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
