Projects

CSE - Bridging AI and Cybersecurity for Malware Detection, AI Security, and Study of the Evolving Underground Ecosystem

Nowadays, society's overwhelming reliance on complex cyberspace makes its security more important than ever. By seamlessly integrating my expertise on the interdisciplinary areas in both AI and…

6 sp. | 2 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours

Computer Science & Engineering

Strategies for Understanding Novel Candidate Gene Functions in Down Syndrome Neural Circuit Development

The development and function of the human brain require precise interactions among cells, genes, and proteins. Brain cells compose a complex network of circuits with billions of neurons, each having…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours (+1)

Neuroscience

AME - Scent Capture Using Steam Condensation

Goal: Is there a scent that brings you comfort, joy, or nostalgia? Would you like to capture it and take a sniff whenever you want, just like taking a photo? This is the technology we want to develop…

3 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+4)

Art, Art History, and Design (+3)

EE - Electrodermal Activity Sensor Development and Signal Processing

In this project, we will develop a wearable Electrodermal Activity sensor with textile electrodes. We will focus on: The design of effective electrodes; Signal transmission and quality; Signal…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours

Electrical Engineering

EE - 3D-printed Millimeter-wave antennas for Next Generation Wireless

Design, simulation, fabrication, and measurement of 3D-printed antennas for 5G/6G wireless networks, low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications (Satcom), and critical defense applications.

2 sp. | 1 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+4)

Electrical Engineering

AME - Microfiber for noise reduction

A hair-structure coating called microfiber coating has been developed for noise reduction on a rotating blade. Optimum structure and location of the coating on a rotating blade are still under…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+2)

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (+2)

CBE - Organic Mixed Ionic Electronic Conductor Research

Organic mixed ionic electronic conductors (OMIECs) are polymers (plastics) that efficiently transport and couple both ionic (salt) and electronic charge (electricity). This ionic-electronic coupling…

2 sp. | 1 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+2)

Chemistry and Biochemistry (+5)

Understanding and repairing impaired endocannabinoid signaling in Fragile X syndrome patient derived neurons

Neural cells are wired and work together in specialized circuits that consist of smaller sets of cells interacting at synaptic connections in a patterned way to rapidly transfer processed information…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours (+1)

Neuroscience

A theoretical evaluation of Molten Regolith Electrolysis

Molten regolith electrolysis (MRE) has been proposed to be a viable method for creating oxygen and metals from lunar regolith in an attempt to create resources to support human exploration on the Moon…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours

Chemistry and Biochemistry (+2)

AME - Tissue Mechanics Laboratory Undergraduate Research

The Notre Dame Tissue Mechanics Laboratory is focused on diseases related to bone and bone marrow. We have three focuses at this time: Bone adaptation to mechanical load. This affects normal bone…

3 sp. | 4 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours (+1)

Biological Sciences (+2)

EE - Spectrum Sharing Technologies and Policy for Interfering Radio Systems

Many industries are expanding their use of wireless technologies, with futuristic applications, ever more connected people and things, utilizing wider bandwidths and higher frequencies, and putting…

4 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+4)

Electrical Engineering (+2)

Modeling Nuclei via Machine Learning Networks

Join us in modeling a fundamental property of nuclei via the exciting new realm of Machine Learning (ML) networks! We model the nuclear mass via a novel Machine Learning algorithm, with the aim of…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+2)

Physics & Astronomy

CSE - Designing Accountable Software Systems

As part of our ongoing work on Designing Accountable Software Systems, we are building an interactive tool to help software engineers understand the role of human values within the domain and…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours (+1)

Computer Science & Engineering

GPU Accelerated Optimization Algorithms

GPU Accelerated Optimization Algorithms A Proposal of Undergraduate Research Project by Zhiliang Xu Project Narrative. Training a machine learning model is essentially an optimization problem…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

Summer - Part Time

Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics

CSE - LLM based Multi-Agent Simulation and Interface Development.

The Research In Networks and Groups (RINGZ) Lab is seeking undergraduate students with a strong background in JavaScript React, Python, and game development libraries such as Pygame to contribute to a…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours

Computer Science & Engineering

Environmental Change and Human and Wildlife Health

We study the effects of environmental change on the health of wildlife and human health. We study numerous environmental changes, including climate change, chemical contaminants, biodiversity loss…

10 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+3)

Biological Sciences

CBE - Solving the Structure Identification Problem with Machine Learning

The structure identification problem consists of determining the chemical structure of a species based on indirect pieces of information like spectra or property measurements. Structure identification…

3 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

AME - Biomedical Applications of Spectral Photon Counting CT

X-ray computed tomography (CT) allows scientists and clinicians to non-invasively visualize deep tissue structures within the human body in three-dimensions and at high spatial resolution. However…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours (+1)

