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Yash defends his Masters thesis!

July, 2026

Yash Mathur successfully defends his Masters thesis! Congrats Yash!

Joe defends his Masters thesis!

July, 2026

Joseph Broniszewski successfully defends his Masters thesis! Congrats Joe!

Demetrius, Isha, Joe, Yash, Vismay and Prof. Jain at Herrick Conference, Purdue University!

July, 2026

Demetrius, Isha, Joe, Yash and Vismay present their work at Herrick Conference!

Congrats to Isha for acceptance of her Journal article in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Special Issue)!

June, 2026

Paper Title: Pressure- and temperature-dependent dynamic model of a barocaloric phase change material thermal energy storage device.

Isha attends ITherm 2026 in Orlando!

May, 2026

Isha attend ITherm, 2026

Joe, Madi, Sibi, Vismay and Prof. Jain attend ACC 2026 in New Orleans!

May, 2026

Sibi presents his work at ACC, 2026

Madi defends her Ph.D. thesis!

May, 2026

Madeleine Yuh successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis! Congrats Madi!

Vismay presents his work at SciTech AIAA, 2026 in Orlando!

January, 2026

Vismay presents his paper at the conference.

Madi, Maggie, and Prof. Jain present their work at IEEE RO-MAN 2025 in Eindhoven!

August, 2025

Madi and Maggie present their papers at the conference.

Jake defends his Ph.D. thesis!

August, 2025

Jacob Hunter successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis! Congrats Jake!

Congrats to Madi for being selected for one of the 2025 SURF Mentor Awards, along with being selected for the MIT ME Rising Stars Workshop!

August, 2025

The Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering workshop is aimed at women graduate students and Ph.D holders considering future careers in academia.

Congrats to Madi on being selected as a DSCD (Dynamic Systems and Control Division) Rising Star for 2025!

July, 2025

The DSCD Rising Stars talks are designed to help kick-start the careers of postdocs and senior Ph.D. students nearing graduation.

Congrats to Sibi for acceptance of his IEEE ITSC paper!

July, 2025

The conference will take place at Gold Coast, Australia between November 18-21, 2025.

Congrats to Madi and Maggie for acceptance of their IEEE RO-MAN papers!

June, 2025

The conference will take place at Eindhoven, Netherlands between August 25-29, 2025.

Congrats to Demetrius for acceptance of his ASME DSC Letters paper!

June, 2025

Paper Title: Set-Based Robust Control Co-Design: Application to a Hybrid Thermal Management System.

Congrats to Demetrius for being awarded the Herrick Assistantship!

May, 2025

Madi is selected to attend the CPS Rising Stars 2025 Workshop!

February 18th, 2025

This workshop aims to identify and mentor outstanding PhD students and postdocs who are interested in pursuing academic careers in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) related areas. Congrats Madi!

Pandu Successfully Defends his M.S. Thesis!

February 4th, 2025

Pandu Dewanatha successfully defends his M.S. Thesis. Congrats Pandu!

Madi is awarded the 2024 Hommert Engineering Excellence Fellowship!

December 5th, 2024

The Hommert Engineering Excellence Fellowship goes to an outstanding female graduate student enrolled in Mechanical Engineering who has provided excellent service to the School or Purdue community. Congrats Madi!

Jake is awarded the 2024 Dr. Anil Bajaj Outstanding Service Scholarship!

December 4th, 2024

The Dr. Anil K. Bajaj Outstanding Service Scholarship recognizes mechanical engineering graduate students who provide outstanding service to the mechanical engineering graduate student community. Congrats Jake!

Madi is awarded the Spring 2024 Lambert Graduate Teaching Fellowship!

December 4th, 2024

The Ward A. Lambert Graduate Teaching Fellowship is awarded to graduate students interested in pursuing a teaching career in academia. Congrats Madi!

Madi wins best student paper award at HFES ASPIRE 2024!

September 9th, 2024

Madi wins the Alphonse Chapanis Best Student Paper award at HFES ASPIRE 2024! Madi, Sibi, and Prof. Jain present a total of two papers and two posters.

