2021 COE Graduate Research Poster Presentation Competition

2021 Graduate Research Poster Presentation Competition Judges 

• Niroj Aryal 
  Niroj Aryal is an assistant professor of Biological Engineering. He earned a Ph.D. in Biosystems and Environmental Engineering from Michigan State University. His research seeks to develop sustainable solutions to current and emerging environmental problems and increase agricultural productivity using laboratory, field, and modeling studies.
• Marcio Buhring
  Marcio Buhring is a Group Manager at Volvo GTT North America – CAB Engineering. He graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering at CEFET-PR in Curitiba, Brazil and has been working for Volvo since 2002 in CAB Engineering. Today, he is a Group Manager for Vehicle Front area where his team is responsible for the development of Hoods, Bumpers, Headlamps and Grilles. 
• Arvind Chandrasekharan
  Arvind Chandrasekaran, Assistant Professor in Bioengineering, is a licensed Professional Engineer and is the Principal Investigator at the Bioinspired Microengineering (BIOME) Laboratory at N.C. A&T. His current research interests include Microfluidics, Biomimetics, and Tissue Engineering, applied towards Neutrophils Immunotherapeutics. He is currently teaching the courses BioMEMS and Microfluidics, Biotechnology Entrepreneurship and Biophysics Design Lab. 
• Younho Seong
  Younho Seong received Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo in 2002. He is currently Professor of industrial and systems engineering with North Carolina A&T State University. His research interests include cognitive engineering, ecological approaches to human judgment & decision-making, machine learning, human trust in automation, social aspect of autonomous vehicles, human–robot interaction, designing interventions to support human cognition, virtual and augmented reality, neuroergonomics, and brain–computer interface.
• Boyce Collins 
  Collins is a research scientist in the Engineering Research Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials at N.C. A&T State University. He focuses on applying X-Ray computed tomography to biomedical and engineering studies of natural and man-made objects.
• Mookesh Dhanasar
  Mookesh Dhanasar is trained in Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics and Mathematics. His research areas include high-speed aircraft geometry, Hypersonic propulsion engine systems design, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), small satellites (CubeSat’s) power and propulsion systems and nuclear in-space propulsion systems design. Dr. Dhanasar has taught a variety of STEM courses and mentored both undergraduate and graduate students 
• Gregory Duperon
  Gregory Duperon is a field applications engineer at Texas Instruments, supporting Aerospace & Defense and Test & Measurement customers. Gregory’s previous experience also includes roles in product/test engineering and product quality. A native of Atlanta, GA, Gregory completed undergraduate and graduate studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology. 
• Ray Tesiero 
  Ray Tesiero is an Assistant Professor in Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Department with over 25 years of industry experience in manufacturing and engineering design. His research interest is Building Energy System Optimization.
• Amol Gulve
  Amol Gulve is an Engineering Manager at Volvo Group Trucks Technology, with over 15 years of experience working in Automotive and Heavy duty truck industry and has developing some exciting products in the field of Cab, Chassis & Vehicle Dynamics. He has been recognized for his collaborative and cross-functional leadership style. Amol is originally from Mumbai India and has Masters in Mechanical Engineering from University of Detroit Mercy. 
• Manoj Jha
  Jha is an associate professor with teaching and research specialization in water resources engineering. He has over 15 years of experience working in multi-scale modeling of hydrology and water resources/quality for evaluating water management strategies and impact assessment studies due to urban and agriculture best management practices, land use change and climate variability. 
• Dhananjay Kumar
  Dhananjay Kumar, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina A&T, is well recognized for his research and teaching in the areas of thin films and nanomaterials. He has published more than 125 papers in peer-reviewed journals with more a few thousand citations. He has sponsored research of more than 25 graduate students and 4 postdoctoral fellows at North Carolina A&T. 
• Mohammed Mawlana
  Mohammed Mawlana is an Assistant Professor in the department of Built Environment at NCAT. He earned his PhD in Building Engineering from Concordia University located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Some of Dr. Mawlana’s research interests are Automation in construction; intelligent and sustainable infrastructure; smart construction/cities; optimization and simulation of construction operations; and high- performance computing.
• Ahmed Megri
  Ahmed Cherif Megri, holds a Ph.D. degree from INSA at Lyon (France) in the area of Thermal Engineering and an ”Accreditation for Supervising Research" called Habilitation (HDR) degree from Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris VI, Sorbonne Universities (2011). Areas of Interests (projects funded by DOE, DOD, EPA, and ASHRAE), include Integration Zonal Models/Building Energy Simulation Models, Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD), Data Mining and Machine Learning: Support Vector Machine tools, and 3D-printing and Advanced Manufacturing. 
