Reports and Presentations

Master Reports

• L. Cong, "Ensemble Node Embeddings with Tensor Decomposition based on PhUSION", Master's Report, May 2022.

Professional Presentations

• L. Villafranca, M. Noruzoliaee, C. Tarawneh, and A. Sanchez-Trinida, “Predicting the remaining service life of railroad bearings: Leveraging machine learning and onboard sensor data,” Proceedings of the 2022 ASME Joint Rail Conference, Baltimore area, Maryland, April 19-21, 2022.
• M. Pokhrel, A. P. Carvajal, and N. Dimakis, "Effect of High Energy Radiation in Gd₂Hf₂O₇: Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study." 15th Biennial DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear and Radiochemistry (NUCAR-2021), at DAE Convention Centre, Anushakltinagar, Mumbai-400094, India, February 22-26, 2022.

Poster Presentations

• C. Sauceda, A. Villarreal, A.P. Carvajal, T. Resendez, Y. Herrera, M.A Hobosyan, and N. Dimakis, "Development of Boron Nitride-Based Composites for Enhanced Gas Sensing Applications," STEM Research Conference, Edinburg, Texas, May 2, 2025.
• A. Barrera, C. Tarawneh, F. Ahmed, "Development and Testing of a Prototype  Erbium-Doped Lithium Tantalate Based Sensor for Infrastructure Crack Detection and Measurement," STEM Research Conference, Edinburg, Texas, May 2, 2025.
• G. Gutierrez, G. Ali, C. Tarawneh, "Analyzing the Effect of Disruptions on US Railways Using a Graph Theory Approach," STEM Research Conference, Edinburg, Texas, May 2, 2025.
• T. Uz Zaman, P. Biteng, E. Rodriguez, and Q. Lu, "Training Adaptive Foraging Behavior for Robot Swarms with Distributed Neuroevolution of Augmented Topologies," AAAI CMASDL Workshop (#W11), Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, March 03, 2025.
• A. Gonzalez, R. Torres-Mora and Q. Lu, "Trajectory Analysis for Congestion Detection in Foraging Robot Swarms," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• D. Espinoza, C. Tarawneh, F. Ahmed, "Optimization of Lightweight UAV Structures Through Hybrid Material Integration for Enhancing Payload Capacity and Flight Performance," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• D. Amuzu, F. Nazari, "An Analysis of Consumer Preferences in Vehicle Selection Using Data-Driven Models," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• D. Cantu, C. Tarawneh, P. Xu, H. Foltz, "Feature Extraction from Vibration Signatures Acquired from Railroad Bearing Onboard Condition Monitoring Sensors," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• E. Cantu, D. Cantu, P. Xu, C. Tarawneh, H. Foltz, "Autonomous Train Maintenance: Machine Learning Model for Bearing Mileage Prediction," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• T. Uz Zaman, P. Biteng, E. Rodriguez, Q. Lu, C. Tarawneh, "Training Adaptive Foraging Behavior for Robot Swarms with Distributed Neuroevolution of Augmented Topologies," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• F. Chavez, G. Ali, C. Tarawneh, "Detecting Hazards at Rail Grade Crossings Using Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• G. Gutierrez, G. Ali, C. Tarawneh, "Vulnerability Analysis of US Rail Infrastructure Using Graph Theory Network Analysis," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• I. Valero and Q. Lu, "Comparative Analysis and Enhancement of Bug Algorithms for Obstacle Avoidance," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• J. Becerril, D. Gutierrez, Q. Lu, C. Tarawneh, "Drones in Industry and Workforce Development," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• J. Rodriguez, W. Dong, "Drone Position and Attitude Estimation with Neural Networks," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• M. Camarena, F. Nazari, M. Noruzoliaee, "Human-Centric Cities: A Digital Twin-Oriented Design of Interactive Autonomous Vehicles," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• M. Hernandez, M. Noruzoliaee, F. Nazari, "Cybersecurity of AI-powered Traffic Signal Control," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• T. Lyons, O. Sauceda, M. Noruzoliaee, F. Nazari, "Interactive Autonomous Vehicles: Developing AV control with Reinforcement Learning, Utilizing Human Facial Emotion as an Input," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• T. Garza, A. Jimenez, L. Ramirez, F. Nazari, M. Noruzoliaee, "Affective Autonomous Mobility through Human Computer Interaction: Facial and EEG Emotion Recognition in a CARLA Environment," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• A.P. Carvajal, C. Sauceda, A. Villarreal, T. Resendez, Y. Herrera, M.A Hobosyan, Ph.D., and N. Dimakis, Ph.D., "Development of Boron Nitride-Based Composites for Enhanced Gas Sensing Applications," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• A. Hernandez, A. Hernandez, C. Tarawneh, F. Ahmed, "Vibration analysis and mitigation to enhance the performance of sensors integrated into UAVs," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• A. Barrera, C. Tarawneh, F. Ahmed, "Development and Testing of a Prototype Erbium-Doped Lithium Tantalate Based Sensor for Infrastructure Crack Detection and Measurement," 8th Annual STEM Ed Conference, South Padre Island, Texas. February 13 – 15, 2025.
• B. Cheng, E.E. Papalexakis, and J. Chen, “Towards Aligned Canonical Correlation Analysis: Preliminary Formulation and Proof-of-Concept Results”, Southern California Data Science Day at 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Long Beach, CA, 2023 August 7. ArXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2312.00296
• S. M. Martinez, C. Tarawneh, and M. Noruzoliaee, "Vibration-Based Machine Learning Models for Condition Monitoring of Railroad Rolling Stock" presented at the Transportation Research Board poster session, Washington D.C., January 9-11, 2023.
• G. Doty, C. Tarawneh, and A. Talebpour, "Characterization of Continuous Trajectories for Deep ResNetDetected Vehicles and Manually Stitching of Unique IDs at “Gap” Locations" presented at the Transportation Research Board poster session, Washington D.C., January 9-11, 2023.
• B. Braghini, H. Foltz, and C. Tarawneh, "Integration and Implementation of LoRa-Based Sensor Communications for Freight Railcar Condition Monitoring Applications" presented at the Transportation Research Board poster session, Washington D.C., January 9-11, 2023.
• A. Urteaga and C. Tarawneh, "Improved Machine Vision Algorithm for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Applications in the Monitoring of Transportation Infrastructure" presented at the Transportation Research Board poster session, Washington D.C., January 9-11, 2023.
• S. Masoud, M. Noruzoliaee, F. Nazari, "A data-driven time headway model using vehicular trajectories and deep learning." 101th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 9-13, 2022.
• A. P. Carvajal, M. Pokhrel, and N. Dimakis, "Gamma irradiation and actinide doping effect in nanocrystalline Gd2Hf2O7." College of Science Conference at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Student Received the best poster award in undergraduate Category research, November 18, 2021 (Link for awardee: https://www.utrgv.edu/arc/agenda/awards/index.htm)