Madi and Prof. Jain present at ACC 2024!

March 30th, 2024

Madi and Prof. Jain present their work at the American Controls Conference at Toronto, Canada.

Ara Successfully Defends her M.S. Thesis!

June 18th, 2024

Ara Bolander successfully defends her M.S. Thesis. Congrats Ara!

JRL at IEEE ITherm 2024!

May, 2024

Demetrus, Pandu, and Prof. Jain participate in the IEEE ITherm 2024 Conference. Demetrius and Pandu are the runners up for the Best Poster Award in the System-Level Thermal Management Track. Congrats Demetrius and Pandu!

Ethan Successfully Defends his M.S. Thesis!

April 9th, 2024

Ethan Rabb successfully defends his M.S. Thesis. Congrats Ethan!

Jain Research Lab Showcases Research at RISE 2

March 30th, 2024

Jake, Madi, Michael, Sibi, and Prof. Jain showcase their human-machine interaction work at the second edition of the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Expo (RISE 2)!

Madi successfully completes her prelim!

March 25th, 2024

Madeleine Yuh successfully completes her preliminary exam. Congrats Madi!

Madi and Trevor's papers are accepted to ACC 2024

January 15th, 2024

Madi's paper titled "Using Reward Shaping to Train Cognitive–based Control Policies for Intelligent Tutoring Systems" and Trevor's paper are accepted to the American Control Conference 2024.

Jianqi Ruan successfully defends his PhD thesis!

December 14th, 2023

Jianqi Ruan successfully defends his Ph.D. Thesis. Congratulations Jianqi!!

Congratulations to Jake Hunter for passing his preliminary exam!

December 4th, 2023

Jake Hunter presented his work for his preliminary exam. Congratulations Jake for passing!

Dr. Jain is receiving the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division Outstanding Young Investigator Award

September 20th, 2023

Dr. Jain is receiving the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division Outstanding Young Investigator Award for 2023. The award will be received at MECC 2023. Congratulations! Find more information here.

Welcome Demetrius, and Pandu to the lab!

August 15th, 2023

JRL welcomes Demetrius Gulewicz and Pandu Dewanatha to the lab! Demetrius and Pandu are both from Purdue University. Welcome!

Dr. Jain is a Co-principal investigator on two Department of Energy BENEFIT Awards

August 7th, 2023

Dr. Jain will be a Co-PI for the DOE's most recent Research Project on Thermal Energy Storage. The projects are lead by the University of Wisconsin and Copeland. Find more information here.

Good luck to Trevor and Uduak in their new roles!

August 15th, 2023

Trevor has joined PCKA and Uduak joined the University of Michigan Ann-Arbor. Congratulations to both of you!

Congratulations to the SURF and SIRI undergraduate researchers!

August 1st, 2023

Alex (SURF), Bao (SURF), Arghya (SURF), Matthew (SIRI) and Douglas (SIRI) completed their summer undergraduate research. Congratulations to Sibibalan for receiving the SURF graduate mentor award after being nominated by Alex. Everyone did a great job this summer!

Falak Mandali wins ITherm 2023 poster award

May 30th, 2023

Falak Mandali has won the ITherm 2023 poster award for her work on Control Co-Design of a Thermal Management System with Integrated Latent Thermal Energy Storage and a Logic-based Controller. Congratulations!

Welcome Alex, Bao, and Arghya to JRL!

May 22nd, 2022

JRL welcomes undergraduate researchers Xipeng (Alex) Wang, Bao Quoc Phan, and Arghya Sakar to the Jain Research Lab and SURF program

Katherine and Madeleine's journal article is accepted to ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction

April 11th, 2023

Katie and Madi's journal article titled "A Computational Model of Coupled Human Trust and Self-Confidence Dynamics" is accepted to ACM THRI. Congratulations!

Trevor's journal article is accepted to Automatica!

April 11th, 2023

Trevor's journal article titled "Hybrid Zonotopes: A New Set Representation for Reachability Analysis of Mixed Logical Dynamical Systems" is accepted to Automatica. Congratulations!

