ISC Poster Presentation
Group photo of diverse individuals in formal and semi-formal attire standing indoors. Background features posters and plants. Atmosphere is friendly and professional.
Group picture of the 19th annaul ISC poster presentation participants, judges, the ISC director Dr. Frank Liou, the poster presentation chair Dr. Sanjay Madria, and guest speaker Dr. Kamal Khayat, vice chancellor for research and innovation.

The poster presentation, funded by the Intelligent Systems Center, is held each year to offer students the opportunity to present their research results. In 2024, the guest speaker at the awards ceremony was Dr. Kamal Khayat, vice chancellor for research and innovation.

Event Details

Location: Havener Center - Main Atrium

Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Presentation Setup: 1:30pm - 2:00 pm

Presentation Session: 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (including awards ceremony)

Attire: Business

Important Deadlines

Wednesday, October 8th @11:59PM

Email your poster title, author name, and November 18th class schedule to isc@mst.edu and copy your faculty advisor.
Must be received by deadline in order to be considered for awards.

Wednesday, November 5th @11:59PM

Email final PDF file of poster to posters@mst.edu and isc@mst.edu and copy your faculty advisor with the email subject "ISC Poster Presentation".
Must be received by deadline in order to be considered for awards.

Any requests for demo/show-and-tell requirements (table, power outlet, etc.) must be emailed to isc@mst.edu. An easel and pushpins will be available for each poster.  Requests for demo/show-and-tell requirements are optional and are considered uncommon, however please honor the deadline.

Judge Sign-Ups

ISC faculty are invited to participate in the Poster Presentation by serving as a judge for presentations.

 

Please sign-up via email to isc@mst.edu.

19th Annual Poster Presentation Winners

First Place: Ganesh Sapkota

Ganesh is a current PhD candidate in computer science whose poster presentation was titled "SafeNav: Safe Navigation using Landmark Based Localization in a GPS-denied Environment"

Advised by:

Dr. Sanjay K. Madria, Curators' Distinguished Professor Computer Science

 

Award: $600

Second Place: Insha Yaqoob Sheikh

Insha is a PhD student in electrical engineering whose poster presentation was titled "Monocular Underwater Depth Estimation using DenseNet-UNET".

Advised by:

Dr. Jagannathan Sarangapani, Rutledge-Emerson Distinguished Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering

Award: $300

Third Place: Wazih Tausif

Wazih is a PhD student in mechanical engineering whose poster presentation was titled "Water Droplet Evaporation in Air: Effects of Interfacial Thermal and Mass Diffusion Resistance". 

Advised by:

Dr. Zhi Liang, associate professor in mechanical and aerospace engineering

 

Award: $150
Presenter Advisor Paper Title
Asir Abrar Siddardh Nadendla EEG Band Power Dynamics Across Cognitive Workload Levels in Multiple Tasks: Flanker-N-Back, Letter-N-Back, Moving Object Tracking, and Aerial Drone Navigation
Sokrat Aldarmini Mohamed Nafea Shapley-value Based Feature Attribution for Explainability and Algorithmic Fairness: A Model-agnostic Benchmark
Frederick Attoh Daniel Shank and David Wright Measuring user experience outcomes of 3D spatial computing instructions using the Bilt XR App for Apple Vision Pro
Amirhossein Habibi Mehdi Ferdowsi A Power Electronic Solution for Data Centers
Md Amin Haque Zhi Liang An Improved United-Atom Potential for Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Saturated Properties of n-Alkanes
Sadia Islam Sajal Das PHOBIA-FL: Personalized Healthcare using Ordinality, Bayesian Learning, and Intersection Similarity Metric based Aggregation in Federated Learning
Sanfan Liu Sahra Sadigh Sarvestani and Alireza Hurson The Race Against Collapse: Scheduling Recovery to Mitigate Cascading Failures
Nastaran Motaharinia Haiming Wen Irradiation behavior of multi-principal element alloys manufactured by different techniques
Emmanuel Oluwatobi Olgbade Jonghyun Park Optimizing Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing via Multiscale Modeling and ML-Augmented Molecular Dynamics
Michkath Omanda Bouraima Maciej zawodniok CRLB-Based Analysis of Joint Phase and Frequency Estimation with Missing and Quantized Sensor Data
Nayan Pundhir K Chandrashekhara Manufacturing and characterization of single-magnetron microwave cured carbon fiber-polymer composites
Abid Hasan Rafi Ming Leu Rheological Optimization and Drying Defect Mitigation in Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing of Alumina Parts
Md Hasibur Rahman Sanjay Madria KRAFT: Kalman–Residual Diffusion Fusion with Formation-Aware Association via Procrustes Alignment for UAV Swarm Tracking
Md Mominul Islam Rubel Gabriel Nicolosi Fourier Learning Machines: Nonharmonic Fourier-Based Neural Networks for Scientific Machine Learning
Ashwetha Rudra Xiaodong Yang Optimization of Infrared Chiral Metasurfaces Using Genetic Algorithm
Atik Saha Bo Mi Lee pH Electrochemical Sensor Based On In Situ Laser-Driven Reduced Graphene Oxide and Graphitic Carbon
Yaqoob Insha Sheikh Jagannathan Sarangapani Deep Learning Framework for Crack Detection and Risk Forecasting
Samuel Sisk Xiaosong Du Physics-Guided Generative Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Scaling and Convexification for Rapid Engineering Design Optimization
Usman Tariq Liou Frank Graph Neural Networks for Thermal Field Surrogacy in Laser Metal Additive Manufacturing
Ahmad Heidari Mystery  Mystery
Jacob Iticovici Mystery  Mystery

The winners and the names of their posters are:

  • First place: Ganesh Sapkota, “SafeNav: Safe Navigation using Landmark Based Localization in a GPS-denied Environment.”
  • Second place: Insha Yaqoob Sheikh, “Monocular Underwater Depth Estimation using DenseNet-UNET.”
  • Third place: Wazih Tausif, “Water Droplet Evaporation in Air: Effects of Interfacial Thermal and Mass Diffusion Resistance.”

