Student Fellows

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  Stanley Anderson II

  Curriculum Vitae
  Biosystems Engineering
  Project Description: Generating an agro-industrial model to simulate the life cycle effects of biodiesel generated in South Carolina with consideration of consumer and producer choice.

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  Jacob Arnold

  Curriculum Vitae
  Environmental Engineering
  Project Description:Evaluating the national energy network for critical points through simulating worst-case scenarios with geographic information system (GIS) technology.  

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  Caleb Arp

  Curriculum Vitae
  Chemical Engineering
  Project Description: High-fidelity finite element modeling will be coupled with numerical homogenization to analyze the material properties of three-dimensional composite structures, bridging the gap between material innovation and engineering design with a specific application in wind turbine blade optimization.

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  Howard Brand

  Curriculum Vitae
  Automotive Engineering
  Project Description: Dynamic SLAM using multiple robotic agents.

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  Amy Burton

  Curriculum Vitae
  Mathematical Sciences
  Project Description: Using Discrete Optimization and Stochastic Programming to study and improve transportation networks.

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  Evan Chodora

  Curriculum Vitae
  Mechanical Engineering
  Project Description: ...

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  Michelle Eichinger

  Curriculum Vitae
  Planning Design and Built Environment
  Project Description: Prioritizing vulnerable areas to improve food security during a disaster.

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  Andrew Hayes

  Curriculum Vitae
  Civil Engineering
  Project Description: Maximize the resilience of utility infrastructure systems using improved asset management, risk assessment, and modeling and analysis techniques.

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  Isaac Hayes

  Curriculum Vitae
  Environmental Engineering
  Project Description: Creating a data-driven approach to watershed characterization in ungauged basins using NEXRAD-derived precipitation data and a single streamflow gauge.

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  Shyla Kupis

  Curriculum Vitae
  Environmental Engineering
  Project Description: Developing a novel Bayesian inversion framework that will bridge the information gap between hydrologic point measurements and geophysical techniques to improve the prediction accuracy of hydrogeologic parameters with limited resolvability and the groundwater processes.

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  William Locke

  Curriculum Vitae
  Civil Engineering
  Project Description: Drive-by Health Monitoring: A new method for detecting damage within bridge structures using vehicle mounted accelerometers.

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  David Marasco

  
  Civil Engineering
  Project Description: I am engaged in the evaluation and modeling of evacuation behaviors prior to and during disaster events.

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  Stefani Mokalled

  Curriculum Vitae
  Mathematical Sciences
  Project Description: Estimate uncertainty parameters in coupled systems by embedding the coupled systems models within a statistical framework.

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  John Nicholson

  Curriculum Vitae
  Mathematical Sciences
  Project Description: Analyze and study discrete and continuous time spatial stochastic processes from both an application and theoretical perspective.

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  Zachariah Pittman

  Curriculum Vitae
  Chemical Engineering
  Project Description: ...

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  John Sherwood

  Curriculum Vitae
  Environmental Engineering
  Project Description: Agent-Based Modeling of biophysical economics - the interconnections between energy, economics, and the environment.

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  Justin Sybrandt

  Curriculum Vitae
  Computer Science
  Project Description: Literature-based discovery: I detect unknown implicit connections within published scientific text using machine learning methods.

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  Caitlin O'Loughlin

  Curriculum Vitae
  Economics
  Project Description: Urban economics with a focus on the resiliency of the housing sector.

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  Robert Underwood

  Curriculum Vitae
  Computer Science
  Project Description: Using Error-Bounded lossy compression to improve the performance and reliability of computer infrastructure

Past Fellows 

Andre Apostol

Curriculum Vitae
Mechanical Engineering
Project Description: Improving autonomous intelligent agent (AIA) ability and decision making through machine learning to enhance intersection performance and resilience for the transportation infrastructure.

Carl Ehrett

Curriculum Vitae
Mathematical Sciences
Project Description: Employ Bayesian methods for computer model calibration, and use model calibration as a framework for design.

Christopher Gropp

Curriculum Vitae
Computer Science
Project Description: Create ways to evaluate the effectiveness of machine learning methods such as topic models, and develop the necessary infrastructure for big data machine learning on supercomputing resources.

Chase Joyner

Curriculum Vitae
Mathematical Sciences
Project Description: Development of multi-scale ideotypes for lodging resistance in maize and sorghum by using finite element and statistical modeling techniques.

Jon Lonski

Curriculum Vitae
Industrial Engineering
Project Description: Resiliency plans for transportation systems in major cities after natural or man-made disasters.

Lee Redfearn

Curriculum Vitae
Mathematical Sciences
Project Description: My research focuses on using Uncertainty Quantification to mitigate model discrepancy.