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2024 Student Competition Winners

• EMI Computational Mechanics Student Poster Competition

  1st
  Yuxiang Gao
  Vanderbilt University
  "CNN-based Surrogate for the Phase Field Fracture Model and Its Application in Inverse Design of Composite Materials"

  2nd
  Mohamed Habeebulla Khazi
  University of Texas at Austin
  "Topological Optimization of Metamaterials for Wave Control"

  3rd Place
  Elaheh Mehdizadeh
  University of Pittsburg
  "A Shape-based Computational Approach for In Vivo Cardiac Tissue Property Estimation from Clinical Imaging Data"

  3rd Place
  Zhi Zhao
  University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
  "Architected Magnetic Soft Materials via Topology Optimization"

• EMI Dynamics Student Competition

  1st
  Jia-Xin Zhu
  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  "Equivalent formulation and EM technique for Bayesian two-stage structural system identification with model error"

  2nd
  Anna Arcaro
  University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  "Detection and localization of internal damage in sealed spent nuclear fuel canisters using a multi-task convolutional neural network (CNN)"

• EMI Elasticity Student Paper Competition

  Winner
  Guowei Wayne Tu
  University of Michigan
  "Origami of multi-layered spaced sheets"

  Winner
  Jinchen Xie
  Stanford University
  "Nanoscale Cylindrical Defects in Flexoelectric Solids"
  

  EMI Granular Materials Student Video Competition

  Winner-Experimental
  Aizhan Zhakupova
  University of Houston
  "Understanding the Controls of the Transient Friction of Granular Materials"

  Winner-Theoretical
  Shubjot Singh
  Northwestern University
  "Effect of Particle Shape on the Elastic Anisotropy of Granular Materials Theoretical"

• EMI Modeling Inelasticity & Multiscale Behavior (MIMB) Student Competition

  1st
  Guangyuan Yang
  National University of Singapore
  "A Localizing Gradient Damage Model for the Dynamic Fracture of Quasi-brittle Materials and its simple implementation in ABAQUS"

  1st Runner-Up
  Yanrong Xiao
  Johns Hopkins University
  "Uncertainty Quantified Parametrically Upscaled Continuum Damage Mechanics (UQ-PUCDM) model: Multiscale Analysis of Unidirectional Composites with Physics Infused Machine Learning Strategy via Uncertainty Quantification"

  Second Runner-Up 
  Shqipron Shala
  Columbia University
  "A three-dimensional anisotropic localizing gradient damage model for transversely isotropic materials: With emphasis on timber"

  Second Runner-Up 
  Rogelio Muneton-Lopez
  University of Missouri
  "A Phase-Field Formulation for Fracture Modeling of Rate- and Temperature-Dependent Materials"

• EMI Objective Resilience Student Paper/Presentation Competition

  1st
  Raul Rincon
  Rice University
  "Coupling Effects of Fragility Fidelity and Network Resolution in Infrastructure Resilience"

  2nd
  WoongHee Jung
  University of Notre Dame
  "Selection of Storm Ensembles Consistent with Storm Surge Hazard Maps Across Large Geographic Regions"

• EMI Poromechanics Student Paper Competition

  1st
  Mohammadali Behboodi
  University of Colorado Boulder
  "An analytical model for hygroscopic bilayers based on surface poromechanics theory"

  Runner-Up
  Micaela Mercuri
  Northwestern University
  "Normal stress variation and pore pressure rate effect on a rate and state frictional fault"

  Runner-Up
  Alexandre Sac-Morane
  Universite catholique de Louvain
  "The competition between dissolution, precipitation and diffusion during pressure-solution creep in porous materials: a PFDEM investigation"

• EMI Structural Stability Student Paper Competition

  1st place
  Emile Naous
  University of Texas at Austin
  "Progressive wrinkling and collapse of lined pipe due to repeated winding/unwinding on reel"

  2nd place
  Mohammad Bani Hani
  Kansas State University
  "Experimental lateral torsional buckling of simply supported anisotropic laminated web beams subjected to a single mid-span loading"
  

• EMI Structural Health Monitoring and Control Student Paper Competition

  1st
  Mona Shaheen
  University of Kansas
  "Wind-induced Vibration Monitoring and Mitigation of High-Mast Illumination Poles"

  2nd
  Manuel Salmeron
  Purdue University
  "Real-Time Hybrid Simulation for Infrastructure Degradation Assessment: Conceptual Framework and Illustrative Application"

  3rd
  Bozhou Zhuang
  University of Southern California
  "Impurity Gas Monitoring of Spent Nuclear Fuel Canisters Using a Variational Auto-encoder (VAE)"

• EMI Probabilistic Methods Committee Student Paper Competition

  1st place
  Leila Naderi
  Colorado State University
  "Multi-fidelity Subset Simulation for Rare Event Simulation"

  1st place 
  Elsayed Eshra
  Pennsylvania State University
  "Inverse Importance Sampling-based Framework for Reliability Estimation in Complex, High-dimensional Spaces"