Honoring Our Research Community
Good food, great conversation, and well-deserved recognition! Join us as we celebrate the innovation, dedication, and scholarly impact of Lehigh's postdoctoral community. Mentors, lab members, faculty, and chairs are warmly invited to drop in, grab a bite, and connect with researchers across disciplines.
Celebrate Lehigh Postdoctoral Research!
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
3:00 – 4:45 p.m. | Flash Talks
5:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Appreciation Reception & Poster Session
Location: Wood Dining Room, Iacocca Hall
Full schedule of speakers and poster topics will be updated by September 10. Check back soon!
Browse the Flash Talks and Poster Presentations below.
Flashtalks
Erinn Bacchus
Mentors: Tracy Nichols, Joanna Mishtal & Eduardo Gomez
Dept: Community and Global Health, Population Health
Title: "We just gave them part of their humanity back”: Epistemic and Distributive Justice in NYC Reentry Policy During COVID-19
Johanna Bolanos
Mentor: Alberto J. Lamadrid
Dept: Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure and Energy (I-CPIE)
Title: Artificial Intelligence Data Centers in the United States: Beyond Electricity Demand
Kevin Theunissen
Mentor: Shamim Pakzad
Dept: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Title: Listening to bridges through everyday traffic: mobile sensing and AI for safer infrastructure
Richard Sullivan
Mentor: Ben Felzer
Dept: Center for Catastrophe Modelling and Resilience
Title: Recurrent Atlantic tropical cyclone track patterns linked to seasonal climate states
Hanna Brosky
Mentors: Tom McAndrew and Gabrille String
Dept: Biostatistics and Health Data Sciences
Title: Integrating Multi-Scale Surveillance to Improve Infectious Disease Forecasting in Long-Term Care Facility Populations
Jiawei Guo
Mentor: Meng Zhao
Dept: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Title: A Unified Cross-Dimension and Cross-Modality Representation Learning Framework for Multimodal Tensor Data
Luke Wang
Mentor: Anand Jagota
Dept: Bioengineering
Title: Predicting Ordered ssDNA-SWCNT Hybrid Structures with Interpretable Bayesian Optimization
Cong Han
Mentor: Arindam Banerjee
Dept: Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics
Title: Effect of turbulence scales on the near-wake behavior of a tidal stream turbine
Abstract
Lauren Scott
Mentor: Wes Hiatt and Karen Pooley
Dept: Small Cities Lab; Art, Architecture and Design
Title: Deployable Architectural Systems Addressing Climate Justice In Small Cities
Marcos da Silva
Mentor: Johanna Kowalko
Dept: Biological Sciences
Title: Looking for the genetic underpinnings of repeated trait evolution in cavefish
Poster Presentations
| Poster # | Presenter | Mentor | Department/College | Title | Abstract |
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| 1 | Nazia Afrin | Thomas McAndrew and Gabrielle String | Biostatistics and Health Data Science | Modeling the Impact of Antigenic Distance and Immune Imprinting of Sequential Viral Infections on Disease Severity | Abstract |
| 2 | Ajay Abraham | Vinod Namboodiri | Biostatistics and Health Data Science | Modeling the Impact of Antigenic Distance and Immune Imprinting of Sequential Viral Infections on Disease Severity | Abstract |
| 3 | Havva Hande Cebeci | Carlos E. Romero | Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics | Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for Waste Feedstock Characterization in Gasification Systems | Abstract |
| 4 | Charles Chemale Yurgel | Wojciech Z. Misiolek | Loewy Institute - Materials Science and Engineering | Influence of the Grain-Flow Orientation after Hot Forging Process Evaluated through Rotational Flexing Fatigue Test | Abstract |
| 5 | Mohd Hanzla | Arindam Banerjee | Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics | Driving Mechanism for Tidal Turbine Power Output Fluctuations | Abstract |
| 6 | Izhar Hussain Khan | Arindam Banerjee | Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics | Intermittent Suppression of Galloping of a Circular Cylinder under Turbulent Inflow: Influence of Integral Length Scale | Abstract |
| 7 | Lingbo Li | Hong-Yi Li | Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience | Representing Lake Snow and Ice in MOSART-Lake with an Offline LSTM Emulator | Abstract |
| 8 | Peter Park | Dimitrios Vavylonis | Physics | Molecular Dynamics Simulations Reveal the Structural and Membrane-Binding Dynamics of the F-BAR Protein Cdc15 | Abstract |
| 9 | Alexander Seaver | Wynn Meyer | Biological Sciences | Evolutionary Rate and Selection in Diet-Related Genes across Mammals | Abstract |
| 10 | Reshma Siddiquie | Anand Jagota | Bioengineering | Surface Deformation and Jump-To-Contact Instabilities in Soft Substrates | Abstract |
| 11 | Meraj Sohrabi | Ethan Yang | Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience | Do People Perceive Flood and Drought Risks Differently? | Abstract |
| 12 | Koen Verrijt | Helen Chan, Jeffrey Rickman | Materials Science & Engineering | Experimental Assessment of the Influence of TiO2 Grain Size on Grain Boundary Energy Values Derived using the Mullins Analysis | Abstract |
| 13 | Shuting Xiang | Israel Wachs | Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | Acrolein Synthesis from Oxidative Coupling of Biomass-Derived Methanol and Ethanol by Supported Monolayer MoOx/Fe2O3 Catalyst | Abstract |
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