2022 Virtual Faculty Research Talks

CECS Faculty

Kareem Ahmed, Ph.D. (MAE) – “High-Speed Flows and Advanced Propulsion: From Hypersonics and Energy to Space Rockets and Exploding Stars” (Feb. 25, 2022)

George Atia, Ph.D. (ECE-CS) – “Scalable and Robust Approaches to Learning, Acquisition and Decision-Making” (April 8, 2022)

Parag Banerjee, Ph.D. (MSE) – “Coating Powders with Atomically-Thin Films for Advanced Materials: A Unique UCF Capability” (Aug. 12, 2022)

Issa Batarseh, Ph.D. (ECE) – “Integration and Testing of Battery Storage System for Exelon Utilities” (Feb. 11, 2022)

Aman Behal, Ph.D. (ECE) – “Assistive Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities” (March 18, 2022)

Vladimir Boginski, Ph.D. (IEMS) – “Networks of Causal Relationships in Financial Markets” (June 10, 2022)

Ladislau Boloni, Ph.D. (CS) – “Doing More with Less Data” (Aug. 12, 2022)

Necati Catbas, Ph.D. (CECE) – “Structural Health Monitoring of Infrastructure: Permanent-Continuous vs Mobile-Intermittent” (April 1, 2022)

Ni-Bin Chang, Ph.D. (CECE) – “Improving Synergistic Infrastructure Performance and Efficiency in Urban Food-Energy-Water Nexuses” (July 22, 2022)

Chen Chen, Ph.D. (CS-CRCV) – “Toward Efficient, Adaptive and Robust Deep Learning” (Oct. 14, 2022)

Jiannan (Nick) Chen, Ph.D. (CECE) – “Environmental-Economic Assessment of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management” (June 24, 2022)

Kenle Chen, Ph.D. (ECE) – “Next-Generation Front-End Systems Towards Energy- and Spectrum-Efficient Communications” (Sept. 16, 2022)

Jongouk Choi, Ph.D. (CS) – “Losing Nonvolatility in Nonvolatile Memory” (Oct. 14, 2022)

Tuhin Das, Ph.D. (MAE) – “Acausal Modeling and Simulation of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines” (April 15, 2022)

Kristopher O. Davis, Ph.D. (MSE) – “Interdisciplinary, Multi-Faceted Research to Accelerate the Adoption of Solar Energy Technologies” (Sept. 16, 2022)

Steven Duranceau, Ph.D. (CECE) – “Operations Research Partnerships with Municipal Utilities” (July 8, 2022)

Naveen Eluru, Ph.D. (CECE) – “Role of Modern Micro-Economic Approaches for Analyzing Technology Adoption and Usage Behavior Patterns” (June 3, 2022)

Rickard Ewetz, Ph.D. (ECE) – “Towards Efficient, Robust and Explainable Artificial Intelligence” (July 8, 2022)

James Fenton, Ph.D. (FSEC/MSE) – “Integrated Hydrogen Production and Consumption for Improved Utility Operations: A Path to Net Zero Emissions” (Jan. 28, 2022)

Paul Gazzillo, Ph.D. (CS) – “Making Highly-Configurable Software Reliable and Secure” (March 25, 2022)

Michael Georgiopoulos, Ph.D. (CECS, ECE) – “Flit-Path and Flit-GAP: NSF-Funded S-STEM Programs to Increase CS, CpE, IT Graduates” (June 3, 2022)

Ranajay Ghosh, Ph.D. (MAE) – “Meta-Materials for Mechanical and Structural Applications” (July 22, 2022)

Jan Gou, Ph.D. (MAE) – “Ultra-High Temperature Composite Thermal Protection Systems in Extreme Environments” (March 18, 2022)

Zhishan Guo, Ph.D. (ECE) – “Machine Learning Meets Scheduling Theory: Towards Certifiable and Intelligent Real-Time Cyber-Physical Systems” (April 22, 2022)

Haiyan Hu, Ph.D. (CS) – “Gene Regulatory Network Inference from Next-Generation Sequencing Data” (June 17, 2022)

Charlie Hughes, Ph.D. (CS) – “Virtual Learning Environments” (April 8, 2022)

Yeonwoong (Eric) Jung, Ph.D. (MSE-ECE) – “Near-Atom Thickness Electronic Materials for Mechanically Reconfigurable Device Technologies” (July 29, 2022)

Jay Kapat, Ph.D. (MAE) – “Zero-Emission Ammonia Jet Engines: New, 5-Year, $10M NASA ULI Project” (Feb. 18, 2022)

Alain Kassab, Ph.D. (MAE) – “Biomedical Engineering Education Programs at the UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science” (Oct. 7, 2022)

Brian Kim, Ph.D. (ECE) – “High-Density Neurochemical Probes for Brain Mapping” (Oct. 28, 2022)

Michael Kinzel, Ph.D. (MAE) – “Computational Modeling of Fluids at the Speed Extremums: From Hypersonic Flight to Porous Media” (April 1, 2022)

Kawai Kwok, Ph.D. (MAE) – “Piezoresistive Modeling of Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites” (June 10, 2022)

Gary Leavens, Ph.D. (CS) – “Broadening Participation in Computing at UCF” (Feb. 4, 2022)

Qifeng Li, Ph.D. (ECE) – “Towards Zero-Carbon Electric Energy” (July 15, 2022)

Fudong Liu, Ph.D. (CECE) – “Single-Atom Catalysis for Environmental Applications” (Aug. 5, 2022)

David Mohaisen, Ph.D. (CS) – “Securing Wearables Against Machine-Learning-Enabled Threats” (July 8, 2022)

