Abstracts for the 2024 11th Annual SD EPSCoR Research Symposium are submitted by undergraduate and graduate STEM students from institutions across the state.

This table of Poster participants may be sorted by column.

Poster	First Name	Last Name	School Attending	Research Advisor
1a	Ayman	Abdulhafiz	Augustana University	Martha Ibore
8a	Chirag	Abrol	South Dakota Mines	Rajesh Sani
3a	Sneha	Acharya	Augustana University	Carrie Olson-Manning
4a	Bibek	Adhikari	South Dakota State University	Madhav Nepal
54p	Koffi	Adohinzin	Dakota State University	Mark Spanier
6a	Muhammad Yasir	Afzal	South Dakota State University	Volker Brozel
7a	Rishik	Aggarwal	South Dakota State University	Pappu Yadav
1a	Aeson	Akins	Augustana University	Martha Ibore
9a	Kamal	Albousafi	South Dakota State University	Hossein Moradi
10a	Basmala	Alemam	Augustana University	Cyndey Johnson-Edler
11a	Olivia	Allen	University of South Dakota	Alexei Savinov
12a	Sydney	Altenburg	Mount Marty University	Deborah McCuin
92a	Gabrielle	Amrouni	Augustana University	Zachary Schulte
14a	Mohammad	Anas	South Dakota State University	Parashu Kharel
15a	Karla	Arcelay-Garcia	Sanford Research	Pilar de la Puente
16a	Farzaneh	Bahmani	South Dakota Mines	Alevtina Smirnova
17a	Brodey	Ballinger	Dakota Wesleyan University	Adam Sturlaugson
18a	Ky	Becker	Dakota Wesleyan University	Brian Patrick
19a	Mikayla	Bendix	Augustana University	Mark Larson
20a	Amrita	Bhagia	University of South Dakota	Pilar de la Puente
1p	Emily	Blixt	Chalmers University of Technology	Mark Spanier
22a	Chloe	Brede	Sanford Research	Kurt Warnhoff
23a	Celia	Brekken	Sanford Research	Lance Lee
24a	Kaden	Bretzman	University of South Dakota	Lisa McFadden
25a	Laura	Brunmaier	South Dakota Mines	Travis Walker
112a	Faith	Burns	Augustana University	Jennifer Gubbels
27a	Lexa	Burtzlaff	Mount Marty University	Kathleen Gibson
28a	Haylee	Busch	Black Hills State University	Brianna Mount
29a	Ron	Campbell	Oglala Lakota College	Nick Klein
30a	Tilynn	Campbell-Miller	University of South Dakota	Rick Wang
31a	Evelyn	Chan	Sanford Research	Indra Chandrasekar
12a	Savannah	Chouinard	Mount Marty University	Deborah McCuin
33a	Anika Nawar	Chowdhury	University of South Dakota	Chaoyang Jiang
34a	Elle	Christensen	South Dakota Mines	Amlan Kar
17a	Jace	Cofer	University of Sioux Falls	Adam Sturlaugson
111a	Christian	Cortinas	Augustana University	Matthew Heesch
19a	Pierce	Cunningham	Augustana University	Mark Larson
86a	Pedro	da Rocha Borin	Augustana University	Carrie Olson-Manning
39a	James	Danielson	University of South Dakota	Rick Wang
31p	Will	Davis	Augustana University	Diane Roeder
27a	Kaesha	Davis	Mount Marty University	Kathleen Gibson
42a	William	DeLaughter	Sanford Research	Kevin Francis
43a	Ben	DeNeui	Augustana University	Drew Alton
29p	Lillian	Dennis	Dakota State University	Mark Spanier
45a	Caleb DeWitt	DeWitt	Augustana University	Jetty Duffy-Matzner
46a	Liz	Dierks	Augustana University	Barrett Eichler
47a	Wei	Ding	South Dakota State University	Xiaojun Xian
48a	Karolina	Dobiecka	University of South Dakota	Steven Wu
49a	Aidan	Donelan	South Dakota State University	Nicholas Butzin
50a	Jackson	Dorsett	South Dakota State University	Nicholas Butzin
51a	Mckenna	DuFrene	South Dakota State University	Jeffrey Doom
