±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Student RSCA Competition Finalists 2023
The 2023 ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (RSCA) Competition
held on March 16 and 17 in the Diaz Compean Student Union saw students from five ±«ÓãÖ±²¥
colleges compete for a place in the , hosted by San Diego State University on April 28 and 29.
Competitors needed to demonstrate:
- Clarity of purpose
- Appropriateness of methodology
- Interpretation of results
- Value of the research or creative activity
- Ability of the presenter to articulate the research or creative activity
- Organization of material presented
- Presenter's ability to handle questions from the judges and general audience
After their in-person presentation each student, or group of students, was required
to answer questions from a panel of judges.
Below are the finalists in alphabetical order by last name.
Mia Dong
College of Engineering
Project Title: Investigating the Effects of Adaptive Driving Styles on Trust in Partially Automated
Vehicles
Project Category: Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Gaojian Huang, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Autumn Galinski
College of Science
Project Title: Ultra Diffuse Galaxies and Globular Clusters in the NGC 1407 Galaxy Group
Project Category: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Aaron Romanowsky, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
James Guzman and Surabhi Gupta
College of Engineering
Project Title: Deep Learning in AI Medical Imaging for Stroke Diagnosis
Project Category: Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Magdalini Eirinaki, Professor, Department of Computer Engineering
Hilary King
College of Humanities and the Arts
Project Title: Trees to Paradise: Using Poetry to Explore How California's Arboreal History Reflects
Its Eco and Social Cultures and Histories
Project Category: Humanities and Letters
Faculty Mentor: J. Michael Martinez, Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Ran Li
College of Science
Project Title: On The Memory Scalability of Spectral Clustering Algorithms
Project Category: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Guangliang Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Hanan Mubarez
College of Social Sciences
Project Title: The Impact of Social Media Usage on Ethnic identity and its Relationship With Perceived
Racial Discrimination
Project Category: Behavioral and Social Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Jill Citron, Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Jaedyn Rollins
College of Science
Project Title: Utilization of the RhD Locus as a Safe Harbor for Gene Editing Applications
Project Category: Biological and Agricultural Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Johnston, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Merlina San Nicolas Leyva
College of Humanities and the Arts
Project Title: A Study of Mexican Journalists' Professional Practices and Fact-Checking Habits During
Misinformation and Anti-Press Times
Project Category: Behavioral and Social Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Nisha Garud-Patkar, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Iris Schmidt
College of Social Sciences
Project Title: Substance Use Patterns Among College Students at San Jose State University: A Study
on Ethnicity, Substance Type and Frequency, and Living Arrangements
Project Category: Behavioral and Social Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Jill Citron, Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Yik Haw Teoh
College of Science
Project Title: Free Fermions Subject to Weak Quantum Measurement: Collapse Dynamics and Numerical
Accuracy
Project Category: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Hilary Hurst, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