Tom O’Neal, Ph.D. (IEMS) – “Engineering for One Planet Initiative: An Introduction” (March 25, 2022)

Luigi Perotti, Ph.D. (MAE) – “Using Computational Biomechanics to Develop Cardiac Health Biomarkers and Deployable Structures” (April 15, 2022)

Luigi Perotti, Ph.D. (MAE) – “Combining Computational Modeling and Cardiac MRI to Develop Biomarkers of Cardiac Health” (Oct. 28, 2022)

Yogesh Rawat, Ph.D. (CS-CRCV) – “Deep Learning for Computer Vision and Multimedia” (July 29, 2022)

Tania Roy, Ph.D. (MSE) – “Devices for Artificial Intelligence Using Two-Dimensional Materials” (April 29, 2022)

Anwar Sadmani, Ph.D. (CECE) – “Remediation of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Environmental Matrices” (March 25, 2022)

Wen Shen, Ph.D. (MAE) – “Biomimetic Sensors and Applications” (July 29, 2022)

Sam Song, Ph.D. (MAE) – “Robotic Interventions and Biomedical Systems for Healthcare” (April 22, 2022)

Qun Zhou “QZ” Sun, Ph.D. (ECE) – “NanoGrid Testbed: A Collaborative Project with OUC” (June 3, 2022)

Robert Steward Jr., Ph.D. (MAE) – “Extracellular Matrix Composition Alters Biomechanical Forces” (June 24, 2022)

Wei Sun, Ph.D. (ECE) – “Secure Renewables for a Resilient Power Grid” (April 29, 2022)

Subith Vasu, Ph.D. (MAE) – “Zero-Emission Ammonia Jet Engines: New, 5-Year, $10M NASA ULI Project” (Feb. 18, 2022)

Thomas Wahl, Ph.D. (CECE) – “The Wicked Problem of Coastal Risks Under Climate Change” (April 22, 2022)

Thomas Wahl, Ph.D. (CECE) – “The Effects of Spatiotemporal Storm Surge Clusters on Coastal Flood Risk” (Oct. 28, 2022)

Jun Wang, Ph.D. (ECE) – “High-Performance Computing for Secure Non-Volatile Memory and Edge Learning” (Oct. 21, 2022)

Xueqiang (Brandon) Wang, Ph.D. (CS) – “Improving Security/Privacy Transparency of Mobile and IoT Systems, and their Supply Chains” (Nov. 4, 2022)

Dazhong Wu, Ph.D. (MAE) – “Design and Additive Manufacturing of Lightweight Materials” (April 1, 2022)

Yunjun Xu, Ph.D. (MAE) – “Agricultural Robotics Research in the UCF ArcLab” (Sept. 16, 2022)

Yang Yang, Ph.D. (MSE) – “Advanced Materials Technology for Energy and Sustainability” (June 10, 2022)

Shibu Yooseph, Ph.D. (CS) – “Studying Microbial Associations Using Microbiome Sequence Data” (April 8, 2022)

Haofei Yu, Ph.D. (CECE) – “Using Cellphone Location Data to track Historical Individual Movements for Health Studies” (April 29, 2022)

Murat Yuksel, Ph.D. (ECE) – “Multi-Element Directional Wireless Modules for Mobile Networking” (June 17, 2022)

Qipeng Zheng, Ph.D. (IEMS) – “Applied Operations Research Lab” (June 17, 2022)

Faculty Guest Speakers

Mary Jean Amon, Ph.D. (UCF Modeling, Simulation & Training) – “Human State Estimation in Complex Dynamic Environments via Multimodal and Nonlinear Methods” (April 15, 2022)

Vasileios Anagnostopoulos, Ph.D. (COS-Chemistry) – “The Interdisciplinary Field of Radiochemistry: Environment, Materials and Nuclear Forensics” (Oct. 14, 2022)

Daniel Britt, Ph.D. (UCF Dept. of Physics, Planetary Sciences) – “Building Partnerships with the NewSpace Industry” (Feb. 18, 2022)

Carla E. Brodley, Ph.D. (Northeastern University) – “Charting a Course to Aligning Your Computing Demographics with Those of Your University” (Feb. 4, 2022)

Josh Colwell, Ph.D. (UCF Dept. of Physics) – “Understanding Planet Formation with Microgravity Experiments and Studying Saturn’s Rings” (March 18, 2022)

Melissa Dagley, Ph.D. (UCF’s Initiatives in STEM) – “UCF iSTEM: EXCEL/COMPASS – Institutionalization of NSF Student Success Programs” (July 22, 2022)

Adrienne Dove, Ph.D., and Kerri Donaldson Hanna, Ph.D., College of Sciences – “Lunar-VISE: The Upcoming NASA Surface Science Mission to the Moon’s Gruithuisen Domes” (July 15, 2022)

Stephen Eickenberry, Ph.D. (College of Optics and Photonics) – “PolyOculus: Astrophotonics in Action” (Sept. 23, 2022)

Denisia Popolan-Vaida, Ph.D. (COS-Chemistry) – “Tracking the Evolution of Highly Reactive Elusive Intermediates in Atmospheric and Combustion Systems” (Aug. 12, 2022)

Ghaith Rabadi, Ph.D. – UCF School of Modeling, Simulation and Training (Nov. 4, 2022)

Industry Guests

Eric Martin (Florida Solar Energy Center) – Optimizing HVAC Performance in New and Existing Homes” (Feb. 11, 2022)

Bryan Pivovar, Ph.D. (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) – “The Growing Importance of H2 in our Evolving Energy System” (Jan. 28, 2022)