2023
Aaron Carass
Associate Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
“Quantifying Success of Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation”
Advisor: Professor Jerry Prince
Co-Advisor: Dzung L. Pham
Jeremy Gwinnup
Associate Computer Scientist, Air Force Research Lab
“Improving Machine Translation Quality with Multimodal Augmentation”
Advisor: Assistant Research Professor Kevin Duh
Co-Advisor: Timothy Anderson
Paul Holzer
Chief Executive Officer, XenoTherapeutics
“From Design to Delivery – The Development of Regenerative Therapies from Immune-compatible Non-human Donors”
Advisor: Assistant Professor Joshua Doloff
Co-Advisor: Gerald Brandacher
Kathy Kha
Associate Professional Staff II/Risk & Parametric Modeling, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
“The Long Duration Space Mission Operations Cost Estimator Model (LDURSMOCE) ”
Advisor: Assistant Professor Kimia Ghobadi
Co-Advisor: Kristin Fretz
Ashley Llorens
Chief, Intelligent Systems Center, Microsoft
“Reinforcement Learning in a System Lifecycle”
Advisor: Associate Professor Raman Arora
Co-Advisor: Katja Hofmann
Brendan McNelly
Mechanical Engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
“Advances in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technologies for Enhanced Harbor Protection ”
Advisor: Professor Louis Whitcomb
Co-Advisor: Stephen Carr
Amee Polk
Research Chemical Engineer, Department of Defense
“Tuning Microstructure and Reactive Properties of Titanium Dioxide Based Thermites using Al-Zr Composite Fuels”
Advisor: Professor Timothy Weihs
Co-Advisor: Warren Gardner
Tessa VanVolkenburg
Materials Research Engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
“Aqueous Sample Preparation for Improved In Situ Biosignature Detection at Ocean Worlds”
Advisor: Assistant Professor Sung Hoon Kang
Co-Advisor: Leslie Hamilton
2022
James Cervini
Associate Professional Staff, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
“Virtualization-Based Resilience Approaches for Industrial Control Systems”
Advisor: Professor Takeru Igusa
Co-Advisor: Lanier Watkins
Jessica Degner
Senior Mechanical Engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
“Novel Heatsink Designs Utilizing Micro-Jet Impingement Cooling in Electronic Packaging”
Advisor: Professor Rajat Mittal
Co-Advisor: Harry Charles
Random Gwinn
Principal Investigator, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
“A Sense of Self for Power Side-Channel Signatures: Instruction Set Disassembly and Integrity Monitoring of a Microcontroller System”
Advisor: Aviel Rubin
Co-Advisor: Mark Matties
Peter Gu
Associate Staff, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
“Towards Optimal Line of Sight Coverage”
Advisor: Associate Professor Tamas Budavari
Co-Advisor: Amanda Galante
William Kahle
Chief Engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
“Human Conflict and Nuclear Weapons”
Advisor: Professor Emeritus Aviel Rubin
Co-Advisor: Shannon Hall
Edward (Brent) Laird
Chief RF Research, Department of Defense
“Quasinorm Regression for Localization Estimation”
Advisor: Professor Trac-Duy Tran
Co-Advisor: Jon Kosloski
Seth Myers
Senior Staff, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
“Pulsed Laser Ignition and Inhibition of Aluminum Dusts”
Advisor: Professor Kevin Hemker
Co-Advisor: Bohdan Z. Cybyk
Karl Siil
Chief Engineer/Project Manager – Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
“Mission Assurance for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles”
Advisor: Professor Emeritus Aviel Rubin
Co-Advisor: Matthew Elder
2021
Myron Brown
Principal Professional Staff (PPS), Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
“Single View Affine Geocentric Pose ”
Advisor: Professor Greg Hager
Co-Advisor: Christopher Gifford
Daniel Chew
Section Supervisor/Project Manager/Senior Staff II – Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
“A Case Study in Physical Layer Steganography applied to Multicarrier Transmissions”
Advisor: Associate Research Professor Brint Cooper
Co-Advisor: Chris Baumgart
Jennifer McKneely
PPS-Chief Scientist, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
“Enhanced Cyber Maneuver: Shaping Behavior Through Cyber Effects”
Advisor: Associate Professor Tara Kirk Sell
Co-Advisor: Kim Glasgow
Bart Paulhamus
PPS-Branch Head, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
“Integrating Usability with Task Performance for Shared Autonomy ”
Advisor: Assistant Professor Chien-Ming Huang
Co-Advisor: Philippe M. Burlina
Kara Shipley
Senior Staff/Assistant Section Supervisor, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
“Synthetic Realization of Ocean Turbulence Across Multiple Scales”
Advisors: Professor Charles Meneveau and Professor Dennice Gayme
Co-Advisor: Scott Wunsch
Peter Thielen
Senior Staff, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
“Nanopore DNA Sequencing to Expand Genetic Context in Non-Model Species Research ”
Advisor: Associate Professor Winston Timp
Co-Advisor: Jared D. Evans