2019 Lab News

Ana Guerrero successfully defends her Ph.D. Dissertation: Development of a Framework for Projecting Line-Haul Truck Technology Adoption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the U.S. using a System-of-Systems Methodology
December 2019

Austin Nash successfully defends his Ph.D. Dissertation: Hierarchical Combined Plant and Control Design for Thermal Management Systems
November 2019

Griffon McMahon is awarded the H. William Bottomley Research Scholarship and Office of Undergraduate Research Scholarship
November 2019

Mohammed Matar is awarded the H. William Bottomley Research Scholarship and Office of Undergraduate Research Scholarship
November 2019

Prof. Jain and colleagues are awarded a grant from National Science Foundation Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) program titled "Cognitive Autonomy for Human CPS: Turning Novices into Experts."
October 2019

Trevor Bird's paper is awarded the ASME Energy Systems Technical Committee (ESTC) Best Paper Award for the 2019 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference
October 2019

JRL welcomes undergraduate research assistants Griffon McMahon, Judy Park, and Mohammed Matar
August 2019

Rian Browne issued US Patent 0091761, "Iterative Learning Control for Periodic Disturbances in Twin-Roll Strip Casting with Measurement Delay"
June 2019

Austin Nash's article "Combined Plant and Control Co-design for Robust Disturbance Rejection in Thermal-Fluid Systems" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
June 2019

Ana Guerrero de la Peña's paper is accepted in The 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference
June 2019

Trevor Bird, Austin Nash, and Rian Browne's papers are accepted in The 2019 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference
June 2019

Doctoral student Jianqi Ruan joins the JRL from Penn State
June 2019

JRL welcomes summer undergraduate research assistants Brendan Gillis and Anay Shembekar
May 2019

Aaron Tam's article "Development and Evaluation of a Generalized Rule-Based Control Strategy for Residential Ice Storage Systems" has been accepted for publication in Energy and Buildings
May 2019

Catherine Weaver is awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
April 2019

Prof. Jain comments on importance of trust in human-machine interactions on NPR
April 2019

Prof. Jain interviewed in episode of Parsing Science about work on trust in human machine interactions
April 2019

Austin Nash's article "Control-Oriented Modeling of Integrated Flash Boiling for Rapid Transient Heat Dissipation" has been accepted for publication in AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer
February 2019

Trevor Bird passes Area Examinations for Ph.D. candidacy
February 2019

Rian Browne passes his Preliminary Exam
January 2019

Jain Research Lab work on sensing trust in human machine interactions featured in Axios
January 2019

Austin Nash's paper is accepted in The 2019 American Control Conference
January 2019

Rian Browne's article "A Nonlinear Dynamic Switched-Mode Model of Twin-Roll Steel Strip Casting" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control
January 2019

Kumar Akash is awarded the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship
January 2019

Ana Isabel Guerrero De La Peña's article "Projecting Line-Haul Truck Technology Adoption: How Heterogeneity Among Fleets Impacts System-Wide Adoption." has been accepted for publication in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
January 2019

Kumar Akash's poster is accepted for oral presentation in the 2019 Southwest Robotics Symposium
January 2019