6 latest publications
| [*] | 'On the use of geometric deep learning towards the evaluation of graph-centric engineering systems.' . |
| [*] | 'The effects of the assessed perceptions of MBSE on adoption.' In (to appear) INCOSE 2024 International Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, Jul 2024. |
| [*] | 'Site-dependent solutions of wave energy converter farms with surrogate models, control co-design, and layout optimization.' In (to appear) 2024 American Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, Jul 2024. |
| [*] | 'On the use of geometric deep learning for the iterative classification and down-selection of analog electric circuits.' (to appear) ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 146(5), p. 051703, May 2024. |
| [*] | 'Using hybrid system dynamics and discrete event simulations to identify high leverage targets for process improvement in a skill-based organizational structure.' In (to appear) IEEE 2024 International Systems Conference (SysCon), Montreal, QC, Canada, Apr 2024. [arXiv.2402.14768] [code] |
| [J16] | 'Open-loop control co-design of semisubmersible floating offshore wind turbines using linear parameter-varying models.' ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 146(4), p. 041704, Apr 2024. |
| 2024 | |
| [*] | 'The effects of the assessed perceptions of MBSE on adoption.' In (to appear) INCOSE 2024 International Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, Jul 2024. |
| [*] | 'Site-dependent solutions of wave energy converter farms with surrogate models, control co-design, and layout optimization.' In (to appear) 2024 American Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, Jul 2024. |
| [*] | 'Using hybrid system dynamics and discrete event simulations to identify high leverage targets for process improvement in a skill-based organizational structure.' In (to appear) IEEE 2024 International Systems Conference (SysCon), Montreal, QC, Canada, Apr 2024. [arXiv.2402.14768] [code] |
| [C40] | 'Digital requirements engineering with an INCOSE-derived SysML meta-model.' In 2024 Conference on Systems Engineering Research, Tucson, AZ, USA, Mar 2024. [arXiv.2401.16330] [slides] |
| [C39] | 'Seamless digital engineering: a grand challenge driven by needs.' In AIAA 2024 Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, Orlando, FL, USA, Jan 2024. |
| [C38] | 'Geometric deep learning towards the iterative classification of graph-based aircraft thermal management systems.' In AIAA 2024 Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, Orlando, FL, USA, Jan 2024. |
| 2023 | |
| [C37] | 'Towards the integration of hydrogen production with nuclear with model-based systems engineering.' In ANS Winter Meeting and Technology Expo, 129(1), 1, p. 760–763, Washington, D.C., USA, Nov 2023. [slides] |
| [C36] | 'Using high-fidelity time-domain simulation data to construct multi-fidelity state derivative function surrogate models for use in control and optimization.' In ASME 2023 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, IMECE2023-112316, Nov 2023. |
| [C35] | 'Building a requirements digital thread from concept to testing using model-based structured requirements applied to thrust reverser actuation system development.' In Recent Advances in Aerospace Actuation Systems and Components, Toulouse, France, Sep 2023. [model] [slides] |
| [C34] | 'Concurrent probabilistic control co-design and layout optimization of wave energy converter farms using surrogate modeling.' In ASME 2023 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC2023-116896, Boston, MA, USA, Aug 2023. |
| [C33] | 'On the use of geometric deep learning towards the evaluation of graph-centric engineering systems.' In ASME 2023 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC2023-114592, Boston, MA, USA, Aug 2023. |
| [C32] | 'A case for model-based systems engineering in an agile world and principles for growth.' In INCOSE 2023 Annual International Symposium, p. 1612–1626, Honolulu, HI, USA, Jul 2023. |
| [C31] | 'Advancing model-based engineering through improved integration of domain-specific simulation and analysis using SysML-based models for unmanned aerial vehicles.' In AIAA 2023 Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA 2023-0256, National Harbor, MD, USA, Jan 2023. |
| 2022 | |
| [C30] | 'Investigations into uncertain control co-design implementations for stochastic in expectation and worst-case robust.' In ASME 2022 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, IMECE2022-95229, Columbus, OH, USA, Nov 2022. |
| [C29] | 'Development of a control co-design modeling tool for marine hydrokinetic turbines.' In ASME 2022 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, IMECE2022-94483, Columbus, OH, USA, Nov 2022. |
| [C28] | 'Evaluating the economic viability of NGCC-SWITCC: natural gas combined cycle system with integrated thermal storage and carbon capture.' In 2022 Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference, Lyon, France, Oct 2022. |
| [C27] | 'Control co-design under uncertainties: formulations.' In ASME 2022 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC2022-89507, St. Louis, MO, USA, Aug 2022. |
| [C26] | 'Control co-design optimization of natural gas power plants with carbon capture and thermal storage.' In ASME 2022 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC2022-90021, St. Louis, MO, USA, Aug 2022. |
