News

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2022

$1.5 million NSF Award

November 2022

Ellie Jackson (Ph.D. student in CpE) has been elected to the IEEE-Eta Kappa NU (IEEE-HKN) Board of Governors

November 2022

She will serve as a student representative and voting member for the 2023 calendar year.

Make a Computer Sing! Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) outreach event

September 2022

Introduced 36 middle school girls to computer engineering via programming Circuit Playground microcontroller. Special thanks to Elanor Jackson, Joel Schott, Rusul Mutar, Arianna Chaves, and Sara McDaniel for helping!

May Graduations

May 2022

Congratulations to Nic Dobbins (MS CpE), Colton Walker (BS CS), Curtis Brinker (BS CS), Ellie Jackson (BS CpE), and Bikis Muhammed (BS CS)

Nic Dobbins successfully defended his thesis!

April 2022

Congratulations to Nic!

Danilo Pejovic has joined the team!

April 2022

Let’s welcome Danilo from Slovenia!

Nic Dobbins has presented at the ISC Research Symposium! 

April 2022

Congratulations to Nic!

Curtis Brinker’s team won second place in the ACM PickHacks hackathon!

April 2022

Congratulations to Curtis!

Elanor Jackson won the IEEE Region 5 Ethics competition! 

April 2022

Congratulations to Ellie!

Sanfan Liu has passed his oral exam!

March 2022

Congratulations to Sanfan and best of luck on his research!

Sanfan Liu has passed his written exam!

February 2022

Congratulations to Sanfan!

2021

Koosha Marashi’s paper has been accepted

November 2021

Koosha Marashi, Dr. Hurson, and Dr. Sedigh Sarvestani’s paper “Identification of interdependencies and prediction of fault propagation for cyber-physical systems” has been accepted to Reliability Engineering & System Safety.

Natasha Jarus is defending her dissertation!

October 2021

We’re wishing Natasha the best!

Justin King has passed his Ph.D. qualifying exam!

August 2021

Congratulations to Justin!

Curtis Brinker has been accepted into the Accelerated Master’s program! 

August 2021

Curtis is now a dually-enrolled student in Computer Science!

Bikis Muhammed has been accepted into the Accelerated Master’s program!

August 2021

Bikis is now a dually-enrolled student in Computer Engineering!

Connor Jones has been accepted into the Accelerated Master’s program!

August 2021

Connor is now a dually-enrolled student in Computer Engineering!

Sanfan Liu has been accepted into the Ph.D. program!

August 2021

Sanfan is now a graduate student in Computer Engineering!

Mark Woodard’s paper has been accepted

June 2021

Mark Woodard, Koosha Marashi, Dr. Hurson, and Dr. Sedigh Sarvestani’s paper “Survivability evaluation and importance analysis for cyber-physical smart grids” has been accepted to Reliability Engineering & System Safety.

2020

Nic Dobbins has been accepted into the Accelerated Master’s Program

August 2020

Nic is now a dually-enrolled student in Computer Engineering!

Dr. Sedigh Sarvestani’s paper has been accepted

July 2020

Omid Hoseini Izadi, Keith Frazier, Nevin Altunyurt, Dr. Sedigh Sarvestani, Dr. Pommerenke, and Dr. Hwang’s paper “A New Tunable Damped Sine-like Waveform Generator For IEMI Applications” has been accepted to the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility and Signal/Power Integrity (EMCSI).

Tyler Morrow’s paper has been accepted 

July 2020

Tyler Morrow, Dr. Hurson, and Dr. Sedigh Sarvestani’s paper “Algorithmic Support for Personalized Course Selection and Scheduling” has been accepted to the 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference.

Natasha Jarus’s paper has been accepted

March 2020

Natasha Jarus, Antonio Sabatini, Pratik Maheshwari, and Dr. Sedigh Sarvestani’s paper “Software-Based Monitoring and Analysis of a USB Host Controller Subject to Electrostatic Discharge” has been accepted to the International Symposium on Real-Time and Embedded Systems and Technologies (RTEST).

