March 25-31, 2019

Dr. Lorena Barba (MAE) has published the following article: L. A. Barba. “Praxis of Reproducible Computational Science,” IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 21, Issue 1.

Dr. Payman Dehghanian (ECE) and colleagues at Texas A&M University have published the following article: P. Dehghanian, Y. Guan, and M. Kezunovic, “Real-Time Life-Cycle Assessment of High Voltage Circuit Breakers for Maintenance Using Online Condition Monitoring Data,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 1135-1146, March-April 2019.

Dr. Michael Keidar (MAE) and his students have published two papers: 1) X. Fang, C. Corbella, D. B. Zolotukhin, and M. Keidar. “Plasma-enabled healing of graphene nano-platelets layer,” Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, published online March 22, 2019; and 2) C. Corbella Roca, S. Portal, D. B. Zolotukhin, L. G. Martinez, L. Lin, M. Kundrapu, and M. Keidar. “Pulsed anodic arc discharge for the synthesis of carbon nanomaterials,” Plasma Sources Science and Technology, published online March 21, 2019.

Dr. Kim Roddis (CEE) has published a paper with her completed doctoral student, Mahdi Asadnia. The citation is: M. Asadnia and W. M. Kim Roddis. “Out-of-Flatness Effect on Flexural Strength of Steel Bridge Girders,” Transportation Research Record. March 17, 2019.

Dr. Guru Venkataramani (ECE), Dr. Suresh Subramaniam (ECE), and their doctoral students Fan Yao and Jingxin Wu have published the following article: F. Yao, J. Wu, G. P. Venkataramani, and S. Subramaniam. “TS-BatPro: Improving Energy Efficiency in Data Centers by Leveraging Temporal–Spatial Batching,” IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, Vol. 3, Issue 1.

On March 22, Dr. David Broniatowski (EMSE) gave the invited panel talk “Navigating Social Media: Trolls, Bots & Misinformation” at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health. The meeting was held in Arlington, VA.

Dr. Payman Dehghanian (ECE) attended and served as the student program chair of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Electric Safety Workshop, held March 4-8 in Jacksonville, FL.

Dr. Miloš Doroslovački (ECE) and his student Li Li attended the 53rd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, held March 20-22 in Baltimore, MD. At the conference, Li presented the following paper: L. Li, M. Doroslovački, and M. Loew. “Discriminant Analysis Deep Neural Networks.” Also at the conference, Dr. Doroslovački chaired the session “Learning Systems.”

Dr. Chung Hyuk Park (BME) attended the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI '19), held March 11-14 in Daegu, Korea. At the HRI workshops, he presented two papers, titled “Therapeutic robots in the wild: Perils of delivering autism interventions in the real world” (co-authored with his doctoral student Hifza Javed and collaborator Myounghoon Jeon of Virginia Tech) and “Motivation-based Social Expression for Agent’s Learning Performance Representation" (co-authored with his former post-doc Dr. WonHyong Lee). At the conference, he co-organized a workshop with Dr. Paul Robinette (MIT) and served as a panelist in another workshop, titled “Test Methods and Metrics for Effective HRI in Collaborative Human-Robot Teams" and organized by Dr. Jeremy Marvel of NIST. His “Late-Breaking Report,” titled “Humanoid Therapy Robot for Encouraging Exercise in Dementia Patients” and co-authored with Mariah Schrum and Dr. Ayanna Howard (Georgia Tech), won the 2nd Place LBR Award.

The Los Angeles Times quoted Dr. David Broniatowski (EMSE) in the March 19 article, "Facts about fake news's influence on U.S. elections and the fight against misinformation." Dr. Broniatowski spoke about his research on the impact that social media bots and Russian trolls have had on vaccine discussions on Twitter.

ECE senior Reem Eltahir was featured in the March 18 GW Today article “How I Got the Job: From Tech Internship to Employment Offer.”

At the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Electric Safety Workshop, ECE doctoral student Bo Wang presented his paper, “Electrical Safety Considerations in Large-Scale Electric Vehicle Charging Stations," and was awarded the 2019 IEEE-IAS Myron Zucker Award on Electrical Safety through Design Student Initiative. Bo is advised by Dr. Payman Dehghanian (ECE).

The 5th GW – Korea University (KU) Research Symposium was held March 11-12 in Seoul, Korea. SEAS alumnus Simon Lee and KU hosted the event at the KU campus. The latest research progress of five KU-GW research teams were highlighted at the symposium and plans were made for future research collaborations. The GW team was led by Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies Can Korman, and included Dr. Samer Hamdar (CEE), Dr. Michael Keidar (MAE), Dr. Murray Loew (BME), Michael Orrill (senior PhD student representing Dr. Saniya LeBlanc of MAE), and Dr. Volker Sorger (ECE). The symposium included joint presentations by the GW team members and their respective KU collaborators, laboratory tours, and a reception that included KU President Jin Taek Chung, College of Engineering Dean Joong Hoon Kim, and other KU leadership and local dignitaries. The next research symposium is expected to take place at GW during the spring 2020 semester.

The Election Verification Network held its annual conference at the SEH on March 14-15. Speakers included US Senator Ron Wyden (OR), who opened the conference by announcing the launch of a modified version of the Protecting American Votes and Elections (PAVE) Act; US Representative Jamie Raskin (MD-8); David Sanger, a Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist at the New York Times and author of The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age; Suzanne Spaulding, currently with Center for Strategic and International Studies and previously undersecretary of the Department for Homeland Security (DHS); Commissioners Hovland, Palmer, and Hicks of the Election Assistance Commission; and Matt Masterson of DHS. Dr. Poorvi Vora (CS) and Liz Howard (Brennan Center for Justice) co-chaired the conference, which also included panel discussions on federal legislation; litigation in the states; accessibility and verifiability; standards; and technology and audits held in 2018. A live stream of the conference and the conference agenda are available online.

On March 19, at the inaugural lecture of the CS Department’s Internet Distinguished Speaker Series, Vint Cerf spoke to a GW audience about the future of the Internet. He discussed ethical solutions as the key to the advancement of computer science. The event was held in collaboration with the GW chapter of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). More information about the lecture is available in the GW Today article “The Future of the Internet.”