Current Research Projects
Students in the Doctor of Engineering program pursue a wide variety of research areas. Some of the research projects currently under investigation include these:
| Student Name | Department | JHU Primary Adviser | Research Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Gu | Applied Mathematics and Statistics | Tamas Budavari | Optimizing Line of Sight Calculations and Placement of Line of Sight Reliant Sensors |
| Seth Myers | Mechanical Engineering | Kevin Hemker | Combustion of Metal Fuels |
| Daniel Chew | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Brint Cooper | Wireless Security through Anomaly Detection |
| Jessica Degner | Mechanical Engineering | Rajat Mittal | Electronic Cooling using Zero Net Mass Flux Oscillating Jets: An Integrative Study |
| Random Gwinn | Computer Science | Aviel Rubin | Side-channel Correlated Intrusion Detection System (SCIDS) |
| Nicholas Norena Acosta | Mechanical Engineering | Marin Kobilarov | Environmental localization, mapping and guidance for visual prosthesis users |
| Raghav Ramachandran | Applied Mathematics and Statistics | Daniel Naiman | Unsupervised learning and analytical fusion for infectious disease surveillance |
| William Kahle | Civil and Systems Engineering | Takeru Igusa | U.S Nuclear Triad |
| Edward Laird | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Trac Tran | RF Neutral Net IPMS |
| James Schaffter | Computer Science | Avi Rubin | Vurtualization-Based Resliency Approaches for Industrial Control Sytems |
| Isaac Witte | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Rene Vidal | AstroLABE |
| Lorna Alvarez | Materials Science and Engineering | James Spicer | Modeling and Characterization of Optical Window Deformation at Extreme High Temperatures |
| Jason Connolly | Mechanical Engineering | Tamer Zaki | Novel, Aft-Body Control Surface for High-Speed Maneuvering Vehicles |
| Ashley Llorens | Computer Science | Raman Arora | Risk-Sensitve Learning for Mult-Agent Systems |
| Aaron Carass | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Jerry Prince | Multiple object segmentation and evaluation |
| Jeremy Gwinnup | Computer Science | Kevin Duh | Multimodal machine translation (CV with NLP) |
| Brendan McNelly | Mechanical Engineering | Louis Whitcomb | Can AUVs Replace Dolphins for Port Protection? At what cost? – Comparing one of nature’s most capable and autonomous underwater systems with maritime robotics to prototype and propose a dolphin replacement system |
| Amee Polk | Materials Science and Engineering | Timothy Weihs | Development and Characterization of Nontraditional Thermite Reactions |
| Mark Gasser | Environmental Health and Engineering | Sarah Preheim | Identification and environmental fate of extracellular materials (vesicles and nucleic acids) for bio-applications |
| Leon Gonzalez | Computer Science | Yinzhi Cao | Using machine learning for binary analysis |
| Paul Holzer | Biomedical Engineering | Joshua C. Doloff | The therapeutic potential of interchangeable, functionally equivalent, and immune-compatible cross-species cells, tissues, and organs |
| Kathy Kha | Civil and Systems Engineering | Kimia Ghobadi | Novel integrated quantitative and qualitative methods for cost analysis of complex, long-term projects. |