52a	April	Dunn	Black Hills State University	Justin and Tara Ramsey
53a	Summer	Dupree	Oglala Lakota College	Dana Gehring, Cami Griffith
54a	Hannah	Dykstra	Sanford Research	Kyle Roux
55a	Dara	Eaglestaff	Oglala Lakota College	Dana Gehring
56a	Lucas	Eastlund	South Dakota Mines	Lin Guo
57a	Ariana	Edwards	University of South Dakota	Louis-Jan Pilaz
58a	Lin-Lin	Elliott	Augustana University	Christina Birkel
1p	Mans	Englund	Lund University	Mark Spanier
84p	Noah	Everson	Augustana University	Alexander Kloth
61a	Shikayla	Faubion	Oglala Lakota College	Cami Griffith
62a	Robin	Fettig	University of South Dakota	Kurt Warnhoff
41p	Megan	Finstrom	Black Hills State University	Yun Seok Choi
64a	Caden	Fischer	South Dakota State University	Jung-Han Kimn
65a	Reagan	Fisher	Augustana University	Kevin Francis
66a	Andrew	Freeman	Black Hills State University	Brianna Mount
67a	Calla	Freesemann	Sanford Research	Michael Kareta
46a	Xavier	Gabel	Mount Marty University	Barrett Eichler
36p	Ember	Gabriel	Mount Marty University	Katrina Jensen
43a	Laura	Garcia	Augustana University	Drew Alton
71a	Ishika	Garg	South Dakota Mines	Rajesh Sani
16p	Maysa	Gillingham	Augustana University	Jetty Duffy-Matzner
73a	Grayson	Glass	South Dakota Mines	Tanvi Govil
74a	Abigail	Goebel	Black Hills State University	Matthew Pawlus
75a	Grace	Goeden	University of South Dakota	Etienne Gnimpieba
26p	Laxmi Manasa	Gorugantu	Dakota State University	Mark Spanier
1p	Nicholas	Gourley	Dakota State University	Mark Spanier
78a	Shourya	Goyal	South Dakota Mines	Joseph Hilsendeger
79a	Evan	Gran	South Dakota Mines	Kenneth Benjamin
80a	Aidan	Green	University of Sioux Falls	Jessica Graham
81a	Owen	Growney	Black Hills State University	Yun Seok Choi
82a	Sony Reddy	Gurram	University of South Dakota	Rodrigue Rizk, KC Santosh
83a	Lara	Haack	University of South Dakota	James Hoefelmeyer
84a	Janae	Hahn	University of South Dakota	Etienne Gnimpieba
85a	Mahadi	Hasan	University of South Dakota	Grigoriy Sereda
86a	Jordan	Hastad	Augustana University	Steven Matzner
87a	Kimy	Hernandez-Delacruz	Sanford Research	Mike Kareta
88a	LD	Herrera	Dakota State University	Ashley Podhradsky
89a	Joseph	Hilsendeger	South Dakota Mines	Travis Walker
90a	Grace	Hoffman	Sanford Research	Abdelhalim Loukil
91a	Xavier	Horn	University of Sioux Falls	George Mwangi
92a	Liliana	Ingalls	Augustana University	Zachary Schulte
42p	Lovisa	Ivarsson	Linkoping University	Mark Spanier
94a	Khushboo	Jain	University of South Dakota	Ranjeet John and Meghann Jarchow
95a	Laxmi	Jaishi	South Dakota State University	Xiaojun Xian
96a	Aeden	Jezorski	Pennsylvania Western University	Kadal Mariappan
97a	Landon	Johnson	University of South Dakota	Tim Hartman
99a	Emelye	Josko	Dakota State University	Andrew Sathoff
100a	Allison	Kahler	South Dakota Mines	Tanvi Govil
101a	Gopala Krishna Murthy	Kalapala	University of South Dakota	Chaoyang Jiang
42p	Mahesh Babu	Kamepalli	Dakota State University	Mark Spanier
19p	Rohith	Kandikatla	Dakota State University	Mark Spanier
104a	Nirat	Katuwal	South Dakota State University	Bishnu Karki
103a	Jasmeet	Kaur	South Dakota Mines	Rajesh Sani
105a	Navdeep	Kaur	South Dakota Mines	Rajesh Sani
106a	Sukhvir	Kaur	South Dakota State University	Volker Brozel
107a	Olivia	Kern	Augustana University	Brian Patrick