Prof. Jain is awarded the 2023 College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Award in Graduate Student Mentorship

March 2nd, 2023

Prof. Jain is awarded the 2023 College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Award in Graduate Student Mentorship. Congratuations!

Professor Jain has been elevated to the grade of Senior Member by the IEEE

Febuary 27th, 2023

Professor Jain has been elevated to the grade of Senior Member by the IEEE. Congratulations!

Matthew Konishi successfully defends his M.S. Thesis

Febuary 3rd, 2023

Matthew Konishi successfully defends his M.S Thesis. Congratulations Matthew!!

Congratulations to Dr. Trevor Bird and Michael Shanks for graduating!

December 18th, 2022

Dr. Trevor Bird and Michael Shanks attended the Winter 2022 Commencement at Purdue Univeristy. Congratulations to both of you!

Matthew Konishi and Madeleine Yuh present at CPHS 2022 in Houston, Texas

October 4th, 2022

Matthew and Madi attended CPHS 2022 held in Houston,Texas. Matthew presented his work on "Exploring Features for Inferring Takeover in SAE Level Automated Vehicles" and Madi presented her work on "A Heuristic Strategy for Cognitive State-based Feedback Control to Accelerate Human Learning."

Michael Shanks successfully defends his M.S. Thesis

November 28th, 2022

Michael Shanks successfully defends his M.S Thesis. Congratulations Michael!!

Madeleine Yuh is selected as a 2022 CPHS Fellow.

November 3rd, 2022

Madi was selected as 2022 CPHS Fellow for the upcoming Cyber-Physical and Human Systems 2022 conference. Congratulations!

Madeleine and Ara attended the first Women in Mechanical Engineering Symposium at Purdue.

November 3rd, 2022

Madi and Ara both attended the Women in Mechanical Engineering Symposium at Purdue. Madi helped with organizing the research poster session and also presented some of her work to prospective women in Mechanical Engineering students as well as students in Purdue's FYE program.

Welcome Jake to the lab!

October 6th, 2022

JRL welcomes Jake Hunter from Brigham Young University to JRL! Jake will be co-advised by both Dr. Neera Jain and Dr. Tahira Reid-Smith.

Jianqi Ruan and Uduak Inyang Udoh present at MECC 2022 in Jersey City, New Jersey

October 4th, 2022

Jianqi and Uduak attended MECC 2022 in Jersey City, New Jersey. Jianqi presented his work on "A Training-Free Data-Driven Method for Input-Output Modeling of Complex Processes" and Uduak presented his work on "Physics-Guided Machine Learning (PGML) for feedback Control in Additive Manufacturing(AM)" at the MECC 2022 Rising Stars Invited Talk session.

Uduak Inyang-Udoh and Jianqi Ruan selected to talk at MECC 2022

September 2022

Uduak was selected for the ASME Dynamic Systems and Controls Division Rising Stars invited talk at MECC 2022. He will discuss his work on “Physics-Guided Machine Learning (PGML) for Feedback Control in Additive Manufacturing (AM)” on October 3rd. Jianqi was also selected to present at MECC2022 on" A Training-Free Data-Driven Method for Input-Output Modeling of Complex Process. Congratuations!

Professor Jain invited to speak at conference in 2023

September 2022

Prof. Jain's will be speaking at the Micro and Nanoscale Phase Change Phenomena Gordon Research Conference in 2023.

Trevor Bird successfully defends his Ph.D. Thesis

September 22, 2022

Trevor Bird successfully defends his Ph.D. Thesis. Congratulations Trevor!!

Welcome Michael, Ara, Ethan, and Sibi to the lab!

August 22nd, 2022

JRL welcomes Michael Williamsom Tabango and Ara Bolander from Brigham Young University, Ethan Rabb from the United States Academy at West Point, and Sibibalan Jeevanandam from the Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati!

Madeleine and Matthew's papers are accepted to CPHS 2022

September 2022

Madeleine's paper titled "A Heuristic Strategy for Cognitive State-based Feedback Control to Accelerate Human Learning" and Matthew's paper titled "Exploring Features for Inferring Takeover in SAE Level Automated Vehicles" are both accepted to the 4th IFAC Workshop on Cyber-Physical Human Systems (CPHS 2022)

Congratulations to Jianqi Ruan for passing his preliminary exam!

