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Erdem Acar

Erdem Acar received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1999 and Master of Science in 2002 in Aerospace Engineering from Middle East Technical University at Ankara, Turkey. He earned his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2005 and a doctoral degree in Aerospace Engineering in 2006 from University of Florida. His thesis title is "Aircraft Structural Safety: Effects of Explicit and Implicit Safety Measures and Uncertainty Reduction Mechanisms". His research topics are Reliability-based aircraft structural design and Effectiveness and tradeoffs of uncertainty reduction mechanisms. Dr. Acar is currently an Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Turkey. His primary areas of teaching include structural analysis and reliability assessment of mechanical systems and his research efforts are focused on design optimization of mechanical systems, with a strong emphasis on reliability- and surrogate-based design optimization.

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Jungeun An

Jungeun An received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 from KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea. He earned a M.S - Ph.D integrated degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 from KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea. His research interests include Bayesian Updating, Structural Health Monitoring.

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Alexandra Coppe

Alex Coppe received her Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France in 2005. She earned her Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France in 2007. Her thesis title is "Integrating test, health monitoring, and maintenance (THIM) as uncertainty reduction into probabilistic production design". Her research topic is "Using Bayesian updating with Structural Health Monitoring in order to update material parameters". She currently works as an engineer for Ford Motors in Dearborn, Michigan on an MDO team optimizing body structure for weight under safety and NVH constraints.

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Tushar Goel

Tushar Goel received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from Institute of Engineering and Technology at Lucknow, UP, India in 1999. He earned a Master of Technology degree in Mechanical Engieering from Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India in 2001. He earned his master & doctoral degree from University of Florida in 2006. His thesis title is "Multiple Surrogates and Error Modeling in Optimization of Liquid Rocket Propulsion Components". His research interests include Surrogate modeling, bias error analysis in polynomial response surface approximations, multi-objective optimization, CFD and cavitating flows.

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Christian Gogu

Christian Gogu received his Ph.D. in 2009. He participated in a joint Ph.D. program between the Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne in France and the University of Florida. He obtained the "Ingénieur civil des Mines" diploma and the Master "Mécanique et Ingénierie" diploma in September 2006 (major: mechanical engineering; minor: applied mathematics). His PhD topic is "Facilitating Bayesian Identification of Elastic Constants through Dimensionality Reduction and Response Surface Methodology". Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toulouse in France.

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Laurent Grosset

Laurent Grosset graduated from the Institute of Applied Sciences of Rouen (France) in 2000. He received a PhD in 2004 (joint PhD program between the Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne in France and the University of Florida). His thesis title is "Optimization of composite structures by estimation of distribution algorithms."

 

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Amit A. Kale

Amit received his Bachelor of Technology in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, India. He earned a doctoral degree from University of Florida in 2005. His thesis title is "Interaction of conservative design practices, tests and inspections in safety of structural components". His research topic is "Reliability based design and optimization of aircraft structures and design of inspection schedules".

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Jinuk Kim

Jinuk Kim is a Ph.D. student in Materials Science and Engineering depratment. He received B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University and M.S. in Mechanical enngineering and in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Michigan in 2006. His current reserch is 'Homogenization and uncertainty analysis for fiber reinforced composite'.

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Serdar Koroglu

Serdar Koroglu graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Naval Architecture in 2004. He worked as a structural designer in a ship design company. In 2005 he returned to ITU and obtained his master of science degree for a thesis on "Artfical Neural Networks applied to Ship Structural Design". He gained his PhD and was a research scholar who worked on "Decomposition of Surrogate Models".

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Sunil Kumar

Sunil received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at New Delhi, India in 2003. He then earned his doctorate at the University of Florida from the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. His thesis title is "Measuring and Using Uncertainties in the Material Properties of Composites over a Wide Temperature Range". His research interests include Reliability-based aircraft structural design, Effectiveness and tradeoffs of uncertainty reduction mechanisms.

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Saad M. Mukras

Saad Mukras received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aircraft Engineering Technology from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at Daytona Beach, FL in 2003. He later graduated with a Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Florida in 2009. Dr. Mukras is currently an Assistant Professor at Qassim University (Buraydah, Saudi Arabia) in the Mechanical Engineering Department. His research interests include numerical modeling of wear, modeling of multibody systems experiencing wear, and more recently, modeling of polymer processes.

