Research Projects
To respond to the needs of the Navy and the defense industry through innovative faculty research and a pipeline of highly trained workers, MUST research projects focus on subject areas that can both address short-term concerns and long-term goals.
Toward High-Power/High-Energy Flow Batteries for Applications in Unmanned Undersea Vehicles: Overcoming Fundamental Obstacles with a Bio-Inspired Active Material Scaffold
Patrick J. Cappillino, Maricris L. Mayes, and Louis G. Carreiro (NUWC)
Acoustic Radiation and Directional Patterns (ARDP) of Sensors and Sources
David A. Brown
Improving the Prediction Capability of Coastal Ocean Models using Hardware Acceleration
Geffrey Cowles and Gaurav Khanna
Anti-biofouling Property and Lifetime of Super-Hydrophobic Surfaces in Marine Environment
Hangjian Ling, Pia Moisander, and Wei-Shun Chang
Advances in underwater marine technology: New solutions to biofouling
Pia Moisander and Wei-Shun Chang
Marine Sensing Technology for Acoustic Detection and Damage Monitoring through Embedded Composite Conductors
Vijaya Chalivendra, Arun Shukla (URI), and Helio Matos (NUWC)
Incremental Learning with Human-in-the-Loop for Underwater Anomaly Detection
Ming Shao and Paul Gendron
Bi-functional Polymer Matrix Composites for Structural Energy Storage in Marine Systems
Caiwei Shen
Intermediate and Long-Time Evolution of Turbulent Wakes in the Ocean
Miles A. Sundermeyer and Geoffrey W. Cowles
Deep Learning-Enabled Detection and Classification of Acoustic Signals in Underwater Channels
Ruolin Zhou, Paul Gendron, and Dayalan Kasilingam
Tethered Integrated RF/Photonic Transmit/Receive for Underwater Unmanned Communications
Yifei Li, Wei Guo (UMass Lowell), Tariq Manzur (NUWC), Robert Dougenik (NUWC), and Donald Steinbrecher (NUWC)
A multi-modal sensing enabled soft robotic end-effector for highly dexterous object manipulation in explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) missions
Kihan Park
Development of a Biomimetic Sensor with Augmented Sensitivity for Ocean Sensing Applications
Banafsheh Seyed-Aghazadeh and Hamed Samandari
Enhanced Source Localization Using Optimally Designed Metamaterials and Advanced Machine Learning for Underwater Applications
Arghavan Louhghalam, Mazdak Tootkaboni, Alireza Amirkhizi (UMass Lowell), Benjamin Cray (NUWC), and Ivars Kirsteins (NUWC)
A Unifying Framework for AM Process-Informed Design of High-Contrast Multi-Material Systems for Eigenvalue-Driven Physics
Alireza Asadpoure, Mazdak Tootkaboni, Lorenzo Valdevit (UC Irvine), and Matthew Begley (UC Santa Barbara)
Second Generation Autonomy for Underwater Vehicles
Daniel MacDonald and Jim Reilly (NUWC)
Advanced Computational Investigation of Nose Curvature and Surface Hydrophobicity Effects in Water Entry of Solid Objects
Mehdi Raessi and Jess Belden (NUWC)
Computational Strategies for Scientific Data-Driven Learning for Marine and Undersea Technology Applications
Alfa Heryudono, Yanlai Chen, Sigal Gottlieb, Gaurav Khanna, Chris Hixenbaugh (NUWC), Makia Powell (NUWC), Eugene Chabot (NUWC), and Alec Yonika (Mikel, Inc.)
Regional Ocean Turbulence from Long-Duration, Autonomous Observations
Mark Altabet, Amit Tandon, and Geoff Cowles
Acoustic Rainfall Measurement on Global Drifters
Amit Tandon, John Buck, and Ian Sabo (NUWC)
Underwater Signal Processing for Remote Sensing and Communications
Paul Gendron
Durability and Performance of Flow Batteries for Applications in Marine and Undersea Technology
Patrick J. Cappillino, Maricris L. Mayes, Richard Urian (NUWC)
Multi Objective Reinforcement Learning for Automated Process Control of Modern Software Practices
Lance Fiondella
Organics Oxidation and Metals Precipitation from Naval Bilgewater Using Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC)
Sukalyan Sengupta, Caitlyn Butler (UMass Amherst), Sandeep Sathyamoorty (Black & Veatch)
Multiagent Learning in Complex Environment with Limited Communication
Shelley Zhang, Eugene Chabot (NUWC)
Multi-Fidelity Information Fusion for Accelerated Predictive Modeling and Optimal Design of High Entropy Alloys
Mazdak Tootkaboni, Alireza Asadpoure, Yanlai Chen, Timothy Rupert (University of California), Lorenzo Valdevit (University of California), Negin Alem azkoor (University of Virginia)
Quantum Computing and Control in Noisy Environments
David Kagan, Renuka Rajapakse, Robert Fisher, Jay Wang
Detection, Characterization and Validation in Coastal Environments and of the Marine Wave Boundary Layer using Coordinated Airborne UAVs and Underwater AUVs
Miles Sundermeyer, Brian Howes, Robert Melvin (Teledyne Benthos)
Sub-Mesoscale and Mesoscale Interactions STudy (SubMIST)
Amit Tandon, Mark A. Altabet, Wendell Brown