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February 2, 2025 Seville, Spain & Virtual By an invitation from the INCOSE Natural Systems Working Group (NSWG), Dr. Layton presented on BiSSL work at the 2025 International Workshop. The talk titled “Biological Ecosystems as Quantitative System Design Inspiration for Resilient and Sustainable Human Networks” covered highlights from the BiSSL approach to using inspiration from…
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Zoom – January 15, 2025 What can engineers and designers learn about sustainability from nature? Natural ecosystems are an untapped source of design inspiration for improving the sustainability of human networks. This month’s Engineering 4 Change (E4C) Seminar Series features Dr. Astrid Layton Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University and Donna Walker Faculty Fellow…
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Singapore – January 6-10, 2025 The National Research Foundation of Singapore has been conducting the interdisciplinary Global Young Scientist Summit in Singapore (Global Young Scientists Summit (nrf.gov.sg)) since 2013. The goal of the summit is an open exchange between young scientists (in 2025 about 350 young scientists from across the globe) and some of the…
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Atlanta, GA – January 5, 2025 We started the year off with our lab’s work being presented at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB, https://sicb.org/) 2025 conference, thanks to an invitation from Drs. Cassandra Donatelli and Karly Cohen to participate in their special session “From evolution to innovation: bridging biology and engineering through…
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October 10, 2024 BiSSL Ph.D. student Hadear Hassan has been awarded the 2024 James J. Cain ’51 Award by the department, an award that recognizes the demonstrated academic and innovative excellence of the recipients and is awarded to only 2 graduate students each year. She received the award at the 2024 Mechanical Engineering Student Award…
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Two BiSSL students, Ph.D. student Hadear Hassan and MS alumna Amira Bushagour, have coauthored a paper in ASME’s Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering. The paper, originally presented at the 2024 MSEC conference, focuses on useful overlaps between reconfigurable manufacturing and circular economy efforts by assessing the adaptability and connection to circular economy principles in…
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Two new papers have been recently published from the BiSSL group first-authored and co-authored by its students resulting from a collaborative grant with Sandia National Lab and Dr. Kate Davis’ group in Electrical Engineering. Highlights include: 1. A graph-embedding technique, Node2Vec, to capture neighborhood relationships with second-order biased random walks for risk assessment in cyber-physical…
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Dr. Astrid Layton will be visiting the University of Wisconsin-Madison to give a seminar on the research going on in the BiSSL group for their graduate seminar series. Her talk, titled “Tackling Engineering’s Sustainability and Resilience Problems Using Biological Systems,” will cover some of the bio-inspired techniques that BiSSL has found to be helpful when…
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This year’s ASME IDETC-CIE conference saw one BiSSL Ph.D. student, Emily Payne, presenting her first-authored paper and Dr. Layton serving as an invited panelist for 2 panels. Emily’s paper, “Integrating Machine Learning into the Design of Green Building Systems,” was presented in the SEIKM: Systems Engineering and Complex Systems. Abstract: Sustainable infrastructure design is a…
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Current and former BiSSL members Hadear Hassan, Dr. Abheek Chatterjee, and Dr. Astrid Layton co-authored a special article in the INCOSE Natural Systems Working Group (NSWG)’s magazine the Zygote Quarterly. The article “Nature as a Blueprint for Resilient and Sustainable Engineering Systems” is published in volume 1 of the 35th edition of the magazine.
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