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Candidate: Yichen Zhou Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering Committee: Mark Campbell (Chair), Ross Knepper Time and Place: Friday, March 8, 2019, 9:00 a.m., 531 Upson Hall Dissertation Title: A General Goal Point Model for Anticipation of Vehicle Motions for Autonomous Driving
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
Candidate: Jake Gemerek Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering Committee: Silvia Ferrari (Chair), Kilian Weinberger, Mark Campbell Time and Place: Tuesday, Feb 5, 2019, 11:00 a.m., 431 Upson Hall Title: Planning and Control for Mobile Visual Scene Perception
Candidate: Jiajun Gu Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering Committee: Max Zhang (Chair), Andrew Wilson, Mark Campbell Time and Place: Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, 9:00 a.m., 106 Upson Hall Title: Source Term Estimation and Spatial Variation Prediction for Atmospheric Dispersion
Candidate: Julian Morelli Candidate’s Field: Aerospace Engineering Committee: Silvia Ferrari (Chair), John Albertson, Alexander Vladimirsky Time and Place: Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, 10:00 a.m., 531 Upson Hall Title: Adaptive Multiscale Mobile Sensor Systems
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
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
Candidate: Jacob Shapiro Candidate’s Field: Aerospace Engineering Committee: Dmitry Savransky (Chair), Lisa Kaltenegger, David Hysell Time and Place: Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, 2:00 p.m., 431 Upson Hall Title: Common Spatial Pattern Filtering for Detecting Exoplanets
Candidate: Dasha Gloutak Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering Committee: Gregory Bewley (Chair), Edwin Cowen Time and Place: Friday, November 16, 2018, 11:30 a.m., 431 Upson Hall Dissertation Title: Comparing Compressibility Effects in Turbulence at Various Mach Numbers
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