2027 Trident Scholars
MIDN 1/C WILLIAM H. ALLGIER (13th Company)
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Advisor: Associate Professor David Miklosovic – Aerospace Engineering
External Collaborators: Dr. Jesse Maxwell, Dr. Jonathan Sosa, Dr. Camilo Aguilera-Munoz, Dr. Sammy Park, Mr. Evan Hyde - Naval Research Laboratory
Title: Feasibility and Validation of Busemann Streamline-Traced Inlets for Hypersonic Vehicles
MIDN 1/C JOSHUA BYUN (27th Company)
Major: Computer Engineering
Advisor: CDR Jennie Hill, USN – Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisor: Associate Professor Owens Walker – Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisor: Assistant Professor Dane Brown – Cyber Science
Title: Towards Pre-Encryption Detection of Ransomware Using Hardware Performance Counters in Bare Metal and Virtualized Environments
MIDN 1/C JONATHAN B. FORD (3rd Company)
Major: Cyber Operations
Advisor: Associate Professor Avinash Srinivasan – Cyber Science
Advisor: LT Sam Temlov, USN – Cyber Science
External Collaborator: LT Jon King, USN – Cyber Warfare Development Group
Title: Advanced Persistence for Tactical Reconnaissance Through Virtual Machine Snapshot Exploitation
MIDN 1/C AARON W. GU (14th Company)
Major: Chemistry
Advisor: Assistant Professor Atahualpa Pinto – Chemistry
Title: The Total Synthesis of Fusaristatin C
MIDN 1/C JALIN C. JENKINS (17th Company)
Major: Physics
Advisor: Professor Christopher Morgan – Physics
Title: A First Measurement of its Kind: The Structure of a Quasar High-Energy Emission Region
MIDN 1/C LAURA FERN H. JONES (15th Company)
Major: Chemistry
Advisor: Associate Professor Leighanne Basta – Chemistry
Advisor: Associate Professor Elizabeth Yates – Chemistry
Title: Investigation into the Phsiological Roles of Class 3 L,D-Transpeptidases toward Combating Tuberculosis
MIDN 1/C AMORY R. KIRWIN (8th Company)
Major: English
Advisor: Associate Professor Michael Wagoner – English
Advisor: Professor Jason Shaffer – English
Advisor: CDR Eric Cummings, USN – English
Title: Order on Display: Parades as Performance at the U.S. Naval Academy
MIDN 1/C LOUIS R. LENTZ (2nd Company)
Major: Chemistry
Advisor: CAPT David Durkin, USN – Chemistry
Advisor: Professor Paul Trulove – Chemistry
Advisor: Assistant Professor Tyler Cosby – Chemistry
Title: Advanced Mesoporous Fiber Welded Chitosan-Cellulose Composites
MIDN 1/C ANISSA S. MORGAN (36th Company)
Major: Nuclear Engineering
Advisor: Professor John Burkhardt – Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Advisor: Associate Professor Steven McHale – Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Advisor: Professor Chris Petitt – Aerospace Engineering
Title: Rapid Radiation Detection Protection Factor Prediction Using Machine Learning Enabled Reduced Order Modeling
MIDN 1/C JEONGWON PARK (25th Company)
Major: Computer Science
Advisor: CDR Ed Jatho, USN – Computer Science
Title: Attacking Uncertainty-Based New Signal Detection
MIDN 1/C JACK A. RAY (3rd Company)
Major: Astrophysics
Advisor: Professor Jeffrey Larsen – Physics
External Collaborator: Dr. Kristina Nyland – US Naval Observatory
Title: Exploring the Dynamical Radio Sky: The Physics of radio Variability and Its Impact on Celectrial Reference Frame Stability
MIDN 1/C ABIGAIL A. SEARS (14th Company)
Major: Electrical Engineering
Advisor: CDR Jennie Hill, USN – Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisor: Professor Hatel ElBidweihy – Electrical and Computer Engineering
External Collaborator: Dr. William Zywiec - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Title: Real-Time Neutron-Gamma Discrimination: Fusing Statistical and Deep Learning on Time-Series Data
