Conference presentations by faculty during Fiscal Year 2012.

KEYNOTE SPEECHES

Besio, W. “Effects of Transcranial Focal Stimulation on Acute Seizures.” The XII Mexican Symposium on Medical Physics. Oxaca, Mexico, Mar. 2012.

Bothun, G.D., Bose, A. “Stimuli-responsive bilayer-embedded magnetoliposomes.” Particles 2011. Berlin, Germany, July 2011.

Faghri, M. “Paper based microfluidic devices for point-of-care diagnostics.” Technical University of Braunschweig. Sweden, May 2012.

Grilli, S. “Coastal ecosystems vulnerability to global change and extreme events.” International conference, Biarritz, France, Oct. 2011.

He, H. “Biologically-Inspired Neural Engineering Approaches for Machine Intelligence.” Neural Engineering Workshop, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Dec. 2011.

Shukla, A. Plenary Lecture, International Conference on Composite Structures, Portugal, 2011.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Baxter, C.D.P., Sharma, M.S., & Jander, M. “Relationship Between Shear Wave Velocity and Stresses at Failure for Weakly Cemented Sands during Drained Triaxial Compression.” Fifth International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, IS-Seoul 2011, Seoul, Korea, Sep. 2011.

Bose, A. “Nanoparticle Assembly at Oil-Water Interfaces, Challenges and Application to Oil Emulsification.” Indo-US Conference on Nanoparticle Assembly. New Delhi, 2011.

Bose, A. “pH Responsive Particles For Making Emulsions And Their Deployment For Partitioning Of Aromatic Hydrocarbons.” Particles 2011. Berlin, 2011.

Brecht, S., Sodhi, M., Hermann, C., & Bodganski, G. Modeling Optimal Tradeoffs for Lean and Sustainable Manufacturing. Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012.

Correia, A., & Lee, K. W. Investigation of Novel Methods to Harvest Solar Energy from Asphalt Pavements. Proceedings from The ISAP International Symposium, Fortaleza, Brazil, 2012.

Faghri, M. “Microfluidics with Applications to Point-of-Care Diagnostics.” Lab-on-a-Chip European Congress. Hamburg, Germany, June 2011.

Greene, J., Potty, G.R., & Miller, J.H. A Measurement System for Shear Speed Using Interface Wave Dispersion. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ocean Electronics (SYMPOL), Cochin, India, Pillai and Supriya (eds), Allied Publishers, 211-216, New Delhi, 2011.

Grilli, A., Spaulding, M., O’Rielly, C., & Potty, G.R. Offshore wind farm macro and micro siting protocol application to Rhode Island. Proceedings of the International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Lynett and Smith (eds), 1 (33). Santander, Spain, 2012.

Grilli, A.R. “A Protocol to include Marine Ecosystem Services in a Wind Cost Model.“ Coastal Ecosystem Workshop. Biarritz, France, October 2011.

Grilli, S. “Numerical simulation of the 2011 Tohoku tsunami: Comparison with field observations and sensitivity to model parameters.” International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineering 2012. Rodos, Greece, June 2012.

Grilli, S.T., Harris, J.C ., Tajalibakhsh, T., Kirby, J.T., Shi, F., Masterlark, T.L., & Kyriakopoulos, C. Numerical simulation of the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami: Comparison with Field Observations and Sensitivity to Model Parameters. Proceedings of 22nd Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineering, 6-13. Rhodes, Greece, 2012.

Harris, J.C., Grilli, S.T., Abadie, S., & Tajalibakhsh, T. Near- and Far-field Tsunami Hazard from the Potential Flank Collapse of the Cumbre Vieja Volcano. Proceedings of 22nd Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineering, 242-249. Rhodes, Greece, 2012.

Hong, C., Asako, Y., Yamada, T., Faghri, M., & Ueno, I. “Numerical Simulations of Gas Flow in Rib-patterned Microchannels.” Proceedings of the 3rd GASMEMS Workshop. Bertinoro, Italy, June 2011.

