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Past Research Projects

Previous collaborations between Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) Jacobs School of Engineering

Contact  

  • Institute Director
  • Charles Farrar
  • (505) 663-5330
  • Email
  • UCSD EI Director
  • Michael Todd
  • (858) 534-5951
  • Executive Administrator
  • Vacant
  • Institute Administrator
  • Amy Schiffer
  • Email

Adaptive Sensing and Controls for Time Variant Systems

  • Brett Nadler UCSD Student
  • Thomas Bewley UCSD Instructor
  • Matt Bement Mentor
  • Charles Farrar Mentor

Composite-to-Steel Joint Integrity Monitoring and Assessment

Compressive sensing feasibility study

  • James Theiler Mentor
  • Don Hush Mentor
  • Charles Farrar Mentor
  • David Mascarenas Mentor

Contaminant Plume Identification, Estimation and Forecasting

  • Clement Kam UCSD Student
  • Nima Ghods UCSD Student
  • Chris Colburn UCSD Student
  • Joe Cessna UCSD Student
  • Chad Foerster UCSD Student
  • Andreas Pamporis UCSD Student
  • Thomas Hong UCSD Student
  • John Kosmatka UCSD Instructor
  • Sonia Martinez Instructor
  • Thomas Bewley UCSD Instructor
  • Rajesh Gupta UCSD Instructor
  • Miroslav Krstic UCSD Instructor
  • Daniel Tartakovsky UCSD Instructor
  • Curt Schurgers UCSD Instructor
  • Gyuhae Park Mentor
  • Matt Bement Mentor
  • Charles Farrar Mentor
  • Will Fox Mentor

Cylindrical Composite Spring Analysis Code

  • Eduardo Velazquez UCSD Student
  • John Kosmatka UCSD Instructor
  • Charles Farrar Mentor
  • Jeff Hylok Mentor

Damage Detection and Degration Tracking in High Strength Steel Canisters

  • Greg Jarmer UCSD Student
  • Michael Todd UCSD Instructor
  • Charles Farrar Mentor
  • Robert Gates Mentor

Intelligent Wind Turbines

  • Abraham Light-Marquez Student
  • Ramon Silva Student
  • Mark Mollineaux Stanford Student
  • Kendra Van Buren Clemson Student
  • JoEtta Carroll MVC Student
  • Michael Guerrero Student
  • Ming_Chen Hsu UCSD Student
  • Yuri Bazilevs UCSD Instructor
  • James Ahrens Mentor
  • Gyuhae Park Mentor
  • Don Hush Mentor
  • Charles Farrar Mentor
  • Kevin Farinholt Mentor
  • Francois Hemez Mentor
  • Curtt Ammerman Mentor
  • Thomas Claytor Mentor
  • Darbey J Luscher Mentor
  • Rod Linn Mentor
  • Eric Raby Mentor
  • Eunmo Koo Mentor
  • Balakumar Balasubramaniam Mentor
  • Gretchen Ellis Mentor

Nonlinear Shake Table Control

Passive Vibration Sensor

  • Erik Moro UCSD Student
  • Michael Todd UCSD Instructor
  • Gabriel Rebeiz UCSD Instructor
  • Prabhakar Bandaru UCSD Instructor
  • Charles Farrar Mentor
  • Anthony Puckett Mentor

Performance Comparison of Intensity-modulated and Interferometric Fiber Optic Sensors for Displacement Measurement

  • Erik Moro UCSD Student
  • Rick R. Grahn UNM Student
  • Hussain H. Karimi UCSD Student
  • Kyle K. Wilson Rose Hulman Student
  • Anthony Puckett Mentor

Rapid Integrated Structural Health Assessment Using Unmanned Delivery Platform

Real-time condition Assessment of Raptor Telescope Systems

  • Stuart Taylor UCSD Student
  • James Wren Mentor
  • Charles Farrar Mentor
  • Christopher Stull Mentor

Remote Inspection of Bolted Joints using Piezoelectric Sensors and RFID-Tagged Communication

Signal Processing and Controls of Pulsed Power Systems

  • Alex Scheinker UCSD Student
  • Miroslav Krstic UCSD Instructor
  • Sung-Il Kwon Mentor
  • Larry Rybarcyk Mentor
  • Daniel Rees Mentor
  • Lawerence Castellano Mentor

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Damage Prognosis and Reliability

Unmanned Stockpile Surveillance

Verification, Validation, Uncertainty Quantification for Nuclear fuels

  • Francois Hemez Mentor
  • Christopher Stull Mentor

Weld Residual Stresses in Low Symmetry HCP- Beryllium Materials

  • Stephen Oberrecht UCSD Student
  • Everett Criss UCSD Student
  • Sanjiv Shah UT Student
  • Jason Lee UT Student
  • Bimal Kad UCSD Instructor
  • Carolyn Conner Seepersad UT Instructor
  • Eric Taleff UT Instructor
  • Charles Farrar Mentor
  • Mike Prime Mentor

Wirelessly Powered, Embedded Neurological Stimulator

  • Gyuhae Park Mentor
  • Kevin Farinholt Mentor