The Tandon Research Excellence Exhibit is an annual event featuring student and faculty projects that demonstrate the scope of engineering at Tandon, and its potential to improve the world. This year’s Exhibit will celebrate the incredible academic contributions of our community and how they connect to Tandon's impact areas. The most exciting work being done in our labs and prototyping facilities comes alive for spectators of all ages.
Stop by the Tandon Research Excellence Exhibit to experience incredible projects, and enjoy giveaways, food trucks, a photo booth, and more!
The Exhibit is free and open to the public.
Program
1:00 PM - Welcome Remarks
1:15 PM - Exhibits Open
3:30 PM - Exhibit Winners Announced
4:00 PM - Research Exhibit Concludes
2026 Research Exhibits
Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Category
- Project Mjolnir Open-Source Adaptive Bicycle Platform: Zizhe Yin, Jonathan Teng, Bailey Butterworth, Andrea Ge
- ARC Robotics: Christopher DiMauro, Niles Peter Villaverde, Sawyer Wizemann, Ramon Li
- Plastic Degradation via Bacteria Consortium: Yangkun Xu, Marie Toure, Kayra Oguz, Elaine Jin
- Innovation of Bioplastics & Urban Food Lab: The LEAF: Sara Elcheikhali, Julie Huang, Cecilia Prado, Diego Quintanilla, Raquel Ruiz, Alexa Gillespie
- NYU CHEM-E-CAR: Arthur Barbosa, Cody Chen, Micaela Castro, Pragun Damani
- AI-powered Humanoid Robot for Teaching and Learning: Rasesh Desai, Sven Kottuppallil, Melanie Lin, Nyam Mostafa
- Embodied AR/VR Systems for Saliency-Aware AI Execution: Julia Lopes, Haiyu Wang, Dora Zhao, Shubham Ojha
- VAIN - Interactive Wearable Tech x Fashion: Laurel Tiange Fang, Sal Baray, Anthony Offiah
- Wearable Art and Design VIP: Maneater: Mia DeVera, Paula Navarro, Joey Cheung, Fanni Miettinen
- Project STEP: Skyler Damaghi, Minnie Zhang, Luka Kitamura, Derek Feng
- NYU Robotics Design Team’s Luna Rover: Gabriela Merino, William Zhang, Eric Wang, Jasir Zakaria
- Advancing Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Eddy Hu, Filip Ovcarov, Sohan Sondhi, Jason Rohr
- Feminism and STEM VIP Team: Amisha Gopee, Danya Glabau
- Desire Path: A Community-building Game: Giselle Shan, Irmak Caglar, Daniel Chung, Sydney Weng
- Smart Chemical Emission Navigation Tracker (SCENT): William Mao, Terry Mu, Abirami Palaniappan Sirsabesan, Heng Pu
Research Excellence Category
Industrial, Urban & Environmental Sustainability
- Embodied-AI for Safe Autonomous Mobility: Kanishka Harwani, Vadivelan Murugesan
- Algae–NanoMetal Enhanced Antifouling Coating for Marine Surfaces: Rowaid Baamer
- The Biofilm City: How microbes can help remediate urban environments: Dhwani Nair, Sophia Barbaria, Matthew Hope, Caroline Lou
- EPIC: A machine-learning framework for product-dependent behavior in β-glucosidases: Ali Malli, Denys Vasyutyn, Anuj Majumder
Engineering & Culture
- Building Networks of Trust for Legal Preservation with TAF: Patrick Zielinski
- SOAR with Us! Interactive Activities & Simulations for K-12 STEM Education: Si Yue Jiang, Cayden Auyeung, Dione Cheung, Alikhan Kaukenayev
- BREW (Bridging Reasoning & Epistemic Workflow): Issac Ting, Siddharth Srivastava
- SynthAccess: R. Luke DuBois, Stefanie Koseff, Ciarra Black, Moira (Fan) Zhang
Systems Engineering & Complex Decision-Making
- Combining Capacity and Reliability via Inter-Frequency Handovers: Soumyadeep Datta, Aditya Dhananjay
- Stellarator Coil Design for Manufacturing Errors: Stochastic Optimization for Nuclear Fusion: Vincenzo Gallegos, Evan Laljit
- Resilient Learning-Based Control for Automated Lane Change under DoS Attacks: Won Yong Ha, Sayan Chakraborty, Zhemin Huang, Mengqi Jia
- Behavioral Agent Graph as Conditioning Signal for Adversarial Generation: Rea Ara
Robotics & Embodied Intelligence
- DejaView: Metric-Free Dynamic Spatial Memory for Mobile Robots in Changing Environments: Luca Macesanu, Juexiao Zhang, Greta Perez-Haiek
- Zero-Code Robotics: Pranav Shukla, Rachna Kadam, Ronish Nadar
- AR Memory Assistant: Efficient Long-Video Understanding for Recording and Reminding: Haiyu Wang, Tianhua Xia, Jiajing Zheng, Xiangyang Yin
- Flexible Robot-enabled Minimally-invasive Surgery: Edward Liang, Jason Bi, Samyu Kamtam, Rui Li
Engineering Health
- An Electromyography-Based Hidden Neuromuscular Fatigue State Decoder: Ahmadreza Ahmadjou, Jiong Yan Yap, Rose T. Faghih
- Anatomically Accurate Head Model for Traumatic Brain Injury Research: Noshin Siddiq, Saba Khan
- You’ve Got Mail! A Special Delivery of Gene Therapies via Nanovehicles: Isabella Huang, Pooja Shah, Kat Milas, Smriti Thosani