Hong, C., Yamada, T., Asako, Y., Faghri, M., & Ueno, I. “Experimental Investigations of Laminar, Transitional to Turbulent Gas Flow in Rib-Patterned Micro-channels.” Proceedings of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2011 9th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, June 2011.

Janssen, C.F., Grilli, S.T., & Krafczyk, M. Efficient Simulations of Long Wave Propagation and Run Up Using a LBM Approach on GPGPU Hardware. Proceedings of 22nd Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineering, 145-152. Rhodes, Greece, 2012.

Kumaresan, R., Peddinti, V.K., & Cariani, P. Synchrony capture filterbank (SCFB): An auditory periphery-inspired method for tracking sinusoids. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 153-156, Kyoto, Japan, 2010.

Lee, K. W., & Correia, A. Investigation of Novel methods to Harvest Solar Energy from Asphalt Pavements. Proceedings from The 7th International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology (ICPT). 1001-1008, Bangkok, Thailand, 2011.

Lee, K. W., & Singh, A. Implementation of a Pavement Management System on a Typical University Campus. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology (ICPT), 532-545, Bangkok, Thailand, 2011.

Lee, K.W. “A Rational Mix-Design for CIR Asphalt Mixtures.” The ISAP International Symposium on Heavy Duty Asphalt Pavements and Bridge Deck Pavements. Nanjing, China, May 2012.

Lee, K.W. “Bridge Pier Caps from Corrosion-Related Deterioration in New England.” The 19th Annual Conference of Composites or Nano Engineering. Shanghai, China, July 2011.

Lee, K.W. “Implementation of a Pavement Management System on a Typical University Campus.” The 7th International Conference on Pavement Technology (ICPT). Bangkok, Thailand, Aug. 2011.

Lee, K.W. “Investigation of Novel methods to Harvest Solar Energy from Asphalt Pavements.” The 7th International Conference on Pavement Technology (ICPT). Bangkok, Thailand, Aug. 2011.

Liu, Y., & Sun, Y. Detecting Cheating Behaviors in Cyber Competitions by Constructing Competition Social Network. Poster Track, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS’11), Brazil, 2011.

Lucia, A., Henlet, H., & Thomas, E. “Modeling Densities and Equilibria of Ice and Gas Hydrate Phases.” Canadian Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC, Canada, Oct. 2012.

Mueller M., & Lee, K.W. A Rational Mix-Design for CIR Asphalt Mixtures. Proceedings from the ISAP International Symposium on Heavy Duty Asphalt Pavements and Bridge Deck Pavements. Nanjing, China, 2012.

Nassif, H., Su, D., & Gindy, M. Bridge Live Load Model Based On Weigh-in-motion Data and Extreme Value Theory. Proceedings of the 2012 Congress Brasileiro do Concreto, Brazilian Concrete Institute, Macelo-Alagoas, Brazil, 2012.

Ni, Z., He, H., Zhao, D., & Prokhorov, D.V. Reinforcement Learning Control Based on Multi-Goal Representation Using Hierarchical Heuristic Dynamic Programming. Proceedings of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI-IJCNN’12), Brisbane, Australia, 2012.

Oyanedel-Craver, V. “Nanotechnology in the Environmental Engineering Curriculum.” Environmental Engineering Education Interamerican Conference, Valparaiso, Chile, 2011.

Oyanedel-Craver, V. Environmental Engineering Education Panel. XIX Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Chilean Conference, Concepcion, Chile, 2011.

Park, K. “The AC heating operation of doped-Si microcantilever heater-thermometer probes; and II. Design of a sub-nW suspended microchannel calorimetry.” Global Research Network Workshop 2012: Microcantilever Sensing and Imaging. Seoul, Korea, June 2012.

Potty, G.R. “Acoustic Radiation from Offshore Wind Farms” International Symposium on Ocean Electronics (SYMPOL). Cochin, India, Nov. 2011.

Potty, G.R. “Measurement and Modeling of Scholte Wave Dispersion in Coastal Waters.” The 3rd International Conference on Ocean Acoustics (OA2012). Beijing, May 2012.

Potty, G.R. “Shear wave speed inversions using Scholte wave dispersion.” Acoustical Society of America Meeting. Hong Kong, May 2012.

