Join us for RISE on April 8-10, 2026!

RISE is the showcase for research and creative projects being undertaken by everyone at Northeastern: learners from every year of study, every major, every campus. Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to share work that will be presented live at the poster expo on RISE Expo day (April 9) or as a talk during one of the oral presentation sessions (April 8 and 10).

RISE Virtual Gallery. We’re excited to be able to share all of the RISE posters you’ll see in Cabot Cage plus more from our Global Campus Network, in our virtual gallery. You can see all of the posters there and leave comments before and after the event. To gain access to the virtual gallery, you’ll need to register for RISE. RISE registration for attendees will open in early April. Once registration opens: Create an account — or use an existing Google or LinkedIn identification to proceed to the very brief form. Once registered, head to the RISE Program. You’ll create a commenting profile and then have access to the full poster gallery.

RISE is a collaboration between Bouvé College of Health Sciences; College of Arts, Media and Design; College of Engineering; College of Professional Studies; College of Science; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; D’Amore-McKim School of Business; and Khoury College of Computer Science. It is coordinated by Undergraduate Research and Fellowships on behalf of the Office of the Chancellor.

RISE Oral Presentation Sessions

Wednesday	10:00 – 11:00	PRESENTER	PROJECT	Friday	10:00 – 11:00	PRESENTER	PROJECT
*Meaning and Difference*		Keyana Coley-Rice	How Absent Are Black Fathers Really?	Optimizing the Body
		Bobby Squires	Expectation vs. Reality: Comparing Perceived and Reported Crime Post-pandemic			Henry Stepanyants	Effects of Curvature on Viscoelastic Response of Epithelial Tissues
		Annabelle Lien	Selective Sovereignty and Strategic Tension: India’s Belt and Road Dilemma			Katharine Buffinger	Ashwagandha Phytochemicals and Their Effects on Lifespan and Phenotypes of C. elegans
		Killian Mak	Body Horror and Trans Identification in Film Theory			Sara Perkins	Quantifying Shell Color Inheritance in Nucella lapillus Using Photographic and R-Based Analysis
		Preetam Bhutani	Toxic Chemicals in Menstrual Products: A Hidden Health Crisis			Sera Arimori	COBRA: Crater Observing Bio-Inspired Rolling Articulator
						Marissa Alkarra	Temporal and Sex-Specific Gene Expression Dynamics in FASD Liver Development.
						Helena Zheng	Deep-Learning Based Automation of Vessel Segmentation Analysis in Microfluidic Devices

Wednesday	11:00 – Noon	PRESENTER	PROJECT	Friday	11:00 – Noon	PRESENTER	PROJECT
Teaching and Learning		Sandeep Sood	South-Asian-Focused Feasibility & Review of Medications for Optimal Navigation & Comprehensive-Adherence-Review for the Elderly	*Communication and Health Care*		Ella Griswold	A Neuroscience Lens on Institutional Trust Among Women at Mass and Cass
		Owen Duckham	Casually Formal: Ergonomic EDSLs for Teaching Computational Reasoning			Claire Harries	A Novel Perspective on Siblings’ Mental Health: Exploring Nurturance and Teaching
		Elda Gobena	Chronotype Effects on Non-Native Speech Category Learning and Auditory Discrimination: EEG Study			Julia Roeschenthaler	NU Linguistic Landscape Lab: Are We on a Multilingual Campus?
		Taylor Fox	AI Advantages and Disadvantages in Language Environments			Alexandra Lewis	Implementing Universal IPV Education in Pediatric Primary Care: A Quality Improvement Study
						Becky Zheng	Transfer of Sport-Based Visual Attention from Soccer to Rocket League
						Pablo Flores Munoz	Biochemical Characterization of Hypertranscription in Mexican Axolotl Dorsal Spinal Neural Stem Cells
Wednesday	1:00 – 2:00	PRESENTER	PROJECT	Friday	1:00 – 2:00	PRESENTER	PROJECT
Better Living through Computing		Sharon Pan	Transforming Collaboration Through AI-Powered Shared Knowledge Networks	Physics and Bodies		Katherine McDonnell	Weaving, Knitting, and Embroidery of Living Threads
		Swara Kadam	Classical and Quantum Machine Learning Approaches for Short Ciphertext Cryptanalysis			Frances Lefkowitz-Pizzuti	Mechanical Characterization of Living Threads
		Dawning Fu	Computationally Driven Diffractive UV–Visible Spectroscopy System			Andreas Thoyas	Identifying New Members of the Stellar Stream Nyx
		Marlon Jost	Quantum Chemistry on Bosonic Quantum Computers			Maya Einhorn	Mechanical Cues to Guide Vascular Organization in Differentiating Cardiac Tissue
		Vignan Kamarthi	Automated Pain Classification Through Temporal and Information-Theoretic Signal Analysis			Landon Bayer	Sub-terahertz Ground Station for Teralink-1 Research Satellite
		Zachary Eisbach	Provably Safe Interoperability Between Swift and C			Yeshawini Radhakrishnan	GRASP-func 2.0: Scalable Python Pipeline for Graph Theoretic Functional Annotation of Proteins