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (+1)

AME - Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors to Power Knee Exosuit

Knee exosuits have the potential to reduce joint torques during sit-stand transitions. Our Wearable Robotics Laboratory has developed energetically passive knee exosuits that reduce 25% of root-mean…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+2)

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

CSE - AI Trust and Reliability

The research in my lab is primarily focused on human biometrics and security, especially on iris recognition and methods of detecting unknown presentation attacks. But we conduct various projects in…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours

Computer Science & Engineering

AME 47560 - Independent UG Design Project - Centerpin Fishing Reel

Students will design and machine a centerpin fishing reel. This type of fishing reel has become a popular way of catching trout and salmon in the various Lake Michigan tributary streams. Examples of…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

CEEES - Synthesizing atmospheric data

Generally speaking, this project aims at synthesizing data collected in experiments and observations, and possibly comparing to predictions made from numerical models. Examples include the plethroa of…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+1)

Computer Science & Engineering (+3)

CSE - Developing New Machine Learning Paradigm Towards Effective yet Efficient Foundation Graph Learning Models

Inspired by the success of foundation language models in applications such as ChatGPT, one can envision the far-reaching impacts that can be brought by a pre-trained Foundation Graph Learning Model…

6 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours (+2)

Computer Science & Engineering

CSE - Developing Data Science Instruction Materials by LLMs

We are seeking undergraduate students to use Large Language Models (LLMs) to develop Data Science Instruction Materials for diverse application domains. The materials could be programming codes of…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours

Computer Science & Engineering

AME 28491/38491/48491: Sports Biomechanics Research

Use your engineering know-how to quantify the movements of NCAA/club/dorm athletes to help them improve performance and reduce their risk of injury.

10 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+2)

Civil & Environmental Engineerng & Earth Sciences (+6)

Climate Change Research

Undergraduate research opportunities are available in The MAB Lab ( https://themablab.net/ ), where we use chemical and analytical techniques to reconstruct climate and environmental changes around…

5 sp. | 1 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+1)

Chemistry and Biochemistry (+2)

EE - Ferroelectric diodes and transistors

This project is to develop ferroelectric devices for analog weight storage and programmable switches. Projects can involve device fabrication, including atomic layer deposition, sputtering, and rapid…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours (+1)

Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics (+6)

CSE - Natural Language Processing for Underrepresented Languages

I have two ongoing projects related to NLP for underrepresented languages (languages that don't have existing NLP technologies, especially languages that are not standard, not written, or endangered)…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours

Computer Science & Engineering

Bacterial Motility and Biofilm Development

Description The Shrout Lab studies bacterial behavior. We combine research methods that include microscopy, imaging, mathematics, chemistry, and microbiology used at different spatial and temporal…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours

Chemistry and Biochemistry (+3)

Lanthanide and Actinide Chemistry

Research in the Hixon group focuses on understanding and quantifying the behavior of actinide elements in natural and engineered systems. The actinide elements are those with atomic numbers 89 - 103…

3 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+2)

Chemistry and Biochemistry (+2)

What determines recruitment of new trees in U.S. forests?

Many processes determine what species of trees exist within a given forest, and how big those trees are. "Recruitment" is perhaps one of the most understudied these processes. Recruitment specifically…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours

Biological Sciences

EE - Fabricating ferroelectric capacitor crossbar for storage and computing

In this project, we will build ferroelectric capacitor crossbar array for the high density storage and computing applications. Ferroelectric memory is a highly promising technology due to its energy…

2 sp. | 2 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours (+2)

Electrical Engineering

AME 47560 - Independent UG Design Project - Mars Rover Design

Students will design various components and systems for a Mars rover vehicle to compete in the University Rover Challenge. https://urc.marssociety.org/ Students must be active members of the Domer…

3 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours

Computer Science & Engineering (+3)

CSE - Distributed Systems for Scientific Data Analysis

In the Cooperative Computing Lab, we design software systems that enable scientific applications to scale up to thousands of nodes on high performance computing clusters. We specialize in building…

4 sp. | 1 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours

Computer Science & Engineering (+1)

CSE - Semiconductor Workforce Development Research

The objective of this project is to develop novel classroom materials and workflows for the design, synthesis, and verification of semiconductors. This challenge is critical is developing a workforce…

6 sp. | 0 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours

Electrical Engineering (+1)

AME - Sensing and image processing for environmental application

Through capturing target wavelength of light, various physical and chemical information can be obtained. This project focuses on proposing an integrated sensor system for environmental applications…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+2)

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (+2)

A Dietary Epigenetic Therapy for Friedreich's Ataxia

Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA) is a rare neurodegenerative disease caused by the expansion of intronic trinucleotide repeat GAA from 8 to 33 repeats to >90 repeats in the FXN gene encoding frataxin…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+1)