August 12th, 2022

Jianqi Ruan presented his work for his preliminary exam. Congratulations Jianqi for passing!

Congratulations to the SURF and SIRI undergraduate researchers!

August 2nd, 2022

Kasadit (SURF), Falak (SURF), Kylie (SURF), and Soojay (SIRI) completed their summer undergraduate research. Congratulations to Soojay for winning 3rd place for the SROP poster presentation and Madi for receiving the SURF graduate mentor award after being nominated by Kylie. Everyone did a great job this summer!

Jianqi's paper is accepted to MECC 2022!

June 30th, 2022

Jianqi's paper titled A Training-Free Data-Driven Method for Input-Output Modeling of Complex Processes is accepted to the 2022 Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference. Congratuations!

Marcin Glebocki successfully defends his M.S. Thesis

June 25th, 2022

Marcin successfully defended his M.S. Thesis. Congratulations Marcin!

Trevor Bird receives best student paper award at ACC 2022

June 2022

Trevor's paper has been awarded the best student paper award for the 2022 American Controls Conference. Congrats!

Trevor Bird, Jianqi Ruan, Uduak Inyang Udoh and Madeleine Yuh present at ACC 2022 in Atlanta Georgia

June 2022

Trevor, Jianqi, Uduak, and Madeleine attended ACC 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. Trevor presented his work on "Unions and complements of Hybrid Zonotopes" and "Set-Based Reachability and the Explicit Solution of Linear MPC using Hybrid Zonotopes." Jianqi presented his work on "Applying a Deep Q-Network for Human Operator Behavioral Modeling and Decision Support in a Twin-Roll Casting Process" and Uduak presented his work on "Model-Free Multi-Objective Iterative Learning Control for Selective Laser Melting." Madi presented her work on "Evaluation of Cognitive State Feedback for Accelerating Human Learning" at the experimental demo.

Reynolds Manion and Michael Shanks present at ITherm 2022 in San Diego, California

May 2022

Reynolds and Michael attended ITherm 2022 in San Diego, California. Reynolds presented his work on "Development of a Graph-based Modeling Framework for Transient Exergy Analysis". Michael presented his work on "Control of a Hybrid Thermal Management System: A Heuristic Strategy for Charging and Discharging a Latent Thermal Energy Storage Device".

PROF. JAIN'S NSF CAREER GRANT FEATURED ON PURDUE NEWS RELEASE

March 2022

Prof. Jain's NSF CAREER grant for cognitive state modeling for human-machine interaction featured on Purdue News Release

REYNOLDS MANION PASSES AREA EXAMS

March 2022

Reynolds passes Area Examinations for Ph.D. candidacy. Congratulations!

TREVOR BIRD IS FINALIST FOR ACC 2022 BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD

February 2022

Trevor Bird is a finalist for the American Control Conference 2022 Student Best Paper Award. Congrats!

Jianqi Ruan's paper is accepted to ACC 2022

February 2022

Jianqi's paper titled Applying a Deep Q-Network for Human Operator Behavioral Modeling and Decision Support in a Twin-Roll Casting Process, is accepted to the 2022 American Controls Conference
February 2022

Trevor Bird's paper is accepted to ACC 2022

February 2022

Trevor's paper titled "Set-Based Reachability and the Explicit Solution of Linear MPC using Hybrid Zonotopes" accepted to the 2022 American Control Conference.

Reynold Manion's paper is accepted to ITherm 2022

February 2022

Reynold's paper titled "Development of a Graph-based Modeling Framework for Transient Exergy Analysis" is accepted to the ITherm 2022.

Michael Shank's paper is accepted to ITherm 2022

February 2022

Michael's paper titled "Control of a Hybrid Thermal Management System: A Heuristic Strategy for Charging and Discharging a Latent Thermal Energy Storage Device" is accepted to the ITherm 2022.

Dr. Inyang-Udoh joins JRL

January 2022

Dr. Inyang-Udoh joins JRL as a post-doc after completing his PhD at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institude. Welcome!