| [C25] | 'Model-based structured requirements in SysML.' In IEEE 2022 International Systems Conference (SysCon), Apr 2022. |
| [C24] | 'Sewing the digital transformation thread: a deeper look into model-based Six Sigma (MBSS) and the model‐based systems architecture processes (MBSAP).' In AIAA 2022 Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA-2022-0095, San Diego, CA, USA, Jan 2022. |
| 2021 | |
| [C23] | 'Digital engineering transformation of requirements analysis within model-based systems engineering.' In World Conference of the Society for Industrial and Systems Engineering, Sep 2021. [slides] [recording] |
| [C22] | 'Open-loop control co-design of floating offshore wind turbines using linear parameter-varying models.' In ASME 2021 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC2021-67573, Aug 2021. |
| [C21] | 'An automated design tool for the generation and selection of optimal aircraft thermal management system architectures.' In AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2021 Forum, AIAA 2021-3718, Aug 2021. |
| [C20] | 'Towards a fair comparison between the nested and simultaneous control co-design methods using an active suspension case study.' In American Control Conference, May 2021. |
| [C19] | 'Functional requirements for the WEIS toolset to enable controls co-design of floating offshore wind turbines.' In International Offshore Wind Technical Conference, IOWTC2021-3533, Feb 2021. |
| 2020 | |
| [C18] | 'On the uses of linear-quadratic methods in solving nonlinear dynamic optimization problems with direct transcription.' In ASME 2020 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, IMECE2020-23885, Nov 2020. |
| [C17] | 'Enhancements to the perfect matching approach for graph enumeration-based engineering challenges.' In ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC2020-22774, Aug 2020. |
| [C16] | 'Architecture generation and performance evaluation of aircraft thermal management systems through graph-based techniques.' In AIAA 2020 Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA 2020-0159, Orlando, FL, USA, Jan 2020. |
| 2019 | |
| [C15] | 'Circuit synthesis using generative adversarial networks (GANs).' In AIAA 2019 Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA 2019-2350, San Diego, CA, USA, Jan 2019. |
| 2018 | |
| [C14] | 'Reducing evaluation cost for circuit synthesis using active learning.' In ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC2018-85654, p. V02AT03A011, Quebec City, Canada, Aug 2018. |
| [C13] | 'Optimal flow control and single split architecture exploration for fluid-based thermal management.' In ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC2018-86148, p. V02AT03A005, Quebec City, Canada, Aug 2018. |
| [C12] | 'A problem class with combined architecture, plant, and control design applied to vehicle suspensions.' In ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC2018-86213, p. V02AT03A006, Quebec City, Canada, Aug 2018. |
| [C11] | 'Attitude control system complexity reduction via tailored viscoelastic damping co-design.' In AAS 2018 Guidance & Control Conference, AAS 18-103, Breckenridge, CO, USA, Feb 2018. |
| 2017 | |
| [C10] | 'Unified scaling of dynamic optimization design formulations.' In ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC2017-67676, p. V02AT03A003, Cleveland, OH, USA, Aug 2017. |
| [C9] | 'Nested and simultaneous solution strategies for general combined plant and controller design problems.' In ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC2017-67668, p. V02AT03A002, Cleveland, OH, USA, Aug 2017. |
| 2016 | |
| [C8] | 'Enumeration of architectures with perfect matchings.' In ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC2016-60212, p. V02AT03A005, Charlotte, NC, USA, Aug 2016. |
| [C7] | 'Co-design of strain-actuated solar arrays for precision pointing and jitter reduction.' In AIAA 2016 Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA-2016-0162, San Diego, CA, USA, Jan 2016. |
| 2015 | |
| [C6] | 'Bridging the gap between open-loop and closed-loop control in co-design: A framework for complete optimal plant and control architecture design.' In 2015 American Control Conference, p. 4916–4922, Chicago, IL, USA, Jul 2015. |
| [C5] | 'Integrated design of dynamic sustainable energy systems.' In 2015 International Conference on Engineering Design, Vol. 1, p. 299–308, Milan, Italy, Jul 2015. |
| 2014 | |
| [C4] | 'Reducing spacecraft jitter during satellite reorientation maneuvers via solar array dynamics.' In AIAA/ISSMO 2014 Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, AIAA2014-3278, p. 1–17, Atlanta, GA, USA, Jun 2014. |
| 2013 | |
| [C3] | 'Wave energy extraction maximization in irregular ocean waves using pseudospectral methods.' In ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC2013-12600, p. V03AT03A018, Portland, OR, USA, Aug 2013. |
| [C2] | 'Multidisciplinary design optimization of dynamic engineering systems.' In AIAA 2013 Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Specialist Conference, AIAA 2013-1462, p. 1–30, Boston, MA, USA, Apr 2013. |
| 2012 | |
| [C1] | 'Wave energy extraction maximization using direct transcription.' In ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, IMECE2012-86619, p. 485–495, Houston, TX, USA, Nov 2012. |
