2025 Bowman Scholars
School of Engineering, Computing, and Weapons
1/C Jadiel Arana
- Major: Computer Engineering
- Title: Integration of Data Acquisition and Real Time Processing for Radiation Detection and Discrimination
- Advisors: Prof. Hau Ngo - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Assoc. Prof. Hatem ElBidweihy - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Prof. Brian Jenkins - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
1/C Abigail Artman
- Major: Computer Engineering
- Title: Discrimination of Neutron and Gamma Radiation in Plastic Scintillators using Machine Learning Techniques
- Advisors: Assoc. Prof. Hatem ElBidweihy - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, LCDR Joseph Latta, USN - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department
1/C Owen Beran
- Major: Nuclear Engineering
- Title: Neutron Damage Effects on AlGaN High Electron Mobility Transistors
- Advisors: Assoc. Prof. Hatem ElBidweihy - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, LCDR Joseph Latta, USN - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department
1/C Troy Boland
- Major: Electrical Engineering
- Title: Additive Manufacturing of Stretchable, Reconfigurable Frequency Selective Surfaces
- Advisors: Asst. Prof. Connor Smith - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Assoc. Prof. Hatem ElBidweihy - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Prof. Charles Nelson - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
1/C Toby Davis
- Major: Mechanical Engineering
- Title: Measurement and Modeling of Optical Turbulence through the Near-Maritime Boundary Layer
- Advisors: Prof. John Burkhardt - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Prof. Cody Brownell - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Prof. Charles Nelson - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
1/C Hunter Golly
- Major: Aerospace Engineering
- Title: Flight Dynamics and Control of Multiple Interacting Heterogeneous Rotocraft in Ground Effect
- Advisor: Asst. Prof. Ondrej Juhasz - Aerospace Engineering Department
1/C Shankar Jambunathan
- Major: Robotics and Control Engineering
- Title: Accelerating Matrix Multiplication and Comparing the CORDIC Function on Trigonometric Functions on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)
- Advisors: CDR Brien Croteau, USN - Cyber Science Department, Prof. Kiriakos Kiriakidis - Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering Department
1/C Kevin Lam
- Major: Nuclear Engineering
- Title: Developing and Characterizing High Temperature Ceramic Heat Exchangers for Nuclear Power Applications in Molten Salt Reactors
- Advisors: LCDR Joseph Latta, USN - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Assoc. Prof. Elizabeth Getto - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department
1/C Grace Lout
- Major: Robotics and Control Engineering (Honors)
- Title: Semi-Autonomous Search and Rescue Over Water
- Advisor: Prof. Richard O'Brien - Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering Department
1/C Owen O'Malley
- Major: Robotics and Control Engineering (Honors)
- Title: Impact of Underwater Optical Turbulence on the Properties of Light: Synchronous Measurements of Intensity, Phase, and Orbital Angular Momentum
- Advisor: Prof. Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic - Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering Department
1/C Noelle Poovey
- Major: Ocean Engineering
- Title: Shoreline Stabilization by Coastal Mangrove Structures during Extreme Wave Events
- Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Tori Johnson - Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department
1/C Finnian Prescott
- Major: Robotics and Control Engineering (Honors)
- Title: Efficacy of EEG Signals for Control of a Swarm of UXV Under Split Attention Seeking
- Advisor: Prof. Brad Bishop - Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering Department
1/C William Schleper
- Major: Nuclear Engineering
- Title: High-Temperature Oxidation of Single-Crystal Nickel Superalloys
- Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Elizabeth Getto - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department
1/C Corinna Skidmore
- Major: Computer Science
- Title: Investigating Post Quantum Group-Theoretic Cryptographic Protocols
- Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Susan Margulies - Mathematics Department
1/C Gabriel Spencer
- Major: Computer Science
- Title: Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication (SDMM) using Polynomial Codes
- Advisor: Asst. Prof. Fiona Knoll - Computer Science Department
1/C Hava Szarafinski
- Major: Robotics and Control Engineering (Honors)
- Title: Decentralized Assignment of Tasks in Networked Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
- Advisor: Prof. Kiriakos Kiriakidis - Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering Department
1/C Alex Traynor
- Major: Computer Science
- Title: Building Resilient Deep Neural Network Classifiers for Contested Domains
- Advisor: CDR Edgar Jatho, USN - Computer Science Department
1/C Alexander Trinidad
- Major: Mechanical Engineering
- Title: Methods of Low Carbon Methanol Fuel Application to Military Diesel Engines
- Advisor: Prof. Jim Cowart - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department
1/C Christian Yoon
- Major: Robotics and Control Engineering
- Title: Controlled Drifting of High Speed Autonomous Ground Vehicles
- Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Jeremy Dawkins - Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering Department
School of Math and Science
1/C Sanjana Basu Mallick
- Major: Chemistry
- Title: Development of Metal-Organic Framework-Infused (MOF), Imidazole-Bolstered Hydrogels
- Advisor: Prof. Craig Whitaker - Chemistry Department
1/C Demetrius Bush
- Major: Physics
- Title: Structure of Neutron-Rich, Rare-Earth Nuclei
- Advisors: Prof. Daryl Hartley - Physics Department, Prof. Daniel Finkenstadt - Physics Department
1/C Thomas Jennings
- Major: Mathematics (Honors)
- Title: Influence of Noise on Dynamical Systems
- Advisors: Assoc. Prof. Scott Hottovy - Mathematics Department, Assoc. Prof. Franklin Kenter - Mathematics Department
1/C Katherine Ryan
- Major: Physics
- Title: Creating Skyrmion-Antiskyrmion Lattices
- Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Michelle Jamer - Physics Department
