Students Present STEM Research Projects

August 25, 2016

On Saturday, August 20 in Fiterman Hall, 21 BMCC students presented summaries of their STEM research projects made possible through the Minority Student Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) of the U.S. Department of Education.

Guests at the event were welcomed by MESIP Student Research Coordinator and Professor of Mathematics David Allen.

Director of Research Helene Bach also spoke to the students and their mentors, who are professors at BMCC as well as New York City College of Technology (City Tech), CUNY and Baruch College, CUNY.

 

The students and mentors include:

 

Student Researcher: Nalia Butt

Research Mentor: Jae Ki Lee, Professor of Mathematics (BMCC)

Project Title: Graphical Analysis of First and Second Derivative

 

Student Researcher: Lionel Colon

Research Mentor: Sarah Salm, Professor of Biology (BMCC)

Project Title: Identification of Heavy Metal Tolerant Bacteria from the Newtown Creek using 16S rDNA PCR

 

Student Researcher: Nizar Hamdun

Research Mentor: Jaewoo Lee, Professor of Mathematics (BMCC)

Project Title: Combinatorics in the Chain Rule

 

Student Researcher: Sean Hogan

Research Mentor:  Christopher McCarthy, Professor of Mathematics (BMCC)

Project Title: How many particles and time steps do we need to use in a simulation?

 

Student Researcher: Md Emran Hossain

Research Mentor: Christopher McCarthy, Professor of Mathematics (BMCC)

Project Title: A “particles in a box with a limited number of binding sites” model of adsorption

 

Student Researcher: Jayeda Hossain

Research Mentor: Thierry Agbotouedo, Professor of Mathematics (BMCC)

Project Title: Applications of Differential Equations

 

Student Researcher: Bintou Kone

Research Mentor: Sarah Salm, Professor of Biology (BMCC)

Project Title: Biochemical characterization of bacteria isolated from the Newtown Creek

 

Student Researchers: Jie Lan and Jieying Li

Research Mentor: Lina Wu, Professor of Mathematics (BMCC)

Project Title: Applications of Statistics to determine Business Relationships

 

Student Researcher: Jin Lee

Research Mentor: Christopher McCarthy, Professor of Mathematics (BMCC)

Project Title: A simple “particles in a box” model of adsorption

 

Student Researcher: Eric Lewis

Research Mentor: Boyan Kostadinov, Professor of Mathematics (City Tech)

Project Title: Classifying Equilibria with Unknown Parameters for a Dynamic Population Model

 

Student Researcher: Karen Medlin

Research Mentor: David Allen, Professor of Mathematics (BMCC)

Project Title: The Perceptron

 

Student Researcher: Yen Pham

Research Mentor: Mariya Bessonov, Professor of Mathematics (City Tech)

Project Title: An Approximation of the Bolker-Pacala Population Model

 

Student Researcher: Nigera Reaves

Research Mentor: Adam Z. Li, Professor of Mathematics (BMCC)

Project Title: Calculating Compound Interest using the Exponential Function  

 

Student Researcher: Evan Rumsky

Research Mentor: Peter Gregory, Professor of Mathematics (Baruch)

Project Title: The Delaunay Triangle and Graphics Meshing

 

Student Researcher: Jian Sun

Research Mentor: Marianna Bonanome, Professor Mathematics and Computer Science (City Tech)

Project Title: An Introduction to Thompson’s Group F

 

Student Researcher: Papa T. Sylla

Research Mentor: Fatima Y. Prioleau, Professor of Mathematics(BMCC)

Project Title: Permutable Primes

 

Student Researchers: Andrew Willis and Thierno Diallo

Research Mentor: Boyan Kostadinov, Professor of Mathematics (City Tech)

Project Title: A Predictive Probability Model for Diabetes Using Logistic Regression on Clinical Data

 

Student Researcher: Xiaoming Yang

Research Mentor: Hao Tang, Professor of Computer Information Systems (BMCC)

Project Title: Deep Learning for Crowd Analysis

 

 

 

 

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