Conferences

Assessing Structural Performance Using Energy

June 30, 2024

Author(s)

Kevin K F Wong

Buildings in seismic regions are designed to sustain significant damage during major earthquakes with collapse. Traditional linear design procedures use a force

Four terminal-pair measurements of ceramic capacitors

June 28, 2024

Author(s)

Stephan Schlamminger, Yicheng Wang, Andrew Koffman, Jordan Love

Expanding on our previous work on four terminal-pair air capacitors, we present a model for the frequency-dependent capacitance of ceramic capacitors for values

Scalable HLA Co-Simulations of Connected and Automated Vehicles using Aggregation of Virtual Federates

June 25, 2024

Author(s)

Himanshu Neema, Harmon Nine, Thomas Roth, Wenqi Guo

Automated Vehicles (AVs) aim to transfer driving responsibility from humans to the vehicle itself with the objective of enhancing vehicle safety by increasing

The Black Hole Explorer: Astophysics Mission Concept Engineering Study Report

June 21, 2024

Author(s)

Eliad Peretz, Peter Kurczynski, Michael D. Johnson, Janice Houston, Tirupati Kumara Sridharan, Jade Wang, Peter Galison, Ronald Gamble, Daniel P. Marrone, Scott Noble, Gary Melnick, Leonid Petrov, Hannah Rana, Kari Haworth, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Sara Issaoun, Shahar Hadar, Alexandru Lupsasca, Edward Tong, Kazunori Akiyama, Ranjani Srinivasan, Don Boroson, Guangning Yang, Tiffany Hoerbelt, Jeffrey Small, Mareki Honma, Bryan Bilyeu, Ed Canavan, Katia Shtyrkova, Robert Lafon, Lenny Paritsky, Laura Sinclair, Mark Silver, Leonid Gurvits, Yuri Kovalev, Robert Lehmensiek, Hua Jiao, Lindy Blackburn, Alexandra Brosius, Rick Butler, Andrew Chael, Dominic Chang, Koushik Chatterjee, Peter Cheimets, Daniel D'Orazio, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Vincent Fish, Garret Fitzpatrick, Charles Gammie, Zachary Gelles, Michael H. Hecht, Jens Kauffmann, Jared Lucey, Chung-Pei Ma, Mark Matsumura, Daniel Palumbo, Dominic Pesce, Jeff Piepmeier, Christopher J. Roberts, Freek Roelofs, Paul Tiede, Jaye Verniero, Maciek Wielgus, Ed Wollack, George N. Wong, Kelsey Gilchrist, Kayla Carmical, Andrew Lewis, Maya Wertheim, Keshet Shavit

The Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) mission will enable the study of the fine photon ring structure, aiming to reveal the clear universal signatures of multiple

Evaluating Large Language Models for Real World Vulnerability Repair in C/C++ Code

June 19, 2024

Author(s)

Lan Zhang, Qingtian Zou, Anoop Singhal, Xiaoyan Sun, Peng Liu

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has enabled advancement in automated code generation, translation, and summarization. Despite their promise

CHARACTERIZATION OF ELASTOPLASTIC PROPERTIES OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED SPECIMENS FROM INDENTATION DATA USING STOCHASTIC INVERSE MODELING

June 17, 2024

Author(s)

Ridwan Olabiyi, Jordan Weaver, Ashif Sikandar Iquebal

Rapid characterization of the mechanical properties and material structure of additively manufactured components via nondestructive techniques is becoming the s

A Method of Moments Embedding Constraint and its Application to Semi-Supervised Learning

June 17, 2024

Author(s)

Michael Majurski, Parniyan Farvardin, Sumeet Menon, David Chapman

Discriminative deep learning models with a linear+softmax final layer have a problem: the latent space only predicts the conditional probabilities $p(y|x)$ but

Assessing girth weld quality of pipeline steels and their susceptibility to hydrogen embrittlement

June 16, 2024

Author(s)

Zack Buck, Newell Moser, May Ling Martin, Nicholas Derimow, Damian Lauria, Enrico Lucon, Douglas Stalheim, Peter Bradley, Matthew Connolly

Hydrogen is known to cause premature failure in various steel infrastructures due to effects of embrittlement, which is particularly detrimental to ferritic

Anomaly Based Intrusion Detection using Large Language Models

June 15, 2024

Author(s)

Zineb Maasaoui, Abdella Battou, Mheni Merzouki, Ahmed LBATH

In the context of modern networks where cyber-attacks are increasingly complex and frequent, traditional Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) often struggle to

