SYDE Graduate Symposium 2023

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 9:00 am - 2:45 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

The Department of Systems Design Engineering is delighted to announce that we will be holding our 2023 Graduate Symposium! The symposium will take place on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 in the E7 Ideas Clinic (E7-2409). Session descriptions are available in the Symposium e-book (PDF).

Symposium Schedule 

Time Presenter Session Title
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Coffee 
  9:45 - 10:45 a.m.  Human Factors 

9:45 a.m. 

Naomi Paul

An Experimental Comparison of the Effectiveness of Various Levels of Simulator Fidelity on Ab Initio Pilot Training

10:00 a.m. 

Sneha Srinivasan Rammanoharan

Comparative Data Analysis of Older Driver's Vs Younger Driver's Gap Acceptance Behaviour at Signalized left turns - A Driving St

10:15 a.m. 

Jose A. Alguindigue

Driver Drowsiness Detection System based on PERCLOS and Heart Rate Variability

10:30 a.m.

Rory Ewing

Defining Expertise in Requirements Elicitation

10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Biomedical Engineering

11:00 a.m. 

Behzad Danaei

Model-Based Optimization of Acetabular Cup Orientation Based On Functional Pelvic Tilt Following Total Hip Arthroplasty

11:15 a.m.

Hossein Mohammadi

Experimental, modelling, and parametric study of cutting characteristics of thin viscoelastic membranes under needle insertion

11:30 a.m.

Marco Moran-Ledesma

Interactive Training Tool for Injury Assessment of a Human Joint

11:45 a.m.

Arya Amiri

Regional Heterogeneity in Aortic Aneurysms: A Method for Finite Element Analysis

12:00 p.m.

AliAsghar Mohammadi Nasrabadi

A Multibody Predictive Dynamic Model to Optimize Acetabular Cup Orientation in Total Hip Arthroplasty Surgery Considering Differ

12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 - 2:45 p.m. Vision, Image, and Signal Processing & Mechatronics

1:30 p.m.

Weidong Liang

Detection of Small Objects in UAV Images via an Improved Swin Transformer-based Model

1:45 p.m.

Aravind Ravi

Combined Action Observation, Motor Imagery and Steady State Motion Visual Evoked Potential Based Brain Computer Interface

2:00 p.m. 

Faizan Sana

Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Navigation System to Traverse Unsignalized Intersections

2:15 p.m.

Samed Kocer

Resonant MEMS Deformable Mirror for Fast and Wide-Field-of-View Focus Scanning

2:30 p.m.

Carl Azzi

Advancing the Extraction of Mechanical Properties From Biaxial Data

For any questions, please reach out to Jessica Sparry, Administrative Coordinator, Graduate Studies.