Summer Research Internships (SURI)
Summer Research Internships 2020
The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University is offering paid summer research internships for qualified U.S. citizens and permanent residents not currently enrolled at ASU as well as current ASU students enrolled in a 4+1 program. Participants will be connected with faculty members to pursue 8-week-long research projects from approximately May 27th to July 25th, 2020.
Students from all branches of engineering are welcome to apply, but those between their junior and senior years who are interested in earning a PhD will be given highest consideration.
Faculty | Program/expertise area | Campus | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aditi Chattopadhyay | Mechanical and aerospace engineering | Tempe campus | Multiphysics multiscale simulation platform for damage, environmental degradation and life prediction of CMCs in extreme environments |
| Aditi Chattopadhyay | Mechanical and aerospace engineering | Tempe campus | Stochastic multiphysics multiscale analysis framework for ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) |
| Aditi Chattopadhyay | Mechanical and aerospace engineering | Tempe campus | A computationally driven approach to nano-engineered composite structures |
| Aditi Chattopadhyay | Mechanical and aerospace engineering | Tempe campus | Fatigue damage characterization and life prediction of metallic materials under multiaxial out-of-plane loading |
| Aditi Chattopadhyay | Mechanical and aerospace engineering | Tempe campus | Multiaxial fatigue behavior of carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites and nano-enhanced composites |
| Aditi Chattopadhyay | Mechanical and aerospace engineering | Tempe campus | Scale-dependent studies of meteorite strength and fragmentation |
| Aditi Chattopadhyay | Mechanical and aerospace engineering | Tempe campus | Self-sensing and self-Healing capabilities for polymer matrix composites |
| Aditi Chattopadhyay | Mechanical and aerospace engineering | Tempe campus | Information fusion for real-time national air transportation system prognostics under uncertainty |
| Adofo Escobedo | Industrial engineering (with electrical engineering) | Tempe campus | Power systems planning against rising temperatures |
| Adofo Escobedo | Industrial engineering (with electrical engineering) | Tempe campus | Enhancing the wisdom of the crowd through principled aggregation |
| Dragica Vasileska | Energy and sustainability, nanotechnology, computational science | Tempe campus | Modeling of transport in nanostructures or modeling of solar cells |
| Elham H. Fini | Sustainable engineering and the built environment | Tempe campus | Sustainable bio-based construction |
| Erin Chiou | Human systems engineering | Polytechnic campus | The human factor of autonomous mobile robots in hospital settings |
| Erin Chiou | Human systems engineering | Polytechnic campus | Designing for appropriate human-AI decision deferrals (domestic preferred) |
| Fengbo Ren | Computing, informatics, and decision systems engineering | Tempe campus | Reconfigurable high-performance computing |
| Fengbo Ren | Computing, informatics, and decision systems engineering | Tempe campus | Deep learning in the compressed domain |
| Fengbo Ren | Computing, informatics, and decision systems engineering | Tempe campus | IoT and edge computing |
Junseok Chae | Electrical, computer and energy engineering | Tempe campus | Wireless sensors / systems for biomedical / medical purposes, including wireless fully-passive acquisition of neural signal, wireless respiration behavior monitoring, and wireless bacteria biosensors |
| Kenan Song | Processing-structure-property relationships in advanced composite materials | Polytechnic campus | Innovation of 3D printing mechanism and the materials used for 3D printing |
| Lalitha Sankar | Electrical, computer and energy engineering | Tempe campus | Evaluating a new class of loss functions called alpha-loss to improve robustness under adversarial examples and class imbalances. Testing of the loss function including in the fair AI and ML settings will be studied. Focus will be on using TensorFlow and Python but an interest in understanding theory is key |
| Lalitha Sankar | Electrical, computer and energy engineering | Tempe campus | NSF REU position: a hack python programmer very interested in machine learning and good at programming |
| Robert S. Gutzwiller | Cognitive engineering applications to healthcare, cyberspace, transportation, and defense | Polytechnic campus | Human factors in cybersecurity. We are studying cyber attacker behavior in moderate fidelity settings. The student will assist the project team in researching the use of human psychological, information processing mechanisms in understanding and disrupting attacker cognition and decision-making. Students are also able to contribute to experimental design and programmingaspects of the simulated cyber environments we currently work within. |
| Robert S. Gutzwiller | Cognitive engineering applications to healthcare, cyberspace, transportation, and defense | Polytechnic campus | Trust in automation and autonomy. We are currently evaluating different measures of trust in automation as part of a review of subjective trust in technology. The student would assist with literature reviews, work as part of a team devoted to understanding how trust has been measured, and how to improve these measures in the future. Students are free to develop their own ideas and experiments in this context; for example, an experiment may be designed to test trust measures with robotics or automated systems in a human subjects experiment. |
| Robert S. Gutzwiller | Cognitive engineering applications to healthcare, cyberspace, transportation, and defense | Polytechnic campus | Attention modeling. The lab has a deep history of building models of human attention, particularly for workers under high mental load (originally funded by NASA). The student would assist in developing or contributing to ongoing work in this area, in addition to reading the relevant literature and developing new ideas. This has applications to aviation, process control and management, fault diagnostics and potentially cybersecurity environments. |
| Samantha Brunhaver | Engineering education | Polytechnic campus | Student perceptions of online undergraduate engineering courses |
| Samantha Brunhaver | Engineering education | Polytechnic campus | Factors influence the job search self-efficacy of engineering juniors and seniors |
| Steven K. Ayer | Sustainable engineering and the built environment | Tempe campus | Development and testing of Virtual and Augmented Reality experiences to support immersive learning relevant to the engineering and construction domains |
| Xiao Wang | Biological and health systems engineering | Tempe campus | Synthetic gene circuits, require molecular biology/genetics background |
| Yong-Hang Zhang | Electrical, computer and energy engineering | Tempe campus | Semiconductor optoelectronic materials and devices (solar cells, photodetectors, and laser diodes) |
| Zachary Holman | Electrical, computer and energy engineering | Tempe campus | Photoluminescent measurement system for perovskite and CdTe solar cells |
| Zachary Holman | Electrical, computer and energy engineering | Tempe campus | Transparent conductive oxide films for solar cell contacts |
| Zachary Holman | Electrical, computer and energy engineering | Tempe campus | A new plasma deposition technique for depositing functional nanoparticle coatings |
| Meng Tao | Electrical, computer and energy engineering | Tempe campus | Terawatt-ready silicon solar cells by substituting silver with aluminum |
| Ram Pendyala | School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment | Tempe campus | Modeling the impacts of future transportation technologies on activity-travel patterns in a smart city |
Each participant will receive a $5,000 stipend. Housing for research at the Tempe campus will be at Tooker House and housing for research at the Polytechnic campus will be at Century Hall. Cost of housing will be deducted from the stipend. Participants are responsible for their own transportation to and from Tempe, Arizona.
Application for Summer 2020 will open up December 1st, 2019 and will be open until December 31st, 2019
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