The Black Hole Explorer: Instrument System Overview

June 14, 2024

Author(s)

Daniel P. Marrone, Janice Houston, Kazunori Akiyama, Bryan Bilyeu, Don Boroson, Paul Grimes, Kari Haworth, Robert Lehmensiek, Eliad Peretz, Hannah Rana, Laura Sinclair, Sridharan Tirupati Kumara, Ranjani Srinivasan, Edward Tong, Jade Wang, Jonathan Weintroub, Michael D. Johnson

The Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) is a space very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) mission concept that is currently under development. BHEX will study

Towards Bridging the Research-Practice Gap: Understanding Researcher-Practitioner Interactions and Challenges in Human-Centered Cybersecurity

June 13, 2024

Author(s)

Julie Haney, Clyburn Cunningham, Susanne Furman

Human-centered cybersecurity (HCC) researchers seek to improve people's experiences with cybersecurity. However, a disconnect between researchers and

Animating Vital-signs for Radar Simulations: Comparing Physical Optics Against 28.5 GHz Channel Measurements

June 13, 2024

Author(s)

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

Monitoring vital signs such as breathing or heart rates as well as other physical movements in complex environments is the basis for many emerging applications

The Black Hole Explorer: Motivation and Vision

June 13, 2024

Author(s)

Michael D. Johnson, Kazunori Akiyama, Rebecca Baturin, Bryan Bilyeu, Lindy Blackburn, Don Boroson, Alejandro Cardena-Avendano, Andrew Chael, Chi-kwan Chan, Dominic Chang, Peter Cheimets, Cathy Chou, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Joseph Farah, Peter Galison, Ronald Gamble, Charles F. Gammie, Zachary Gelles, Jose L. Gomez, Samuel E. Gralla, Paul Grimes, Shahar Hadar, Kari Haworth, Kazuhiro Hada, Michael H. Hecht, Mareki Honma, Janice Houston, Ben Hudson, Sara Issaoun, He Jia, Svetlana Jorstad, Jens Kauffmann, Yuri Kovalev, Leonid I. Gurvits, Peter Kurczynski, Robert Lafon, Alexandru Lupsasca, Robert Lehmensiek, Chung-Pei Ma, Daniel P. Marrone, Alan P. Marscher, Gary J. Melnick, Ramesh Narayan, Kotaro Niinuma, Scott C. Noble, Eric J. Palmer, Daniel C. Palumbo, Lenny Paritsky, Eliad Peretz, Dominic Pesce, Alexander Plavin, Eliot Quataert, Hannah Rana, Angelo Ricarte, Freek Roelofs, Katia Shtyrkova, Laura Sinclair, Jeffrey Small, Sridharan Tirupati Kumara, Ranjani Srinivasan, Andrew Strominger, Paul Tiede, Edward Tong, Jade Wang, Jonathan Weintroub, Maciek Wielgus, George Wong, Xinyue Alice Zhang

We present the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX), a mission that will produce the sharpest images in the history of astronomy by extending submillimeter Very-Long

Trap-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors for trapped-ion qubit state readout

June 7, 2024

Author(s)

Benedikt Hampel, Daniel Slichter, Dietrich Leibfried, Richard Mirin, Varun Verma

State readout of trapped-ion qubits is usually achieved by observing qubit-state-dependent fluorescence from the ion while driving an optical cycling transition

The Effect Of The Free Surface On Penetration Depth Limited X-ray Stress Measurements

June 3, 2024

Author(s)

Thomas Gnaupel-Herold

The elastic behaviour of grains bordering a free surface is analysed through the self-consistent grain-matrix interaction model. The approach proposed here

Power and Energy Generation and Measurement System to Support DC Charging of Electric Vehicles

May 31, 2024

Author(s)

Bryan C. Waltrip, Thomas L. Nelson, Katya Delak

This paper describes the implementation of a system for the generation and measurement of DC power and energy for voltages with magnitudes up to 800 V DC and

Terms of Deception: Exposing Obscured Financial Obligations in Online Agreements with Deep Learning (Extended Abstract

May 23, 2024

Author(s)

Elisa Tsai, Anoop Singhal, Atul Prakash

This paper investigates one type of social engineering scam, where unsuspecting users inadvertently consent to hidden financial obligations by performing

ANT: A Multizone Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and Ventilation Analysis Plug-in for Algorithm Aided Design

