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
Browse the Flash Talks and Poster Presentations below.
Flashtalks
Luke Wang
Mentor: Anand Jagota
Dept: Bioengineering
Title: Predicting how DNA wraps a nanotube
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
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
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
Kevin Theunissen
Mentor: Shamim Pakzad
Dept: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Title: Listening to bridges through everyday traffic: mobile sensing and AI for safer infrastructure
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
Cong Han
Mentor: Arindam Banerjee
Dept: Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics
Title: Effect of turbulence scales on the near-wake behavior of a tidal stream turbine
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
Poster Presentations
| Poster # | Presenter | Mentor | Department/College | Title | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nazia Afrin | Biostatistics and Health Data Science | Modeling the Impact of Antigenic Distance and Immune Imprinting of Sequential Viral Infections on Disease Severity | Thomas McAndrew and Gabrielle String | Abstract |
| 2 | Ajay Abraham | Biostatistics and Health Data Science | Toward Scalable and Accessible Indoor Wayfinding | Vinod Namboodiri | Abstract |
| 3 | Reshma Siddiquie | Bioengineering | Surface Deformation and Jump-To-Contact Instabilities in Soft Substrates | Anand Jagota | Abstract |
| 4 | Alexander Seaver | Biological Sciences | Evolutionary Rate and Selection in Diet-Related Genes across Mammals | Wynn Meyer | Abstract |
| 5 | Peter Park | Physics | Molecular Dynamics Simulations Reveal the Structural and Membrane-Binding Dynamics of the F-BAR Protein Cdc15 | Dimitrios Vavylonis | Abstract |
| 6 | Marcos da Silva | Biological Sciences | Looking for the genetic underpinnings of repeated trait evolution in cavefish | Johanna Kowalko | Abstract |
| 7 | Joseph Oberlitner | Biological Sciences | Investigation of post-synaptic regulators reveals novel repair pathways | Chenshu Liu | Abstract |
| 8 | Kwame Owusu-Nyantakyi | Biological Sciences | Patterning of the basilar papilla governs the development of tonotopic organization of auditory nerve synaptic terminals in the cochlear nucleus magnocellularis | Mike Burger | Abstract |
| 9 | Arpana Upadhyay | Biological Sciences | Transcriptomic analysis of telomerase-deficient S. cerevisiae by RNA-seq yields insights into conserved hallmarks of senescence | David Zappulla | Abstract |
| 10 | Lingbo Li | Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience | Representing Lake Snow and Ice in MOSART-Lake with an Offline LSTM Emulator | Hong-Yi Li | Abstract |
| 11 | Meraj Sohrabi | Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience; Civil Engineering | Do People Perceive Flood and Drought Risks Differently? | Ethan Yang | Abstract |
| 12 | Chen Shi | Education & Health Services | Home-Based Parent-Delivered Organizational Skills Training for Children with ADHD | Lee Kern | Abstract |
| 13 | Shuting Xiang | Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | Acrolein Synthesis from Oxidative Coupling of Biomass-Derived Methanol and Ethanol by Supported Monolayer MoOx/Fe2O3 Catalyst | Israel E. Wachs | Abstract |
| 14 | Charles Chemale Yurgel | Loewy Institute - Materials Science and Engineering | Influence of the Grain-Flow Orientation after Hot Forging Process Evaluated through Rotational Flexing Fatigue Test | Wojciech Z. Misiolek | Abstract |
| 15 | Koen Verrijt | Materials Science & Engineering | Experimental Assessment of the Influence of TiO2 Grain Size on Grain Boundary Energy Values Derived using the Mullins Analysis | Helen Chan, Jeffrey Rickman | Abstract |
| 16 | Havva Hande Cebeci | Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics | Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for Waste Feedstock Characterization in Gasification Systems | Carlos E. Romero | Abstract |
| 17 | Mohd Hanzla | Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics | Driving Mechanism for Tidal Turbine Power Output Fluctuations | Arindam Banerjee | Abstract |
| 18 | Izhar Hussain Khan | Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics | Intermittent Suppression of Galloping of a Circular Cylinder under Turbulent Inflow: Influence of Integral Length Scale | Arindam Banerjee | Abstract |