Marcin presents at AIAA SciTech 2022

January 2022

Marcin presented at the AIAA SciTech 2022 in San Diego

Prof. Jain makes a guest appearance on the ASME Dynamics and Control Division Podcast Series
November 2021

Prof. Jain is awarded the Violet B. Haas Memorial Fellowship
November 2021

Trevor Bird's article "Unions and Complements of Hybrid Zonotopes" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Control Systems Letters
November 2021

Trevor Bird passes his Preliminary Exam
November 2021

Marcin Glebocki's paper is accepted in the 2022 AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (AIAA SciTech Forum)
September 2021

JRL welcomes undergraduate research assistant Alex Kokal
August 2021

Katie Williams successfully defends her M.S. Thesis: Cognitive Modeling for Human-Automation Interaction: A Computational Model of Human Trust and Self-confidence
August 2021

JRL welcomes undergraduate research assistants Ahmed Baraka from New Mexico State Univ. and Ikechukwu Obi-Okoye from Univ. of North Georgia
June 2021

JRL welcomes undergraduate research assistants Henry Lewis, Darin Lin, Nikita Sridhar, and Noah Michelini
May 2021

Prof. Jain publishes "Who Is In Control: Humans Or Tech?" on Forbes.com
April 2021

Prof. Jain publishes "What Do We Mean by ‘Automation’?" on Forbes.com
March 2021

Prof. Jain publishes "Solving Technical Problems Requires More Than Just Technological Advancements" on Forbes.com
February 2021

Prof. Jain publishes "Why Green Technology Needs To Involve Green Behavior" on Forbes.com
January 2021

JRL welcomes Michael Shanks from Purdue Univ. and Reynolds Manion from Kettering Univ.
January 2021

Prof. Jain publishes "2020: The Year Human Ingenuity Prevailed" on Forbes.com
December 2020

Prof. Jain publishes "Staying One Step Ahead Of AI" on Forbes.com
November 2020

Prof. Jain publishes "How Experiential Learning Can Prepare Students For The Age Of Automation" on Forbes.com
October 2020

Prof. Jain publishes "3 Things To Know About The Future Of Work And Automation" on Forbes.com
September 2020

JRL welcomes Madeleine Yuh from Univ. of Illinois at Chicago and Marcin Glebocki from Univ. of Missouri S&T
August 2020

Kumar Akash's paper is accepted in the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020)
August 2020

Rian Browne successfully defends his Ph.D. Dissertation: Robust Iterative Learning Control for Linear Parameter Systems with Time Delay
July 2020

Prof. Jain's publishes "Turning A Robot Into A ‘People Person'" on Forbes.com
June 2020

Prof. Jain was a speaker in Purdue Engineering's Rising to the Challenge webinar series; the full webinar is available here.

Kumar Akash successfully defends his Ph.D. Dissertation: Reimagining Human-Machine Interactions through Trust-Based Feedback
June 2020

Congrats to Katie Williams on finishing your B.S. in ME!
May 2020

Dr. Nash's article "Hierarchical Control Co-design Using a Model Fidelity-Based Decomposition Framework" has been accepted for publication in the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design
May 2020

Prof. Jain publishes "How Trust In Robots Can Help Us Fight The Next Pandemic" on Forbes.com
May 2020

JRL welcomes M.S. student Katie Williams
May 2020

Congrats to Griffon McMahon on finishing your B.S. in ME! Good luck at UPenn this fall!
May 2020

Congrats to Mohammed Matar on finishing your B.S. in ME! Good luck at UC Berkeley this fall!
May 2020

Karan Gohil's paper is accepted in the 2020 19th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm)
April 2020

Karan Gohil successfully defends his M.S. Thesis: Reduced-Order Modeling and Design Optimization of Metal-PMC Composit Heat Exchangers
April 2020

Trevor Bird's article "Dynamic Modeling and Validation of a Micro-combined Heat and Power System with Integrated Thermal Energy Storage" has been accepted for publication in Applied Energy
April 2020