• Mauricio Oleas
  Mauricio Oleas is a Group Manager at Volvo Trucks GTT North America – CAB Engineering and is very passionate about the automotive/trucking industry and sustainable transportation. In 2009, he graduated from the University of Central Florida in Mechanical Engineering. He has been working for Volvo Trucks since January 2013, where he has held multiple positions in Project Management, Testing and now CAB Engineering. 
• Hyung Nam Kim
  Hyung Nam Kim, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. He is the director of the Health-Human-Computer Interaction Lab. Research interests include Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction, Safety, and Health IT. 
• Renzun Zhao
  Renzun Zhao is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. Dr. Zhao earned his PhD in Civil Engineering (Environmental and Water Resource) from Virginia Tech in 2012. Before becoming a faculty member at NCAT, Dr. Zhao was involved in the industrial capacity of Veolia Water, DC WASA and was a faculty member at Lamar University (Beaumont TX).
• Mahmoud Nabil
  Dr. Mahmoud Nabil is an Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina A&T University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Tennessee Tech University in 2019. He received his B.S. degree and the M.S. degree with honors in Computer Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt in 2012 and 2016, respectively. Mahmoud published many journals and conferences in different prestigious venues such as IEEE internet of things journal, IEEE transaction of dependable and secure computing, IEEE Access, international conference on communication (ICC), international conference on pattern recognition (ICPR), international conference on wireless communication (WCNC) and international conference on internet of things (iThings). 
• Venkatesh Pandey
  Venkatesh Pandey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. He received a B.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2014, and a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2016 and 2020, respectively. Dr. Pandey’s work has received several awards, including the 2017 Milton Pikarsky Award from the Council of University Transportation Centers. Dr. Pandey’s research focuses on integrating intelligent transportation systems and emerging mobility services in traffic operations and transportation planning models for the long-term future with a focus on equity and sustainability. 
• A.K.M. Islam
  Dr. Islam is an investigational and experimental computer scientist in the field of data mining, machine learning, and computational biology, who likes to contrive novel real-world problems with practical solutions through interdisciplinary collaborations that can affect the existing world and paves the way for future progression. His research interests include the design and implementation of machine learning algorithms for biomedical image processing, genome expression analysis, association study, and cybersecurity. 
• Zhijian Xie
  Dr. Xie is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at N.C. A&T. He received Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2001. After working for eight years in semiconductor industry including Agere Systems, Qorvo, and DSM solutions, he joined N.C. A&T in 2009. His research interests include RF/Microwave/mmW IC and devices, intelligent circuit design methodology, VLSI, RFIC, Electrostatic discharge protection, and novel device modeling.
• Svitlana Fialkova
  Svitlana Fialkova is the research scientist at erc-rmb at N.C. A&T. she obtained her M.S. in chemistry from Karazin Kharkiv National university (Ukraine), and had an extended career in industry – 10 years in quality assurance, from product specification engineer to qa manager. pursuing her real passion – science, she came back to school and earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from N.C. A&T. During her studies followed by postdoctoral fellowship, she has published several peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, and has been co-inventor on two patents. she has been recognized with several honors: “the top ten graduate” and “most published” from the Mechanical Engineering department  2013 and “outstanding lecture award” from NMD workshop UC in 2014. 
• Yogesh Kale
  Dr. Yogesh Kale, Research Computing Admin in the Computational Data Science and Engineering department. His current research interests include Recommender system, Machine Learning, HPC log data anomaly detection, Deep Learning, Neural Collaborative Filtering and Natural Language Processing. He is currently an research computing administrator for Visualization and Computation Advancing Research (Vicar) Center resources and advise students and faculties to run their programs/simulations on high performance computing systems 
• Binbin Yang
  Binbin Yang is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at N.C. A&T. His primary interests are in the areas of electromagnetics, antennas, RF and microwave circuits, wireless communication and numerical methods. Prior to joining N.C. A&T, Dr. Yang worked as a Staff Antenna Engineer at Motorola Mobility, where his work resulted in novel antenna systems for mobile devices and the successful launch of several commercial products. He has received his PhD from North Carolina State University, MS from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and BS from Hunan University, respectively.
• Madhuri Siddula 
  Madhuri Siddula is an Assistant Professor in the department of computer science at North Carolina A&T State University. She has completed her Ph.D. from Georgia State University in August 2020. Her current research interests include privacy in IoT and Social Networks. She has published in a number of prestigious conferences and journals in this regard. She has completed her master's from IIIT Delhi with a specialization in Security and Privacy. Her master’s thesis was published in IEEE SMC. She has worked at IIT Hyderabad with collaboration from the Indian Government and KDDI Labs Japan towards her publication in IEEE CONNECT