Biological Sciences (+1)

AME 47560 - Sanctuary Candle Recycling/Reuse

The chapels throughout campus currently send used sanctuary candles and the remaining wax to landfills because there is not a process to recycle or reuse them. In this one credit hour independent…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

AME - Design and analysis of a thermal tensegrity structure

Tensegrity describes the design of structures so that all of the connecting elements are in tension. The concept was developed in the 1960s for architectural and artistic applications by multiple…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours (+2)

Civil & Environmental Engineerng & Earth Sciences (+1)

CBE - Bioanalysis and Ion Separations with Membranes

These projects have two directions. In the first, we develop membranes for purifying rare-earth ions or other critical ions that are important in batteries and wind mills. The separations are designed…

2 sp. | 0 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+3)

Chemistry and Biochemistry (+1)

AME - Design of Balance Measurement Device for Health Assessment

This project will have two parts: Research on existing devices for measuring human balance ability with specific use in the health care industry Design of a new human balance measurement and…

1 sp. | 0 appl.

3 credits / 12+ hours

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

AME - Machine Learning and Scientific Computing with Python

There are several opportunities in the McClarren research group for people interested in scientific computing and machine learning. Topics include (but are not limited to): Fusion energy Nuclear…

3 sp. | 1 appl.

1 credit / 3-6 hours (+4)

Computer Science & Engineering (+3)

AME - Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Model Mount Design

An upgraded model mount is desired for the AFOSR--Notre Dame Large Mach-6 Quiet Tunnel. The new design must offer improved ability to easily and precisely adjust the model's yaw angle. This is…

1 sp. | 1 appl.

2 credits / 6-12 hours (+1)

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Machine Learning for Discovery in Particle Physics

Developing Tools to Discern How Mutations Impact Protein Homeostasis

Searching for Dark Matter with Precison Pulsar Timing

AME - 3D Printing Ultrablack Materials

AME - Additive Manufacturing of Micro/nanofibers for Tissue Engineering

EE - Fabricating superconducting devices

CSE - Undergraduate Research in Computer Vision

CSE - Bridging AI and Cybersecurity for Malware Detection, AI Security, and Study of the Evolving Underground Ecosystem

Strategies for Understanding Novel Candidate Gene Functions in Down Syndrome Neural Circuit Development

AME - Scent Capture Using Steam Condensation

EE - Electrodermal Activity Sensor Development and Signal Processing

EE - 3D-printed Millimeter-wave antennas for Next Generation Wireless

AME - Microfiber for noise reduction

CBE - Organic Mixed Ionic Electronic Conductor Research

Understanding and repairing impaired endocannabinoid signaling in Fragile X syndrome patient derived neurons

A theoretical evaluation of Molten Regolith Electrolysis

AME - Tissue Mechanics Laboratory Undergraduate Research

EE - Spectrum Sharing Technologies and Policy for Interfering Radio Systems

Modeling Nuclei via Machine Learning Networks

CSE - Designing Accountable Software Systems

GPU Accelerated Optimization Algorithms

CSE - LLM based Multi-Agent Simulation and Interface Development.

Environmental Change and Human and Wildlife Health

CBE - Solving the Structure Identification Problem with Machine Learning

AME - Biomedical Applications of Spectral Photon Counting CT

AME - Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors to Power Knee Exosuit

CSE - AI Trust and Reliability

AME 47560 - Independent UG Design Project - Centerpin Fishing Reel

CEEES - Synthesizing atmospheric data

CSE - Developing New Machine Learning Paradigm Towards Effective yet Efficient Foundation Graph Learning Models

CSE - Developing Data Science Instruction Materials by LLMs

AME 28491/38491/48491: Sports Biomechanics Research

Climate Change Research

EE - Ferroelectric diodes and transistors

CSE - Natural Language Processing for Underrepresented Languages

Bacterial Motility and Biofilm Development

Lanthanide and Actinide Chemistry

What determines recruitment of new trees in U.S. forests?

EE - Fabricating ferroelectric capacitor crossbar for storage and computing

AME 47560 - Independent UG Design Project - Mars Rover Design

CSE - Distributed Systems for Scientific Data Analysis

CSE - Semiconductor Workforce Development Research

AME - Sensing and image processing for environmental application

A Dietary Epigenetic Therapy for Friedreich's Ataxia

AME 47560 - Sanctuary Candle Recycling/Reuse

AME - Design and analysis of a thermal tensegrity structure

CBE - Bioanalysis and Ion Separations with Membranes

AME - Design of Balance Measurement Device for Health Assessment

AME - Machine Learning and Scientific Computing with Python

AME - Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Model Mount Design

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