Accomplishments: Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
The College of Engineering Advising Center (Engineering), led by Chris Parker, was selected as the recipient of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) Region 9 Excellence in Advising - Advising Innovation Award, based on their classroom visits initiative. The team has been doing classroom visits over the past few years…
Hal Berghel (Computer Science) and Doug Jones (University of Iowa) wrote an article, "The State of the Art in Voting Machine Technology: Just How Reliable Are They?" which appears in the January issue of IEEE Computer.
Beiyu Lin (Computer Science) co-authored an article, "Early Forecasting of the Impact of Traffic Accidents Using a Single Shot Observation," which has been accepted to SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2022 (acceptance rate of about 27.8%). The paper was co-authored with Guangyu Meng (University of Notre Dame), Qisheng Jiang (…
Zakai J. Olsen, '16 BS, '18 MS, and '21 PhD Mechanical Engineering and Kwang J. Kim (Mechanical Engineering) are the authors of a new journal publication, "Characterizing the Transduction Behavior of Ionic Polymer-metal Composite Actuators and Sensors via Dimensional Analysis," which was published in Smart Materials and…
Justin Neubauer and Kwang J. Kim (both Mechanical Engineering), along with Zakai J. Olsen, '16 BS, '18 MS, and '21 PhD Mechanical Engineering; Zachary Frank, '21 PhD Mechanical Engineering; and former post-doc Taeseon Hwang are the authors of a new journal publication, "A Study of Mechanoelectrical Transduction Behavior in Polyvinyl Chloride…
Charlotta E. Sanders (Mechanical Engineering) and co-author Mark Sanders have published their manuscript “A world's dilemma ‘upon which the sun never sets’: The nuclear waste management strategy (part IV): Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, and United Arab Emirates” in the journal Progress in Nuclear Energy.
The article is the fourth and…
Charlotta E. Sanders (Mechanical Engineering) and co-author Mark Sanders have published their manuscript “A world's dilemma ‘upon which the sun never sets’: The nuclear waste management strategy (part IV): Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, and United Arab Emirates” in the journal Progress in Nuclear Energy.
The article is the fourth and…
Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) along with colleagues at the Iowa State University and the Australian National University published a special collection announcement paper, "Diversity and Inclusion in the Engineering-Construction Industry" in the Journal of Management in Engineering published by…
Hal Berghel, (Computer Science) has published an article, "The Online Disinformation Opera" in the December issue of IEEE Computer.
This article looks at how the Internet and social media feed disinformation and fake news to nonreality-based communities.
Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering) and Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) gave recruitment presentations and answered questions about corresponding nuclear-related programs at the ANS Virtual Graduate School Fair last week.
UNLV is the only university that has two recruitment sessions (Nuclear Engineering and Health…
Mingon Kang and Euiseong Ko (both Computer Science) are the first and co-author on a new journal paper, "A Roadmap for Multi-Omics Data Integration using Deep Learning," in Briefings in Bioinformatics.
The publication is achieved by the research collaboration with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. The paper reviews deep learning-based…
Mingon Kang (Computer Science), Ji Yoo (Medicine), and Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy) have been awarded a grant of $245,000 from the Minority Research Grant Program of Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The research team will use novel computational and clinical strategies, including a deep learning-based risk score…