April 21, 2025
Seven engineering students received awards recognizing work in their respective fields.
Each year, the University of Missouri hosts Show Me Research Week, a celebration of student research and creative activity representing almost every field and discipline on campus.
About 500 Mizzou students and postdoctoral fellows presented projects from April 14-17. Of the students who chose to have their work judged, several received awards in each category at the closing reception in Memorial Union.
The following engineering students and their faculty mentors were recognized for their work:
Applied Design
Caitlyn Pallas, graduate student in ancient Mediterranean studies, and Huda Alqader, graduate student in civil engineering.
Title: “Mixing it Up: Testing the Effects of Different Fabrication Methods on Roman Mortars”
Mentor: Marcello Mogetta, professor and chair of Classics, Archaeology and Religion
Engineering Sciences
Undergraduate winners
Benjamin Peter, junior in electrical engineering
Title: “Integration of Quantum Computing in Power Grid Security Assessment”
Mentor: Mert Korkali, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science
Ashton Wooster, sophomore in computer science, and Andrew Woods, graduate student in computer science.
Title: “Exploiting Noise-Induced Confidentiality Issues in Multi-tenant Quantum Computers”
Mentor: Chi-Ren Shyu, director of informatics; professor of computer science and bioinformatics
Graduate student winners
Minasadat Attari, computer science
Title: “A Deep Learning Based Approach for Segmentation and Characterization of Axon and Myelin in Microscopy Images”
Mentor: Filiz Bunyak, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science
Informatics
Undergraduate winner
Miles Farmer, junior in computer science
Title: “Graph-Based Code Change Representations for Identifying Security Fixes in Source Code”
Mentor: Ekincan Ufuktepe, assistant teaching professor of electrical engineering and computer science
Graduate winner
Chunyang Lu, computer science
Title: “ScPlantAnnotate: An Accurate and Robust Transformer-Based Model for Plant Cell Type Annotation”
Mentor: Trupti Joshi, associate professor of biomedical informatics
Show Me Research Week Mizzou Engineering Photo Gallery
This story was excerpted from a story originally published by Show Me Mizzou.