Potty, G.R., & Miller, J.H. Measurement and Modeling of Scholte Wave Dispersion in Coastal Waters. Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Ocean Acoustics (OA2012), J. Simmen, Z. Li, and J-X Zhou (eds)., AIP Conference Proceedings, Beijing, China, 2012.

Potty, G.R., Kim, H., & Miller, J.H. Acoustic Radiation from Offshore Wind Farms. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ocean Electronics (SYMPOL), Cochin, India, Pillai and Supriya (eds), Allied Publishers, 178-183, New Delhi, 2011.

Sanjana, M., Latha, G., & Potty, G.R. Vertical coherence of ambient noise in shallow water. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ocean Electronics (SYMPOL), Cochin, India, Pillai and Supriya (eds), Allied Publishers, 169-173, New Delhi, 2011.

Vaccaro, R.J. “Friction Compensation Without a Friction Model.” American Control Conference. Montreal, Canada, June 2012.

Vaccaro, R.J. Friction Compensation Without a Friction Model.” In Proceedings of American Control Conference, 4739-4744, Montreal, Canada, 2012.

Wang, C., Xing, L., Vokkarane, V.M., & Sun, Y. Reliability Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks using Different Network Topology Characteristics. International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE2012), Chengdu, China, 2012.

Xu, J., Yin, Y., Man, H., & He, H. Feature Selection Based on Sparse Imputation. Proceedings of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI-IJCNN’12), Brisbane, Australia, 2012.

Yamada, T., Faghri, M., Asako, Y., & Hong, C. “Simulations of Forced Convection Heat Transfer of Nanofluids in Parallel-plate Microchannels using Dissipative Particle Dynamics.” American Society of Mechanical Engineers Heat Transfer, Fluids Engineering & Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels Conferences. Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, July 2012.

Yamada, T., Kumar, A., Asako, Y., & Faghri, M. “Forced Convection Heat Transfer Simulation using Dissipative Particle Dynamics with Energy Conservation.” 3rd Micro and Nano Flows Conference. Thessaloniki, Greece, Aug. 2011.

Yan, J., Yang, Y., Wang, W., He, H. & Sun, Y. An Integrated Visualization Approach for Smart Grid Attacks. International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP 2012), Dalian, China, 2012.

Zhao, D., Zhu, Y., & He, H. Neural and Fuzzy Dynamic Programming for Under-actuated Systems. Proceedings of Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI-IJCNN’12), Brisbane, Australia, 2012.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Anagnostopoulos, C., & Berka, S. “The Impact of Study Abroad Experience on Graduate Engineering Students – Four Case Studies.” Engineering Globalization Workshop. Arlington, VA, May 2012.

Baxter, C.D.P. “Proposed Methodology for a Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment from Submarine Mass Failures.” Nuclear Regulatory Commission/US Geological Survey Workshop on Landslide Tsunami Probability, Woods Hole, MA, Aug. 2011.

Baxter, C.D.P. & Sharma, M.S.R. Shear Wave Velocity of Weakly Cemented Silty Sand During Drained and Undrained Triaxial Compression. GeoCongress 2012, ASCE, 12 pgs, Oakland, CA, 2012.

Berka, S. “Global Career Pathways and Assessment of Work Abroad Programs.” Creating Globally Minded STEM Professionals through Internships/Work Abroad Programs, Institute of International Education (IIE), Washington, DC, Apr. 2012.

Berka, S. “International Engineering Program.” Seminar of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) and workshop for language department chairs. Salt Lake City, June 2011.

Berka, S. “Maximizing Language Leaning Across the Disciplines, Expanding the Language Mission across the Disciplines panel.” Modern Language Association, Annual Convention. Seattle, Jan. 2012.

Berka, S. “The Integrated Curriculum of the International Engineering Program.” German Teachers Forum (Deutschlehrkräfte-Tag), Goethe Institute. Boston, Sept. 2011.

Berka, S. Invited speaker on occasion of receipt of the 2012 Andrew Heiskell award for innovation in campus internationalization: Best Practices in Internationalizing Study Abroad at the Institute for International Education Best Practices Conference, New York, March 9, 2012.

