In early March, five preliminary rounds of the competition were held and the following 10 Ph.D. students and one master’s student were selected to compete in the final round:

• Ashley Alva, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Ph.D.) Tracking Immune Cells with Ultrasound for Diagnosis of Breast Tumor
• Ryan Benkert, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Ph.D.) Learning what we Forget: Empowering Artificial Intelligence with Reliable Uncertainty Estimation
• Abigail Diering, Chemistry and Biochemistry (Ph.D.)
  Sugar Transport in Nitrogen Fixing Plant Bacteria Symbiosis for Biofuel Crops
• Zeou Dou, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Ph.D.)
  Selective Ion Separation for Sustainable Agriculture
• Miguel Gonzalez, Chemical Engineering (Ph.D.)
  Creating Next-Generation High-Capacity Batteries
• Jonathan Gosyne, Mechanical Engineering (Ph.D.)
  Going Off Road – Moving in Sand, Snow, Mud
• Timothy Min, Music Technology (Master's)
  Convert Heartbeats into Music
• Abigail Paulson, Biomedical Engineering (Ph.D.)
  Sensory Flicker as a Potential Therapeutic for Alzheimer’s Disease
• Fernanda Piorino, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Ph.D.)
  Bacterial Biosensors for Low-cost, At-home Diagnostic Tests
• Michelle Quizon, Mechanical Engineering (Ph.D.)
  Treating Type 1 Diabetes: Delivery of Cells in Gels
• Taylor Sloop, Materials Science and Engineering (Ph.D.)
  Porosity Allows for Tuning of Dynamic Tensile Failure

The campus community and beyond are invited to attend the April 8 event in-person in the Scheller COB Auditorium at 5:30 p.m. or online at https://gatech.zoom.us/j/96338356070. And all viewers — online and in-person — will have a chance to vote for their favorite presentation to win the People's Choice Award. 

For more information, visit grad.gatech.edu/3mt.