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Erdem Acar
Erdem Acar received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1999
and Master of Science in 2002 in Aerospace Engineering from Middle East
Technical University at Ankara, Turkey. He earned his Master's degree in
Mechanical Engineering in 2005 and a doctoral degree in Aerospace
Engineering in 2006 from University of Florida. His thesis title is
"Aircraft Structural Safety: Effects of Explicit and Implicit Safety
Measures and Uncertainty Reduction Mechanisms". His research topics
are Reliability-based aircraft structural design and Effectiveness and
tradeoffs of uncertainty reduction mechanisms. Dr. Acar
is currently an Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Turkey. His primary
areas of teaching include structural analysis and reliability assessment of
mechanical systems and his research efforts are focused on design
optimization of mechanical systems, with a strong emphasis on reliability-
and surrogate-based design optimization.
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Jungeun An
Jungeun An received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical
Engineering in 2003 from KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea. He earned a M.S -
Ph.D integrated degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 from KAIST,
Daejeon, South Korea. His research interests include Bayesian Updating,
Structural Health Monitoring.
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Alexandra
Coppe
Alex Coppe received her Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics
from University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France in 2005. She earned her
Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from University Paul Sabatier,
Toulouse, France in 2007. Her thesis title is "Integrating test,
health monitoring, and maintenance (THIM) as uncertainty reduction into
probabilistic production design". Her research topic is "Using
Bayesian updating with Structural Health Monitoring in order to update
material parameters". She currently works as an engineer for Ford Motors
in Dearborn, Michigan on an MDO team optimizing body structure for weight
under safety and NVH constraints.
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Tushar Goel
Tushar Goel received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering
from Institute of Engineering and Technology at Lucknow, UP, India in 1999.
He earned a Master of Technology degree in Mechanical Engieering from
Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India in 2001. He earned his
master & doctoral degree from University of Florida in 2006. His thesis
title is "Multiple Surrogates and Error Modeling in Optimization of
Liquid Rocket Propulsion Components". His research interests include
Surrogate modeling, bias error analysis in polynomial response surface approximations,
multi-objective optimization, CFD and cavitating flows.
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Christian
Gogu
Christian Gogu received his Ph.D. in 2009. He participated in a joint
Ph.D. program between the Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne in France and
the University of Florida. He obtained the "Ingénieur civil des
Mines" diploma and the Master "Mécanique et Ingénierie"
diploma in September 2006 (major: mechanical engineering; minor: applied
mathematics). His PhD topic is "Facilitating Bayesian Identification
of Elastic Constants through Dimensionality Reduction and Response Surface
Methodology". Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the
University of Toulouse in France.
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Laurent
Grosset
Laurent Grosset
graduated from the Institute of Applied Sciences of Rouen (France) in 2000.
He received a PhD in 2004 (joint PhD program between the Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne in France and the
University of Florida). His thesis title is "Optimization of composite
structures by estimation of distribution algorithms."
Phone: +33 4 78 02 60 69
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Amit A. Kale
Amit received his
Bachelor of Technology in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute
of Technology at Kharagpur, India. He earned a doctoral
degree from University of Florida in 2005. His thesis title is
"Interaction of conservative design practices, tests and inspections
in safety of structural components". His research topic is
"Reliability based design and optimization of aircraft structures and
design of inspection schedules".
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Jinuk Kim
Jinuk Kim is a Ph.D. student in Materials Science and Engineering depratment.
He received B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University and
M.S. in Mechanical enngineering and in Materials Science and Engineering
from University of Michigan in 2006. His current reserch is 'Homogenization
and uncertainty analysis for fiber reinforced composite'.
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Serdar
Koroglu
Serdar Koroglu graduated from Istanbul Technical University,
Department of Naval Architecture in 2004. He worked as a structural
designer in a ship design company. In 2005 he returned to ITU and obtained
his master of science degree for a thesis on "Artfical Neural Networks
applied to Ship Structural Design". He gained his PhD and was a
research scholar who worked on "Decomposition of Surrogate
Models".
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Sunil
Kumar
Sunil
received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from
the Indian Institute of Technology at New Delhi, India in 2003. He then
earned his doctorate at the University of Florida from the Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering Department. His thesis title is "Measuring and
Using Uncertainties in the Material Properties of Composites over a Wide
Temperature Range". His research interests include Reliability-based
aircraft structural design, Effectiveness and tradeoffs of uncertainty
reduction mechanisms.
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Saad M. Mukras
Saad Mukras received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aircraft
Engineering Technology from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at Daytona
Beach, FL in 2003. He later graduated with a Ph.D. from the Department of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Florida in
2009. Dr. Mukras is currently an Assistant Professor at Qassim University
(Buraydah, Saudi Arabia) in the Mechanical Engineering Department. His
research interests include numerical modeling of wear, modeling of
multibody systems experiencing wear, and more recently, modeling of polymer
processes.