Besio, W., Luna-Munguía, H., & Rocha-Arreita, L. “Neurotransmitter modulation in rat hippocampus via extracranial focal electrical stimulation.” Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Proceedings of EMBS Conference 2011, Boston, MA, 2011.

Besio, W.G. “Cortical integrity after transcutaneous focal electrical stimulation via concentric ring electrodes.” Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference, Washington D.C., Nov. 2011.

Besio, W.G. “Noninvasive Automatic Seizure Control System with Transcranial Focal Stimulations via Tripolar Concentric Ring Electrodes in Rats.” American Epilepsy Society Conference, Baltimore, MD, Dec. 2011.

Besio, W.G., Hadidi, R., Makeyev, O., Luna-Munguía, H., & Rocha, L. “Electric Fields in Hippocampus Due to Focal Electrical Stimulation via Concentric Ring Electrodes.” Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Proceedings of EMBS Conference 2011, Boston, MA, 2011.

Besio, W.G., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Sun, Y.L., Medvedev, A.V. & Koka, K. “Algorithm for Automatic Detection of Pentylenetetrazole-Induced Seizures in Rats.” Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Proceedings of EMBS Conference 2011, Boston, MA, 2011.

Besio, W.G., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Sun, Y.L., Medvedev, A.V., & Koka, K. Algorithm for Automatic Detection of Pentylenetetrazole-Induced Seizures in Rats. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC11), Boston, MA, 2011.

Bose, A. “Self-Healing Concrete.” NEMSEA. Providence, 2011.

Bothun, G.D., Chen, Y., & Bose, A. “Temperature and electrolyte dependence of liposome aggregation caused by nanoparticle binding.” American Institute of Chemical Engineers annual meeting. Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 2011.

Bradshaw, A. “A Simple Soil-Structure Interaction Model for Indirect Damage Assessment of Segmented Concrete Pipelines During PGD.” American Society of Civil Engineers Pipelines Conference, Seattle, WA, July 2011.

Bradshaw, A. “A Strain-Based Model to Screen for Residual Pore Pressures in Sediment Caps.” American Society of Civil Engineers 2012 Geo-Congress, Oakland, CA, Mar. 2012.

Bradshaw, A. “Framework for Scaling 1g Model Pile Tests for Offshore Wind Structures.” American Society of Civil Engineers 2012 Geo-Congress, Oakland, CA, Mar. 2012.

Bradshaw, A. “Load Transfer Curves from a Large-Diameter Pipe Pile in Silty Soil.” American Society of Civil Engineers 2012 Geo-Congress, Oakland, CA, Mar. 2012.

Bradshaw, A.S., Green, R.A., Lynch, J.P., Michalowski, R.L., Kim, J., O’Connor, S., Pour-Ghaz, M., Naukuru, S.S., & Weiss, W.J. Simple Model for Indirect Health Monitoring of Segmented Concrete Pipelines. Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers Pipelines 2011 Conference, Seattle, WA, 766-776, 2011.

Cai, Q., He, H., & Man, H. Hybrid Learning Based on Multiple Self-Organizing Maps and Genetic Algorithm. Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’11), San Jose, CA, 2011.

Chelidze, D. “Dynamical systems approach to motion analysis and to tracking the associated physiologic processes.” Device-enabled measurement of health behaviors in real-time (SY17). Society 33rd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, New Orleans, Apr. 2012.

Cosmas, A.C., Rodgers, R.L., Manfredi, T.G., Lamont, L.S., Vetter, F.J., & Dunn M.E. “Chronic, sustained hypertension as an impending stage of heart failure.” Poster presentation at the Proceedings of the Second Pan-American Meeting of the Hellenic Bioscience Association. New York City, Oct. 2011.

Duarte, R., & Sendag, R. Real-time Video and Image Resizing using CUDA-Enabled GPUs. The 3rd Workshop on SoCs, Heterogeneous Architectures and Workloads (SHAW-3), in conjunction with the International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-18), New Orleans, LA, 2012.