108a	Bhawana	Khadka	South Dakota State University	Bishnu Karki
1p	Marcus	Kicklighter	Blekinge Institute of Technology	Mark Spanier
30a	MaKenna	King	South Dakota State University	Rick Wang
111a	Ethan	Kinney	Augustana University	Matthew Heesch
34p	Ceylin	Kizilkaya	Black Hills State University	Yun Seok Choi
112a	Samantha	Knudson	Augustana University	Jennifer Gubbels
1p	Roch	Laferriere	Dakota State University	Mark Spanier
4p	Bayler	Larson	South Dakota Mines	Jon Kellar
103p	Grace	Lass	Augustana University	Paul Egland
6p	Amelia	Lawver	Sanford Research	Kevin Francis
111a	Avery	Lenz	Augustana University	Matthew Heesch
8p	Caitlyn	Lewis	Black Hills State University	Dave Bergmann
9p	Bailee	Lichter	University of South Dakota	Denyelle Kenyon
10p	Cayden	Loeffelholz	South Dakota Mines	Bharat Jasthi
50p	Angel	Lu	South Dakota Mines	Saurabh Dhiman
12p	Allie	Lucas	South Dakota Mines	Michael West
13p	Margaret	Ludwig	Sanford Research	Kyle Roux
14p	Karen	Ly	South Dakota Mines	Alevtina Smirnova
15p	Joy	Main	Mount Marty University	Kathleen Gibson
21a	Winifred	Mangwi	Augustana University	Jetty Duffy-Matzner
17p	Rochelle	Mann	University of South Dakota	Grigoriy Sereda
18p	Ashley	Marines	Black Hills State University	Brianna Mount
67p	Aravind	Marri	University of South Dakota
19p	Bergen	Marshall	Dakota State University	Mark Spanier
67p	Krishna Phanindra	Marupaka	University of South Dakota	KC Santosh and Rodrigue Rizk
26a	Chenchaiah	Mekalathuru	University of South Dakota	Rodrigue Rizk
35p	Julia	Mendel	Black Hills State University	Nathan Deichert
91p	Logan	Merriam	South Dakota Mines	Travis Walker
23p	Devin	Messer	Black Hills State University	Matthew Pawlus
24p	Mallory	Moats	South Dakota Mines	Michael West
25p	Meesha	Montgomery	Augustana University	Shane Scholten
26p	Natalie	Moose-Elkin	Black Hills State University	Ashley Pfeiffer
27p	Kelsey	Morrison	Mount Marty University	Chun Wu
28p	McKinnely	Mull	Dakota Wesleyan University	Paula Mazzer
29p	Nagraj	Naidu	Dakota State University	Mark Spanier
30p	Lida	Najmi	South Dakota State University	Zhong Hu
31p	Emma	Nelson	Augustana University	Diane Roeder
32p	Samiul	Nibir	South Dakota State University	Solaiman Tarafder
33p	William	Nixon	University of Denver	Jacob Petersen
34p	Noah	Nnabuo	Black Hills State University	Yun Seok Choi
67p	Deepika	Nuthalapati	University of South Dakota
35p	Sebastian	O'Farrell	Black Hills State University	Nathan Deichert
36p	Cade	Olson	Black Hills State University	Katrina Jensen
37p	Johnathan	Orosz	South Dakota State University	Volker Brozel
38p	Samara	Overvaag	South Dakota State University	Jung-Han Kimn
29p	Oscar	Palmqvist	Chalmers University of Technology	Mark Spanier
40p	Sanam	Parajuli	South Dakota State University	Madhav Nepal
41p	Min Kyung	Park	Black Hills State University	Yun Seok Choi
42p	Franklin	Parker	Dakota State University	Mark Spanier
43p	Amee	Parmar	South Dakota State University	Pappu Yadav
44p	Prithvi	Patthi	Sanford Research	LJ Pilaz
45p	Sandeep	Paudel	South Dakota State University	Srinivas Janaswamy
42p	Simon	Paulsson	Chalmers University of Technology	Mark Spanier
47p	Simona	Plesselova	Sanford Research	Pilar de la Puente
48p	Mason	Pulse	South Dakota State University	Parashu Kharel
49p	Gabriela	Ramirez	South Dakota Mines	Grant Crawford
