Manuel Garza

Manuel Garza

• LSAMP Research Fellow…>>
• Major: Chemistry
  
• Mentor: Dr. Feri Billiot
  
• Current Research: Synthesis and Examination of Amino Acid Surfactants
  
• Description: Manuel and Dr. Billiot’s research consisted of spectroscopic techniques used on surfactant molecules for the examination of micelle chiral separations.
  

Robert Fuentes

Robert Fuentes

• LSAMP Research Fellow…>>
• Major: Biology
  
• Mentor: Dr. Kirk Cammarata
  
• Current Research: Cloning the Putative Actin Gene of the Seagrass Syringodium Flilforme
  
• Description: Robert and Dr. Cammarata cloned the putative actin gene of the local seagrass syringodium filiforme.  It will be used as a control in a gene regulation assay to determine the stress level and, therefore, health of the seagrass beds.  This will be a faster indicator of health compared to the current method, which is a “lagging indicator”.
  

Amber Faucett

Amber Faucett

• LSAMP Research Fellow…>>
• Major: Computer Science
• Mentor: Dr. Longzhuang Li
  
• Current Research: Visual Segmentation Based Data Record Extraction from Web Documents
  
• Description: The purpose of Amber and Dr. Li’s project is to develop an algorithm to extract the semantic structure of Web pages.  It will simulate how a user understands Web layout structure based on visual perception such as font sizes, colors, blanks, images, etc.  This project can be used to retrieve information from semi-structured Web pages as well as to eliminate clutter from the Web pages.
  

Elham Elbadawi

 

Elham Elbadawi

• LSAMP Research Fellow…>>
• Major: Geographic Information Sciences
  
• Mentor: Dr. Gary Jeffress
  
• Current Research: Texas Height Modernization
  
• Description: Observing elevation by establishing a new NAVD elevation in Texas using NGS tolls.
  

Ashley Munoz

Ashley Munoz

• BPC Research Fellow…>>
• Major: Computer Science
• Mentor: Dr. Ahmed Mahdy
  
• Current Research: Managing Wireless Sensor Networks Using Windows Mobile Devices
  
• Description: Ashley & Dr. Mahdy’s research expands on the idea of creating a specific application for mobile devices.  The objective is to allow for increased utility and expanded mobility of WSNs.  This application can control and transform Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN’s) in order to retrieve desired data from the network.
  

Blake Burns

Blake Burns

• BPC Research Fellow…>>
• Major: Computer Science
• Mentor: Dr. Longzhuang Li
  
• Current Research: Database Integration in Marine Wireless Sensor Networks
  
• Description: Blake and Dr. Li created a uniform interface that could query databases that are associated with Marine Wireless Sensor Networks. He researched into exporting this interface to an Android phone, as well.
  

Dominic Dominguez

Dominic Dominguez

• BPC Research Fellow…>>
• Major: Computer Science
• Mentor: Dr. Scott King
• Current Research: Wii Remote Utilization in Head Tracking for Virtual Reality
• Description: Dominic and Dr. King are working on utilizing the Wii remote to track LED’s on a user’s head in order to display where the user is looking.  This would lead to a cheap and accurate virtual reality system.