SJSU Student RSCA Competition Finalists 2023
The 2023 SJSU Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (RSCA) Competition
held on March 16 and 17 in the Diaz Compean Student Union saw students from five SJSU
colleges compete for a place in the 37th Annual California State University (CSU) Student Research Competition, hosted by San Diego State University on April 28 and 29.
Competitors needed to demonstrate:
- Clarity of purpose
- Appropriateness of methodology
- Interpretation of results
- Value of the research or creative activity
- Ability of the presenter to articulate the research or creative activity
- Organization of material presented
- Presenter's ability to handle questions from the judges and general audience
After their in-person presentation each student, or group of students, was required
to answer questions from a panel of judges.
Below are the finalists in alphabetical order by last name.
Mia Dong
College of Engineering
Project Title: Investigating the Effects of Adaptive Driving Styles on Trust in Partially Automated
Vehicles
Project Category: Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Gaojian Huang, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Autumn Galinski
College of Science
Project Title: Ultra Diffuse Galaxies and Globular Clusters in the NGC 1407 Galaxy Group
Project Category: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Aaron Romanowsky, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
James Guzman and Surabhi Gupta
College of Engineering
Project Title: Deep Learning in AI Medical Imaging for Stroke Diagnosis
Project Category: Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Magdalini Eirinaki, Professor, Department of Computer Engineering
Hilary King
College of Humanities and the Arts
Project Title: Trees to Paradise: Using Poetry to Explore How California's Arboreal History Reflects
Its Eco and Social Cultures and Histories
Project Category: Humanities and Letters
Faculty Mentor: J. Michael Martinez, Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Ran Li
College of Science
Project Title: On The Memory Scalability of Spectral Clustering Algorithms
Project Category: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Guangliang Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Hanan Mubarez
College of Social Sciences
Project Title: The Impact of Social Media Usage on Ethnic identity and its Relationship With Perceived
Racial Discrimination
Project Category: Behavioral and Social Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Jill Citron, Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Jaedyn Rollins
College of Science
Project Title: Utilization of the RhD Locus as a Safe Harbor for Gene Editing Applications
Project Category: Biological and Agricultural Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Johnston, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Merlina San Nicolas Leyva
College of Humanities and the Arts
Project Title: A Study of Mexican Journalists' Professional Practices and Fact-Checking Habits During
Misinformation and Anti-Press Times
Project Category: Behavioral and Social Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Nisha Garud-Patkar, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Iris Schmidt
College of Social Sciences
Project Title: Substance Use Patterns Among College Students at San Jose State University: A Study
on Ethnicity, Substance Type and Frequency, and Living Arrangements
Project Category: Behavioral and Social Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Jill Citron, Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Yik Haw Teoh
College of Science
Project Title: Free Fermions Subject to Weak Quantum Measurement: Collapse Dynamics and Numerical
Accuracy
Project Category: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Hilary Hurst, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
