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April 2026 We’re excited to hear that our (Dr. Julie Linsey, Samuel Blair, Claire Kaat, and Henry Banks) 2024 paper on applying ecological network analysis techniques to improve our understanding of human network functioning (makerspaces in this case) was one of the top 10 cited Wiley papers in the INCOSE Systems Engineering journal. The paper…
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March 24, 2026 Dr. Layton was awarded A&M’s College of Engineering Research Excellence Award! The Engineering Research Excellence Award recognizes excellence in research, scholarly activity, and/or creative work by outstanding faculty members at 2 distinct career stages: early-career awards (within 1 year following a first-level promotion) and regular awards. Nominees must have an active, funded…
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March 20, 2026 BiSSL Ph.D. students Hadear Hassan and Pepito Thelly represented the lab for our department’s MEEN Industry Day out at the A&M Rellis Campus. Companies attending included Airbus, Siemens, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Oxy, NOV, and Nova.
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March 4, 2026 For this week’s Engineering Systems Design (ESD) multi-group meeting we welcomed Dr. Leah Chong from UT Austin’s Mechanical Engineering department to present her work on AI-assisted design.
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February 10, 2026 Ph.D. student Hadear Hassan joined our group in Fall 2021 after graduating with a BS in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University. As of Tuesday this week she has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis! Her thesis is titled “Quantitative System Analysis of Efficiency and Resilience in Complex Systems: Manufacturing and Innovation Networks”…
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January 30, 2026 Ph.D. student Emily Payne joined the BiSSL group in Spring 2022 while she was still an undergraduate Architectural Engineering student. On January 30th she successfully defended her Mechanical Engineering PhD. Her Ph.D. thesis work is titled “Learning from Biological Ecosystems to Design and Analyze Resilience in Complex Multi-flow Systems” and has produced…
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Feb. 15, March 22, and April 19 Lick Creek Park, College Station, Texas The BiSSL group will be hosting a Walk Like an Engineer program with College Station, TX local Lick Creek Park and Gary Halter Nature Center. The events combine learning about the local nature and engineering design, introducing the concept of bio-inspired engineering…
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February 2-6, 2026 Paris, France The BiSSL group was at the 19th SIG Design Theory Workshop and the 10th SIG Tutorial on Design Theory at the Paris School of Mines. The workshop covered contributions in the areas of the Design Theory SIG:
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December 2025 A huge congratulations to BiSSL graduate student Namrata Thakkar, who graduated with her MS degree in mechanical engineering this fall! Namrata started in the BiSSL group Summer 2023, after completing her Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Pandit Deendayal Energy University. Her thesis was on measuring the resilience of water network designs using bio-inspired…
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November 14, 2026 Congratulations to BiSSL Ph.D. student Pepito Thelly, one of 7 Ph.D. finalists in the Texas A&M 2025 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) Final! He was selected out of over 85 participants. Pepito, a student in Dr. Astrid Layton’s Bio-inspired Systems Lab who’s bio-inspired design research has collaborated with Dr. Julie Linsey and her…
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BiSSL: Bio-inspired Systems Lab 