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Matt
Pais
Matt
Pais received his Bachelor of Science degree in
Mechanical Engineering from University of Missouri at Columbia in 2007.
During his time at the University of Florida, his research focused on
"Solid fluid interaction using the extended finite
element method and the level set method". He is currently
employed by Dassult Systèmes
Simulia Corp. as a Technical Specialist working
at an aerospace company providing on-site technical support for Abaqus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Sriram Pattabhiraman
Sriram
Pattabhiraman is a graduate student currently enrolled in the Doctoral
program at the University of Florida. He received his Bachelor of Technology
(B.Tech) degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National
Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, (NIT-T) India in 2007. His
research topic is “Modeling of uncertainty reduction measures using test,
inspection, and health monitoring.”
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Victor
Picheny
Victor
Picheny received a Master of Science in
Engineering and a Research masters in Applied Mathematics from the Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne (France) in September
2005. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2009 as part of a joint Ph.D. program
between the Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne in
France and the University of Florida. His thesis title is "Improving
and compensating for uncertainty in surrogate modeling". His research
interests include propagation of uncertainty, design of experiments,
conservative estimations, reliability based design.
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Xueyong Qu
Sr. Software Development Engineer
Altair Engineering, Inc.
2445 McCabe Way Suite 100 Irvine, CA 92614 USA
Phone: 949.232.2277(M)
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Palani Ramu
Palani Ramu received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical
Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University at India in 1999. He earned his
doctoral degree from University of Florida in 2007. His thesis title is
“Multiple Tail Models Including Inverse Measures For Structural Design
Under Uncertainties". His research topics include
Reliability/Risk-based design, tail modeling and surrogate based
optimization.
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Jaco Schutte
Materials Sciences Corporation,
181 Gibraltar road, Horsham, PA 19044, USA
Phone:+215
542-8400 ext. 121
Fax:+215
542-8401
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Anurag Sharma
Anurag Sharma received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical
Engineering from BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India in 2005. He
then earned his Ph.D. in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
department at the University of Florida. His thesis topic is
“Multi-Fidelity Design Analysis of Corrugated- Core Sandwich Panels for
Integrated Thermal Protection System for Spacecraft reentry”. His current
research interests include FE based homogenization method and micro
mechanical analysis, FE techniques for transient heat transfer analyses,
mechanical/thermal buckling and collapse analyses, and general non-linear
analyses, structural optimization and response surface approximation
techniques.
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Benjamin
P. Smarslok
Ben received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The Pennsylvania
State University in 2004. He earned his Ph.D. student in the MAE department
at UF in Summer 2009. His dissertation title is "Measuring,
Using, and Reducing Experimental and Computational Uncertainty in
Reliability Analysis of Composite Laminates". His main research areas
include statistical analysis of uncertainty in composite properties and
efficient Monte Carlo methods for calculating failure probability.
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Kyle
Stoker
Kyle Stoker received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical
Engineering from University of Florida in 2007. He graduated with his
master’s degree in Summer 2009. His research interests are in Computational
wear modeling of gears, design tool for evolving kinematics. Kyle currently
works at Florida Turbine Technologies in Jupiter, Florida. He is
responsible for design and finite element analysis of rocket engines, jet
engines and industrial gas turbines.
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Felipe
Viana
Dr. Viana
received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal
University of Uberlandia. He earned his Master of Science in Mechanical
Engineering from the same university with the thesis "Vibration
Damping by Using Piezoelectric Patches and Resonant Shunt Circuits."
Three years later, he earned from the same university his Doctor of
Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering degree with the thesis "Surrogate
Modeling Techniques and Heuristic Optimization Methods applied to Design
and Identification Problems." He earned his second doctorate in
Aerospace Engineering from the University of Florida with the research
topic "Multiple Surrogates for Prediction and Optimization." His
research interests include design and analysis of experiments, surrogate
modeling (a.k.a metamodeling),
probabilistic design and uncertainty modeling, Bayesian calibration of
computer experiments and multidisciplinary design optimization.
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Roberto
Vitali
Dr. Roberto Vitali was born in Italy, where he attained a civil works
engineering degree specializing in Transportation Systems. He continued his
studies in the U.S. with a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics at the University
of Florida, after which he moved to Washington D.C. to manage the system
integration for the International Space Station at Futron Corporation under
a NASA headquarters contract. During these years, he also obtained an MBA
from the University of Maryland. He joined as an executive of Ansaldo STS
in 2004, and developed the CBTC signaling system and the catenaryless
TramWave system. Currently, he is the head of Sales and Business
Development for Western Europe, North Africa, and Central and South America
for the transportation systems unit within Ansaldo STS.
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