NEWS

  • 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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  • BiSSL Ph.D. student Alexander Duffy will be presenting his research at the annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER) on March 25-27, 2024 in Tucson, AZ. His paper, titled “Satellite Network Architecture Performance: Setting the Stage for Bio-Inspired Network Design,” covers: Abstract: Satellite networks, here defined as groups of artificial satellites where the satellites are…

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  • The 5-year long award is for the grant titled “CAREER: Resilient Engineering Systems Design Via Early-Stage Bio-Inspiration.” NSF CAREER Awards, part of the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program, are the most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to…

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  • Two journal papers related to the use of bio-inspired system design approaches for cyber-physical systems from the BiSSL group have recently been accepted for publication! The 1st stems directly from a current ongoing grant with Sandia National Labs with BiSSL Ph.D. student Emily Payne as co-author and the 2nd is a culmination of multiple collaborations…

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