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.
- 9:00 AM - 9:05 AMOpening RemarksOSEWD
- 9:05 AM - 9:25 AMKeynote SpeakerScott A. Whalen, Chief Scientist
- 9:25 AM - 10:35 AMVirtual PPT SessionRemote - 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
- 10:30 AM - 11:05 AMIntermisson
- 11:05 AM - 11:45 AMPoster Session 1Richland - 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
- 11:45 AM - 11:50 AMTransition Break
- 11:50 AM - 12:30 PMPoster Session 2Richland
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
- 12:30 PM - 12:40 PMTransition Break
- 12:40 PM - 1:20 PMPoster Session 3Richland
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
- 1:20 PM - 1:25 PMClosing RemarksOSEWD
Please note: Non PNNL Staff will not be permitted on campus. Non PNNL Staff are welcome to join the virtual presentations.