2026 Research Symposium Schedule

Please note: Non PNNL Staff will not be permitted on campus. Non PNNL Staff are welcome to join the virtual presentations.

 

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Day 1
  • 9:00 AM - 9:05 AM
    Opening Remarks
    OSEWD
  • 9:05 AM - 9:25 AM
    Keynote Speaker
    Scott A. Whalen, Chief Scientist
  • 9:25 AM - 10:35 AM
    Virtual PPT Session
    Remote - Zoom

VIRTUALLY VIA ZOOM

9:25 AM Julianna Mullen, From Flood to Flux: Stem Greenhouse Gas Responses of Coastal Trees to Flooding

9:37 AM Ethan Crosby, Diffusion Coefficients within the Chapman-Enskog kinetic theory from first principles

9:49 AM Sam Tacheny, Adaptive Deep Learning Time-Steppers for Dynamical Systems

10:01 AM Isaias Prieto, Knowledge Graph for End-to-End Traceability of an Integrated Human-Earth System Model: Linking Data Provenance, Structure, Scenario Configuration, and Solved Outputs in GCAM-USA

10:13 AM Jasmine Garland, How Much Stress Can ERCOT Handle? Physically-Grounded Scenario-Based Reliability Assessment

10:25 AM Chris McRobie, Microstructural Analysis of Neutron Irradiated 316SS Cladding

Day 1
  • 10:30 AM - 11:05 AM
    Intermisson
  • 11:05 AM - 11:45 AM
    Poster Session 1
    Richland - Seattle - Sequim

RICHLAND - ESC LOBBY | 11:05 AM - 11:45 AM

Loveen Dardi, Pseudotime Mapping of Beta Cell States via snRNA-seq & Proteomic Signatures in Type 1 Diabetes

Jeremy Eisen, Multi-Omic Effects of Exercise on the Brain: Findings from MoTrPAC

Linus Buchholz, Detecting Axions Utilizing Superconducting Qubits

Marwan Luay, Implementing AI and Verification Scripts for MONet Soil Sample Preparation

Cheyanne Williams, Upward Bound: A Vertical Look at How VOCs can Shape Our Atmosphere

Adam Tan, What does losing weight actually change in your body: Deep plasma proteomics reveals candidate protein signatures of lifestyle-induced weight loss in obesity

Andrew Smith, Evaluation of Low to Medium Energy Electron Beam Processing of Amniotic Membrane

Matthew Northrup, NMR for Investigating SrCO3 and ZnCO3 Nucleation and Growth Pathways

Kareen Zaffar, Using AI To Improve Sample Tracking and Traceability

Jacob Fifield, Lab-Scale Conceptual Pultrusion System

Kylie Alfaro, Leveraging Random Forest Algorithms for Stable Isotope Prediction in Surface Water

Yatharth Vohra, One-Size-Fits-All: Semantic Mapping of Building Point Names Using Agentic AI

Andrew Gelston, Stories in the Sewers: Revealing Disease Trends Through Wastewater Data

Patrick Morrissey, Wildfire Progression through Satellite Imagery: Rapid Analytics for Disaster Response (RADR) - Fire

Joshua Ray Clavecillas, Physics Informed Neural Network Approach to Resonant Cavity Characterization and Mode Identification in an Axion Haloscope

Curren Parker, Modeling Bunch Behavior In a Particle Accelerator Using Harmonic Oscillators

Desmond Stewart, Analyzing Network Files with AI

Michael Shelly, Design of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Water Sampler

Tanzim Elahi, COBRA-SFS Graphical User Interface Development and Testing

Carlos Moreno, Equipment Transaction Analysis Platform - ETAP

Myreil French, Design of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Water Sampler

Diego Martinez, Machine Learning-Based Optimization of ICP-MS/MS for Actinide Ion Separation

SEATTLE - 5th FLOOR KITCHEN | 11:05 AM - 11:45 AM

Aston Wiggin, From Data to Draft in 5 minutes: An Agentic AI Workflow for Biogeochemical Research

Ethan Rogers, Scaling Team Knowledge and Readiness with Adaptive AI Guidance

Eliana Dietrich, Does this work?: Enabling End-to-End Testing of Feature-branch Models in NII Technologies

Neil Ash, Bayesian Data Attribution for Synthetic Dataset Engineering

John Cho, Albedo of Landfast Ice and Significance for Breakup

Shirley Yong, Reinforcement Learning for Intelligent Material Accountancy

Caleb Abbruzzi, Biomimicry in Vertical Axis Tidal Turbines

Dzinh Pham, Neural Networks for Tropical Cyclone Size Predictions

SEQUIM - MSL5 LUNCHROOM | 11:05 AM - 11:45 AM

Michael Kim, Scale Down Screening Method for Light and Oxygen Stress Evaluation in Algae

Morgan Gilboe, Trace metal supplementation impacts Ulva expansa exudate lipids and phycosphere microbial community composition

Madeline Bell, Assessment of Scenedesmus sp. 46B-D3 mutant clonal isolates after artificial selection through accelerated laboratory evolution for tolerance to light and oxygen stress

Grace Tiegs, Impacts of wildfire on fDOM sensor corrections across a burned watershed in central Washington, USA

