SPF Awardees

Jennifer Chen - College of Education
"An Intervention Study of Computational Thinking and Executive Function in Preschool Children"

Bin Hu - The Dorothy and George Hennings College of Science, Mathematics and Technology
"AI-Enabled Mobile and Wireless Device-Free Sensing for Exercise, Movement, and Wellness Monitoring"

Cailin O'Connor - The Dorothy and George Hennings College of Science, Mathematics and Technology
"Breeding Success and Migration of Bird of Conservation Concern in the NJ Meadowlands and Highlands"

Yan Ma - The Dorothy and George Hennings College of Science, Mathematics and Technology
"Detecting and Staging Parkinson’s Disease from Smartphone Interaction Data Using Deep Learning"

Guanghua Wang - The Dorothy and George Hennings College of Science, Mathematics and Technology
"Subgroup Fairness Auditing of Context-Enriched Psychiatric QA Models"

Kuan Huang - The Dorothy and George Hennings College of Science, Mathematics and Technology
"BreastAI-Agent: A Multi-Task Vision–Language AI Framework for Mammography"

Shivani Raina - The College of Health Professions and Human Services
"Seeing and feeling cultures: Impact of museum-based learning on Cultural humility and competence"

Mingjing Sun - The Dorothy and George Hennings College of Science, Mathematics and Technology
"Monitoring Pharmaceutical Occurrence in New Jersey Wastewater Using Wastewater-Based Epidemiology"

Lauren Schiller - College of Education
"Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Enhance Teachers’ Rational Number Knowledge"

Yu Sun Chung - College of Liberal Arts
"Stress-induced Inflammation’s Role in Reinforcement Learning and Adolescent Depression"

Pragya Sharma Ghimire - The College of Health Professions and Human Services
"Acute Effects of Circuit and Traditional Resistance Exercise on miRNA in Young Adults"

Kihwan Kim - College of Business and Public Management
"Students’ Readiness for AI Job Market: Impact of Efficacy, Proactivity, and AI Tech Acceptance"

Vamsi Chaitanya Pedasanaganti - College of Liberal Arts
"Mapping the Information Blockade: Student-Led Alternative Media as Civic Remediation in Union County"

Karen Villanueva - The College of Health Professions and Human Services
"Reliability of the Dysphagia Competency Verification Tool (DCVT): A Pilot Study"

Dan Liu - College of Business and Public Management
"A Bilevel Neural–Infrastructure Framework for Feasibility Recovery in Policy-Constrained Urban Freig"

Yeonkyung Kim - College of Business and Public Management
"Beyond the Hype: A Comparative Analysis of AI Pedagogy and Marketing in U.S. PA Programs"

Jun Cheng - The Dorothy and George Hennings College of Science, Mathematics and Technology
"From Waves to Shorelines: AI-Driven Nonlinear Modeling of Beach Evolution"

Iyadunni Adenuga - The Dorothy and George Hennings College of Science, Mathematics and Technology
"Guided Self-regulated Learning powered by LLMs"

Daehan Kwak - The Dorothy and George Hennings College of Science, Mathematics and Technology
"AI-Powered Care Manager Chatbot"

Bok Gyo Jeong - College of Business and Public Management
"Re-Mapping the Global Social Economy: A Transnational Perspective and Multi-dimensional Boundaries"

Boyang Li - The Dorothy and George Hennings College of Science, Mathematics and Technology
"Hallucination and Safety Alignment in Vision–Language Models"

Darion Washington - Michael Graves College, Architecture and Design
"Instruction as Interface: Recursion and Human Agency in AI-Assisted Design"

Ching-yu Huang - The Dorothy and George Hennings College of Science, Mathematics and Technology
"SocioMetric Nexus: Developing Interactive Visual Analytics for Exploring Societal Data"