| 2023 | |
| [T7] | 'Development and quasi-experimental study of the scrum model-based system architecture process (sMBSAP) for agile model-based software engineering.' Ph.D. Dissertation, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, Dec 2023. [slides] |
| 2022 | |
| [T6] | 'Analysis and control co-design optimization of natural gas power plants with carbon capture and thermal energy storage.' M.S. Thesis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, Jun 2022. [slides] |
| [T5] | 'Applying model-based systems engineering in search of quality by design.' Ph.D. Dissertation, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, May 2022. [slides] [recording] |
| 2021 | |
| [T4] | 'Towards a model-based implementation in technology/platform life cycle development processes applied to a thrust reverser actuation system (TRAS) concept.' M.S. Thesis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, Oct 2021. [slides] |
| [T3] | 'Some efficient open-loop control solution strategies for dynamic optimization problems and control co-design.' M.S. Thesis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, Jun 2021. [slides] |
| 2017 | |
| [T2] | 'Advances in combined architecture, plant, and control design.' Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, Dec 2017. (errata attached) [source code] |
| 2014 | |
| [T1] | 'Dynamic system design optimization of wave energy converters utilizing direct transcription.' M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, May 2014. (errata attached) |
| 2022 | |
| [R7] | 'Analyzing lifecycle requirements of marine hydrokinetic energy systems.' Technical report, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, Dec 2022. [model] |
| [R6] | 'Architecting an enterprise (system of systems) for a managed service provider to develop, deploy, and support cloud-based solutions using systems engineering and MBSE.' Technical report, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, Aug 2022. [model] |
| 2021 | |
| [R5] | 'National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) technology roadmap: agriculture sector.' Technical report, NAWI, DOE/GO-102021-5564, May 2021. |
| 2019 | |
| [R4] | 'Approximating arbitrary impulse response functions with Prony basis functions.' Technical report, Engineering System Design Lab, UIUC-ESDL-2019-01, Urbana, IL, USA, Oct 2019. [code] |
| 2017 | |
| [R3] | 'Enhancements to the perfect matching-based tree algorithm for generating architectures.' Technical report, Engineering System Design Lab, UIUC-ESDL-2017-02, Urbana, IL, USA, Dec 2017. [code] |
| 2015 | |
| [R2] | 'Basic implementation of multiple-interval pseudospectral methods to solve optimal control problems.' Technical report, Engineering System Design Lab, UIUC-ESDL-2015-01, Urbana, IL, USA, Jun 2015. [code] |
| 2014 | |
| [R1] | 'Solving optimal control problems using Simscape models for state derivatives.' Technical report, Engineering System Design Lab, UIUC-ESDL-2014-01, Urbana, IL, USA, Jul 2014. [code] |
| 2023 | |
| [P12] | 'Is it time for ship design to align with model based systems engineering?.' Technology, Systems, & Ships and Combat Systems Symposia, Arlington, VA, USA, Nov 2023. Selected as a Top Technical Paper Presenter |
| [P11] | 'Digital requirements engineering using model-based structured requirements.' AIAA 2023 Rocky Mountain Annual Technical Symposium (Poster), Fort Collins, CO, USA, Sep 2023. |
| 2022 | |
| [P10] | 'Digital Twin Prototype & Digital Thread for Aircraft Power & Thermal Design and Selection.' 2022 Turbine Engine Technology Symposium, Dayton, OH, USA, Sep 2022. |
| [P9] | 'Realizing profitable carbon capture on natural gas plants with thermal energy storage through optimization-based decision support.' 2022 International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (Poster), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Jun 2022. Student Poster Competition Award |
| [P8] | 'Economic viability of natural gas power plants with carbon capture and electrically charged thermal energy storage.' 2022 International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Jun 2022. |
| [P7] | 'Economic viability of thermal energy storage to support flexible operation of natural gas power plants with carbon capture.' 2022 Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA, May 2022. |
| [P6] | 'When you build it and they do not come.' INCOSE International Workshop, Jan 2022. [recording] |
| 2021 | |
| [P5] | 'Economic viability of flexible carbon capture for natural gas power plants.' TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo, Oct 2021. |
| [P4] | 'The future of carbon capture: A story of the tortoise and the hare.' International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, Jun 2021. |
| [P3] | 'Using the nested control co-design strategy for designing floating offshore wind turbines.' Wind Energy Science Conference, May 2021. |
| 2020 | |
| [P2] | 'Control co-design: Achieving new functionality and performance via integrated physical and control system design.' ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Aug 2020. [recording] |
| 2019 | |
| [P1] | 'Control co-design: Achieving new functionality and performance via integrated physical and control system design.' ASME 2019 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Nov 2019. |