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Conferences

LabelVizier: Interactive Validation and Relabeling for Technical Text Annotations

March 30, 2023

Author(s)

Xiaoyu Zhang, Xiwei Xuan, Rachael Sexton, Alden A. Dima

With the rapid accumulation of text data brought forth by advances in data-driven techniques, the task of extracting "data annotations"—concise, high-quality...

Radio Bursts In Residences During COVID-19: Measured Characteristics For Resiliency Testing

March 27, 2023

Author(s)

Dan Kuester, Xifeng Lu, Dazhen Gu

We present an exploration of the time parameters observed in measurements performed at 13 residential sites from June 2020 through September 2021. This...

On Predistortion Filtering for Switched Beamforming With Phased-Array Antennas

March 26, 2023

Author(s)

Jack Chuang, Camillo Gentile

In recent work, we proposed sweeping the antennas of phased arrays and beamforming in postprocessing – what we coined switched beamforming – instead of sweeping...

Federated Learning with Server Learning for Non-IID Data

March 24, 2023

Author(s)

Van Sy Mai, Richard La, Tao Zhang, Yu Xuan Huang, Abdella Battou

Experimental Ambitions for DC-Area Quantum Network Testbed

March 23, 2023

Author(s)

Oliver T. Slattery, Adam Black

Quantum networks [1] bear the promise of one day enabling diverse applications such as secure communications, distributed quantum computing, distributed sensing...

Developing an Appropriate Heat Treatment Protocol for Additively Manufactured Alloy 718 for Oil and Gas Applications

March 23, 2023

Author(s)

Mark R. Stoudt, James Zuback, Carelyn E. Campbell, Maureen E. Williams, Kil-Won Moon, Carlos R. Beauchamp, Mark Yunovich

The combination of strength, corrosion resistance, and excellent weldability makes Alloy 718 an attractive alloy for additive manufacturing (AM) applications...

Experimental Studies on the Heat Flux of Individual Firebrands

March 22, 2023

Author(s)

Amy Mensch, Savannah Wessies, Anthony Hamins, Jiann C. Yang

Every year, thousands of wildfires burn all over the world threatening lives and property in the wildland-urban interface. These wildland-urban interface fires...

Classification of Airborne Firebrand Combustion State Using a Convolutional Neural Network

March 22, 2023

Author(s)

Savannah Wessies, Nicolas Bouvet, Eric Link

In wildland fire scenarios, firebrand transport allows for further propagation of the fire away from the main fire front. A better understanding of the number...

Enabling Exposure Comparison for Firebrand Showers Generated During Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires

March 19, 2023

Author(s)

Nicolas Bouvet, Eric Link, Savannah Wessies, Stephen Fink

Firebrand showers are known for their devastating effects throughout Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) communities threatened by wildfires. In 2019, the Insurance...

Investigating the Influence of Sampling Frequency on X-Space MPI Image Reconstructions

March 19, 2023

Author(s)

Mark-Alexander Henn, Klaus Natorf Quelhas, Solomon I. Woods

In this presentation we employ a direct X-space deconvolution to estimate particle distributions from MPI data. We report on how the accuracy of those...

Examining the effectiveness of water suppression for mitigating backdrafts

March 19, 2023

Author(s)

Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, Thomas Cleary

An analysis of the backdraft phenomenon's mitigation from water suppression is con- ducted in a 2/5th scale compartment. Different volumes of water were...

Investigating the Harmonic Dependence of MPI Resolution

March 19, 2023

Author(s)

Mark-Alexander Henn, Thinh Bui, Solomon I. Woods

In this work we investigate how the MPI resolution changes as a function of signal harmonics. Based on a simulation study that models a lock-in measurement of...

Multiverse: Quantum Optical Network Management

March 19, 2023

Author(s)

Abdella Battou

This paper presents the software-defined management system of DC-QNet, a quantum network testbed deployed across multiple distant sites. The system uses a...

Modelling Study of Interactions of Ozone and Hydrogen Peroxide on Indoor Surfaces

March 15, 2023

Author(s)

Dustin Poppendieck, Toby J. Carter, David Shaw, Nicola Carslaw

In recent decades, the role of the indoor microenvironment in our exposure to air pollutants has become clearer. Indoor air pollutants are emitted from common...

Two-beam nonlinearity in indium tin oxide in the continuous wave limit

March 15, 2023

Author(s)

Jared Wahlstrand, Chad Cruz

Indium tin oxide (ITO) is an example of a material with a greatly enhanced optical nonlinearity for wavelengths at which the dielectric permittivity is near...

