Undergraduate student researcher, Karina Rowe,  won the prestigious BCOE's Alan Van Tran Student Award. Karina worked in the VSCLAB from Sept. 2018. She was supported by NSF REU fund for her research study at VSCLAB. She worked with Ph.D. student Chase Cook for the EM-based aging sensor design for hardware security and Ising computing for hard combinatorial problems in the past year.  Her research experiences in VSCLAB has a big inference in her education at UCR.