2025 Trident Scholars
MIDN 1/C TROY J. BOLAND (33rd Company)
Major: Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Assistant Professor Connor Smith – Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisor: Associate Professor Hatem ElBidweihy – Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisor: Professor Charles Nelson – Electrical and Computer Engineering
Title: Additive Manufacturing Methods for Fabrication of Split Ring Resonator-Based Frequency Selective Surfaces
MIDN 1/C CONRAD P. DAVIS (8th Company)
Major: Ocean Engineering (Honors)
Advisor: Associate Professor Liliana Velasquez Montoya – Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Advisor: Associate Professor Victoria Johnson – Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Advisor: Associate Professor Anna Wargula Zaslov – Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Title: Salt Marsh Hydrodynamics to Inform Beneficial Use of Dredged Material for Coastal Resilience
MIDN 1/C T. JEFFREY DAVIS II (27th Company)
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Professor John Burkhardt – Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Advisor: Professor Cody Brownell – Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Advisor: Professor Charles Nelson – Electrical and Compuer Engineering
Title: Measurement and Modeling of Optical Turbulence through the Near-Maritime Atmospheric Boundary Layer
MIDN 1/C ANDRZEJ J. KORLACKI (32nd Company)
Majors: Nuclear Engineering and Computer Engineering
Advisor: Professor Peter Joyce – Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Advisor: LCDR Joseph Latta, USN – Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Advisor: Assistant Professor Megan Mohadjer Beromi – Chemistry
Title: Additive Manufacturing of Polyvinyl Toluene Plastic Scintillators Using Commercial 3D Printers
MIDN 1/C MICHAEL C. MAGEE (32nd Company)
Major: Oceanography (Honors)
Advisor: Professor Gina Henderson – Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Advisor: Associate Professor Scott Hottovy – Mathematics
External Collaborator: Dr. Maria Flatau (ret.) – Naval Research Laboratory
Title: Interactions Between Madden Julian Oscillation Variability and Equatorial Waves
MIDN 1/C MATT T. MARINKOVICH (17th Company)
Major: Foreign Area Studies
Advisor: Associate Professor Catherine O'Neil – Languages and Cultures
Advisor: Associate Professor Joan Chevalier – Languages and Cultures
Title: Russophone or Russophobe? Language Attitudes Among Young Kazakh Residents in Almaty
MIDN 1/C RONALD W. MILLER (23rd Company)
Major: Computer Science
Advisor: Professor Frederick Crabbe – Computer Science
External Collaborator: Professor Rebecca Hwa – George Washington University
Title: Improving Machine Learning Deep Sequential Analysis through Recurrent Transformers (ReTrans)
MIDN 1/C SEAN D. O'BOYLE (35th Company)
Major: Applied Physics
Advisor: Associate Professor Ina O'Carroll – Chemistry
Advisor: Associate Professor Michelle Jamer – Physics
Title: Investigation of Host Protein Cleavage by Neuroinvasive Viruses
Ψ MIDN 1/C OWEN M. O'MALLEY (26th Company)
Major: Robotics and Control Engineering (Honors)
Advisor: Professor Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic – Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering
External Collaborator: Dr. Nathaniel Ferlic – Naval Air Warfare Center
Title: Machine Learning for Underwater Optical Turbulence and Vortex Beam Characterization using Multimodal Synchronous Measurements
MIDN 1/C JILLIAN R. ONCAY (18th Company)
Major: Chemistry
Advisor: Assistant Professor Atahualpa Pinto – Chemistry
Advisor: CDR Jonathan Slager, USN – Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Title: Evaluation of Biobased Polyesters in Additive Manufacturing
MIDN 1/C ZACHARY Z. PENG (7th Company)
Major: Chemistry
Advisor: Professor Amy H. R. MacArthur – Chemistry
Advisor: Professor Shirley Lin – Chemistry
External Collaborator: Professor Lori Watson – Earlham College
Title: Progress Toward the Development of Microwave-Assisted Concurrent Tandem Catalytic Synthetic Methodologies Involving Copper for the Formation of Biaryl Ethers
MIDN 1/C JACOB L. PRICE (20th Company)
Major: Cyber Operations
Advisor: Associate Professor Travis Mayberry – Cyber Science
Advisor: Assistant Professor Ellis Fenske – Cyber Science
Advisor: LT Sam Teplov, USN – Cyber Science
Title: Application of Quantum Secure Encryption Algorithms in Bluetooth Tracking Devices
MIDN 1/C TENLEA W. RADACK (21st Company)
Major: Mathematics (Honors)
Advisor: Professor Max Wakefield – Mathematics
Title: On Terao’s Conjecture: Balanced Multiplicities and Expected Codimension
MIDN 1/C SEBASTIAN G. SCHERRY (5th Company)
Major: History
Advisor: Assistant Professor Abigail Mullen – History
Advisor: CDR Ryan Mewett, USN – History
Title: Topic Modeling of Pacific Theater Submarine War Patrol Reports, 1941-1945
MIDN 1/C LUCAS G. SPIRO (24th Company)
Major: Astrophysics
Advisor: Assistant Professor Matthew Knight – Physics
Title: Analyzing CN Coma Morphology to Investigate Correlations Between Cometary Age and Dynamical Classification
MIDN 1/C BRODY A. TODD (7th Company)
Major: Robotics and Control Engineering (Honors)
Advisor: Associate Professor Michael D. M. Kutzer – Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering
Title: Support-Free, Zero-Degree Overhang Additive Manufacturing Using a Wandering Center of Motion
