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Dr. 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 – 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.

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Dr. Tushar Goel

Tushar Goel received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from Institute of Engineering and Technology – Lucknow, UP, India in 1999. He earned a Master of Technology degree in Mechanical Engieering from Indian Institute of Technology – 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 PhD in 2009. He a joint PhD 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".

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Laurent Grosset

Renault, Direction DE LA Recherche, TCR AVA 0 15

1 Av du golf 78288 GuyanCourt

Ph: +33.1.768.29734(W)

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Dr. Amit A. Kale

Amit received his Bachelor of Technology in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology - 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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Sunil Kumar

Sunil received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology - New Delhi, India in 2003. Currently he is enrolled for the doctoral program in the Mechanical & Aerospace department, University of Florida. 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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Victor Picheny

Victor Picheny received a Master of Science in Engineering an a Research master in Applied Mathematics from the Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne (France) in September 2005. He received his PhD degree in 2009 (joint PhD 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. Ph: 949.232.2277(M)

 

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Dr. Palani Ramu

Palani Ramu received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University - 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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Dr. 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 master degree in Summer 2009. His research interests are in Computational wear modeling of gears, design tool for evolving kinematics.

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