2024: Marine and Undersea Technology (MUST) to hold Research Program Technical Review

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Marine and Undersea Technology (MUST) to hold Research Program Technical Review

July 24 and 25, from 9am to 4:30pm

Organizers

Ramprasad Balasubramanian, PhD
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Director of the Marine & UnderSea Technology Research Program (MUST)

Ming Shao
Assistant Director of the Marine & UnderSea Technology Research Program (MUST)

Join us for the MUST Program Technical Review

Please join us for the upcoming Marine Undersea Technology Research (MUST) Program Technical Review in CCB 149 on July 24 and 25, from 9am to 4:30pm. Remote access (Zoom) will be provided for those that cannot attend in person. The MUST research program is a series of collaborative research projects focused on developing solutions and technologies of naval relevance. Working closely with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, MUST is funded by the Office of Naval Research. To date, MUST has funded 48 research projects, bringing together regional and national collaborators to strengthen the Navy's access to cutting-edge research and build a pipeline for a highly trained workforce. These research areas include autonomous underwater vehicles, battery systems, biofouling, composite materials, modeling ocean dynamics, undersea acoustics for communications and sensing technologies, AI/Machine Learning, and cybersecurity. Learn more about the MUST program.

During the technical reviews, you will have the opportunity to gain insights into the research projects, explore potential collaborations with researchers and industry experts, and engage in discussions on future MUST program initiatives and partnerships. MUST focuses on strong industry and higher education partnerships to advance innovation, and your participation will greatly enrich the dialogue and contribute to our shared goal of advancing undersea technology solutions.

Wednesday, July 24

Charlton College of Business, CCB 149 Auditorium
UMass Dartmouth

Time	Event/Presentation	Presenters
9am	Opening Remarks/Invited Talk	-
9:30am	Development of a Remotely Deployable MADWEC Wave Energy Conversion System for Utilization with a Sonobuoy Deployed Balloon Communication Package	Daniel MacDonald & Mehdi Raessi
9:45am	Toward High-Power/High-Energy Flow Batteries: Overcoming Fundamental Obstacles with a Bio-Inspired Active-Material Scaffold	Patrick Cappillino & Maricris Mayes
10am	Durability and Performance of Flow Batteries for Applications in Marine & Undersea Technology	Patrick Cappillino & Maricris Mayes
10:15am	Low Dissolved Oxygen (DO) Operation of Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) - Membrane Bio Reactor (MBR) Processes for Shipboard Non-Oily Wastewater Treatment	Sukalyan Sengupta
10:30am	Coffee break	-
10:45am	Multi-Fidelity Information Fusion for Accelerated Predictive Modeling and Optimal Design of High Entropy Alloys	Mazdak Tootkaboni & Yanlai Chen
11:15am	Marine Sensing Technology for Acoustic Detection and Damage Monitoring through Embedded Composite Conductors	Vijaya Chalivendra
11:30am	Effect of Stress Fields and Arctic Conditions on Damage Sensing in Marine Composites	Vijaya Chalivendra
11:45am	Bi-functional Polymer Matrix Composites for Structural Energy Storage in Marine Systems	Caiwei Shen
12pm	Enhanced Source Localization Using Optimally Designed Metamaterials and Advanced Machine Learning for Underwater	Argahavan Louhghalam & Mazdak Tootkaboni
12:15pm	Optimal Design and Additive Manufacturing of Functionally Graded Shell-Based PH Steel Metamaterials	Mazdak Tootkaboni
12:30pm	Lunch break	-
1:15pm	Detection, Characterization and Validation in Coastal Environments and of the Marine Wave Boundary Layer Using Coordinated Airborne UAVs and Underwater UAVs	Miles Sundermeyer
1:30pm	MITS: Sub-mesoscale and Mesoscale Interactions STudy (SubMIST)	Amit Tandon, Mark Altabet, & Wendell Brown
1:45pm	Intermediate and Long-Time Evolution of Turbulent Wakes in the Ocean	Miles Sundermeyer & Geoffrey Cowles
2pm	Advanced Computational Investigation of Nose Curvature and Surface Hydrophobicity Effects in Water Entry of Solid Objects	Mehdi Raessi
2:15pm	Regional Ocean Turbulence from Long-Duration, Autonomous Observations	Mark Altabet, Amit Tandon, & Geoffrey Cowles
2:30pm	Coffee break	-
2:45pm	Cost-effective Elastic Filament Velocimetry (EFV) Sensor Network for Small Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs)	Kihan Park
2:55pm	Advancing Autonomy of Resource-Constrained Unmanned Underwater Vehicles by Third-Generation Neural Network Models	Yuchou Chang
3:05pm	Optimizing the Design of a Novel Upper Ocean Variable Buoyancy Vehicle (Aurelia)	Amit Tandon, & Ruolin Zhou
3:15pm	A Multi-Modal Sensing Enabled Soft Robotic End-Effector for Highly Dexterous Object Manipulation in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Missions	Kihan Park
3:30pm	Development of a Biomimetic Sensor with Augmented Sensitivity for Ocean S Sensing Applications	Banafsheh Seyedaghazadeh & Hamed Samandari
3:45pm	Second Generation Autonomy for Underwater Vehicles - Tracking Density Fronts and Turbulent Wakes as Test Cases for Advanced Autonomous Operations	Daniel MacDonald
4pm	Automated Vulnerability and Backdoor Detection as a Part of Software Development Pipeline	Gokhan Kul
4:15pm	Cyber and Autonomous System Resilience Engineering	Lance Fiondella

