NEWS

  • 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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  • BiSSL Ph.D. student Hadear Hassan presented a collaborative paper in the Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) for Student-Centered Approaches in Design Education titled “Engineering the Next Generation of Innovators: Analysis of Students’ Innovation Habits.” The paper was coauthored by BiSSL alumn Luis Rodriguez and collaborator Dr. Cynthia Hipwell. In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, innovation…

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  • BiSSL Ph.D. student Hadear Hassan presented work at the annual ASME 2024 MSEC Manufacturing Science & Engineering Conference in Knoxville, TN. She presented two papers, both co-authored with BiSSL alum Amira Bushagour (who is now a Ph.D. student at Aarhus University in Denmark). One of the papers has already been selected for publication in the…

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  • A new paper in the Proceedings of the IEEE led by collaborator Hao Huang (postdoc at Princeton) has been published. In this paper, we present a systematic review of power system resilience enhancement techniques that aim to harden the infrastructure and proactively defend against threats. Furthermore, this article broadens the perspective on modern power systems,…

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  • April 12, 2024 Pepito Thelly won the 3rd overall best poster at A&M’s 2024 Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Diversity in Science Symposium! They saw over 100 attendees total and 50 poster presentations and had Dr. Herman as the keynote speaker. Pepito and his team designed and built…

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  • A new open access publication is out in the Wiley and INCOSE journal Systems Engineering from BiSSL in collaboration with Dr. Julie Linsey at Georgia Institute of Technology! The article, co-authored by Samuel Blair, Garrett Hairston, Claire Kaat, and Henry Banks and titled “Bio-inspired human network diagnostics: Ecological modularity and nestedness as quantitative indicators of…

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  • Dr. Layton was selected as 1 of the 5 recipients of 2024’s Open Educational Resources Awards based on her outstanding achievements and dedication in support of free textbooks and resources in her courses, with over 70 faculty nominated this year. The 2024 Open Educational Resources Awards Ceremony was held in the Texas A&M Hotel and…

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