Fang, X., & He, H. A Virtual Reality Learning Approach for Intelligent Systems Control and Optimization. International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS ‘12), Boston, MA, (Extended Abstract), 2012.

Fernandez, V.I., Dusek, J., Schulmeister, J., Maertens, A., Hou, S., Sekar, K.S., Dahl, J.M., Lang, J.H., & Triantafyllou, M.S. Pressure sensor arrays to optimize the high speed performance of ocean vehicles. The 11th International Conference on Fast Sea Transportation (FAST 2011), Honolulu, Hawaii, 2011.

Garcia, G., Maier-Speredelozzi, V., Wang, J.H., Collyer, C. “Pilot Study for Integrating Driving Simulation Into Rhode Island Teen Driver Education.” Proceedings of the Road Safety and Simulation Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 2011.

Green, R.A., Cubrinovski, M., Wotherspoon, L., Allen, J., Bradley, B., Bradshaw, A., Bray, J., DePascale, G., Orense, R., O’Rourke, T., Pender, M., Rix, G., Wells, D., Wood, C., Henderson, D., Hogan, L., Kailey, P., Robinson, K., Taylor, M., & Winkley, A. Geotechnical Effects of the Mw6.2 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand Earthquake. Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers 2012 GeoCongress, 1700-1709, Oakland, CA, 2012.

Greenfield, M. “Next Greenfield Molecular Models of Well-Characterized Asphalts.” Peterson Asphalt Conference. Laramie, WY, July 2011.

Greenfield, M. “Succesive Composition Models for Molecular Simulation of Asphalts.” American Chemical Society. San Diego, CA, Mar. 2012.

Grilli, S. “A Monte Carlo approach for estimating tsunami hazard from submarine mass failure along the U.S. East Coast.”; and co-presenter of two posters: Numerical simulations of the 2011 Tohoku tsunami generation, propagation and coastal impact: comparison to field observations, with sensitivity analysis to co-seismic source parameters, model type and resolution; and Coseismic deformation of the 2011 M9 Tohoku Earthquake inverted from geodetic data using FEMs: Implications for tsunami genesis and poroelastic stress-coupling. American Geophysical Union Fall meeting. San Francisco, CA. Dec. 2011.

Hartnett, R.D., Swaszek, P., & Vetter, F.J. “Surface deformation analysis of the mouse heart via computer aided speckle interferometry.” Proceedings of the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting. Hartford, CT, Oct. 2011.

Hartnett, R.D., Swaszek, P.F., & Vetter, F.J. “Surface deformation analysis of the mouse heart via computer aided speckle interferometry.” Poster Presentation at the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting. Hartford, CT, Oct. 2011.

He, H. “Adaptive Learning and Control with Hierarchical Adaptive Dynamic Programming.” The Center for Large-Scale Integrated Optimization and Networks (CLION 2011), FedEx Institute of Technology & University of Memphis. Memphis, TN, Oct. 2011.

He, H., Yan, J., Yang, Y., & Sun, Y. Evaluating Complex Network Vulnerability using Self-Organizing Map. International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS ‘12), Boston, MA, (Extended Abstract), 2012.

Johnson, G., Swaszek, P., & Hartnett, R. “Performance assessment of the recent NDGPS recap-initial simulation results.” Proceedings of the 2012 International Technical Meeting of the Institute of Navigation. Newport Beach, CA, Jan. 2012.

Johnson, G., Swaszek, P., & Hartnett, R. “Performance assessment of the recent NDGPS recap.” Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation Joint Navigation Conference (JNC 2012). Colorado Springs, CO, June 2012.

Jouaneh, M., & Palm, W. (2011). Control Systems Experiments at Home. In Proceedings of the ASEE/IEEE 2011 Frontiers in Education Conference, Rapid City, SD, 2011.

Kay, S. “The Geometry of Statistical Inference.” Statistical Modeling and Array Workshop. Stevens Institute of Technology. Hoboken, NJ, US. June 2012.

Kay, S. Robust Signal Detection by Using the EEF. Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

Kim, H., Potty, G.R., Dossot, G., Smith, K.B., & Miller, J.H. Long range propagation modeling of offshore wind turbine construction noise using Finite Element and Parabolic Equation models. Proceedings of the OCEANS, 2012-Yeosu, 1-5, 2012.

