Research conducted by the group focuses a number of subjects. To learn more about a subject, click on its title in the table below.

Research Subjects	Participating Members
Design Under Uncertainty in Estimating Low Probability of Failures	Sunil Kumar, Victor Picheny, Palani Ramu, Richard Pippy
Design With Evolving Kinematics	Saad M. Mukras, Kyle Stoker
Global Parallel Optimization	Dr.Jaco F. Schutte (UF graduate)
Surrogates for Design Optimization, System Identification, and Reliability	Dr. Tushar Goel (UF graduate), Christian Gogu, Victor Picheny, Felipe Viana
Uncertainty Reduction in Design through Tests and Improved Modeling	Jungeun An, Christian Gogu, Ben Smarslok, Alex Coppe
Structural Health Monitoring	Jungeun An, Alex Coppe

Interested in learning more about research being conducted by our members? Below is a listing of the group's members and current visitors and their particular research foci. Additional information about a member will be displayed at the bottom of this page by clicking on the member's name in the table below.

Name	Research Topics
Jungeun An	Bayesian Updating Structural Health Monitoring
Jalal Akbari	Finite element analysis Dynamic analysis of Structures Arch dam design, structural optimization, sensitivity analysis, shape optimization
Long Ge	Numerical modeling of nano-scale indentation and scratch problems Material property identification and sensitivity analysis using indentation and FEM
Tushar Goel	Surrogate modeling for engineering design Develop models to estimate errors in approximations Develop methodology for optimization of complex engineering design problems
Christian Gogu	Optimization of integrated thermal protection systems Robust design of integrated thermal protection systems
Sunil Kumar	Reliability-based aircraft structural design Effectiveness and tradeoffs of uncertainty reduction mechanisms
Taiki Matsumura	Multi-disciplinary optimization Launch vehicle sizing Trajectory Optimization
Saad M. Mukras	Wear Simulation Methodologies Stability in wear simulation
Victor Picheny	Propagation of Uncertainty, multiple surrogates, conservative estimations, reliability based design
Palani Ramu	Reliability-based aircraft structural design Effectiveness and tradeoffs of uncertainty reduction mechanisms, tail modeling for highly safe structures
Benjamin P. Smarslok	Reducing experimental uncertainty in temperature dependent material properties over a wide temperature range Using separable limit states for increased simulation efficiency of probability of failure calculations
Felipe Viana	Optimal use of multiple surrogates (such as response surface, kriging, neural networks, support vector regression, and weighted average surrogate) for prediction and error modeling.