating wearable technology for load monitoring
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Craig Heller
The effects of palmar cooling on strength conditioning in women
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: David Spiegel
Breathwork and hypnosis for stress reduction and performance
Department: Management Science and Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Kevin Shea
Using statistical shape modeling to understand trochlear physis development
Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Seth Sherman
Evaluating the reliability of the up and go test through OpenCap motion kinematic analysis
2023 Undergraduates
Department: Undeclared
Faculty Advisor: Peter Yang
Optimization of biocompatibility in the novel hybprinter
Department: Bioengineering, Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Seth Lawrance Sherman
Smartphone-based kinematic analysis for rehabilitation and return to sport assessment
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Emily Kraus
Feasibility of using wearables in a return-to-play protocol post bone stress injury
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Mike Snyder
Exercise dependence in female endurance athletes at risk for relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S)
Department: Symbolic Systems
Faculty Advisor: Maléne Lindholm
Redefining the essential 8 using a VO2 max interface
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Craig Heller
Effect of hypoxia on lactate production and recovery
Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Scott Delp
Initiating StaBLE study: Stanford balance level evaluation
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Emily Kraus
Understanding collegiate female athletes’ perceptions surrounding their menstrual cycle and menstruation education in sport
Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Scott Delp
MRI segmentation for OpenSim muscle path adaptation
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Maléne Lindholm
Salivary mitochondrial DNA copy number as a measure of VO2max in athletes
Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Lou Halamek
Self-regulating physiologic response and intensity in navigating time-sensitive situations (SPRINTS)
Department: Symbolic Systems
Faculty Advisor: Leanne Maree Williams
Neural circuit in depressed patients predicts treatment response
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Matthew Wheeler
Impact of acute exercise interventions on quality of life in sedentary adults
2022 Undergraduates
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Scott Delp
Closed your rings? Estimating energy expenditure with wearable technology in the real-world
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Emily Kraus
Optimizing translational practices for female athlete research
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Emily Kraus
A closer look at bone stress injury recovery using MRI
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Seth Sherman
Orthobiologic injections in NCAA division 1 athletes
Department: Biomechanical Engineering and Film Studies (minor)
Faculty Advisor: Andrea Kussman
Biomechanics of rowing on the water
Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Alia Crum
The role of mindsets in health, well-being and burnout among elite college students
Department: Mathematics and Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Syed Khizer Rahim Khaderi
Umaki – Choose your own adventure video game – ADHD screener
Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Karen Liu
Optimizing muscle model parameters to improve joint torque-angle relations
Department: Product Design
Faculty Advisor: Craig Heller, Biology
Assessing the impact of palm cooling on muscular fatigue in isometric exercise
Department: Mechanical Engineering, minoring in Management Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Joseph DeSimone
Kinesthetic latticed programmable (KLaP) tape for treatment of patellofemoral pain syndrome
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Scott Delp
Quantifying the impact of the menstrual cycle on athletic performance
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Allan Reiss
Investigating the effects of aerobic exercise on working memory and brain activity in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Department: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Craig Heller
Burnin’ up: Physiological responses to exercise-induced hyperthermia at constant workloads
Department: Biomechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Scott Delp
Hamstring mechanics in accelerative sprinting: An experimental study
Department: Undeclared
Faculty Advisor: Kevin Shea
3D shape modeling of anatomic variations in patellar instability patients
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