Sahaira Paz, Tidal Resource Characterization with Miniature Turbines

Day 1
  • 11:45 AM - 11:50 AM
    Transition Break
  • 11:50 AM - 12:30 PM
    Poster Session 2
    Richland

RICHLAND - ESC LOBBY | 11:50 AM - 12:30 PM

Owen Bergstrom, Palytoxin Detection: Cell Free Ion Channel Monitoring

April Sanders, Reactive Flow-Through Extraction of Critical Minerals from Shale

Aidyn Shingleton, Soil infiltration variability with wildfire disturbance in the Oak Creek watershed

Noah Knishkowy, Improving an Aerosol Microphysics Emulator with Last-Layer Optimization

John Matthews, Enabling Critical Mineral Production from Fly Ash

Dave Cheu, Experiments in recovering particles from atmospheric filters

Olivia Schmitt, Methods for Measurement of Tritium: Construction of an Electrolytic Enrichment System 

Charlotte Moseley, Impact of TiN inclusions on Inconel® 690 corrosion in nuclear waste simulant glass

Kaia Brathwaite, Solid State Synthesis of Intercalated Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Using Molten Salt Flux

Maxwell Colomer, Model for Reactivity of Palladium-Capped Copper-Nickel Laminar Heterostructures

Isabel Perez-Zoghbi, Regenerating Radiation Damaged Metal-Organic Frameworks

Hannah Dengler, Influence of Electrodeposition Conditions on the Morphology of Sn–Ni Alloy Anode for Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes

Kimberly McKinnon, APE: A Compiler-Directed Affine Prefetching Engine for Hiding Memory Access Latency

Ojie Okodogbe, Nickelback - AI Augmented Network Anomaly Detection

Aric Davison, Automating Quantum Amplifier Tuning with Reinforcement Learning

Ian Parzyszek, Multimodal Data Fusion Transformer for Nuclear Forensics R&D

Jose Pantoja, Improving the "Bombing Range" testbed environment using EVE-NG

Baylor Dickinson, Benchmarking Validation of LiAlO2 Thermal Scattering Law Data

Mallory Thomas, Fingerprinting Ni Sourcing From Silicate and Sulfide Rocks via Isotopic (δ⁶⁰Ni) Signatures: Implications for In-Situ Mining

Sydnee Schneider, Use and Storage of Compressed Gas Cylinders

Harriet Dalton, Effect of Various Polymers on Redox-Targeting Flow Batteries

Katarina Hartnmann, Optimizing Commercial Mass Spectrometers for Isotope Ratio Analyses

James Dunne, Engineered Fluids for Selective Rare Earth Element Recovery from Round Top Rhyolite

Day 1
  • 12:30 PM - 12:40 PM
    Transition Break
  • 12:40 PM - 1:20 PM
    Poster Session 3
    Richland

RICHLAND - ESC LOBBY | 12:40 PM - 1:20 PM

Matias Cozzi, Generation of Nanobodies for Post Translationally Modified Proteins

Warren Hsu, Evaluating an ML Emulator of E3SM on Atmospheric River Characteristics

Colin Brown, Evaluating the LightGBM Machine Learning Model for Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) prediction across temporal, regional, and spatial holdouts using integrated SNOTEL-Daymet data 

Eddie Tang, A Programmable-Oscillator-Based Frequency-Shift Keying Radio Frequency Transmitter for Wildlife Tracking

Ayden Jarrell, Prediction of Glass Durability with Machine Learning Techniques

Julianna Knight, Designing a Universal Resin: The Role of Uptake Kinetics

Skylar Brustad, Catalytic Oligomerization of Light Olefins for Synthetic Aviation Fuel Production

Sydney Smith, Metal Complex Characterization for Improved Nuclear Waste Pretreatment

Josh Wu, Evaluating the Thermal Stability of All-Solid-State Batteries

Zach Lee, High Powered Computer Integrated Learning

Alea Minar, Two-stage CNN cascade for radioisotope identification in urban environments

Rohan Bhargra, Agentic Harnesses: LLM-Driven Verification Layers for Robotics Autonomy

Jose Chaidez, Firmware Rehosting for IoT Devices

Jesus Miranda, Large Language Models for Analyzing Measurements from the PANDAWN Radiation Sensor Network

Evan Spaeth, Database Network Traffic, Coding Languages, And Queries

Emma  Patterson, Perturbations in the IR Spectra of the Halogenated Allyls

Michael Romero, Laser Ablation Mass Spectrometry for Uranium Particle analysis

Miguel Palomino, Design of Valve-Control Circuit

Benjamin Donis, Simulating Quantum RF Circuits and Designing Magnetic Shielding for the Axion Dark Matter Search

Christina Santillan, Product Yield Prediction with SHAP: Feature Contribution Analysis for Decision Tree and Random Forest Models

Corbin  Smith, Applications of Nanobodies in Enzymatic Modulation

Shashank Kalyanaraman, Optimizing data collection for Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS) Spectroscopy interpretation

Caleb Jimenez, Simulations of the APEX DUNE Module

Day 1
  • 1:20 PM - 1:25 PM
    Closing Remarks
    OSEWD

Please note: Non PNNL Staff will not be permitted on campus. Non PNNL Staff are welcome to join the virtual presentations.