May 21, 2024

Author(s)

Jialei Shen, William Stuart Dols, Brian Polidoro

To facilitate the design and analysis related to indoor air quality (IAQ) and ventilation in buildings, a plug-in named ANT (contam-in-ANT) has been developed

Mathematical Entities: Corpora and Benchmarks

May 20, 2024

Author(s)

Jacob Collard, Valeria de Paiva, Eswaran Subrahmanian

Mathematics is a highly specialized domain with its own unique set of challenges. Despite this, there has been relatively little research on natural language

A 0.1 GHz to 1.1 THz Inverted Grounded-CPW mTRL Calibration Kit Characterization in an InP HBT Process

May 13, 2024

Author(s)

Jerome Cheron, Rob Jones, Dylan Williams, Miguel Urteaga, Bryan Bosworth, Nick Jungwirth, Jeffrey Jargon, Ben Jamroz, Chris Long, Nate Orloff, Ari Feldman, Peter Aaen

We report a novel design approach of on-wafer multiline thru-reflect-line (mTRL) calibration kit fabricated on a commercial semiconductor-based transistor

An Analytical Evaluation for Software-based TSN in Industrial Wi-Fi Networks

May 12, 2024

Author(s)

Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell

Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is an emerging topic for the advancement of wireless networking for industrial applications. TSN, as defined under the umbrella

On the Impact of TIG Welding Interference on Industrial Wi-Fi Networks: Modeling of Empirical Data and Analytical Studying of Coexistence

May 12, 2024

Author(s)

Mohamed Hany, Jing Geng, Karl Montgomery, Rick Candell

The use of IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi in industrial applications has been enabled by Time-sensitive networking capabilities to achieve deterministic communications

Usability for Poll Workers: A Voting System Usability Test Protocol

May 8, 2024

Author(s)

Dana Chisnell, Sharon J. Laskowski, Karen Bachmann, Svetlana Z. Lowry

In this paper, we discuss our efforts to develop a repeatable test protocol for assessing usability for poll workers – temporary election officials who ensure

Recovery pathway assessment of recycled HDPE for circular economy: Shorter-life vs longer-life products

May 7, 2024

Author(s)

Buddhika Hapuwatte, Ashley Hartwell, Matthew Triebe, Abheek Chatterjee, Nehika Mathur, Daniel Figola, Katherine Morris

High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) is a highly recyclable thermoplastic comprising 17% of all plastic produced. Yet, demand for recycled HDPE (r-HDPE) has outrun

Forecasting Rare Earth Element Demands for Clean Energy Technologies with the Bass Diffusion Model

May 7, 2024

Author(s)

Nehika Mathur, Thomas Maani, Chuanbing Rong, John Sutherland

The push to decarbonize has spurred the demand for clean energy technologies such as electric vehicles (EVs) and wind turbines (WTs). These technologies rely on

The intersection of noise, amplitude, and nonlinearity in a high-Q micromechanical torsion pendulum

May 6, 2024

Author(s)

Jon R. Pratt, Stephan Schlamminger, Dalziel Wilson, Charles Condos, Aman Rajendra Agrawal, Christian Pluchar

We derive a nonlinear equation of motion for a chip-scale pendulum comprising a thick plate suspended from a tensioned nanoribbon. Recently we explored the use

Programmable Synapses and Dendritic Circuits for Superconducting Optoelectronic Neuromorphic Computing

May 3, 2024

Author(s)

Bryce Primavera, Saeed Khan, Samuel Adler, Jeff Shainline

Superconducting optoelectronic hardware is promising for large-scale neuromorphic computing. In this work, analog circuits combining Josephson junctions and

Working equation for a Fabry-Perot cavity based optical pressure standard

May 1, 2024

Author(s)

Yuanchao Yang, Patrick Egan, Tom Rubin

From basics of Fabry-Perot (FP) resonator and roundtrip phase, a complete working equation for a FP cavity based optical pressure standard (OPS) is derived and

The NIST Material Flammability Database

May 1, 2024

Author(s)

Isaac Leventon, Morgan Bruns, Michael Heck

7 The fire modeling community is actively working to develop the tools needed to quantitatively predict material 8 and product flammability behavior (e.g

Poster: Green Network Optimization with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Work in Progress

May 1, 2024

Author(s)

Vladimir Marbukh

This paper proposes a distributed Green Network Optimization (GNO) with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). GNO-MARL combines: (a) Network Utility