Project Description: The Social and Existential Motives Lab has several ongoing projects that broadly focus on self/identity, meaning/purpose in life, religion/spirituality, culture, belonging, and human flourishing. Recent and ongoing projects include looking at how nostalgia helps inspire people to pursue meaningful goals, how students can adopt a resilient mindset to overcome situations that challenge their… continue reading
Project Description: Distributed systems involve agents that consume, compete for, or produce a common good or service. Evolutionary game theory can provide a natural framework to study how the selfish interests of the agents can be balanced with corresponding incentive mechanisms to ensure that stable strategies for cooperation emerge. Our research, which comes under the… continue reading
Project Description: The project aims to create a bilingual resource library for our local Latinx community by translating research on urban heat islands into Spanish in a way that the local community can easily understand. By actively involving the community and creating resources in both Spanish and English, this project will expand the local conversation… continue reading
Project Description: Over the past 20 years, economic and political challenges have led millions of Central Americans to emigrate to the US, making them one of the fastest-growing groups of immigrants arriving in the country. Among them, those of Guatemalan origin have experienced one of the largest increases (from 400,000 in 2000 to over 1.8… continue reading
Project Description: Piccoli’s lab developed research in modeling crowd movements (pedestrians) as well as vehicular traffic, using control theory, ordinary and partial differential equations. The new frontier is to pair these models with data possibly coming from drones. The research is performed in collaborations with various partners, including Rutgers-New Brunswick and UC Berkeley. The research… continue reading
Project Description: Our lab works in computational biology. We analyze genomes, ranging from viruses to humans to find out how mutations in genomes change their function. For example, how they lead to cancer. Based on your interests we can find tasks suitable for your specific skill set, from data visualization to writing code for data… continue reading
