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Graduate Exam Abstract


Yugandhar Sarkale

Ph.D. Qualifying
March 27, 2019, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
ECE Conference Room (C101B)
N/A - qualifying exam

Abstract: qualifying exam

Adviser: Prof. Edwin Chong
Co-Adviser: N/A
Non-ECE Member: Prof. Yongcheng Zhou, Math
Member 3: Prof. Rockey Luo, ECE
Addional Members: Prof. Peter Young, ECE

Publications:
[1] Y. Sarkale and E. K. P. Chong, "Orchestrated management of heterogeneous sensors incorporating feedback from intelligence assets," in Proceedings of the Conference on Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XXIV (SPIE Vol. 9474), part of the SPIE Symposium on Defense + Security, Baltimore, Maryland, April 20--24, 2015, Paper 9474-9.
[2] Y. Sarkale and E. K. P. Chong, "Orchestrated management of heterogeneous sensors incorporating feedback from intelligence assets," presented at Orchestrated Resource Management Technical Exchange, Center for Multi-INT Studies, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, July 15--16, 2015.
[3] Y. Sarkale and E. K. P. Chong, "On the optimality of the greedy policy for the sequential scalar measurement problem in signal-plus-noise models," presented (poster) at the 2018 North-American School of Information Theory, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, May 20--23, 2018.
[4] S. Nozhati, B. R. Ellingwood, H. Mahmoud, Y. Sarkale, E. K. P. Chong, and N. Rosenheim, "An approximate dynamic programming approach to community recovery management," presented at the Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2018 (EMI 2018), Cambridge-Boston, MA, May 29--June 1, 2018. arXiv:1806.08492
[5] S. Nozhati, Y. Sarkale, B. R. Ellingwood, E. K. P. Chong, and H. Mahmoud, "A modified approximate dynamic programming algorithm for community-level food security following disasters," in Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2018), Fort Collins, CO, June 24--28, 2018.
[6] Y. Sarkale, S. Nozhati, E. K. P. Chong, B. R. Ellingwood, and H. Mahmoud, "Solving Markov decision processes for network-level post-hazard recovery via simulation optimization and rollout," in Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2018), Munich, Germany, August 20--24, 2018 (Invited paper).
[7] B. Ellingwood, S. Nozhati, E. K. P. Chong, Y. Sarkale, J. van de Lindt, P. Gardoni, F. Nocera, N. Sharma,W. Peacock, N. Rosenheim, D. Goldberg, and J. Kruse, "Scalable decision model to achieve local and regional resilience of interdependent critical infrastructure systems and communities," presented (poster) at the Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes: A CRISP/RIPS Grantees Workshop, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, December 5--6, 2018.
[8] S. Nozhati, B. Ellingwood, H. Mahmoud, Y. Sarkale, E. K. P. Chong, and N. Rosenheim, "An approximate dynamic programming approach to community recovery assessment," presented at the Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes: A CRISP/RIPS Grantees Workshop, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, Deceamber 5--6, 2018. (Session B3: We are in Control.)
[9] S. Nozhati, Y. Sarkale, B. R. Ellingwood, E. K. P. Chong, and H. Mahmoud, "Near-optimal planning using approximate dynamic programming to enhance post-hazard community resilience management," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 181, pp. 116--126, January 2019. (The first two authors contributed equally and are listed alphabetically.)
[10] P. R. Barbosa, Y. Sarkale, E. K. P. Chong, Y. Li, S. Suvorova, and W. Moran, "Controlled Tracking in Urban Terrain: Closing the Loop," Asian Journal of Control, Special Issue: Recent Advances on Data Fusion, Estimation in Navigation and Control, to appear.
[11] S. Nozhati, Y. Sarkale, E. K. P. Chong, and B. R. Ellingwood, "Optimal Stochastic Dynamic Scheduling for Managing Community Recovery from Natural Hazards," Reliability Engineering and System Safety (Under Review).
[12] S. Nozhati, Y. Sarkale, B. R. Ellingwood, E. K. P. Chong, and H. Mahmoud, "An approximate dynamic programming approach to food security of communities following hazards," in 13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP13), Seoul, South Korea, May 26-30, 2019, to appear.
[13] Y. Sarkale, E. K. P. Chong, S. Nozhati, and B. R. Ellingwood, "A strong reinforcement learning approach for food security of communities post-hazard," presented (poster) at the ECE Grad Student Research Poster Session, ECE Graduate Student Visit Day, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, February 22, 2018?


Publications to be Reviewed:
Rollout Algorithms for Discrete Optimization: A Survey

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Program of Study:
GSTR 600
ECE 513
ECE 516
ECE 611
ECE 651
ECE 795
ECE 799
MATH 525