IYRC SPRING 2023 Keynote Speakers

DR. TUNG D. TA
Saturday, June 17, 2023 
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Tung D. Ta is an assistant professor in the Department of Creative Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. His research interests are in the fields of digital fabrication, flexible electronic circuits and soft-bodied robotics. He received his Ph.D. in Information Communication Engineering - The University of Tokyo in 2019, M.E. in 2016, and B.E. from the department of Software Engineering - FPT University in 2012. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, IEICE, IPSJ, and SICE.

DR. LAURA LEVIN, MD
Sunday, June 18, 2023 
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Dr. Laura Levin completed residency in general dermatology at Weill Cornell Medical College. She then completed a pediatric Dermatology fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital where she now serves as assistant professor of dermatology and practices both adult and pediatric dermatology. 
 
She participates in several ongoing studies including characterizing current practices in wound care of patients with Epidermolysis Bullosa as well as the development of a novel wound care dressing with the goal to increase ease of use and quality of life in patients with large areas of denuded or fragile skin. 
 
She currently precepts the pediatric dermatology clinics that occur on Mondays and Thursdays at HIP, as well as participates in the EB and vascular anomaly multidisciplinary clinics.​

​DR. KIRAN T. THAKUR, MD
Sunday, June 18, 2023 
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Dr. Kiran Thakur is an inpatient neurologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, with clinical expertise in neuroinfectious diseases and neuroimmunology. Following her neurology residency training at the Harvard Neurology Residency Program of Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham and Women's Hospital, where she served as chief resident, Dr. Thakur completed post-doctoral fellowship training in neuroinfectious disease and neuroimmunology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Thakur serves a major teaching role as an inpatient neurologist, and is the recipient of the Lewis P. Rowland Teaching Award. In addition to her clinical work at CUIMC, Dr. Thakur works internationally treating patients, educating trainees, and performing clinical research. She has worked in eight countries throughout her career, and serves as a consultant for the World Health Organization, where she works to improve global access to neurological care. Dr. Thakur’s research focuses on clinical and translational studies which aim to improve our ability to detect and manage neuroinfectious diseases and neuroinflammatory conditions in the hospital setting. She leads the post-doctoral neuroinfectious disease clinical research fellowship for LIC and LMIC physician-scientists at Columbia. Her clinical areas of expertise include neuroinfectious diseases, neuroimmunology, emergency neurology, and community and global health.

IYRC SPRING 2023 award winners

Best Overall Project: MATHEW, Calvin
3D Printing Personalized Knee Implants: Novel Computational Geometric Models for Stem Cell Regeneration in Meniscus Tears

Best STEM Paper: HAOKEN, Ayden Victory
Q-Switched Pulse Generation Utilizing a Thin-Film Titanium Aluminum Carbide Saturable Absorber in Mode-Locked Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser

Best STEM Paper: Min, Young
Development of a Novel Cell-Penetrating Peptide (CPP) For Anti-cancer Therapy

Best STEM Paper: Hong, Joshua and Hand, L
The Neurological Effects of Aluminum Nitrate 9-Hydrate on the Behavior of Caenorhabditis Elegans

Best Social Sciences and Humanities Presentation: Park, Junseo David
Unraveling the Underlying Factors Contributing To Cancer Incidence: A Comparative Analysis Of Environmental and Behavioral Factors - Focusing on Lung Cancer, Hepatocellular Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, and Stomach Cancer

Best STEM Presentation: Suchecka, Paulina
How Promising Is Psilocybin Therapy for the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety? A Meta-Analysis of 4 Studies

Best STEM Presentation: Alsahli, Isra
Finger Spreading and Swim Speed

STEM Honorable Mention: Lee, Jeesung
Vehicle-Mounted Real-Time Animal Detection System for Preventing Roadkill

STEM Honorable Mention: Kim, Sooan
Development of Latent Fingerprints From Fire Cartridge Case Using Acidified Hydrogen Peroxide Technique

STEM Honorable Mention: Gopinath, Naomi
Colorimetric Assay Using Unmodified Gold Nanoparticles for Label-Free Detection of COVID-19

SPRING 2023 IYRC CONFERENCE PROCEEDING