
2024 DAGsi Student Research presentations

Anderson Grooms (RY)
Optimal Signal Design for Joint Radar
and Communications Systems Data
Faculty Member: Dr. Dmitriy Garmatyuk
AFRL Sponsor: Dr. Saba Mudaliar

Bernard M. Melus (RY)
Investigation of adjoint method
inverse design applied to fiber-tochip
edge coupling
Faculty Member: Prof. Ronald M. Reano
AFRL Sponsor: Dr. Joseph S. Suelzer

Daniel Nagura (RY)
Gamification to Advance Reinforcement Learning
Faculty Member: Jundong Liu
AFRL Sponsor: Trevor Bihl

Delaney Grant (RH)
Sustained Peripheral Nerve Injury in Military Relevant
Operational Environment: Role of
Mitochondrial Function
Faculty Member: Dr. David Ladle
AFRL Sponsor: Dr. Saber Hussain

Brent Webster (RY)
TYPE II STRAINED LAYER SUPERLATTICE
PLANAR DIODE FABRICATION VIA THERMAL
DIFFUSION OF ZINC
Faculty Member: Dr. Donglu Shi
AFRL Sponsor: Dr. Gamini Ariyawansa

Jaclyn Taylor (RH)
Anomaly Detection in Time Series
Data with Multiple Seasonal Trends
Faculty Member: Dr. Soon Chung
AFRL Sponsor: Dr. Vincent Schmidt

James Wnek (RQ)
Machine Learning Approaches in
Computational Fluid Mechanics
Faculty Member: Mitch Wolff, Ph.D.
AFRL Sponsor: Christopher Schrock, Ph.D.

Jameson D. Morgan (RY)
Radar Surveillance using Learned Beam
Placement Strategies in
Non-homogeneous
Environments
Faculty Member: Dr. Brian D. Rigling
AFRL Sponsor: Dr. Andrew Duly

John Van Dusen (RX)
DAGSI RX21-29, Degradation analysis of
Naganishia yeast isolates associated with materials degradation on
aircraft
Faculty Member: Karen C. Dannemiller
AFRL Sponsor: Nancy Kelley-Loughnane

Kennedy Brown (RX)
Dopamine as a Bridge for Tailoring
Ti3C2Tx MXene Film Properties
Faculty Member: Chris Muratore
AFRL Sponsor: Dhriti Nepal

Lucas Clark (RY)
Characterization of Gamma Irradiated
Aerosol Jet Printed Polyimide/h-BN Films
Faculty Member: Ahsan Mian
AFRL Sponsor: Carrie Bartsch

Lynphone Mark Xie (RH)
Exploration of Multi-Agent Reinforcement
Learning for Flight Path Planning
Faculty Member: Faathi Amsaad
AFRL Sponsor: Huaining Cheng

Spencer Schaiper (RQ)
Solid State Power Generation for
High Speed Vehicles
Faculty Member: Dr. Rydge Mulford
AFRL Sponsor: Mr. Zachary Adamson

TJ Miller (RQ)
Temporal Convergence and Stability Assessment of the Generalized Finite Element Method for Multi-Scale Field Problems
Faculty Member: Dr. Jack McNamara
AFRL Sponsor: Dr. Pat O’Hara

Vincent Sheeler (RQ)
RQ23-23 High Work High Efficiency Low
Pressure Turbine Aerodynamics
Faculty Member: Dr. Mitch Wolff
AFRL Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Marks

Gaspard Matondo (RX)
Study of Fiber
Loaded Slurries for Oxide Oxide Composite
Fabrication by Additive Manufacturing
Faculty Member: Dr. Christopher Kassner
AFRL Sponsor: , Dr. Henry D. Young

Brenden R. Glover (RY)
Bifurcation and Exceptional Point
Boundaries of Coupled Opto-Electronic
Oscillators
Faculty Member: Prof. Gautam Vemuri
AFRL Sponsor: Joseph S. Suelzer

Ryan O’Rorke (RQ)
Improved Operability of Hypersonic Inlets with Fluid Injection
Faculty Member: Dr. Daniel Cuppoletti
AFRL Sponsor: Tyler Gardner