Abhishek Salilkumar

Abhishek Salilkumar MS Student Majoring in Materials Science and Engineering

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Abhishek is graduate student at UCLA pursuing his Master's degree in Materials Science and Engineering. He is passionate about reliability engineering and risk analysis, with a particular interest in assessing and mitigating risks related to emerging technologies like hydrogen infrastructure. Having acquired his B.Tech degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, he currently works with Dr. Ali Mosleh's team on the "Pilot Testing and Assessment of Safety and Integrity of Targeted Hydrogen Blending in Gas Infrastructure for Decarbonization." During his undergrad, he worked on Additive Manufacturing, Process Optimization, as well as Modelling and Simulations.

Anna Cosmin-Spanoche

Anna Cosmin-Spanoche MS Student Majoring in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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Anna Cosmin-Spanoche is a first year Master's student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. She obtained her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, with a minor in Statistics and Data Science, at UCLA this past spring. Her current research at the Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences (GIRS) focuses on human-system safety for heavy-duty autonomous vehicles. Her previous research at GIRS was in Human Reliability Analysis for Nuclear Power Plants, in a project with the Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Authority (J-NRA). She also has experience with safety and reliability in the aerospace industry, having interned twice at The Boeing Company, in their enterprise-wide Safety Management System group as a systems engineer. 

Mohammad Pishahang

Mohammad Pishahang PhD Student Majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Mohammad Pishahang is a PhD student of Civil Engineering at UCLA. He studied BSc and MSc of Mining Engineering at University of Tehran, and MSc of Mechanical Engineering at University of Chile. Mohammad's research is focused on natural hazards management. More specifically, his PhD thesis is on wildfire safe egress planning. During his spare time, Mohammad creates web applications, learns new programming libraries, and reads tech trends.

Gabriel San Martín Silva

Gabriel San Martín Silva PhD Student Majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering M.S./B.S. University of Chile

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Gabriel San Martín Silva is a Chilean Engineer, with a Bachelor and Master’s in Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Chile. Currently, he is a PhD student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under the supervision of PhD. Enrique López Droguett, at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.

San Martín’s undergraduate and graduate research was primarily focused on the application of Deep Learning models and Probabilistic Graphical Models to prognosis and health management (PHM) problems, such as the identification of failure modes in ball-bearings and sea water pumps or the prediction of remaining useful life in turbo-fan machinery.

His current research interests lie on the application of state-of-the-art Quantum Computing and probabilistic Deep Learning models to real-world problems, with the objective of improving the safety and resilience of engineering systems and communities alike. In particular, his current research is based on applying Quantum Computing to inference problems, in order to decrease the time required to perform scenario simulation tasks.

Fahimeh Fakour

Computer Science Ph.D. Student

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Fahimeh Fakour is a 3rd year Computer Science Ph.D. student. Her research interests include machine learning, uncertainty analysis, and uncertainty quantification.

Camila A. Correa Jullian

Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. Student M.S. University of Maryland B.S. University of Chile

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Camila A. Correa Jullian is an incoming Fall 2021 Mechanical Engineering PhD Student at UCLA. She obtained her Reliability Engineering MS degree from the University of Maryland in 2021, and her undergraduate Mechanical Engineering degree at the University of Chile in 2019. Her previous work has focused on modern tools for risk and reliability analysis of hydrogen fueling infrastructure and data-driven health monitoring applications in photovoltaic and thermal solar systems for diagnostic, prognostic and reinforcement learning-based operation scheduling decision-making activities.

Bineh Ndefru

Bineh Ndefru PhD Candidate B.S. Carnegie Mellon University

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Bineh is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA. She is conducting research on technology approaches to building sustainable, reliable, and resilient next-generation energy systems under the guidance of Professor Ali Mosleh.

Karthik Sankaran

Karthik Sankaran M.S. Student B.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology

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Karthik is a Graduate Student in Materials Science & Engineering who completed his undergraduate education in Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. His research involves finding failure models for predicting the reliability of Composite Materials under the guidance of Professor Mosleh. His previous work includes Modelling and Simulation of Hydrogel Networks (Monash University, Melbourne), DFTB simulation of cement components (B.A.R.C., Mumbai), and Mechanical Testing of Farming Equipment to improve quality of materials in use (IIT Bombay).

Aidin Tamhidi

Aidin Tamhidi Ph.D. Student M.S. Sharif University of Technology

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Aidin Tamhidi is a PhD student in Structural and Earthquake Engineering at UCLA. He received his BS and MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. His current research is about Next-Generation Earthquake Field Data Measurements and their Use to Assess Earthquake Performance of Built Environment. He is conducting his research under the supervision of Professor Yousef Bozorgnia and Professor Ertugrul Taciroglu.

Minh Cao

Minh Cao Ph.D. Student B.S. University of California, Los Angeles

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Minh Cao is currently working as Programming Analyst and candidate M.S student in Bioengineering at UCLA. He is an expert in Signal processing, Android development and Cloud computing. His research interests mainly focus on applications of sensor networks and cloud computing in IoT mobile health care domain.

Nilofar Doorandish

Nilofar Doorandish PhD Student M.S. University of California, Los Angeles B.S. Sharif University of Technology

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Nilofar Doorandish is a PhD student studying Earthquake Engineering at UCLA. She received her B.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and her M.S. degree from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at UCLA. Her master’s research was on seismic reliability-based assessment of steel structures. Nilofar’s current research is also focused on the seismic analysis and performance assessment of structural systems. She is conducting her Ph.D. research under the supervision of Professor Yousef Bozorgnia and Professor Henry Burton.

Lixian Huang

Lixian Huang PhD Student B.S. University of California, Davis

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Lixian Huang is a PhD student major in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at UCLA. She got her B.S. degree with honors in MSE from UC Davis. Her previous research projects include the superconductivity characterization of SPS materials, laser parameters optimization, and negative thermal expansion property study. At UCLA, her focus is on the physics of failure and risk assessments of microelectronic components.

Theresa Stewart

Theresa Stewart PhD Student M.S. University of California, Los Angeles

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Theresa Stewart is a graduate student in Materials Engineering who completed her undergraduate education at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. At UCLA her focus is on model-based systems engineering. Projects include risk assessment for nuclear energy facilities, and system reliability modeling for the JPL “Lunar Flashlight” satellite.