Deep-UV photoemission electron microscopy for imaging nanoscale heterogeneity and defects in gallium nitride

March 15, 2023

Author(s)

Andrew Winchester, Michael Mastro, Travis Anderson, Jennifer Hite, Andrei Kolmakov, Sujitra Pookpanratana

Gallium nitride (GaN) is a promising wide-bandgap material for high-power electronics, where GaN-on-GaN homoepitaxy is being developed for fabrication of...

Towards Improved Replicability of Human Studies in Human-Robot Interaction: Recommendations for Formalized Reporting

March 13, 2023

Author(s)

Shelly Bagchi, Patrick Holthaus, Gloria Beraldo, Emmanuel Senft, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Zhao Han, Suresh Kumaar Jayaraman, Alessandra Rossi, Connor Esterwood, Antonio Andriella, Paul Pridham

In this paper, we present a proposed format for reporting human studies in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). We specifically call out details which are often...

The effect of electric field inhomogeneity in Rydberg atom-based electric field sensing

March 8, 2023

Author(s)

Samuel Berweger, Nikunjkumar Prajapati, Andrew Rotunno, Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse, Matthew Simons, Christopher Holloway

The use of Rydberg atoms for radio frequency electric field sensing has emerged as a promising alternative to traditional antenna-based designs that enables all...

Optimized Sparse Sampling Lattices

March 7, 2023

Author(s)

Peter Vouras, Mohamed Hany, Sudantha Perera, Carnot Nogueira, Rick Candell, Kate Remley

Sparse sampling approaches have been widely studied to achieve less complex measurement systems while maintaining detection performance. In this paper, we...

Wideband Synthetic Aperture Test Bed for Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces

March 7, 2023

Author(s)

Peter Vouras, Mohamed Hany, Sudantha Perera, Carnot Nogueira, Rick Candell, Kate Remley

This paper describes a spherical beamforming implementation for wideband synthetic aperture channel sounders that can be used to predict the scattering...

Compliance or Impact? Insights into How U.S. Government Organizations Determine the Effectiveness of Security Awareness Programs

March 2, 2023

Author(s)

Julie Haney, Jody Jacobs, Susanne M. Furman

The goal of security awareness programs is to positively influence employee security behaviors. However, organizations in compliance-focused sectors may...

The 2022 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation

February 28, 2023

Author(s)

Yooyoung Lee, Craig Greenberg, Asad Butt, Eliot Godard, Elliot Singer, Trang Nguyen, Lisa Mason, Douglas Reynolds

In 2022, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted a Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE), which was the latest in an ongoing...

Knowledge representation for hierarchical and interconnected business contexts

February 19, 2023

Author(s)

Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Hakju Oh, Elena Jelisic, Scott Nieman, Anicic Nenad, Marjanovic Zoran

Although business context has been introduced as an important concept for message standards usage and maintenance, its usability depends on the tech-nique used...

Discovery of digital forensic dataset characteristics with CASE-Corpora

February 13, 2023

Author(s)

Alexander Nelson, Eoghan Casey

The digital forensics community has generated training and reference data over the course of decades. However, significant challenges persist today in the usage...

Rydberg Engineering: Recent Techniques for Sensitive Field Measurements

February 9, 2023

Author(s)

Drew Rotunno, Nik Prajapati, Samuel Berweger, Aly Artusio-Glimpse, MATTHEW SIMONS, chris holloway, Amy Robinson

Highly-excited Rydberg atoms have been used for International System of Unit (SI)-traceable radio-frequency (RF) electric field and power measurements, but are...

A Methodology for Digital Twins of Product Lifecycle Supported by Digital Thread

February 8, 2023

Author(s)

Laetitia Monnier, Guodong Shao, Sebti Foufou

The technological advancement has led to the transition of manufacturing industries to Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0. Promising concepts such as Digital...

Optical-cavity-based primary sound standard

February 1, 2023

Author(s)

Akobuije Chijioke, Richard A. Allen, Steven E. Fick, David Long, Benjamin Reschovsky, Jared Strait, Randall P. Wagner

We propose an optical sound standard in which the sound pressure is directly measured by using an optical cavity to observe the induced change in the refractive...

Investments in Robustness of Complex Systems: Algorithm Design

January 26, 2023

Author(s)

Van Sy Mai, Richard La, Abdella Battou

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Automated Chamber Configuration Replicating mmWave Directional Industrial Channel Behavior

January 25, 2023

Author(s)

Mohamed Hany, Sudantha Perera, Carnot Nogueira, Rick Candell, Kate Remley, Matt Simons

Industrial wireless channels have different characteristics than home and office channels due to their reflective nature. Moreover, the millimeter-wave (mmWave)...

NIST-F3, a cesium fountain frequency reference

January 24, 2023

Author(s)

Gregory Hoth, Alexander Radnaev, Peter Mitchell, Jeffrey Sherman, Vladislav Gerginov

A cesium fountain frequency reference known as NIST-F3 is under development at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The fountain is...

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