Texas Tech University

2026 Scholars

Clark Scholar_Aarav Agrawal

Aarav Agrawal

Economics

“Lost in Translation? The Effects of the 2025 FMCSA English Language Proficiency Enforcement Policy on U.S. Trucking”

Clark Scholar _ Ellie Chong

Elizabeth Chong

Mechanical Engineering

“Supramolecular Albumin Assembly Amplifies Afterglow Resonance Energy Transfer in Polymeric Nanofluorophores for Optical Imaging”

Clark Scholar - Illaria Liedtke

Illaria Liedtke

Biology

"Macrophages as Biosensors: A Physiological Assay for Functional DNase1L3 Activity Detection"

Clark Scholars - Jonathan Ding

Jonathan Ding

Computer Science

“Mechanistic Analysis of Refusal in Multimodal Large Language Models Across Languages”

Clark Scholars - Kayley Xu

Kayley Xu

Electrical Engineering

“A Frequency-Multiplexed Parallel Analog Computing Architecture Demonstrated on Array Covariance Estimation”

Clark Scholars - Lishan Prado

Lishan Prado

Chemistry

"The Synthesis, Characterization, and Study of Tripodal Antimony Compounds for Pnictogen Bonding"

Clark Scholars - Luke Jiang

Luke Jiang

Biology

“Population Structure, Genetic Diversity, and Environmental Influences: Determinants of Mosquito Gut Microbiota Over Local and Global Scales”

Clark Scholar - Nishanth Suthan

Nishanth Suthan

Biology

"Comparative Metagenomic Analysis of Bacterial Endophyte Diversity across Banana (Musa spp.) Species and Cultivars"

Clark Scholars - Owen Hess

Owen Hess

Physics

“Voltage-Stimulated Electromechanical Coupling Enables Memcapacitive Behavior in Lipid Bilayers”

Clark Scholar - Rishitha Mantri

Rishitha Mantri

Cancer Biology

“Evaluating Transferrin Receptor Overexpression as a Parameter for Classifying Breast Cancer Cell Phenotypes”

Clark Scholar - Ryan Chou

Ryan Chou

Computer Science

“iHAIV: An Interactive Human-AI Visual Framework for Analyzing Multivariate Temporal Networks”

Clark Scholar - Ella Wang

Yuelu "Ella" Wang

Computer Science

"Latency vs. Accuracy: Evaluating NVIDIA CUDAQ's Pre-Decoder Models for Quantum Error Correction"

Clark Scholars Program