2019

Natasha Jarus’s paper has been accepted

November 2019

Natasha Jarus, Dr. Sedigh Sarvestani, and Dr. Hurson’s paper “Towards Refinement and Generalization of Reliability Models Based on Component States” has been accepted to the Resilience Week Symposium.

New Member: Evan Hite

October 2019

Evan Hite has joined SeNDeComp as a B. S. student!

New Member: Johnathan Dunker

July 2019


Johnathan Dunker has joined SeNDeComp as a B. S. student!

S-STEM Scholarship Program

March 2019

The S-STEM program provides academic mentoring and scholarships to talented students in financial need.

New Member: Áva Klingbeil

Februrary 2019

Áva Klingbeil has joined SeNDeComp as a B. S. student!

New member: Madison Childress

January 2019

Madison Childress has joined SenDeComp as a B. S. student!

New Member: Justin King

January 2019

Justin King has joined SenDeComp as a Ph. D. student!

Brad Ziegler’s paper has been accepted

January 2019

Brad Ziegler, Dr. Sedigh Sarvestani, and Dr. Hurson’s paper “Facilitating Failure Analysis with Software Instrumentation” has been accepted to the High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium (HASE).

Natasha Jarus’s paper has been accepted

January 2019

Natasha Jarus, Dr. Sedigh Sarvestani, and Dr. Hurson’s paper “Formalizing Cyber–Physical System Model Transformation Via Abstract Interpretation” has been accepted to the High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium (HASE).

2018

Natasha Jarus’s paper has been accepted

October 2018

Natasha Jarus, Dr. Sedigh Sarvestani, and Dr. Hurson’s paper “Facilitating Model-Based Design and Evaluation for Sustainability” has been accepted to the International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC).

Natasha Jarus’s Formalizing Model Transformation paper accepted

October 2018

Natasha Jarus, Dr. Sedigh Sarvestani, and Dr. Hurson’s “Formalizing Cyber–Physical Model Transformation via Abstract Interpretation” paper has been accepted for the 19th IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE)

Natasha Jarus’s Facilitating Model–Based Design poster accepted

September 2018

Natasha Jarus’s “Facilitating Model–Based Design and Evaluation for Sustainability” poster has been accepted for the 9th IEEE International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC)

New Member: Alex Schriewer

August 2018

Alex Schriewer has joined SenDeComp as a B. S. student!

We Have Relocated!

July 2018

Our lab has relocated to 212 West Emerson Hall (Electrical Engineering Building).

2017

Erik Burgdorf appointed instructor of CpE 5420

August 2017

Erik will be teaching “Introduction to Network Security” in the upcoming semester

M.S. Defense: Erik Burgdorf

August 2017

His M. S. thesis is titled “Predicting the Impact of Data Corruption on the Operation of Cyber-Physical Systems”. Congratulations, Mr. Burgdorf!

New Member: Brad Ziegler

August 2017

Brad Ziegler has joined SenDeComp as a Ph. D. student!

Ph. D. Defense: Koosha Marashi

May 2017

His Ph.D. thesis is titled “Quantitative Dependability and Interdependency Models for Large-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems”. Congratulations, Dr. Marashi!

Ph. D. Defense: Mark Woodard

May 2017

His Ph.D. thesis is titled “Survivability Modeling for Cyber-Physical Systems subject to Data Corruption”. Congratulations, Dr. Woodard!

M.S. Defense: Tyler Morrow

April 2017

His M. S. thesis is titled “Personalizing Education with Algorithmic Course Selection”. Congratulations, Mr. Morrow!

Dr. Marashi’s paper has been accepted

March 2017

“Consideration of Cyber-Physical Interdependencies in Reliability Modeling of Smart Grids” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing.

Michael Wisely’s Broadcasting journal paper has been accepted

March 2017

Dr. Hurson, Dr. Sedigh, and Michael Wisely’s paper “Energy-Efficient Algorithms for Data Retrieval from Indexed Parallel Broadcast Channels” has been accepted to Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (SUSCOM).