Civil Engineering PhD student Maryam Parsa (co-advised by Prof. Srinivas Peeta in CE\ Transportation and Prof. Ganesh Subbarayan in ME\ Nanotechnology) has been awarded the esteemed Intel Foundation/ Semiconductor Research Corporation Education Alliance (SRCEA) Graduate Fellowship. This Graduate Fellowship Program was created in 1986 to attract exceptionally talented students to academic areas of interest to SRC members. The Fellowship award provides tuition and fees, a competitive monthly stipend, and an annual unrestricted gift of $2,000 to the department she is enrolled.  The award is for up to three years (36 months) with a possible extension of 1 year (12 months) of doctoral study at Purdue University.

Maryam's PhD research at Purdue mainly focuses on the interdisciplinary area of IoTG (Internet of Things). She aims at designing and modeling a new cyber-physical infrastructure based on the communication of data between components of this infrastructure. This system of systems incorporates four main critical infrastructures of telecommunication, electricity grid, transportation, and water distribution system. In addition, she will verify the feasibility of such an intelligent system of systems by investigating its complexity and resilience using information uncertainty and maximum entropy principle.