Accomplishments: Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
Paul La Plante (Computer Science) was awarded a three-year, $707,955 grant from the National Science Foundation titled, "Collaborative Research: Exploring Reionization and the Cosmic Dawn through Cross-Correlations." The goal of this grant is to improve our understanding of the first stars and galaxies in the universe, and combine data from…
Junggab Son (Computer Science) was a senior author on a recently accepted paper titled, "Improving Fashion Attribute Classification Accuracy With Limited Labeled Data Using Transfer Learning," in the 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (IEEE ICMLA'22).
The National Science Foundation EPSCoR Program awarded Levent Atici (Undergraduate Research), Sarah Harris (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Eduardo Robleto (Life Sciences), and Kurt Regner (Life Sciences) a Research Infrastructure Improvement grant in the amount of $999,955 for the project titled "Enhancing the Transition of COVID-19…
Zachary Frank, a 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ alumnus, and Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) published "On the mechanism of performance improvement of electroactive polyvinyl chloride (PVC) gel actuators via conductive fillers" in Scientific Reports.
Alexandrea Washington (Mechanical Engineering), with Zakai Olsen, Ji Su, and Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering), published "A physics-based modeling of a hydraulically amplified electrostatic actuator," in the Journal of Physics Communications.
Marie-Odile Fortier (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction), along with collaborators and graduate students at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, published their study, "Integrated Stochastic Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-economic Analysis for Shrub Willow Production in the Northeastern United States" in the…
Junggab Son (Computer Science) published "Leveraging Smart Contracts for Secure and Asynchronous Group Key Exchange Without Trusted Third Party" in the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). TDSC is a top publication in the filed of cybersecurity, and he is the corresponding author.
Armin Esmaeilzadeh, Jorge Ramón Fonseca Cacho, Kazem Taghva, Mina Esmail Zadeh Nojoo Kambar, and Mahdi Hajiali (all Computer Science) have written "Building Wikipedia N-grams with Apache Spark," that was presented in SAI 2022: Intelligent Computing and published by Springer.
Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has published an article, "Prosperity Theology Goes Online: Will This Be a Fifth Great Awakening?" in the current issue of IEEE Computer.
Rithesh Shivuni, Sabrina Moore, and Shashi Nambisan (all Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) co-authored the presentation “An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Speed Feedback Signs in the City of Las Vegas." Shivuni and Nambisan presented it at the 2022 Institute of Transportation Engineers Mountain District’s annual meeting in…
Rithesh Shivuni (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction), the immediate past president of the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ student chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), accepted the ITE Mountain District’s 2022 Outstanding Student Chapter award this month at the district's annual meeting in Boise, Idaho. The district covers eight…
Shashi Nambisan (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction and the Transportation Research Center) received the Institute of Transportation Engineers Mountain District’s 2022 Outstanding Educator award, which was presented at the district’s annual meeting held in Boise, Idaho, earlier this month. He was nominated for this award by…