Kurniawan, Y., Venkataramanan, K.P., Scholz, C., & Bothun, G.D. “Role of lipid saturation in modulating the effects of n-butanol on membrane phase behavior.” American Institute of Chemical Engineers annual meeting. Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 2011.

Lee, B.J., & Park, K. “Direct Solar Thermal Absorption using Blended Plasmonic Nanofluids.” The American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Denver, CO, Nov. 2011.

Lee, K.W. “Investigation of Novel Methods To Harvest Solar Energy from Asphalt Pavements.” US-Korea Conference. Park City, UT, Aug. 2011.

Lee, K.W. “Preservation and Maintenance of College Campus Pavement Assets.” US-Korea Conference. Park City, UT, Aug. 2011.

Lee, K.W., & Singh, A. Preservation and Maintenance of College Campus Pavement Assets. Proceedings from US-Korea Conference. 242, Park City, UT, 2011.

Lee, K.W., Yang, S., & Correia, A. (2011). Investigation of Novel Methods to Harvest Solar Energy from Asphalt Pavements. Proceedings from US-Korea Conference. 254, Park City, UT, 2011.

Li, D.D., & Greenfield, M. “Chemical and Mechanical Relaxation in Multicomponent Model Bitumen.” Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 2011.

Li, X., & Lo, J.-C. “Pricing and Peak Aware Scheduling Algorithm for Cloud Computing.” Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, 1-7, Washington, DC, 2012.

Liu, X., Makeyev, O., & Besio, W.G. “A Comparison of Tripolar Concentric Ring Electrode and Spline Laplacians on a Four-layer Concentric Spherical Model.” Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Proceedings of EMBS Conference 2011, Boston, MA, 2011.

Liu, Y., Sun, Y., & Yu, T. Defending Multiple-user-multiple-target Attacks in Online Reputation Systems. Proceedings of the Third Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Social Computing, Boston, MA, 2011.

Liu, Y., Sun, Y., Yu, T. Defending Multiple-user-multiple-target Attacks in Online Reputation Systems. Proceeding of the Third Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Social Computing, Boston, MA, 2011.

Liu, Y., Zhang, F., Sun, Y.L., & Huang, H. Trust Sensor Interface for Improving Reliability of EMG-based User Intent Recognition. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC11), Boston, MA, 2011.

Lucia, A., Henley, H., & Thomas, E. “Modeling Densities and Equilibria of Ice and Gas Hydrate Phases.” American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 2012.

Lucia, A., James, S.C., & Voskov, D.V. “Reservoir Modeling of the Solvent Thermal Innovation Process for Enhanced Oil Recovery.” American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2012.

Lucia, A., Lewis, K., & Zyvoloski, G.A. “A New Approach to Modeling Densities and Equilibria of Ice and Gas Hydrate Phases.” American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2011.

Madala, K., Maier-Speredelozzi, V., Harris, R. “Measuring Readiness for Systems Improvement Initiatives at the Providence VA Medical Center.” Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Florida, December, 2011.

Maertens, A., Dahl, J.M., & Triantafyllou, M.S. Distributed pressure sensing to locate and identify obstacles. The 17th International Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST 2011) Conference, Portsmouth, NH, 2011.

Maier-Speredelozzi, V., Sodhi, M., Grinham, C. “Systems Engineering Educators Workshop.” Society of Women Engineers Annual Conference, Houstan, TX, November, 2012.

Maier-Speredelozzi, V., Wang, J.H., Colantonio, E., Collyer, C., Garcia, G. “Pilot Study for Integrating Simulation into Rhode Island Teen Driver Education.” Improving Roadway Safety Programs Through University-Agency Partnerships Conference, Washington, D.C., November, 2011.

Maier-Speredelozzi, V., Wang, J.H., Rosen, D., Berman, D., “Successful Collaboration for Acquisition and Use of a Driving Simulator in Research, Teaching and Community Education.” Improving Roadway Safety Programs Through University-Agency Partnerships Conference, Washington, D.C., November, 2011.

