He presented research done by himself and three other students during their BME senior design project, entitled "Portable, Low-Cost HIV/AIDS Progression Monitoring Device." J. Paul Robinson, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and SVM Professor of Cytomics in Basic Medical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine was their project mentor. Carlsgaard's collaborators are Purdue BME students Xinran Lu, Aneesh Ramaswamy and Lindsay Wendel, and Brent Goodman, a medical student at Indiana University.