Kumar Akash's article "Human Trust-based Feedback Control: Dynamically varying automation transparency to optimize human-machine interactions" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Control Systems Magazine
April 2020

Ana Guerrero's article "Projecting Adoption of Truck Powertrain Technologies and CO2 Emissions in Line-Haul Networks" has been accepted for publication in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
April 2020

JRL welcomes undergraduate research assistants Katie Williams and Hayden Schennum
January 2020

Rian Browne's article "Iterative Learning Control with Time Delay Compensation: An Application to Twin Roll Strip Casting" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
January 2020

JRL welcomes M.S. student Matthew Konishi
January 2020

Austin Nash joins JRL as Postdoctoral Scholar
January 2020

Ana Guerrero successfully defends her Ph.D. Dissertation: Development of a Framework for Projecting Line-Haul Truck Technology Adoption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the U.S. using a System-of-Systems Methodology
December 2019

Austin Nash successfully defends his Ph.D. Dissertation: Hierarchical Combined Plant and Control Design for Thermal Management Systems
November 2019

Griffon McMahon is awarded the H. William Bottomley Research Scholarship and Office of Undergraduate Research Scholarship
November 2019

Mohammed Matar is awarded the H. William Bottomley Research Scholarship and Office of Undergraduate Research Scholarship
November 2019

Prof. Jain and colleagues are awarded a grant from National Science Foundation Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) program titled "Cognitive Autonomy for Human CPS: Turning Novices into Experts."
October 2019

Trevor Bird's paper is awarded the ASME Energy Systems Technical Committee (ESTC) Best Paper Award for the 2019 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference
October 2019

JRL welcomes undergraduate research assistants Griffon McMahon, Judy Park, and Mohammed Matar
August 2019

Rian Browne issued US Patent 0091761, "Iterative Learning Control for Periodic Disturbances in Twin-Roll Strip Casting with Measurement Delay"
June 2019

Austin Nash's article "Combined Plant and Control Co-design for Robust Disturbance Rejection in Thermal-Fluid Systems" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
June 2019

Ana Guerrero de la Peña's paper is accepted in The 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference
June 2019

Trevor Bird, Austin Nash, and Rian Browne's papers are accepted in The 2019 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference
June 2019

Doctoral student Jianqi Ruan joins the JRL from Penn State
June 2019

JRL welcomes summer undergraduate research assistants Brendan Gillis and Anay Shembekar
May 2019

Aaron Tam's article "Development and Evaluation of a Generalized Rule-Based Control Strategy for Residential Ice Storage Systems" has been accepted for publication in Energy and Buildings
May 2019

Catherine Weaver is awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
April 2019

Prof. Jain comments on importance of trust in human-machine interactions on NPR
April 2019

Prof. Jain interviewed in episode of Parsing Science about work on trust in human machine interactions
April 2019

Austin Nash's article "Control-Oriented Modeling of Integrated Flash Boiling for Rapid Transient Heat Dissipation" has been accepted for publication in AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer
February 2019

Trevor Bird passes Area Examinations for Ph.D. candidacy
February 2019

Rian Browne passes his Preliminary Exam
January 2019

Jain Research Lab work on sensing trust in human machine interactions featured in Axios
January 2019

Austin Nash's paper is accepted in The 2019 American Control Conference
January 2019

Rian Browne's article "A Nonlinear Dynamic Switched-Mode Model of Twin-Roll Steel Strip Casting" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control
January 2019

Kumar Akash is awarded the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship
January 2019

Ana Isabel Guerrero De La Peña's article "Projecting Line-Haul Truck Technology Adoption: How Heterogeneity Among Fleets Impacts System-Wide Adoption." has been accepted for publication in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
January 2019

Kumar Akash's poster is accepted for oral presentation in the 2019 Southwest Robotics Symposium
January 2019

Jain Research Lab work on sensing trust in human machine interactions featured in Purdue News Release
December 2018

Kumar Akash passes his Preliminary Exam
November 2018

Catherine Weaver is awarded the H. William Bottomley Research Scholarship and Office of Undergraduate Research Scholarship
November 2018

