By Neil Nachbar
The Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Department held its annual Graduate Research Showcase and Awards Day, highlighting the research projects of 25 graduate students.
After welcoming remarks from College of Engineering Dean Anthony Marchese and Haibo He, professor and department chair, Ronald Duarte from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory gave a presentation on “On-demand Forensic Video Analytics for Large-Scale Surveillance Systems.”
Each student spoke briefly about the research they conducted and then presented their posters, which further described their projects.
The event concluded with an award presentation, with the following people receiving recognition.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant: Mehmet Seckin
Outstanding Graduate Student Researcher: Gözde Çay, Hepeng Li, Zhenyu Xu
Outstanding Poster, Third Place: Maximilian Heer, Jennifer Rogers
Outstanding Poster, Second Place: McKensie Sherlock
Outstanding Poster, First Place: Hepeng Li
Poster Presentations
| Student | Poster Title |
|---|---|
| Alexis Charpentier | Cyber Attacks on the Secondary Control Layer of AC Microgrids |
| Nicholas Clavette | General Policy Optimization for Discrete Action Environments |
| William Danilczyk | Blockchain Checksum for Establishing Secure Communications for Digital Twin Technology |
| Hepeng Li | Multi-Agent Trust Region Policy Optimization |
| James Morris | Evaluation and Prediction Tool for Baseball Players’ Productivity |
| McKensie Sherlock | Developing a Compact FiberID Reader Using Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry |
| Zhenhua Wang | Resilient Predictor-Based Load Frequency Control for Multi-Region Power Systems Under DoS Attacks |
| Zhenyu Xu | A Power electronics circuit simulation accelerator based on FPGA |
| Xueshen Zhang | Low Cost and Small Component Count Hybrid Converter with Energy Management Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Applications |
| Mark Bruckner | Automotive radar data stream reduction by in-sensor partial neural network preprocessing |
| Gabriel De Pace | Next Generation Cyber Physical System Honeynet for Smart Grid Security |
| Travis Frink | Enhanced Deep Template-based Object Instance Detection |
| Maximilian Heer | Genetic Algorithms on FPGA for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem |
| Erkan Karakus | Object Detection & Bounding Box Regression |
| Jennifer Rogers | Learning from the Future: Prediction-Based Data Augmentation to Enhance Power Grid Anomaly Detection |
| Gozde Cay | Design of a Wearable Chest Belt Integrated with IoT Functions to Monitor Respiration Ratem |
| Shubham Chomal | Kin Glove: Parkinson’s Disease Progression Monitoring Gloves |
| John McLinden | An Exploration of Hemodynamic Responses and Electrovascular Dynamics During Auditory Processing |
| Vignesh Ravichandran | Wear-IoTex : Wearable e-textile glove kit for in-home Parkinson’s motor assessment |
| Shehjar Sadhu | CarePortal: A Clinician Centered Digital Health Dashboard For Wearable Data |
| Daniel Sartori | Shift-Invariant sparse arrays and their optimal signal and noise subspaces |
| Sabah Ummie | Developing a Web-based Education Portal for Reducing Internalized Stigma in People with Epilepsy |
| Jay Vincelli | EEG Phantom for Tripolar Concentric Ring Electrode Development |
| Andrew Philips |
Cyanobacteria Bloom Identification & Tracking With Multi-Robot Systems |
| Kevin Rivera | Passive wireless temperature and strain sensors for aerospace applications |
Photos from the Graduate Research Showcase and Awards Day are below.