Thursday, July 25

Charlton College of Business, CCB 149 Auditorium
UMass Dartmouth

Time	Event/Presentation	Presenters
9am	Opening remarks	-
9:30am	Acoustic Rainfall Measurement on Global Drifters	Amit Tandon & John Buck
9:45am	Active Optical Camouflage with Internal Communications	Wei-Shun Chang
10am	Coffee break	-
10:15am	Incremental Learning with Human-in-the-Loop for Underwater Anomaly Detection	Ming Shao & Paul Gendron
10:30am	Deep Learning-Enabled Detection and Classification of Acoustic Signals in Underwater Channels	Roulin Zhou, Paul Gendron, & Dayalan Kasilingam
10:45am	Multi Objective Reinforcement Learning for Automated Process Control of Modern Software Practices	Lance Fiondella
11:00am	Multiagent Learning in Complex Environment with Limited Communication	Shelley Zhang
11:15am	Applications of Machine Learning to Develop Statistical Emulators for Complex Spatial Marine Ecosystem Models for Improved Management Decision-making	Gavin Fay
11:30am	Learning Nonlinear Dynamical Systems from Sparse and Noisy Data: Applications to Signal Detection and Recovery	Scott Field, Chen Zheng, Alfa Heryudono, & Vijay Varma
11:45am	Knowledge Augmented Adaptive Learning of Evolving Models for Large Sensor Data Streams	Donghui Yan & Haiping Xu
12pm	AI-assisted and Quantum-Accelerated Computational Simulation of Multiphase Flow and Fluid-structure Interaction with Adaptive Mesh Refinement: Application in Water Entry of Solid Object	Mehdi Raessi
12:15pm	Lunch break	-
1pm	Anti-biofouling Property and Lifetime of Super-Hydrophobic Surfaces in Marine Environment	Hangjian Ling, Pia Moisander, & Wei-Shun Chang
1:15pm	Advances in Underwater Marine Technology New Solutions to Biofouling	Pia Moisander & Wei-Shun Chang
1:30pm	Microbially Influenced Corrosion of Materials in Marine Applications	Pia Moisander, Maricris Mayes, & Micheline Labrie
1:40pm	Humpback Whale Behaviors in Relation to Human Activities and Structures on Stellwagon Bank	Kathryn Kavanagh
1:55pm	Underwater Acoustic Communications at Extremely Low Signal to Noise Ratios	Paul Gendron
2:05pm	Wide Dynamic Range Photonic Frontend Receiver for Ultrawideband Electronic Sensor	Yifei Li
2:15pm	Tethered Integrated RF/Photonic Transmit/Receive for Underwater Unmanned Communications	Yifei Li
2:30pm	Underwater Signal Processing for Remote Sensing and Communication	Paul Gendron
2:45pm	Coffee break
3:05pm	Development of A Fully Coupled, Nonhydrostatic, Marine Infrastructure-resolving (up to ~ 1 m resolution), Atmospheric and Ocean Model System	Changsheng Chen
3:20pm	High-resolution (up to ~ 1-2 m resolution) Marine-infrastructure-resolving, Coupled Atmospheric and Ocean Model System Validation Experiments	Changsheng Chen
3:30pm	Quantum Computing and Control in Noisy Environments	David Kagan, Renuka Rajapakse, Robert Fisher, & Jay Wang
3:45pm	Improving the Prediction Capability of Coastal Ocean Models using Hardware Acceleration	Geoffrey Cowles & Gaurav Khanna
4pm	Computational Strategies for Scientific Data-Driven Learning for Marine and UnderSea Technology Application	Alfa Heryudono, Yanlai Chen, Sigal Gottlieb, & Gaurav Khanna
4:15pm	Closing remarks