Makeyev, O., Liu, X., Koka, K., Kay, S.M., & Besio, W.G. “Transcutaneous Focal Stimulation via Concentric Ring Electrodes Reduced Power of Pentylenetetrazole-induced Seizure Activity in Rat Electroencephalogram.” Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Proceedings of EMBS Conference 2011, Boston, MA, 2011.

Nassersharif, B. Cellular Automata Simulation of Neutron Transport. Proceedings of Society for Computer Simulation Autumn Conference, San Diego, California, 2012.

Nassersharif, B., & Riley, L.A. Some Best Practices in Industry Sponsored Projects. Capstone Design Conference Proceedings 2012, Urbana, Illinois, 2012.

Ni, Z., He, H., & Prokhorov, D.V. Adaptive Learning with Goal Generator Network based on Heuristic Dynamic Programming. International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS ‘12), Boston, MA, (Extended Abstract), 2012.

Ni, Z., He, H., Prokhorov, D.V. & Fu, J. (2011). An Online Actor-Critic Learning Approach with Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm. Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’11), Boston, MA, 2011.

Oyanedel-Craver, V. “Challenges for the implementation of point-of-use water technologies in rural developing communities: A gender perspective.” Environmental and Water Resources Institute-American Society of Civil Engineers, Albuquerque, NM, 2012.

Oyanedel-Craver, V. “Water E2S2: Nanosilver in water treatment technologies.” Rhode Island Waterworks Association, Middletown, RI, 2012.

Oyanedel-Craver, V., & Zhang, H. “Mechanistic evaluation of the antimicrobial properties of silver nanoparticles.” Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems grantee conference, Baltimore, MD, June 2012.

Palombo, N., & Park, K. “Investigation of Dynamic Near-Field Radiation Between Quantum Dots and Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Effective Tailoring of Solar Spectrum.” The American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Denver, CO, Nov. 2011.

Park, K. “On the AC Heating Operation of Doped-Si Microcantilever Heater-Thermometer Probes for Thermophysical Property Measurement.” The 39th Annual Conference of North American Thermal Analysis Society. Des Moines, IA, Aug. 2011.

Potty, G.R. “Estimation of shear speed using interface wave dispersion.” Acoustical Society of America Meeting. San Diego, CA, Oct.-Nov. 2011.

Potty, G.R. “Fundamental Acoustics and Wind Turbine Noise Issues.” Rhode Island Renewable Energy Siting Partnership (RESP) Stakeholder Meeting #4. University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, Dec. 2011.

Potty, G.R. “SBCEXP 2015: URI assets and interests.” Seabed Characterization Experiment (SBCEXP) Workshop II, Office of Naval Research. Washington DC, Jan. 2012.

Potty, G.R. “Science for Siting: Engineering for Locating Wind Turbines.” Rogers Free Library. Bristol, RI, Feb. 2012.

Potty, G.R. “Wind Turbine Shadow Flicker & Electromagnetic Interference.” Rhode Island Renewable Energy Siting Partnership (RESP) Stakeholder Meeting #4. University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, Jan. 2012.

Purohit, K., Mirville, M., Yang, S.C., Chalivendra, V.B., & Shukla, A. Conductive Nano-brush Synthesized by Physical Grafting of Conducting Polymers on Carbon Nanotube. MRS Proceedings, 1304, Boston, MA, 2011.

Rivero-Hudec, M. “Written Reflections in a Mass and Energy Balance Course,” American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Annual Meeting Education Division. Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 2011.

Sanchez, S., Wenskowicz, B., Ruiz, G., & Oyanedel-Craver, V. “Evaluation of the Performance and Environmental Impacts of the Codigestion Process on Municipal Anaerobic Digesters.” Annual North East Residuals & Biosolids Conference & Exhibit. MA, 2011.

Schifman, L.A., Boving, T.B., Oyanedel-Craver, V., & Kasaraneni, V. “Fate and remediation of PAHs in receiving soils and stormwater throughout the State of Rhode Island.” Northeast Private Well Symposium, MA, 2011.