50p	Dheeraj	Raya	South Dakota Mines	Saurabh Dhiman
51p	Manish	Rayamajhi	University of South Dakota	Etienne Gnimpieba
52p	Sumi	Regmi	South Dakota State University	Srinivas Janaswamy
53p	Maddy	Reichert	Black Hills State University	Justin and Tara Ramsey
54p	Amandus	Reimer	Chalmers University of Technology	Mark Spanier
89a	Dakota	Remington	South Dakota Mines	Travis Walker
56p	Santosh	Rijal	South Dakota State University	Srinivas Janaswamy, Senthil Subramanian
58p	Angela	Roberts	University of South Dakota	Nessim Amin
59p	Ainslie	Robinson	Sanford Research	Jill Weimer
60p	Sage	Robinson	Black Hills State University	Justin and Tara Ramsey
61p	Kevin	Robles Lopez	South Dakota Mines	Scott Beeler
62p	Collin	Rodmyre	South Dakota Mines	Alevtina Smirnova
63p	Shishir	Roka	South Dakota State University	Bishnu Karki
103p	Ethyn	Rollinger	Augustana University	Paul Egland
65p	Swarnabha	Roy	South Dakota State University	Pappu Yadav
66p	Archer	Sagaskie	Grand Valley State University	Brianna Mount
68p	Grace	Schavee	Augustana University	Martha Ibore
69p	Nick	Schefers	Sanford Research	Jianning Tao
70p	Zach	Schild	University of South Dakota	Ranjeet John
71p	Cane	Schmitt	Mount Marty University	Chun Wu
72p	Kyle	Schubert	Sanford Research	Pilar de la Puente
73p	Ryan	Schulte	Augustana University	Zachary Schulte
42p	Fareed	Shaik	Dakota State University	Mark Spanier
71a	Rimjhim	Sharma	South Dakota Mines	Rajesh Sani
67p	Ann	Sheehy	South Dakota Mines	Jon Kellar
77p	Mary	Sicard	Newman University	Michelle Baack
78p	ViolaMay	Simwanza	South Dakota Mines	Brett Carlson
29p	Emil	Sjoberg	Chalmers University of Technology	Mark Spanier
81p	Cheyenne	Smith	Sanford Research	Fransisco Bustos
5a	Jacob	Spreng	South Dakota State University	Nicholas Butzin
84p	Zachary	Stanz	Augustana University	Alexander Kloth
68p	Schaler	Starks	Augustana University	Martha Ibore
86p	Brandon	Stuber	South Dakota Mines	Jon Kellar
87p	Betelihiem	Tecleab	Sanford Research	Paola Vermeer
88p	Cecilia	Tegenkamp	Sanford Research	Halim Loukil
2a	Kritika	Thakur	South Dakota Mines	Tanvi Govil
89p	Santosh	Thapa	South Dakota State University	Bishnu Karki
90p	Zachariah	Thomas	University of Michigan-Dearborn	Brianna Mount
54p	Julius	Thunstrom	Lund University	Mark Spanier
78a	Isaiah	Thurman	South Dakota Mines	Travis Walker
93p	Caroline	Titze	University of Sioux Falls	Patrick Ronan
19p	Carl	Torbjornsson	Chalmers University of Technology	Mark Spanier
95p	Olivia	Valdez	Mount Marty University	Chun Wu
96p	Isabella	Veffredo	Black Hills State University	Yun Seok Choi
97p	Alec	Venner	South Dakota State University	Parashu Kharel
98p	Renee	Virtue	Sanford Research	Kamesh Surendran
84p	Patrick	Vogel	Augustana University	Alexander Kloth
100p	Jared	Volesky	South Dakota State University	Nicholas Butzin
19p	Linus	von Ekensteen Lofgren	Lund University	Mark Spanier
102p	Bryce	Watson	South Dakota Mines	Alevtina Smirnova
103p	Caylee	Weber	University of Sioux Falls	Paul England
54p	Nickolas	Weir	Dakota State University	Mark Spanier
105p	Makarie	Wiebersick	Sanford Research	Pilar de la Puente
106p	Reesa	Wilcox	Sanford Research	Lance Lee
107p	Quinlon	Williams	University of South Dakota	James Hoefelmeyer
108p	Zishen	Yang	University of South Dakota	Chaoyang Jiang
109p	Corey	Zhao	Lexington High School	Etienne Gnimpieba