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Untitled.jpgJungeun 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. He is Visiting Scholar since January 2007.  

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Alex in 300 x 300.jpgAlexandra 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".

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image007.jpgChristian Gogu

Christian Gogu is currently a PhD student in 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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me_small.jpgJinuk 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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Untitled.jpgSaad M. Mukras

Saad Mukras received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aircraft Engineering Technology from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach, FL in 2003. His thesis title is "Accurate and stable wear prediction using computer simulations". His research interests are in Computational wear modeling and design tool for evolving kinematics.

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MDO Website.jpgMatt Pais

Matt Pais received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Missouri at Columbia in 2007. His is currently enrolled for the doctoral program at University of Florida. His current research topic is "Solid fluid interaction using the extended finite element method and the level set method".

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sriram.jpgSriram 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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image007.jpgVictor 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 is currently enrolled in a 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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Anurag Sharma

Anurag Sharma received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India in 2005. Currently he is enrolled for the doctoral program in the MAE department at UF. 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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FelipeUF.JPGFelipe Viana

Felipe received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Federal University of Uberlandia. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering degree from the same University with the thesis "Meta-Modeling and Nature-Inspired Optimization Techniques applied to Multidisciplinary Optimization Problems". He is currently working on a second doctorate (in Aerospace Engineering) with the research topic "Multiple Surrogates for Prediction and Uncertainty Quantification." His research interests include multiple surrogates, surrogate-based analysis and optimization,

                                                       conservative estimation and error modeling.

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DianeVillanueva_MDO.jpgDiane Villanueva

Diane Villanueva received her Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Florida in 2008.  She is currently enrolled as a doctoral student at the University of Florida.  Her current research topic is “Risk allocation by probabilistic design optimization of an integrated thermal protection system.”

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