Research Output

2025

Conferences

evasys Student Engagement Conference (26^thFebruary 2025, University of Westminster)

• Ava Dahlia Belafonte and Allegra Celesia: "Making diversity count: empowering students through inclusive STEM curricula", Poster. 
• Muhie Al-Haimus, Yash Vaghela and Ilanthiraiyan Sivagnanamoorthy: "'Squashing bugs not snakes': designing a Python toolkit to develop students’ programming proficiency", Poster.

The London Student Sustainability Conference (26^thFebruary 2025, University of Westminster)

• Malmi Mahagamage and Meherun Soud: "Embedding sustainability in mathematics modules", Oral Presentation. 

2024

Conferences

CRISPR VIP Symposium (13^th December 2024, University of Westminster)

Presentations

• Balvinder Dhillon, Ella Miller, Rindhiya Vishnusankar, Charmaine Wong, Seagull Vennila, Tamas Attila Hajdu, Bohdan Skulimovskyi: "Developing a Low-Cost Vision Assistance System for Vacant Seat Identification in Public Transportation".
• Ilanthiraiyan Sivagnanamoorthy, Alexandra Werth, Rehan Shah: "Towards a Cross-National Mathematical Skills Inventory for Engineers".
• Olivia Bogathy, Filip Roch: "Student-led activities in synthetic biology at QMUL".
• Arvin Tharumalingam, Hashir Hamid, Abu Bakr Dawood: "Development of a controllable vision-based sensor".
• Muhie Al-Haimus, Ilanthiraiyan Sivagnanamoorthy, Yash Vaghela, Rehan Shah: "'Squashing bugs not snakes': developing students programming proficiency by the co-creation of a python toolkit".
• Saituran Nadipineni, Chenhao Hong, Tanishtha Ramlall, Chapa Sirithunge, Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne: "Exploring the Intersections of Human Emotions, Soft Robotics and Arts".
• Noah Leigh: "Reflections on the benefits of epistemology in science-making endeavours".

Undergraduate Research Forum (23^rd-25^th October 2024, Queen Mary University of London)

Presentations

• Ilanthiraiyan Sivagnanamoorthy, Yash Vaghela and Muhie Al-Haimus: “Squashing bugs not snakes: developing students’ programming proficiency through co-creation of a Python toolkit”. 
• Hana Hadidi: “The Processing Ceiling: Impact of Northern Health and Sustainability Policies on African Cashew Producers”.
• Enrico Gigantino: “Altered vertebral biomechanics in prostate cancer patients using phantom and phantom-less calibrations”.
• Michaela Lastovickova: “Data sonification as a pedagogical tool for teaching blind people NMR chemistry”.
• Noah Leigh: “Principles and Design of Single-Stage Rocketry: Strategies for Achieving 3 km Apogee”.
• Emma Nicolai: “Optimizing Hybrid Airplane Propellers for Sustainable Air Travel: A Path Towards Climate-Neutral Aviation”.
• Kiane Johnson: “Predicting Atrial Fibrillation Treatment Outcome with Digital Twins”.
• Jake Seah: “DLP-printable Microfluidics for Microvasculature Tissue Modelling”.
• Akash Sivananthan: “Designing a novel optical stiffness probe for Minimally Invasive Surgery”.
• Barbaros Zeren and Yash Vaghela: “’Sway and Play’: The Mathematics of Playground Swinging”.
• Muhie Al-Haimus and Allegra Celesia: “Investigating the dynamics of a yo-yo”.  

BioMedEng2024 (5-6^th September 2024, Queen Mary University of London)

• Jake Seah, Davide Carta, Daniel Hayer, Hossein Heidari, Julien Gautrot: “DLP Printing of Chips for Microvascularized Tissue Models”, Poster.
• Enrico Gigantino, Fiona Gibson, Stefaan Verbruggen: “Altered Biomechanics Analysis of Prostate Cancer Patients Using Phantom and Phantomless Densitometric Calibrations”, Poster.

British Conference of Undergraduate Research (25-26^th April 2024, School of Economics and Political Science, London)

• Barbaros Zeren, Yash Vaghela, Rehan Shah: "Sway and Play: The Mathematics of Playground Swinging", Oral presentation.
• Emma Nicolai, Hussain Ali Abid: "Optimizing Hybrid Airplane Propellers for Sustainable Air Travel: A Path Towards Climate-Neutral Aviation", Oral presentation.
• Xiang Li, Jesus Vazquez Chavez: "Enhancing Electrical Conductivity in Polyaniline (PANI): A Comprehensive Study on Doping from Acids to Metal Halides and Embedding Carbon Dots for Advanced Applications", Oral presentation + poster.

Tomorrow’s Mathematicians Today (9-10^th March 2024, University of Greenwich Maths Centre)

• Barbaros Zeren, Yash Vaghela, Rehan Shah: "Sway and Play: The Mathematics of Playground Swinging", Oral presentation.

Research showcase events

Posters at the Industrial Liaison Forum (5^th November 2024, Queen Mary University of London)

Posters at the Industrial Liaison Forum (6^th March 2024, Queen Mary University of London)

• Barbaros Zeren, Yash Vaghela, Rehan Shah: "Sway and Play: The Mathematics of Playground Swinging".
• Fasika Bekele, Harry Bhadeshia: "Investigation of order configurations in gaseous systems".
• Jake Seah, Julien Gautrot, Davide Carta, Daniel Hayer: "DLP Printing of Chips for Microvascularised Tissue Models".
• Rayyan Abhram, Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne: "Adaptive Soft Robotics Inspired Cap For Electroencephalography: A preliminary Study".
• Tasneem Maria Hussain, Caroline Roney: "Personalized Cardiac Modelling to Improve Outcomes of Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation".
• Xiang Li, Jesús Vázquez-Chávez, Ana Sobrido: "Synthesis of polyaniline with urea-based carbon dots for pseudocapacitance energy storage".
• Enrico Maria Gigantino, Stefaan Verbruggen, Fiona Gibson: "Altered biomechanics analysis of prostate cancer patients by using phantom and phantom-less densitometric calibrations".

Posters in Parliament (28^th February 2024, UK Parliament)

• Enrico Maria Gigantino, Stefaan Verbruggen, Fiona Gibson: "Altered biomechanics analysis of prostate cancer patients by using phantom and phantom-less densitometric calibrations".
• Ava Dahlia Belafonte, Rehan Shah: "Diversifying and decolonizing the curriculum".

Booklets

• Rehan Shah, Claudia Garetto, Ava Dahlia Belafonte, Allegra Celesia, Maryam Hosseini, Fatemeh Parsa, Saqib Jivani: "Diversifying STEM Curricula at Queen Mary University of London". A collection of biographies of mathematicians from underrepresented groups.

Toolkits

• Muhie Al Haimus, Yash Vaghela, Ilanthiraiyan Sivagnanamoorthy, Rehan Shah: "Python Practice Questions Toolkit", disseminated to SEMS students for the module EMS412U.
• Muhie Al Haimus, Yash Vaghela, Ilanthiraiyan Sivagnanamoorthy, Rehan Shah: "Python Common Errors Toolkit: “Squashing Bugs, Not Snakes”, disseminated to SEMS students for the modules EMS412U and EMS506U.