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Christoforos Mavrogiannis completes oral defense of Ph.D. thesis

February19

Candidate: Christoforos Mavrogiannis

Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering

Committee: Ross Knepper (chair), Kilian Weinberger, Shimon Edelman, Guy Hoffman, Anca Dragan

Time and Place: Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, 2:00 p.m., 122 Gates Hall

Dissertation Title: Motion Planning for Socially Competent Robot Navigation

Ravi Patel completes oral defense of Ph.D. thesis

December3

Candidate: Ravi Patel

Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering

Committee: Olivier Desjardins (chair), Peter Diamessis, Madhi Esmaily (proxy for Michel Louge)

Time and Place: Monday, Nov. 26, 2018, 2:00 p.m., 106 Upson Hall

Dissertation Title: Mesoscale Simulation and Analysis of Particle-Laden Flows

Daniel Garrett completes oral defense of Ph.D. thesis

November27

Candidate: Daniel Garrett

Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering

Committee: Dmitry Savransky (chair), Mason Peck, Richard Rand

Time and Place: Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018, 1:00 p.m., 331 Upson Hall

Dissertation Title:  Exoplanet Direct Imaging Detection Metrics and Exoplanet Populations

Ilse Van Meerbeek completes oral defense of Ph.D. thesis

November20

Candidate: Ilse Van Meerbeek

Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering

Committee: Robert Shepherd (chair), Hadas Kress-Gazit, Guy Hoffman, Meredith Silberstein

Time and Place: Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, 2:00 p.m., 106 Upson Hall

Dissertation Title:  Elastomeric Foam Systems for Novel Mechanical Properties and for Soft Robot Proprioception

Sheng Wang completes oral defense of Ph.D. thesis

November2

Candidate: Sheng Wang

Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering

Committee: Olivier Desjardins (chair), Paul Steen, David Bindel

Time and Place: Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, 10:30 a.m., 106 Upson Hall

Dissertation Title:  Towards Large-Scale Simulations of Two-Phase Flows with Moving Contact Lines

Jordan Chipka completes oral defense of Ph.D. thesis

October8

Candidate: Jordan Chipka

Candidate’s Field: Aerospace Engineering

Committee: Mark Campbell (chair), Hadas Kress-Gazit, Bart Selman

Time and Place: Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, 2:00 p.m., 106 Upson Hall

Dissertation Title:  Estimation and Navigation Methods with Limited
Information for Autonomous Urban Driving

 

Alexander Ivanov completes oral defense of Ph.D. thesis

August7

Candidate: Alexander Ivanov

Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering

Committee: Mark Campbell (chair), Alexander Vladimirsky, Silvia Ferrari, Hadas Kress-Gazit

Time and Place: Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 10:00 a.m., 531 Upson Hall

Dissertation Title:  Guaranteed Robotic Planning and Exploration in Unknown Environments

Robert Carson completes oral defense of Ph.D. thesis

July17

Candidate: Robert Carson

Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering

Committee: Paul Dawson (chair), Matthew Miller, Derek Warner

Time and Place: Tuesday, July 10, 2018, 10:00 a.m., 106 Upson Hall

Dissertation Title:  Characterization of Deformation Heterogeneity during Cyclic Loading of Polycrystalline Materials using Crystal Plasticity

Jonathan Daudelin completes oral defense of Ph.D. thesis

June25

Candidate: Jonathan Daudelin

Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering

Committee: Mark Campbell (chair), Hadas Kress-Gazit, Silvia Ferrari

Time and Place: Monday, June 18, 2018, 12:30 p.m., 431 Upson Hall

Dissertation Title:  Active Perception and Planning for Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots

Joyce Fang completes oral defense of Ph.D. thesis

June15

Candidate: Joyce Fang

Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering

Committee: Dmitry Savransky (chair), Hadas Kress-Gazit, James Lloyd

Time and Place: Friday, June 8, 2018, 10:00 a.m., 431 Upson Hall

Dissertation Title:  Online Model-based Estimation for Automated Optical System Alignment and Phase Retrieval Algorithm

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