Catherine Weaver presented her research poster titled "Rule-based control of micro-combined heat and power systems" at the ASME IMECE World Congress Undergraduate Exposition
November 2018

Aaron Tam's paper is accepted in the 10th International Conference on System Simulation in Buildings (SSB)
December 2018

Austin Nash's paper is a finalist for the ASME Energy Systems Technical Committee (ESTC) Best Paper Award for the 2018 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference.
October 2018

Kumar Akash's papers are accepted in the 2nd IFAC Conference on Cyber-Physical & Human Systems (CPHS)
September 2018

Ana Guerrero de la Peña passes her Preliminary Exam
August 2018

Austin Nash passes his Preliminary Exam
August 2018

Master's student Karan Gohil joins the JRL from IIT Gandhinagar in India
August 2018

Aaron Tam successfully defends his MS Thesis: Optimal Design and Control of Residential Air-Conditioning Equipment with Integrated Thermal Storage
July 2018

The JRL welcomes Griffon McMahon as an undergraduate researcher
June 2018

Rian Browne's and Austin Nash's papers are accepted in the 2018 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference
June 2018

Austin Nash is awarded the Lambert Teaching Fellowship from the School of Mechanical Engineering
May 2018

Aaron's papers are accepted in the Herrick Conferences
May 2018

Trevor Bird is awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
April 2018

Trevor Bird is awarded the Herrick Assistantship for the 2018-2019 academic year
March 2018

Ana Guerrero de la Peña's paper is accepted in 2018 International Conference on Transportation & Development
March 2018

Rian Browne's and Kumar Akash's papers are accepted in The 2018 American Control Conference
January 2018

Kumar Akash passes Area Examinations for Ph.D. candidacy
October 2017

Kumar Akash's article "A Classification Model for Sensing Human Trust in Machines Using EEG and GSR" has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS)
August 2017

Yeshaswi Menghmalani successfully defends her MS thesis
July 2017

PhD student Trevor Bird joins the JRL from Utah State University and is a recipient of the Ingersoll-Rand Fellowship at Purdue
June 2017

Prof. Jain's proposal titled "Reimagining Thermal Management Systems through Optimal Plant and Control Co-Design" is awarded by the Office of Naval Research
March 2017

Austin Nash's article "Dynamic Modeling of a Sensible Thermal Energy Storage Tank with an Immersed Coil Heat Exchanger under Three Operation Modes" has been accepted for publication in Applied Energy
March 2017

Austin Nash's extended abstract accepted in the NATO Science and Technology Organisation (STO) Applied Vehicle Technology (AVT) Workshop on Validation of Thermal Models for Military Power Systems (Oct. 2017)
March 2017

Kumar Akash's paper is accepted in The 2017 American Control Conference
January 2017

MS student Aaron Tam joins the JRL from Case Western Reserve University
January 2017

The JRL welcomes Ana Guerrero de la Peña to the group
January 2017

Rian Browne passes Area Examinations for Ph.D. candidacy
November 2016

Kumar Akash's paper is accepted in 1st IFAC Conference on Cyber-Physical & Human-Systems
August 2016

Rian Browne's paper is accepted in ASME 2016 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference
May 2016

The JRL welcomes Apurva Badithela from University of Minnesota as part of Purdue SURF program
May 2016

Austin Nash's paper is accepted in International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue
May 2016

Yeshaswi Menghmalani joins Cummins Power Systems, MN as a Product Design Intern
May 2016

Austin Nash passes Area Examinations for Ph.D. candidacy
April 2016

Dr. Jain and Dr. Tahira Reid receive NSF Award
September 2015

The JRL welcomes Kumar Akash from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
August 2015

PhD student Austin Nash joins the JRL from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and is a recipient of the Ingersoll-Rand Fellowship at Purdue
August 2015

MS student Yeshaswi Menghmalani joins the JRL from the Cummins College of Engineering for Women as a Purdue-Cummins Fellow.
August 2015

PhD student Rian Browne joins the JRL from Kansas State University, and is a recipient of the Laura Winkelman Davidson Fellowship for Doctoral Studies at Purdue.
August 2015