Ken Kennedy Institute's November Member of the Month: Dr. Pedram Hassanzadeh

The Ken Kennedy Institute's November Member of the Month, Dr. Pedram Hassanzadeh studies turbulent flows and chaotic dynamical systems in complex natural phenomena and engineering systems using numerical, mathematical, and deep learning methods, guided by observational and experimental data. His work is often motivated by theoretical and applied problems related to environment and energy.

Ken Kennedy Institute's Otober Member of the Month: Dr. Andriy Nevidomskyy

The Ken Kennedy Institute's October Member of the Month, Dr. Andriy Nevidomskyy, is an expert in theoretical condensed matter physics, working in the field of strong electron correlations in quantum materials. The collective behaviour of electrons in such materials often results in the emergence of new exotic quantum phases, such as the unconventional superconducti­vity.

Ken Kennedy Institute's September Member of the Month: Daniel Kowal

The Ken Kennedy Institute's September Member of the Month, Dr. Daniel Kowal, is the Dobelman Family Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics.

Dr. Kowal develops statistical methodology and algorithms for massive data sets with complex dependence structures, such as functional, time series, and spatial data. His recent work focuses on Bayesian models for prediction and inference, decision theory, discrete data analysis, and scalable approximations to complex models.

Ken Kennedy Institute's August Member of the Month: Jamie Padgett

The Ken Kennedy Institute's August Member of the Month, Dr Jamie Padgett, is the Stanley C Moore Professor in Engineering and the Faculty Lead of CERISE. She researches the application of probabilistic methods for risk assessment of infrastructure, the subsequent quantification of resilience and sustainability, structural portfolios such as regional portfolios of bridges or oil storage tanks exposed to multiple hazards including earthquakes, hurricanes, or aging and deterioration.

Ken Kennedy Institute's July Member of the Month: Jesse Chan

The Ken Kennedy Institute's July Member of the Month, Jesse Chan, is an Assistant Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics. He researches numerical methods for PDEs and scientific computing. More specifically, his recent work has focused on high order finite element and discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods, provably stable methods for wave propagation and fluid dynamics, efficient high performance implementations on many-core and GPU architectures, and discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) methods.

Ken Kennedy Institute's June Member of the Month: Kirsten Siebach

The Ken Kennedy Institute's June Member of the Month, Kirsten Siebach, is an Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences. She researches "source-to-sink" sedimentary processes on Mars and early Earth to interpret the history of water and surface environments early in our solar system.

Ken Kennedy Institute's May Member of the Month: Satish Nagarajaiah

The Ken Kennedy Institute's May Member of the Month, Satish Nagarajaiah, is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Nagarajaiah's research areas focus on Structural Dynamic systems, earthquake engineering, seismic isolation, structural control and monitoring, adaptive stiffness systems, smart tuned mass dampers, sparse structural system identification and low rank methods, and non-contact laser based strain sensing using nanomaterials.

Ken Kennedy Institute's April Member of the Month: Fred Oswald

The Ken Kennedy Institute's April Member of the Month, Fred Oswald is a Professor of Psychology, Herbert S Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, and Director of Graduate Studies. Dr. Oswald's research areas focus on Industrial/Organizational Psychology including workforce readiness, quantitative methods (meta-analysis, psychometrics, and big data). Dr. Oswald's lab is the Organization & Workforce Laboratory (OWL).

Ken Kennedy Institute's March Member of the Month: Vaibhav Unhelkar

The Ken Kennedy Institute's March Member of the Month, Vaibhav Unhelkar, is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. By merging expertise from AI, robotics, and human factors engineering, Unhelkar has developed algorithms to enable fluent human-robot interaction and deployed collaborative robots among humans. In his on-going research, he is developing computational techniques to combine data and human expertise (i.e., for human-in-the-loop AI) and to improve transparency of intelligence machines.

Ken Kennedy Institute's February Member of the Month: Su Chen

The Ken Kennedy Institute's February Member of the Month, Su Chen, is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Data to Knowledge Lab (D2K). Her doctoral research lies in the interaction of methodology, theory and computation of Bayesian statistics and their applications to high dimensional data analysis.