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Wide range of cutting-edge research projects at Research Expo
San Diego, Calif., April 6, 2017 – Research Expo provides a unique venue for getting an insider’s look at a wide range of cutting-edge research projects being taken on by some of the top labs in the world. The one-day event features research posters by more than 200 engineering graduate students from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, industry-focused faculty talks, and a networking reception with faculty, students, industry partners and alumni.
A sampling of Research Expo 2017 posters is below. The event is April 20, 2017 at UC San Diego. Register today. Online registration closes on April 15.
CENTER FOR WEARABLE SENSORS
7. Printed, Stretchable Zinc-Silver Batteries for Wearable Electronics
Students: Rajan Kumar, Lin Yin
Professors: Joseph Wang, Ying S. Meng
Industry Application Areas: Electronics/Photonics | Energy/Clean technology | Materials
9. Tattoo-Based Wearable Iontophoretic-Biosensing Device For Noninvasive Alcohol Monitoring
Students: Jayoung Kim, Itthipon Jeerapan, Somayeh Imani
Professors: Joseph Wang | Patrick P. Mercier
Industry Application Areas: Life Sciences/Medical Devices & Instruments | Materials
CENTER FOR VISUAL COMPUTING
15. 3D Face Reconstruction and Face Assisted Video Stablization
Student: Jiyang Yu
Professor: Ravi Ramamoorthi
Industry Application Areas: Internet, Networking, Systems | Software, Analytics
CALIBAJA CENTER FOR RESILIENT MATERIALS & SYSTEMS
25. Dynamic Fracture Behavior Of Polymeric Materials
Students: Rodrigo Enrique Chavez Morales
Professor: Veronica Eliasson
Industry Application Areas: Aerospace, Defense, Security | Civil/Structural Engineering | Materials
CENTER FOR EXTREME EVENTS RESEARCH
40. New Meshfree Simulation Techniques for Modeling Penetration and Blast Loading
Students: Marco Pasetto, Frank Beckwith, Tsung-Hui Huang, Mathew Reynolds
Professor: Jiun-Shyan Chen
Industry Application Areas: Aerospace, Defense, Security | Civil/Structural Engineering
SUSTAINABLE POWER AND ENERGY CENTER
48. Liquefied Gas Electrolytes for Low Temperature Energy Storage
Students: Yangyuchen Yang, Joon Kyo Seo
Professor: Ying S. Meng
Industry Application Areas: Energy/Clean technology | Materials
BIOENGINEERING
54. Cardiovascular Response to Resuscitation with Anaerobically Stored Blood
Student: Alexander Thomas Williams
Professor: Pedro J. Cabrales Arevalo
Industry Application Areas: Life Sciences/Medical Devices & Instruments
65. Towards Plug-And-Play Brain-State Decoding With Large-Scale Data
Students: Chunshu Wei
Professors: Tzyy-Ping Jung, Gert Cauwenberghs
Industry Application Areas: Internet, Networking, Systems | Life Sciences/Medical Devices & Instruments | Software, Analytics
COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
81. Determining Burning Potentials for Wildfires
Student: Sumedha Khatter
Professors: Trey Ideker | Ilkay Altintas
84. Background Subtraction For Neuromorphic Image Sensors
Student: Alireza Khodamoradi
Professor: Ryan Kastner
Industry Application Areas: Electronics/Photonics | Energy/Clean technology | Life Sciences/Medical Devices & Instruments
ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
111. Deep Learning Methods for Analyzing Neural Data
Student: Fnu Pailla-Tejaswy
Professor: Vikash Gilja
Industry Application Areas: Life Sciences/Medical Devices & Instruments | Software, Analytics
116. Shaping and Steering of Surface Laser Beam Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum
Student: Babak Bahari
Professor: Boubacar Kante
Industry Application Area(s): Electronics/Photonics | Semiconductor
MECHANICAL & AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
128. Characterizing Non Linear Effects In Low Cost Motors
Student: Daniel Jiaji Yang
Professor: Thomas R. Bewley
Industry Application Areas: Control Systems
168. 3D Printed Soft Actuators for a Legged Robot Capable Of Navigating Unstructured Terrain
Student: Dylan T Drotman
Professor: Michael T. Tolley
Industry Application Areas: Control Systems | Electronics/Photonics | Materials
NANOENGINEERING
182. Structure And Mechanical Behavior Of Human Hair
Student: Yang Yu
Professor: Marc A. Meyers
Industry Application Area: Materials
Student: Yue Zhang
Professor: Liangfang Zhang
Industry Application Areas: Life Sciences/Medical Devices & Instruments | Materials
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
202. Vibration Damping of Composites with Carbon Nanontubes
Student: Andrew Ming Fann
Professor: John B. Kosmatka
Industry Application Areas: Aerospace, Defense, Security | Civil/Structural Engineering | Materials
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In addition to finding out what’s happening at the Jacobs School, attendees often use Research Expo as an informal recruiting event. It’s a great way to access hundreds of graduate students in engineering and computer science all in once afternoon.
Read a recruiting success story
Finally, UC San Diego professors from a wide range of industry-focused research centers will discuss advances in contextual robotics, human-machine interaction, secure IoT, and combined engineering and policy initiatives to fully decarbonize the global economy during 20-minute faculty talks.
See the schedule and register at jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/re
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