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The Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) has awarded Prof. Selva an Incubation grant to study how cognitive assistants can foster learning in systems engineering. Prior research in our lab has shown promise for cognitive assistants to improve performance in systems engineering tasks. However, we have also observed that using cognitive assistants may lead to reduced […]

Our NASA STTR proposal in collaboration with Mycroft.ai has been selected for funding! For the next 12 months, we will be develop a prototype of a digital assistant for early mission formulation. We will strongly leverage our prior work on the Daphne cognitive assistant.

PhD students Samalis Santini and Filipe Pereira presented papers at the 2019 IEEE Aerospace Conference. Samalis’ paper was titled “A Cognitive Assistant for Entry, Descent, and Landing Architecture Analysis.”. You can find the paper here. Filipe’s paper was titled “Exploring the Architecture Trade Space of NextGen Global Navigation Satellite Systems”. You can find the paper […]

PhD student Antoni Viros just presented his paper titled “From Design Assistants to Design Peers: Turning Daphne into an AI Companion for Mission Designers”. You can find the paper here.

The SEAK Lab is looking to hire one PhD student for a new 4-year NSF-funded project titled “Knowledge and data-driven design of mechanical meta-materials”. The student will be in charge of developing algorithms to merge expert knowledge and data from expensive simulations in the context of automated design. We will also apply these algorithms to […]

A proposal to develop a cognitive assistant for spacecraft anomaly detection during long duration exploration missions, by Prof. Selva (PI) and Co-Is Prof. Ana Diaz and Prof. Bonnie Dunbar, has been selected for funding by NASA! Check out the press release here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-selects-25-proposals-to-support-health-performance-in-astronauts-missions-to-moon-mars/

Dr. Selva has been awarded a collaborative research grant from the Engineering Design and Systems Engineering program at NSF to develop a new methodology to design 3D printable polymeric metamaterials. We will study new ways to combine data from finite element simulations at various levels of fidelity with semantic information such as physical laws and […]

Antoni Viros just started as a new PhD student in the SEAK Lab. All of us are thrilled that he has decided to join the team, since he had become quite essential in the lab since he worked as a visiting student first and a visiting scientist later. Indeed, Antoni is the system architect and […]

Matt Law’s paper won one of two Best Paper Awards at the Design Computing and Cognition conference! This is joint work between Cornell (Profs. Guy Hoffman and So-Yeon Yoon) and the SEAK Lab. Congrats to all! The paper can be found here: Law, M., Dhawan, N., Bang, H., Yoon, S.-Y., Selva, D., & Hoffman, G. […]

Harris and Dani joined Matt Law (Hoffman’s lab at Cornell) and Prof. So-Yeon Yoon at the Design Computing and Cognition conference, where we presented 3 papers from our joint NSF sponsored research studying human-computer collaborative approaches to engineering design. The papers can be found here: Bang, H., Shi, Y. L. Z., Yoon, S.-Y., Hoffman, G., […]