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Conferences

From Ohm to Quantum Ohm

July 23, 2025

Author(s)

Dean Jarrett, Albert Rigosi

Effective Radar Cross Section in Close-Range Joint Communication and Sensing Applications

July 14, 2025

Author(s)

Steve Blandino, Jelena Senic, Neeraj Varshney, Jihoon Bang, Jack Chuang, Samuel Berweger, Jian Wang, Camillo Gentile, Nada Golmie

Radar Cross Section (RCS) is traditionally mea- sured under far-field conditions where targets are fully illumi- nated by the antenna beam. However, in close...

LLM-Assisted Relevance Assessments

July 13, 2025

Author(s)

Rikiya Takehi, Ellen Voorhees, Tetsuya Sakai, Ian Soboroff

Test collections are information retrieval tools that allow researchers to quickly and easily evaluate ranking algorithms. While test col- lections have become...

DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF DRONES IN URBAN ENVIRONMENT WITH SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES

July 9, 2025

Author(s)

Jack Chuang, Chiehping Lai, David Griffith

The objective of this paper is to study the radar imaging of a commercial drone (DJI Phantom III) in an artificial urban environment. A 10-GHz frequency...

Counterfeit IC Detection Using RF Excited Signals and AI-assisted Classification

July 9, 2025

Author(s)

Jack Chuang, Chiehping Lai, David Griffith

Counterfeit semiconductor devices are a major economic and security threat that can cause losses in multiple economic sectors. This problem's impact on national...

Machine Learning for MPC Extraction and False Detection

July 8, 2025

Author(s)

Howard Dai, Jack Chuang, Jian Wang, Samuel Berweger, David Griffith

Multipath component (MPC) extraction is critical for channel modeling and joint communications and sensing (JCAS). Super-resolution algorithm known as CLEAN...

A Standards-Guided Approach for Formalizing Product Circularity Assessment Metrics

July 3, 2025

Author(s)

Junwon Ko, Sandwana Sneethan, Gisele Bortolaz Guedes, Fazleena Badurdeen, I.S. Jawahir, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Katherine Morris

The industrial transition towards a more sustainable Circular Economy (CE) emphasizes the need for products that align with CE principles and robust methods for...

Towards a Common Body of Knowledge for Forensic Genetics: the Most Valuable Publications List and the INTERPOL DNA Reviews

July 1, 2025

Author(s)

John Butler

An effort to identify and describe some of the most valuable publications (MVPs) in forensic genetics has been made with the initial 2021 MVP list containing...

Characterization of Monostatic Base Stations Sensing Resolution Using 5G Reference Signals

July 1, 2025

Author(s)

Tanguy Ropitault, Steve Blandino, David Griffith, Thao Nguyen, Anirudha Sahoo, Nada Golmie

Sensing is poised to be a crucial feature in 6G, leading 3GPP to integrate sensing capabilities into the 5G New Radio (NR) framework. Significant progress has...

Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation of Pyrolysis Kinetics Parameters used in Fire Models

June 30, 2025

Author(s)

Morgan Bruns, Patrick Canez, Isaac Leventon

Measurement of the Smoldering and Flaming Heats of Combustion of Vegetative Fuels

June 30, 2025

Author(s)

Isaac Leventon, Karen De Lannoye, Ryan Greene

T The combustion of vegetative fuels or biomass has important applications in energy generation, wildfire spread, and structural fire safety. It is critical to...

Measurement of the Average Molecular Weights of Gaseous Pyrolyzates Produced by Combustible Solids

June 30, 2025

Author(s)

Alec Tripi, Ryan Greene, Isaac Leventon, Kevin McGrattan

Predictions of fire phenomena such as flame structure, stability, and growth made by computational fire models can be improved by incorporating an accurate...

EVALUATING VARIABILITY IN THE FIRE BEHAVIOR OF MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE PMMA AND IDENTIFYING A REPLACEMENT MaCFP-PMMA

June 29, 2025

Author(s)

Karen De Lannoye, Isaac Leventon, Michael Heck

This study examines variations in fire behavior among over 20 commercially available poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) samples from different suppliers. Previous...

Advanced Characterization of the Cure Kinetics of a Liquid Encapsulant

June 26, 2025

Author(s)

Anthony Kotula, Ran Tao, Jianwei Tu, Young Lee, Gale Holmes

Liquid encapsulants are versatile packaging materials that provide electrical insulation and mechanical protection for microelectronic devices. As more advanced...

Advanced Metrology Suite for Linking Residual Stress to Fundamental Properties of Thermoset Packaging Materials

June 26, 2025

Author(s)

Polette Centellas, Stian Romberg, Ran Tao, Alexander Landauer, Karl Schoch, Huong Giang Nguyen, Gale Holmes, Gery Stafford, Christopher Soles

Residual stresses inevitably develop in thermosetting materials used for semiconductor packaging during the curing process and in service. Understanding the...

Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models Using Diversion Decoding

June 24, 2025

Author(s)

Basel Abdeen, S M Tahmid Siddiqui, Meah Tahmeed Ahmed, Anoop Singhal, Latifur Khan, Punya Modi, Ehab Al-Shaer

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a powerful tool for retrieving knowledge through seamless, human-like interactions. Despite their advanced text...

Smart Home Users' Security and Privacy Perceptions and Actions Differ by Device Category: Results from a U.S. Survey

June 21, 2025

Author(s)

Julie Haney, Yasemin Acar, Anna Li, Faith Haney

There are few insights into how users' perspectives on smart home security and privacy differ depending on device category. This may leave the smart home...

AI-Assisted Configuration of Reverberation Chambers for Precision RF Environments Emulation

June 20, 2025

Author(s)

Mohamed Hany, Richard Candell

Industrial wireless channels differ significantly from home and office channels due to factors like larger distances, existence of heavy machinery, and...

Analysis of Propagation of Regular, Extended, and Large BGP Communities

June 20, 2025

Author(s)

Lilia Hannachi, Kotikalapudi Sriram, Douglas Montgomery

This study focuses on the analysis of propagation of Regular, Extended, and Large Communities in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Once added, these...

Preliminary Irradiation Thermo-Mechanical Analysis of LEU Fuel Plate for NBSR Conversion

June 18, 2025

Author(s)

Firat Cetinbas, Walid Mohamed, Dhongik Yoon, Cihang Lu, Peter Kohut, Abdullah Weiss, Erik Wilson

Automation of Value Stream Mapping: A Case Study on Enhancing Lean Manufacturing Tools Through Digital Twins

June 16, 2025

Author(s)

Maya Reslan, Matthew Triebe, Rishabh Venketesh, Ashley Hartwell

Lean manufacturing has gained popularity over the last few decades as a resource-efficient approach to manufacturing. The rise of smart factories and digital...

Evaluating Performance Of Approximate Radiation Models Against Photon Monte Carlo Line-By-Line Benchmark For Fire Simulation

June 15, 2025

Author(s)

Chandan Paul, Somesh Roy, Johannes Sailer, Fabian Br¨annstr¨om, Mohamed Mohsen Ahmed, Arnaud Trouv´e, Hadi Bordbar, Simo Hostikka, Randall McDermott

The Measurement and Computation of Fire Phenomena (MaCFP) radiation working group previously provided benchmark radiation data for two fire configurations using...

A Limited and Generalized Study on LEU Fuel Cycle Costs for High-Performance Research Reactors

June 14, 2025

Author(s)

Abdullah Weiss

Super-wideband Spectrum Sensing Using A Simplified Receiver Architecture

June 12, 2025

Author(s)

Yao Ma, Xifeng Lu, Nadia Yoza Mitsuishi, Dazhen Gu, Susanna Mosleh, Daniel Kuester

To achieve radio spectrum awareness for current and next generation wireless communication systems, it is critical to develop the capability of super-wideband...

Gradient Descent in Recurrent Neural Networks with Model-Free Multiplexed Gradient Descent: Toward Temporal On-Chip Neuromorphic Learning

June 12, 2025

Author(s)

Ryan O'Loughlin, Nicholas Skuda, Bakhrom Oripov, Sonia Buckley, Adam McCaughan

The brain implements recurrent neural networks (RNNs) efficiently, and modern computing hardware does not. Although specialized neuromorphic hardware is well...

Exploring Prompt Patterns for Effective Vulnerability Repair in Real-World Code by Large Language Models

June 5, 2025

Author(s)

Yining Luo, Baobao Li, Anoop Singhal, Pei-Yu Tseng, Lan Zhang, Qingtian Zou, Xiaoyan Sun, Peng Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in automating code vulnerability repair, but their effectiveness in handling real-world code remains limited...

Deep Learning for MPC Extraction and False Detection

May 28, 2025

Author(s)

Howard Dai, Jack Chuang, Jian Wang, Samuel Berweger, David Griffith

Multipath component (MPC) extraction is critical for channel modeling and joint communications and sensing (JCAS). The super-resolution algorithm known as CLEAN...

Measuring the RCS of Multipoint-Scattering Targets in JCAS Channel Sounding

May 25, 2025

Author(s)

Camillo Gentile, Jack Chuang, Steve Blandino, Jelena Senic, Jihoon Bang, Samuel Berweger

This paper presents a methodology for measuring the radar cross-section (RCS) of a target that scatters power from multiple points on its surface, in the...

Towards an Understanding of Robotic Bin-Picking Throughput

May 22, 2025

Author(s)

Anirudh Krishnan Komaralingam, Prem Rachakonda, Kamel Saidi, Armin Khatoonabadi

NIST is leading and supporting multiple efforts to develop standards for 3D imaging systems used for industrial automation. There are few standards for...

The SIM Time Network - Twenty Years of Operation

May 16, 2025

Author(s)

Andrew Novick, Jose Mauricio López Romero

The SIM Time Network (SIMTN) was established two decades ago to provide real-time time and frequency comparisons among National Metrology Institutes (NMIs)...

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