Year
2020-2021
Research Description
Simulation of multi-physical behavior in active shape morphing micro-origami
Mentor
Evgueni Filipov, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Year
2020-2021
Research Description
Conclusive, predictive, and scalable robotic hazard detection using deep neural networks and synthetic training data.
Mentor
Prof. SangHyun Lee, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduation Year
2017
Thesis Title
Computational Approaches to Fire-structure Interaction and Real-time Fire Monitoring
Graduation Year
2016
Current Job
Enrico Fermi Argonne Scholar at Argonne National Laboratory
Graduation Year
2016
Current Job
Assistant Professor of Engineering at Perimeter College, Georgia State University
Evgueni Filipov is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research interests lie in the field of deployable and reconfigurable structural systems. Folding and adaptable structures based on the principles of origami can have practical applications ranging in scale and discipline from biomedical robotics to deployable architecture.
His research is focused on developing computational tools that can simulate mechanical and multi-physical phenomena of deployable structures. The analytical models incorporate folding kinematics along with local and global phenomenological behaviors. Prof. Filipov uses finite element and constitutive modeling to better understand how geometry affects elastic deformations and other physical properties of the deployable and adaptable structures. He is interested in optimization of such systems and large scale parametric studies to explore the design space and potential applications of the systems.
Elastic deformations of a deployable origami tubes (Filipov et al. PNAS 2015)
Steven Skerlos is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is the director of the U-M program in Sustainable Engineering and co-director of the Engineering Sustainable Systems Program. His research focus is on the design of technology systems to reduce environmental impact while advancing economic and societal objectives. His group works on environmental and sustainable technology systems, life cycle product design optimization and sustainable water and wastewater systems, among other topics. From designing humanitarian technologies to purifying water using anaerobic membrane reactors, Prof. Skerlos research addresses challenges in the fields of systems design, technology selection, manufacturing, and water.
Sustainable Technology Policy
Maximizing the cost-effectiveness of pollution elimination (eastlab.org)
His research targets spatially-explicit interactions and feedbacks among components of environmental systems and builds on the development of and experimentation with physics/process-oriented models of water, energy, and element cycles at the plant, hillslope, catchment, and larger scales and the integration of observational data and models. Specific topics include high-resolution flood forecasting using coupled hydrologic-hydrodynamic modeling; assessment of climate impacts on watershed systems; simulation-based studies of ecohydrology of vegetation life-cycle processes and land-surface feedbacks; plant-scale modeling of water uptake and transpiration processes; and modeling of erosion and sediment transport.
