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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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March 4, 2024 By Maddi Busby (original posting of article) Dr. Astrid Layton, assistant professor in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering and Donna Walker Faculty Fellow, received an esteemed Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER Award stands as one of the NSF’s highest honors,…
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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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BiSSL group director Dr. Astrid Layton was selected to attend the 2023 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering (EU-US FOE) Symposium hosted by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and Nokia Bell Labs. The National Academy of Engineering holds an annual US Frontiers of Engineering symposium that brings together 60 highly accomplished early-career engineers from EU and…
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Dr. Layton gave an invited seminar presentation at University of Michigan titled “How Nature’s Systems Can Guide More Resilient and Sustainable Human Network Design” Sept. 26, 2023. The talk coincided with some excellent collaborative brainstorming with Dr. Sita Syal and other new contacts. Abstract: Inspiration from nature has produced some fascinating, novel, and life-changing solutions…
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