Translational and bioinspired technologies for restoring neural connections and enhancing performance Galit Pelled, PhDProfessor of Mechanical Engineering, Radiology and NeuroscienceMichigan State University Abstract:My research focuses on understanding motor behavior and developing devices and analytical tools for enhancing neuro-performance that will lead to higher levels of speed and strength. We are capitalizing on advances in neuroengineering,...

Joel PaulsonDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringThe Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OH Physics-Informed Bayesian Optimization: A Sequential Learning Framework for Accelerating Scientific Design and Discovery Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful tool for optimizing non-convex black-box functions that are expensive and/or time-consuming to evaluate and subject to random noise in their observations. Many important real-world science...

Michael WebbDepartment of Chemical EngineeringPrinceton UniversityPrinceton, NJ Data-driven Strategies to Navigate Sequence, Composition, and ArchitecturalComplexity in Polymer Design Understanding and designing polymers with target structural and/or functional properties are grand challenges in materials science. The field of polymer physics provides invaluable scaffolding to elucidate general phenomena of polymer-based materials, but contributions fall short of proffering...

Advancing Agentic, Data-Driven, and Trustworthy Hypothesis Generation in Biomedical Research Yang Lu, PhDAssistant ProfessorCheriton School of Computer ScienceUniversity of Waterloo Abstract:Rapid developments in high-throughput sequencing have enabled biologists to collect large volumes of multi-omics data with unprecedented resolution. However, interpretation of such an increasing amount of heterogeneous biological data becomes highly nontrivial. In my talk,...

The ME 903: Graduate Student Lecture Series features campus and visiting speakers who present on a variety of research topics in the field of mechanical engineering. Dr. Laura Grossenbacher is the Director of Undergraduate Program Review and Director of the Technical Communication Program in the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Join us for the fall poster session. There are 73 posters, each representing real-world healthcare problems BME students solve through our design curriculum.

Li-ion batteries (LIBs) are widely used to power today’s portable electronics, electric vehicles (EVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and in utility scale battery energy storage systems (BESSs). High performance LIBs are becoming increasingly important to facilitate the ever-growing trend of electrification for achieving a low-carbon future. How to enable the design of high performance...

In this talk, Yu will present the journey of exploring ML in synthesis and verification, focusing on discussing the evolutionary developments from static ML-based synthesis approaches to algorithmic learning and general combinatorial optimizations using advanced domain-specific ML techniques.

The Mechanics Seminar Series is a weekly seminar given by campus and visiting speakers on topics across the spectrum of mechanics research (solids, fluids, and dynamics). Professor Yuhang Hu is a professor at Georgia Tech University.