Roshan Suresh Kumar has been accepted as an intern through the DAAD Rise Professional program to the German Aerospace Center (DLR) at Braunschweig, Germany. The duration of the internship is from June 1st – August 24th 2022 and the main task is to investigate and provide suggestions to mitigate the state space explosion issue encountered […]

Roshan Suresh Kumar presented a paper at International Design and Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC-CIE) 2021 on heuristics enabled metamaterial design optimization. The paper is titled “Leveraging Design Heuristics for Multiobjective Metamaterial Design Optimization. Check it out at https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/IDETC-CIE/proceedings/IDETC-CIE2021/85390/V03BT03A032/1128509

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.

The paper “Assessment of Constellation Designs for Earth Observation: Application to the TROPICS Mission” by Pau Garcia Buzzi, Daniel Selva, Nozomi Hitomi and William Blackwell was accepted for publication in the Acta Astronautica journal. Check out the pre-print version of the paper here.

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 […]