The Penn State Geostatistics and GeoModeling Applications Industry Membership Program (PSGGMA) will bring together top-notch scientists/faculty in the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering and the College of Earth and Material Sciences and the university who are engaged in critical research in Geostatistics and GeoModeling. Some of the initial research challenges that will be undertaken include: Fast assimilation of multi-physics, multi-scale data
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Welcome to the Ebrahimi Bio-Electronics (e-Bio-e) Lab at Penn State University. Our mission is to devise innovative platforms, especially using low-dimensional materials, for healthcare-related applications. We have a Bottom-Up approach: exploring the underlying science (material properties and biology/microbiology) and leveraging them to advance engineering solutions (device physics/engineering and spectroscopy techniques). Our research at e-Bio-e lab
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My research aims at the development of tools and methods that effectively combine large-scale optimization, data mining, statistics, simulation and computational techniques to build logistics and transportation systems that are operationally flexible and dynamically adaptable to improve cost, efficiency, robustness and environmental impact. I focus on settings in both developed and emerging economies, in which
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The MIT Energy-Efficient Circuits and Systems Group led by Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan is involved with the design and implementation of various integrated systems ranging from ultra low-power wireless sensors and multimedia devices to high performance processors. Research spans across multiple levels of abstraction ranging from innovative new process technologies and circuit styles to architectures, algorithms,
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Our work on the mechanical behavior of thin films and nanocomposites has tackled the important problem of simulating interface and interphase behavior at extended length and time scales. A newly established scale bridging technique called thermomechanically consistent coarse-graining (TCCG) developed for investigating polymer dynamics near surfaces with nanometer scale resolution has been instrumental in revealing
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Ramathasan Thevamaran, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 539 Engineering Research Building, 1500 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA. Phone: (608) 262-5724 Email: thevamaran@wisc.edu Website: thevamaran.engr.wisc.edu
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Dr. Arun Kumar graduated with a Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Punjab University, Chandigarh and CSIR-IHBT, Palampur, H.P. India in 2013. Thereafter, he joined Prof. AC Kushalappa’s group as postdoctoral fellow at Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Canada from 2013-2015. Later on, he moved to USA to join Prof. Shelley Jansky and Dr. Dennis Halterman’s
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Fluoride contamination of groundwater from geochemical sources is a serious environmental issue in India as 62 million people spread over 17 Indian states is at risk from drinking fluoride-contaminated water. The Indian Standard for drinking water prescribes 1.5 mg/L as the permissible limit for fluoride in drinking water. Ingestion of fluoride-contaminated water can cause dental and skeletal
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Research Structural dynamics and earthquake engineering, multiple hazards and extreme loading (blast, impact, fire), inelastic modeling of structural systems.
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I have broad scientific interests ranging from coupled oscillators to mathematical geoscience to the physics of social systems. I try to approach these wide-ranging problems by creating greatly simplified mathematical models where rigorous analysis is possible, hopefully capturing some essential properties of the system. The work in different fields is generally connected by similar mathematical
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