Programs

Archived Graduate Student Fellowships

2008-09 Graduate Fellows of the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Basuray, S. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. (Chang)
Project: "A Multi-Scale Analysis of Nanocolloid Dielectrophoresis"

Chetwani, N. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. (Chang)
Project: "Preferential Entrainment of Macro-ions and Generation of
Nanodrops at Interfacial Singularities in an AC Electric Field"

Ganti, R. Department of Electrical Engineering. (Haenggi)
Project: "TBA"

Kim, O. Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Dunn)
Project: "Interaction of Multi-Sized Charged Particles in a Fluid Medium"

Li, Y. Department of Electrical Engineering. (Stevenson)
Project: "Distance on Curves and Surfaces Introduced by Riemannian
Geometry"

Lu, Z. Department of Psychology. (Yuan)
Project: "Robust Procedures for Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
with Missing Data"

Volkan-Kacso, S. Department of Physics. (Janko)
Project: "Flourescence Dynamics of Nanoscale Materials"

2007-08 Graduate Fellows of the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Al-Khateeb, A. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Powers)
Project: "Fully Resolved Structure for Reactive Flow Proble"

Basuray, S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. (Chang)
Project: "Multi-Scale Mathematical Theory for Induced Dipoles for Nano-Colloids and Biomolecules"

Deng, B. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Goodwine)
Project: "Reduction and Optimal Control of Symmetric Distributed Systems"

Gejji, R. Mathematics. (Alber)
Project: "Asymptotic and Computational Analysis of Markov Population Models"

Hauenstein, J. Mathematics. (Sommese)
Project: "Numerical Solutions of Polynomial Systems"

Hou, D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. (Chang)
Project: "Electrokinetic Vortices: Spiral Traps, Einstein’s Tea Leaves, Dynamic Scaling and Blow-up Solutions"

Mayes, J. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Sen)
Project: "Modeling and Control of Complex Systems Using Fractional DEs"

Nightengale, J. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Goodwine)
Project: "Geometric Analysis of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems with Nonzero Velocity and Nonholonomic Constraints"

Penninger, C. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Renaud)
Project: "Investigation of Osteoclast Resorption Mechanisms in a Hybrid Cellular Automaton Model of Bone Remodeling"

Puducheri-Sundaravadhan, S. Electrical Engineering. (Fuja)
Project: "Coding Schemes for Wireless Relay Networks"

Yee, K.H. Physics. (Toroczkai)
Project: "Persistence of Fluctuations in Complex Networks"

Zhu, J. Mathematics. (Alber/Zhang)
Project: "Reaction-diffusion and Pattern Formation"

2006-07 Graduate Fellows of the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Name, department, and title of project (The name of the advisor is in parentheses.)

Ganti, Radha Krishna. Electrical Engineering/Mathematics. (Haenggi/Ledrappier)
Project: TBA

Kazakova, Tanya. Mathematics. (Alber)
Project: “Multi-scale Mathematical and Computational Model of Somite Formation”

Kotagiri, Shivaprasad. Electrical Engineering. (Laneman)
Project: “Information Theoretic Study of Multi-user Channels with State Information

Maheshwari, Siddharth. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. (Chang)
Project: Free Surface Problems in Electrohydrodynamics: Scaling Laws and Harmonics

Nightingale, Jason. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Goodwine)
Project: Modeling and Control of Simple Mechanical Systems on Stratified Phase Spaces

Puducheri Sundaravaradhan, Srinath. Electrical Engineering. (Fuja)
Project: Novel Coding Schemes for Multicast Applications in Communication Networks

Pusane, Ali. Electrical Engineering. (Costello)
Project: Finite Length Analysis of Iterative Decoding: Pseudo-Codewords in LDPC Convolutional Codes

Zhang, Wenlong. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Atassi)
Project: Acoustics and Hydrodynamics of Fluid-Structure Interaction in a Submerged Elastic Duct

Zhou, Ronghui. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. (Chang)
Project: Homogenization Theory for Complex Blood Rheology within Micro Channels

2005-06 Graduate Fellows of the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Name, department, and title of project. (The name of the advisor is in parentheses.)

Diersing, Ronald. Electrical Engineering. (Sain)
Project: Multi-Cumulant, Multi-Objective Control with Application to Buildings under Seismic and Wind Excitation

Fang, Hui. Electrical Engineering. (Antsaklis)
Project: Unified Approach to Control of Spatially Invariant System

Gopalan, RaviKiran. Electrical Engineering. (Collins)
Project: Large Wireless Networks with Fading: A Search for Capacity and Optimum Detection Schemes

Lin, Teng. Chemical Engineering. (Gezelter)
Project: Transport in Biological Membranes using Hamilton-Dirac Rigid-Body Molecular Dynamics

Maheshwari, Siddharth. Chemical Engineering. (Chang)
Project: Multi-Scale Phenomena in Electrohydrodynamics and Electrokinetics

Osta, Jyostna. Physics. (Hildreth)
Project: A Proposal for Making a Precision Measurement of the Mass of the W Boson using Data from the D0 Detector in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider Together with a Newer Analysis Technique

Sikora, Marcin. Electrical Engineering. (Costello)
Project: Dynamic Reduction of Trellises in the BCJR Algorithm for Efficient Turbo Decoders

Wang, Chao. Computer Science and Engineering. (Chen)
Project: Geometric Algorithms for Radiation Therapy Problems

Zhang, Wenyi. Electrical Engineering. (Laneman)
Project: Research on a Recursive Transmission Scheme for Time-Varying Fading Channels

2004-05 Graduate Fellows of the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Name, department, and title of project. (The name of the advisor is in parentheses.)

