Student Defenses

Author: Michael Dawson Committee Members: Professor Jeffrey Herrmann- Assistant Professor Yancy Diaz-Mercado Mark Fuge Title: Metareasoning Approaches to Thermal Management During Image Processing Date: Friday, April 15th, 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: EGR-2164 (DeWALT Conference Room) Abstract: Resource-constrained electronic systems are present in many semi- and fully-autonomous systems and are tasked with computationally heavy tasks such as image processing. Without sufficient cooling, […]

Author:  Sergio Manuel Ignacio Cofre Martel  Date: Friday, April 8th, 2022 at 1:00PM Location: Glenn L. Martin Hall, Room EGR-2164 Committee Members: Professor Dr. Mohammad Modarres, Chair + Dr. Enrique Lopez Droguett, Co-ChairProfessor Mark FugeProfessor Katrina GrothProfessor Balakumar BalachandranProfessor Gregory Baecher, Dean’s Representative Title: A Physics-Informed Neural Network Framework for Big Machinery Data in Prognostics and Health Management for Complex Engineering

Author:  Walter Arias-Ramírez. Date: Friday, April 8th, 2022 at 11:00AM Location: Glenn L. Martin Hall, Room EGR-2164 Committee Members: Professor Dr. Johan Larsson, ChairProfessor Dr. Amir RiazProfessor James DuncanProfessor Kenneth KigerProfessor Dr. James D. Baeder,Representative Title: A multi-fidelity approach to sensitivity estimation in large eddy simulation. Abstract:  An approach to compute approximate sensitivities in a large eddy simulation (LES) is proposed and

Author: Amirhossein Yazdkhasti Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 at 12:00PM Location: Glenn L. Martin Hall, Room EGR-0159 Committee Members: Professor Miao Yu, Chair/AdvisorProfessor Amir BazProfessor Balakumar BalachandranProfessor Nikhil ChopraProfessor Timothy Horiuchi, Dean’s Representative Title: PASSIVE AND ACTIVE GRADED-INDEX ACOUSTIC METAMATERIALS: SPATIAL AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN MULTIPLEXING Abstract: Acoustic metamaterials, similar to their electromagnetic counterparts, are artificial subwavelength materials designed to manipulate sound waves.

Author: Jeffrey Twigg Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2022 at 3:30pm Location: Glenn L. Martin Hall, Room EGR-2164 Committee Members: Professor Nikhil Chopra, Chair/AdvisorProfessor Miao YuProfessor Yancy Diaz-MercadoProfessor Shapour AzarmProfessor Dinesh Manocha, Dean’s RepresentativeDr. Brian Sadler Title: On the Control of Robotic Parasitic Antenna Arrays Abstract:     Wireless networking is challenging in safety, security, and rescue contexts where network infrastructure may be damaged or compromised. Radio communication between ground robots at the lower end of the Very High Frequency (low-VHF) band

Author: Parth Rakesh Desai Date: Friday, April 1, 2022 at 9:30 AM Location: Glenn L. Martin Hall, Room EGR-0159 Committee Members: Professor Siddhartha Das, Chair Dr. Keir C. NeumanProfessor Peter ChungProfessor Paul PaukstelisProfessor Don DeVoeProfessor Jason Kahn, Dean’s Representative Title of Dissertation: EFFECT OF MISMATCHED BASE PAIRS ON DNA PLECTONEMES  Abstract: Base pair mismatches in

Defense Date: Friday April 1, 2022 at 1:00pm Location: Martin Hall 088-2162 Title: Dynamic Bayesian Network Updating Approaches for Enabling Causal Prognostics and Health Management of Complex Engineering Systems Committee Members: Associate Professor Katrina Groth, Chair Assistant Professor Michelle Bensi Professor Jeffrey Herrmann Professor Mohammed Modarres Professor Gregory Baecher, Dean’s Representative Abstract: Complex engineering systems

Author: Md. Turash Haque Pial Date: Thursday, March 31, 2022 at 3:30 pm Location: Martin Hall, Room EGR-2162 Committee Members: Professor Siddhartha Das, Chair Professor Peter W. Chung Professor Amir Riaz Professor Pratyush Tiwary Professor Yifei Mo, Dean’s Representative Title of Dissertation: ATOMISTIC EXPLORATION OF DENSELY-GRAFTED POLYELECTROLYTE BRUSHES: EFFECT OF APPLIED ELECTRIC FIELD AND MULTIVALENT

Author: David Johnson Date: Friday, March 18, 2022 at 3:30 pm Location: Martin Hall, Room EGR-0159 List of Committee Members:Assistant Professor Monifa Vaughn-Cooke, Advisor and ChairProfessor Mohammad ModarresProfessor Jeffrey HerrmannAssistant Professor Allison ReillyProfessor Gregory Baecher, Dean’s Representative Title of Paper: ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS OF ADVERSE EVENTS USING A HUMAN RELIABILITY ANALYSIS APPROACH Abstract: Large scale

Author: Paul Lara Thesis Title: EMBEDDED HIGH FREQUENCY SIGNAL EFFECTS ON FAILURE MECHANISMS AND MODELS Date/Time: February 18th, 2022 | 2-4pm Location: EGR 2154 Examining Committee: Professor Hugh Bruck, Chair/AdvisorProfessor Abhijit DasguptaProfessor Teng LiProfessor Patrick F. McCluskeyProfessor Ankem Sreeramamurthy, Dean’s Representative Abstract: Embedded high frequency signal effects can have a deleterious effect on the fatigue