calendar-with-clock-icon-uc-santa-barbara Friday, February 20th, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm
location-icon-uc-santa-barbara Student Resource Building, Multipurpose Room

Presenters:

Elise Dauterive (Environmental & Technology Management; Math & Brain Sciences)
"Return to Sender: Designing Equitable Textile Recycling in California"

Shruthi Ravinda Bharadwaj (Environmental & Technology Management; Math & Brain Sciences)
"How Reliable Are Networks Learned from Extreme Data?"

Ashley Coventry (Environmental & Technology Management; Math & Brain Sciences)
"Love, Actually, is Predictable: Arranging Successful Blind Dates Using Computational Models of Partner Choice"

Ashley Diedenhofen (Environmental & Technology Management; Math & Brain Sciences)
"A Squid Waste Problem (and Our Solution)"

Dylan Martins (Environmental & Technology Management; Math & Brain Sciences)
"Studying Vision during Natural Animal Behavior"

Fabio Ricci (Environmental & Technology Management; Math & Brain Sciences)
"Why are Pizzas usually Round?"

Sofia Sarak (Environmental & Technology Management; Math & Brain Sciences)
"Ants, Plants, and Isotopes: Investigating the trophic levels of Guanica Dry Forest"

Lucian Scher (Environmental & Technology Management; Math & Brain Sciences)
"Hydropowers Low-Hanging Fruits"

Yuxi Tan (Environmental & Technology Management; Math & Brain Sciences)
"Uncertainty Quantification in Classical Density Functional Theory"

Celine Tsoi (Environmental & Technology Management; Math & Brain Sciences)
"Do I Stand with You Because We’re Alike—or Because It’s Right?"

Judges:

Our esteemed judges for this round are:

  • Kristen Desmond (Executive Administrator at American Riviera Bank)

  • Natalie Nash (Undergraduate Student in Economics & Sociology with English minor)

  • Karen Nylund-Gibson, Ph.D. (Professor in the Education Department)

  • Reetika Sindhi (Ph.D. Candidate in Economics)

  • Rickie Smith (Systems Operation & Analysis Director in the Graduate Division)