The winners and the names of their posters are:

  • First place: Abhay Goyal “MinerFinder: A GAE-LSTM Method for Predicting Location of Miners in Underground Mines ”
  • Tied for second place: Irfan Ahmad Ganies “Online Lifelong Deep Reinforcement Learning based Tracking Control for Leader Follower Mobile Robot Formation”
  • Tied for second place: Saeid Alipour, “Strong-yet-Ductile Titanium Alloys by Additive Manufacturing”

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The winners and the names of their posters are:

  • First place: Tao Liu “In-Situ Infrared Thermographic Measurement of Powder Properties in Laser Powder Bed Fusion”
  • Second place: Tazdik Patwary Plateau, “Multifunctional Flexible Carbon Nanofibers via Selective Laser Carbonization”
  • Third place: Freddy Wu, “Design and Experiment of in-situ Monitoring of Thermal History in Directed Energy Deposition”

 

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The winners and the names of their posters are:

  • First place: Sasha Petrenko, “Applied Lifelong Machine Learning with Adaptive Resonance Theory”
  • Second place (tie): Simon Thougaard, “Collaborative Intrusion Detection for Large Autonomous Drone Swarms”
  • Second place (tie): Kartikeya Jayadurga Prasad Veeramraju, “Multidimensional Extensions to Generalized Averaged Models for Multi-Frequency-Excited Dynamic Systems”

Cancelled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

 

 

The winners and the names of their posters are:

  • First place: Mohammad Karim, “A Driving Simulator Based Study for Evaluating Safe Development of Autonomous Attenuators Vehicle” advised by Yu Li
  • Second place: Muhammad Roman, “Non-Intrusive All-Glass Electric Field Sensor” advised by Dr. Daoru Han
  • Third place: Tan Pan, “The Impact of Porosity on the Mechanical properties of 304L Stainless Steel Fabricated by Selective Laser Melting” advised by Dr. Sreekar

 

The winners and the names of their posters are:

  • First place: Krishnan Raghavan, “A Minimax Approach for Classification with Big-Data” advised by Dr. Jag Sarangapani
  • Second place: Yingqi Li, “Additive Manufacturing of Metallic Glass by laser Foil Printing”

 

 

The winners and the names of their posters are:

  • First place: Islam Elnabarawy, “Evolving Fuzzy Distance Measures for Adaptive Resonance Theory Using a Genetic programming Hyper-Heuristic” advised by Dr. Donald Wunsch and Dr. Daniel Tauritz
  • Second place: Krishnan Raghavan, “Direct Error Driven Learning for Deep Neural Networks in Applications Generating Big Data” advised by Dr. Jagannathan Saragapani
  • Third place: Wei Li, "DEM-CFD Modeling Analysis of Pre-Mixed Powder Flow in Laser Metal Deposition Process" advised by Dr. Frank Liou

 

 

The winners and the names of their posters are:

  • First place: Muthukumaran Loganathan, “Quasi-Repetitive Control for Fast and Accurate Atomic Force Microscopy” advised by Dr. Douglas A. Bristow
  • Second place: Yiyu Shen, “Additive Manufacturing of Metallic Glass Structures” advised by Dr. Hai-lung Tsai
  • Third place: Wei Li and Kollin Liefer, "Investigation of Pre-Mixed Multi-Powder Flow in Fabricating Functional Gradient material by Blown Powder Deposition" advised by Dr. Frank Liou

 

The winners and the names of their posters are:

  • First place: Yiyu Shen, “Mechanical Properties and Surface Finish Improvement for metal parts Fabricated by the Foil-Based AM Technology” advised by Dr. Chen Chen and Dr. Yingqi Li
  • Second place: Muthukumaran Loganathan, “Nanoscale plowing Process Control using Dual-Probe Atomic Force Mircoscope” advised by Dr. Douglas A. Bristow
  • Third place: Huixu Deng, "Broadband Perfect Absorber Based on One Ultrathin Layer of Refractory Metal" advised by Dr. Zhigang Li, and Dr. Xiaodong Yang

 

The winners and the names of their posters are:

  • First place: Krishna Kolan, “Borate Bioactive(13-93B3) Glass Scaffolds made by the Selective Laser Sintering Process” advised by Dr. Ming Leu
  • Second place: Yunxiang Mao and Haohan Li, “Who Attends the Class: A Unified Framework of Scene Specific Face Detection, Tracking and Recognition” advised by Dr. Zhaozheng
  • Third place: Haifeng Niu, "Passive RFID Tag with Multimodal Sensors:Design, Applications and Security" advised by Dr.Jagannathan Sarangpani

The winners and the names of their posters are:

  • First place: Zhiyuan Wang, “Multi-Axis planning System for Robotic Deposition” advised by Dr. Todd Sparks and Dr. Frank Liou
  • Second place: Ravi Santosh Arvapally, “Identifying Outlier opinions in an Intelligent Argumentation System for Collaborative Decision Support” advised by Dr. X. Liu and Dr. W. Jiang
  • Third place: Kennth P Smith Jr, "Embedded Sensors Based on Novel Microwave Grating" advised by Dr. H. Xiao

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