Sendag, R. “An FPGA-based Multi-Core Platform for Testing and Analysis of Architectural Techniques.” Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software. New Brunswick, NJ, Apr. 2012.

Sendag, R. “On the performance and energy-efficiency of CUDA-enabled GPUs.” Brown University. Providence, RI, Feb. 2012.

Sendag, R. “Reducing Memory Access Latency by Prefetching Techniques,” Brown University. Providence, RI, Nov. 2011.

Sendag, R. “z4800: An FPGA-based multi-core platform.” IBM Watson Research Center. New York, June 2012.

Shukla, A., & LeBlanc, J. “Response of Curved E-Glass / Vinyl-Ester Plates to Underwater Explosive Loading Conditions: Experimental and Computational Comparisons.” 82nd Shock and Vibration Symposium. Baltimore, MD, Nov. 2011.

Shukla, A., LeBlanc, J., & Kumar, P. “Response of Curved Aluminum Panels Subjected to Shock Loading Conditions: Experimental and Computational Comparisons.” 82nd Shock and Vibration Symposium. Baltimore, MD, Nov. 2011.

Simoneau, W., & Sendag, R. An FPGA-based Multi-Core Platform for Testing and Analysis of Architectural Techniques. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS-2011), New Brunswick, NJ, 2012.

Song, M., Maier-Speredelozzi, V., Wang, J.H., Cheung, S., “Assessing the Slow-Down Effects Caused by Active Dynamic Message Signs and Exploring Means to Ease the Slow-Down.” Proceedings of the Road Safety and Simulation Conference, Indianapolis, IN, US, 2011.

Sun, Y. Presented 9 papers at the 38th Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Mar. 2012.

Swaszek, P., Parker, G., & Hartnett, R. “An attempt at a collaborative capstone experience.” Systems Engineering Capstone Workshop. Arlington, VA, June 2012.

Tang, Y., He, H., & Wen, J. Power System Stabilization with High Wind Power Penetration Using Hierarchical ADP Control. International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS ‘12), Boston, MA, (Extended Abstract), 2012.

Taylor, O.-D. S, Baxter C.D.P., Bradshaw, A.S., & Morales, A.C. New Density Normalization Approach for Evaluation of the Cyclic Resistance of Silts. Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers 2012 GeoCongress, 809-818, Oakland, CA, 2012.

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Walsh, T., Lee, B.J., Lee, J., & Park, K. “Investigating Laser-Induced Heating of Plasmonic Nanofluids for a Fast, High Throughput Polymerase Chain Reaction.” The American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2012 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference. Atlanta, GA, Mar. 2012.

Wang, J., & He, H. A Cascading Neural Network Structure for Pattern Recognition. International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS ‘12), Boston, MA, (Extended Abstract), 2012.

Wang, W., Cai, Q., Sun, Y., & He, H. Risk-aware Attacks and Catastrophic Cascading Failures in U.S. Power Grid. Proceedings of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’11), Houston, TX, 2011.

Yamada, T., Asako, Y., Faghri, M., & Hong, C. “Simulation of Thermal; Conductivity of Nanofluids Using Dissipative Particle Dynamics.” American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2012 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference. Atlanta, GA, Mar. 2012.

Yamada, T., Gregory, O.J., & Faghri, M. “Fluid Flow Characteristics in Microchannels with Rib-Patterned Surface.” Proceedings of American Society of Mechanical Engineers/Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference. Honolulu, HI, Mar. 2011.

Yamada, T., Hamian, S., Park, K., Asako, Y., & Faghri, M. “Diffusive-Ballistic Heat Transport in Thin Films Using Energy Conserving Dissipative Particle Dynamics.” Proceedings of American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition. Houston, TX, Nov. 2012.

Yamada, T., Kumar, A., Asako, Y., & Faghri, M. “Forced Convection Heat Transfer Simulation using Dissipative Particle Dynamics with Energy Conservation.” American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition. Denver, CO, Nov. 2011.

Zhang, X., Huang, H., & Yang, Q. A special purpose embedded system for neural machine interface for artificial legs. Conference Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 5207-5210, Boston, MA, 2011.

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