Wednesday	2:00 – 3:00	PRESENTER	PROJECT	Friday	2:00 – 3:00	PRESENTER	PROJECT
Making Things		Ganesh Danke	Stabilizing Hierarchical Semantics in Transformers with Percolation-Based Regularization	*Labor and Language*		Kelly Driscoll	Once More, Twice Loved: Fashion Built on Care, Not Consumption.
		Michelle Yu	Proposed Roadmap for the Creation of Benchmark Spectra for Top-down Proteomics			Dhwani Bhatt	Improving CO2 Electrolyzer Techno-Economic Assessments through Bottom-Up Manufacturing Cost Modeling
		Keerthi Atluri	Trabecular Meshwork-On-a-Chip			Yun-Tang Lin	Using AI Tools to Improve the English Language
		Mark Teh	X-Ray Micro-Computed Tomography for Biosignature Localization in a Complex, Metalliferous Matrix			Andrew Stanger	A Cultural Study of Madrid’s Food Customs since the Siege of Madrid
		Helena Rittenhouse	Simultaneous Characterization of Intact Proteins and Metabolites Using Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry			Yasmin Almousa	Bridging the Business-Communication Gap: AI-Driven Integrated Enterprise Architecture Design
		Cassandra Vongrej	The Role of Salt Marsh Soil in Carbon Storage
Wednesday	3:00 – 4:00	PRESENTER	PROJECT	Friday	3:00 – 4:00	PRESENTER	PROJECT
Health and Behavior		Maya Ali	Voice and Speech Changes as Noninvasive Markers in End-Stage Organ Disease	*Physics and Bodies II*		Leila Curtis	Review of the Ninespot Chimaera Hydrolagus barbouri, Including Observations from ROV footage
		PraiseGod Bright-Agindotan	Classifying Scapulothoracic Abnormal Motion (STAM): Experience from a Scapula Specific Surgery Program			Sagunya Malhotra	Silencing TWIST1: A Targeted shRNA Approach to Disrupt Cancer Metastasis
		Marlena Eichelroth	FlexRow Rowing Prosthesis			Alexander Rachlinski	The Effect of Fibrosis on Lymphatic Function in Mice
		Jessica Adam	Framing and Intervention Type Influence Consumer Engagement with Behavioral Interventions			Justin Oliak	Predicting 2D Polymer Growth: Molecular Weight Distributions via Computational Methods
		Abigail Biggs	Individual Variations in Day/Night Activity Patterns Associates with Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease			Keith Huang	Evaluation of Lesion Correction Methods in Post-stroke Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Data
		Ryana Riaz	Computational Analysis of Lipid Bilayer Mixtures for Drug Delivery Applications			Aditi Swamy	Yank Modulates Corticospinal Output During Voluntary Submaximal Contractions
						Catherine Connolly	Next Generation Periodic Extensional Flow Reactor Design
Wednesday	4:00 – 5:00	PRESENTER	PROJECT	Friday	4:00 – 5:00	PRESENTER	PROJECT
Math, Physics, Art: The nature of things		Quella Que	Connection between Math & Music: Topological Data Analysis of Harmonic Structure in Beethoven	*Dissertation to Direct Impact: A Panel Leveraging Action Research for Educational Transformation*		Taylor Chelo
		Milo Lin	Immersive worlds and Themed Entertainment: Using and Understanding Live Video Motion Capture			Jennifer Miller
		Christian Snape	Impact of the Recent Observation of Axion Quasiparticles in 2D MnBi2Te4			Alyssa Thomas
		Timothy Wessling-Resnick	Blazar Detection Forecasting for Future MeV γ-Ray Missions with Cross-Matched Catalog			Randall Erving
		Judy Zhang	Enhancement of HILIC-PLOT Column Performance in High Sensitivity Molecular Profiling			Chung Xiong
		Isabella Hsia	An Interactive Lights Out Puzzle for Learning Electronics			Chris Vo

RISE 2026 Directory of Presenters

RISE Oral Presentation Sessions

RISE Poster Expo