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Matt Pais

Matt Pais received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Missouri at Columbia in 2007. During his time at the University of Florida, his research focused on "Solid fluid interaction using the extended finite element method and the level set method". He is currently employed by Dassult Systèmes Simulia Corp. as a Technical Specialist working at an aerospace company providing on-site technical support for Abaqus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Sriram Pattabhiraman

Sriram Pattabhiraman is a graduate student currently enrolled in the Doctoral program at the University of Florida. He received his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, (NIT-T) India in 2007. His research topic is Modeling of uncertainty reduction measures using test, inspection, and health monitoring.

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Victor Picheny

Victor Picheny received a Master of Science in Engineering and a Research masters in Applied Mathematics from the Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne (France) in September 2005. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2009 as part of a joint Ph.D. program between the Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne in France and the University of Florida. His thesis title is "Improving and compensating for uncertainty in surrogate modeling". His research interests include propagation of uncertainty, design of experiments, conservative estimations, reliability based design.

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Xueyong Qu

Sr. Software Development Engineer

Altair Engineering, Inc.
2445 McCabe Way Suite 100 Irvine, CA 92614 USA

Phone: 949.232.2277(M) 

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Palani Ramu

Palani Ramu received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University at India in 1999. He earned his doctoral degree from University of Florida in 2007. His thesis title is “Multiple Tail Models Including Inverse Measures For Structural Design Under Uncertainties". His research topics include Reliability/Risk-based design, tail modeling and surrogate based optimization.

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Jaco Schutte

Materials Sciences Corporation,
181 Gibraltar road, Horsham, PA 19044, USA

Phone:+215 542-8400 ext. 121

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Anurag Sharma

Anurag Sharma received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India in 2005. He then earned his Ph.D. in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Florida. His thesis topic is “Multi-Fidelity Design Analysis of Corrugated- Core Sandwich Panels for Integrated Thermal Protection System for Spacecraft reentry”. His current research interests include FE based homogenization method and micro mechanical analysis, FE techniques for transient heat transfer analyses, mechanical/thermal buckling and collapse analyses, and general non-linear analyses, structural optimization and response surface approximation techniques. 

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Benjamin P. Smarslok

Ben received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 2004. He earned his Ph.D. student in the MAE department at UF in Summer 2009. His dissertation title is "Measuring, Using, and Reducing Experimental and Computational Uncertainty in Reliability Analysis of Composite Laminates". His main research areas include statistical analysis of uncertainty in composite properties and efficient Monte Carlo methods for calculating failure probability.

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Kyle Stoker

Kyle Stoker received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Florida in 2007. He graduated with his master’s degree in Summer 2009. His research interests are in Computational wear modeling of gears, design tool for evolving kinematics. Kyle currently works at Florida Turbine Technologies in Jupiter, Florida. He is responsible for design and finite element analysis of rocket engines, jet engines and industrial gas turbines.

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Felipe Viana

Dr. Viana received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Uberlandia. He earned his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the same university with the thesis "Vibration Damping by Using Piezoelectric Patches and Resonant Shunt Circuits." Three years later, he earned from the same university his Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering degree with the thesis "Surrogate Modeling Techniques and Heuristic Optimization Methods applied to Design and Identification Problems." He earned his second doctorate in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Florida with the research topic "Multiple Surrogates for Prediction and Optimization." His research interests include design and analysis of experiments, surrogate modeling (a.k.a metamodeling), probabilistic design and uncertainty modeling, Bayesian calibration of computer experiments and multidisciplinary design optimization.

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Roberto Vitali

Dr. Roberto Vitali was born in Italy, where he attained a civil works engineering degree specializing in Transportation Systems. He continued his studies in the U.S. with a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics at the University of Florida, after which he moved to Washington D.C. to manage the system integration for the International Space Station at Futron Corporation under a NASA headquarters contract. During these years, he also obtained an MBA from the University of Maryland. He joined as an executive of Ansaldo STS in 2004, and developed the CBTC signaling system and the catenaryless TramWave system. Currently, he is the head of Sales and Business Development for Western Europe, North Africa, and Central and South America for the transportation systems unit within Ansaldo STS.

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