Agarwal, Harish. Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering. (Renaud)
Project: Homotopy-Managed Interior-Point Methodology for Reliability-Based Design

Bates, Daniel. Mathematics. (Sommese)
Project: Numerical Aspects of Numerical Algebraic Geometry and the Computation of Free Resolutions

Fang, Lei. Electrical Engineering. (Antsaklis)
Project: Decentralized Control with Information Constraints.

Interlando, J. Carmelo. Mathematics. (Rosenthal)
Project:Circuit Complexity of Linear Transformations Between Finite Fields of Characteristic Two.

Jin, Xiaowei. Electrical Engineering. (Fuja)
Project: Low Density Parity Check Codes for Block Fading Channels.

Macedos de Vasconcelos, Hilma. Physics. (LoSecco)
Project: Research in Practical Aspects of Linear Optical Quantum Computing.

Mitchell, Abigail. Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics. (Stanisic/Rosenthal)
Project: A Generalized Parametrization of Tn Motion and its Application to the Synthesis of Mechanisms.

Vinogradov, Igor. Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering. (Atassi)
Project: Scattering of Turbulence and Broadband Sound Generation.

Wang, Chao. Computer Science and Engineering. (Chen)
Project: Geometric Algorithms for Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy.

Xie, Min. Electrical Engineering. (Haenggi)
Project: Queueing Theory for Wireless Networks.

2003-04 Graduate Fellows of the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Name, department, and title of project. (The name of the advisor is in parentheses.)

Agarwal, Harish. Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering. (Renaud)
Project: Development of Novel Strategies and Formulations to Perform Optimization Under Uncertainty, Including Random and Interval Uncertainties, for Simulation Based Multidisciplinary System Design.

Ben, Yuxing. Chemical Engineering. (Chang)
Project: ElectroPoration and Micro-fluidic Separation of Bioparticles.

Benson, Donald. Physics. (Bibi)
Project: Determining the CKM Parameter Vcb from Semileptonic B Decays.

Byrne, Mark. Physics. (Kolda)
Project: Extra Dimensional Models and Constraints from Colliders, Cosmology and Astrophysics.

Han, Guangyue. Mathematics. (Rosenthal)
Project: Unitary Space-Time Modulation (USTM) Using Multiple Antennas.

Kelley, Christine. Mathematics. (Rosenthal)
Project: Algebraic Constructions of Low Density Parity Check Codes

Lin, Hai. Electrical Engineering. (Antsaklis)
Project: Robust Control of Uncertain Linear Hybrid Systems with Networked Control Applications.

Lorand, Cedric. Electrical Engineering. (Bauer)
Project: On Synchronization Errors in Network Feedback Systems.

Sridharan, Arvind. Electrical Engineering. (Costello)
Project: Low Density Parity Check Convolutional Codes

2002-03 Graduate Fellows of the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Name, department, and title of project. (The name of the advisor is in parentheses.)

Arya, Gaurav. Chemical Engineering. (Maginn/Chen)
Project: Knudsen Slip for Gases in Micro-Channels: Effect of Wall Morphology and Inertia

Han, Guangyue. Mathematics. (Rosenthal)
Project: Space-Time Coding in Rayleigh Flat Fading Channel

Kiskowski, Maria Audi. Mathematics. (Alber)
Project: Stochastic Dynamical Systems in Biology

Luan, Shuang. Computer Science and Engineering. (Chen)
Project: Geometric Algorithms for Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy

Padmanabhan, Dhanesh. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Batill)
Project: Developing Novel Strategies and Formulations to Perform Reliability Based Design Optimization, including Random and Interval Uncertainties, for Simulation Based Multi-Disciplinary System Design

Pham, Khanh. Electrical Engineering. (Sain)
Project: Linear Cost Cumulant Control: An Optimal State Feedback in Infinite Horizon Problem

Sozinova, Olga. Chemical Engineering. (Hill)
Project: Numerical Simulations of Microstructures and Topological Defects in Liquid Crystals Embedding Particles

Sridhara, Deepak. Electrical Engineering. (Fuja)
Project: Bandwidth Efficient Coded Modulation using Low Density Parity Check Codes

Wiraset, Damrongsak. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Paolucci)
Project: The Development of an Adaptive Wavelet Method to Solve Flow Problems in Complex Domains

2001-02 Graduate Fellows of the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Name, department, and title of project. (The name of the advisor is in parentheses.)

ElHadidi, Basman. Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering. (Atassi)
Project: Propagation and Scattering of Sound in Nonuniform Media

Kijewski-Correa, Tracy. Civil Engineering & Geological Sciences. (Kareem)
Project: Redefining Perspectives in Signal Processing for Civil Engineering

McMickell, Brett. Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering. (Goodwine)
Project: Control and Motion Planning of Distributed and Ensemble Symmetric Systems

Monico, Chris. Mathematics. (Rosenthal)
Project: Alternative Primitives for Public Key Cryptography

Padmanabhan, Dhanesh. Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering. (Batill)
Project: A Hybrid Approach for Design Optimization under Uncertainty

Paul, Larry. Electrical Engineering. (Bauer)
Project: Wide Area Network Imbedded Control System

Thamida, Sunil. Chemical Engineering. (Chang)
Project: Nanoscale Pore Formation Dynamics During Aluminum Anodization

Wirasaet, Damrongsak. Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering. (Paolucci)
Project: Research Proposal & Numerical Solution to 1- and 2-D PDE’s Using Wavelet Collocation Technique

Wu, Xiaodong. Computer Science & Engineering. (Chen)
Project: New Algorithms for Medical Image Segmentation