Name

Joy Shen

Year in Program

1st Year

Advisor

Dr. Mohammad Modarres

Research Interests

PRA of nuclear power plants, nuclear energy, radiation physics

Thesis Topic

Multi-unit reactor interdependencies for external flooding

What drew you to engineering?

Name

Greg Lancaster

Year in Program

4th year

Advisor

Professor Jeffrey Herrmann

Research Interests

• Medical device reliability and risk analysis
• Modeling and simulation of system reliability and performance in medical devices and emergency healthcare

Dissertation Topic

Modeling and Simulation of Novel Medical Response Systems for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

What drew you to engineering?

Name

Somayeh Mohammadi

Year in Program

Second year

Advisor

Dr. Michelle (Shelby) Bensi

Research Interests

Probabilistic flood hazard assessment

Resilience, risk and vulnerability of systems

Analysis of extreme events caused by climate change

Application of machine learning methods to predict and find trends for disasters on a global scale

Dissertation Topic

Name

Austin Lewis

Year in Program

2nd Year

Advisor

Dr. Katrina Groth

Research Interests

Techniques for prognostics and system health management of large-scale complex engineering systems (e.g., power plants and factories); logic-based causal modeling.

What drew you to engineering?

Name

Jonathan DeJesus Segarra

Year in Program

5th

Advisors

Dr. Michelle Bensi and Dr. Mohammad Modarres

Research Interests

Risk assessment of nuclear applications

Dissertation Topic

Seismic risk assessment for multi-unit nuclear power plants

What drew you to engineering?

Name

Camila A. Correa Jullian

Year

First Year in ENRE MS program. I am a Graduate Assistant in the SyRRA lab.

Advisor

Dr. Katrina Groth

Research Interest

Prognostics and Health Managament (PHM), Renewable Energy Systems, Reliability Analysis in Solar and Hydrogen Systems, Machine Learning

Dissertation Topic

Development of a PHM framework for Liquid Hydrogen fueling on site storage technology

Name

Pattanun Chanpiwat

Year

Third year in the design and optimization research area in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Advisor

Dr. Steven A. Gabriel

Research Interest

Optimization Modeling, Equilibrium/Game Theory Models, Operations Research, Machine Learning, Statistical Learning

What drew you to engineering?

 

Name

Huisung Yun

Year in Program

5th year and graduating in the summer. Huisung was a TA in ENRE graduate courses and an RA in the Reliability and Mechanics Lab.

Advisor

Dr. Mohammad Modarres

Research Interests

Physics of Failure, Fatigue Failure, Wear Failure, Entropic Damage Measurements, Ballistic and Weapon System Reliability Assessment

Dissertation Topic

Name

Janell "JJ" Joyner

Year in Program

2nd year in the Hybrid-Systems Integration and Simulation Lab

Advisor

Dr. Monifa Vaughn-Cooke

Research Interests

Human factors, risk analysis, simulated use testing

Dissertation Topic

Development of method to integrate the inclusion of cognitive domains into simulated use testing to better understand how humans and systems interact.

Name

Roohollah Heidary

Year in Program

4th year. Roohollah is a Graduate Research Assistant in the SyRRA Lab.

Advisor

Dr. Katrina Groth

Research Interests

Dynamic Bayesian Networks, Particle Filtering, Prognostic and Helath Management, Machine Learning

Dissertation Topic

Developing a novel hybrid PHM (physics-based and data-driven-based) degradation model to estimate the maximum depth of pits when the operational conditions of a pipeline change over time.