STUDENTS


Anil Deane is mentoring several undergraduate student researchers through the Gemstone Undergraduate Honors program. IPST’s Laboratory for Computation and Visualization (LCV) has supported this research by providing space and access to equipment.


Gemstone Team SCOPE is researching and building Assistive Robots by combining Natural Language Interaction, Computer Vision, and a Mobility Platform:


John Bachkosky/Aerospace Engineering

Alexandra Boukhvalova/Computer Science

Kevin Chou/Electrical Engineering

Rebecca Ellsworth/Computer Science

William Gunnarsson/Electrical Engineering

James Ledwell/Electrical Engineering

Kelsey Malloy/Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Brendan McTaggart/Electrical Engineering

Xiaoqing Qian/Computer Science

Nicholas Rodgers/Electrical Engineering

John Shi/Computer Engineering

Jason Yon/Computer Engineering

Xiaoxi Zhang/Electrical Engineering


Gemstone Team ARM-IT is researching and building Virtual Reality and Artificial Reality Interfaces for UAVs (drones) for Search and Rescue, and Disaster Recovery missions:


Ryan Collins/Aerospace Engineering

Joshua Gaus/Mechanical Engineering

Kathryn Jahn/Mechanical Engineering

Michael Jurrens/Computer Engineering

Saimouli Katragadda/Aerospace Engineering

Kaitlin Krejcik/Mechanical Engineering

Arun Kulkarni/Bio Engineering

Xincheng Li/Electrical Engineering

Eileen Liu/Computer Engineering

Colin McNulty/Computer Science

Benedict Mondal/Physics

Matthew Weston-Dawkes/Fire Engineering

Tiffany Yen/Computer Engineering


Renan Santos (Aerospace Engineering; Exchange Student) Report Spectral Element Method Mesh Generation (2015)

Nick Esposito (MS, Atmospheric Sciences) MS Thesis Software Development, Unit Testing, and the ModelE Climate Model (2015)


Archana Murliradan (MS, Electrical Engineering) 2009


Aaron Lott, (Co-Chair with H. Elman) Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, now at DWAVE. Dissertation: Matrix-Free Block Preconditioner for Spectral Element Discretization of the Navier Stokes Equations (2008)


George Stantchev (post-doc) now at Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)


Dongwook Lee, Ph.D. Applied Mathematics Dept, now at UC Santa Cruz. Dissertation: An Unsplit Staggered Mesh Scheme For Multidimensional MHD (2006)


Virgina Kalb, Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, now at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Dissertation: Low Dimensional Models for Fluid Flows (2004)


Achim Nonnenmacher (MS AMSC/UMD)


Vishal Shah (MS; George Mason University)


Matthew Krutar (Undergraduate research)


Joe Luquette (Undergraduate research)


Alex Rostovtsev (Undergraduate research)

2016 - Anil Deane, Institute for Physical Science and Technology