Research

Ten years of labs, from mosquito cell lines and protein crystals to a radio telescope in the Atacama and paper circuits in English classrooms. Pick a project below, or jump to the publication list.

Publication List

Citations: 165
h-index: 7
i10-index: 5

From Google Scholar, October 2026.

S. M. Novack, “Two Innovative Approaches to Connecting to Physics,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado Boulder, 2026.

S. Novack, N. D. Finkelstein, E. Do, “Fabrication of a physical circuitry activity booklet for English instruction,” Design+, vol. 3, no. 1, 2026, doi: 10.36922/dp025510051.

M. B. Bennett, J. Arrow, S. Novack, N. D. Finkelstein, “Investigating Student Participation in Quantum Workforce Initiatives,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.14698, July 2024.

T. Hopkins et al., “XR Jam: Design Considerations for Music Networking with AI in XR,” in 2024 IEEE International Conference AIxVR, Jan. 2024, doi: 10.1109/AIxVR59861.2024.00021.

D. Albin et al., “PhageBox: An Open Source Digital Microfluidic Extension With Applications for Phage Discovery,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Jan. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2023.3295418.

R. Datta et al., “Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS): 90 GHz Telescope Pointing, Beam Profile, Window Function, and Polarization Performance,” ApJS, July 2024, doi: 10.3847/1538-4365/ad50a0

S. Dahal et al., “Microwave Observations of Venus with CLASS,” Planet. Sci. J., Aug. 2023, doi: 10.3847/PSJ/acee76.

Y. Li et al., “CLASS Data Pipeline and Maps for 40 GHz Observations through 2022,” ApJ, Oct. 2023, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/acf293.

S. Dahal et al., “Four-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: On-sky Receiver Performance at 40, 90, 150, and 220 GHz Frequency Bands,” ApJ, Feb. 2022, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac397c.

Purnendu et al., “Electriflow: Soft Electrohydraulic Building Blocks for Prototyping Shape-changing Interfaces,” in Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, June 2021, doi: 10.1145/3461778.3462093.

S. Dahal et al., “Venus Observations at 40 and 90 GHz with CLASS,” Planet. Sci. J., Apr. 2021, doi: 10.3847/PSJ/abedad.

Purnendu et al., “Electriflow: Augmenting Books With Tangible Animation Using Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators,” in ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Labs, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1145/3450616.3464523.

K. Rozen-Gagnon et al., “Argonaute-CLIP delineates versatile, functional RNAi networks in Aedes aegypti, a major vector of human viruses,” Cell Host & Microbe, May 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2021.03.004.

K. Rozen-Gagnon, S. Yi, E. Jacobson, S. Novack, and C. M. Rice, “A selectable, plasmid-based system to generate CRISPR/Cas9 gene edited and knock-in mosquito cell lines,” Sci Rep, Jan. 2021, doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-80436-5.