Publications

ALERT Research

  • Gold modified cadmium sulfide aerogels. SK. Gill, P. Brown, and LJ. Hope-Weeks Journal of Sol-gel Science and Technology, 57 (1), 68-75, Aug. 2011.

Thrust R1

  • The Role of Thermal Analysis in Screening and Analyzing Cocrystallization of Energetic Materials Swanson, D. North American Thermal Analysis Society International Conference 2016.
  • Noncontact Electrostatic Swabbing of Energetic Materials Swanson, D. Trace Explosives Detection Workshop 2016.
  • Peroxides and Other HME Oxley, J. HME Working Group 2015.
  • Issues in Explosive Detection: Sampling Oxley, J. SciX - The Great Scientific Exchange 2015.
  • Ion Supression by Solvent in LC-MS Oxley, J. New Trends in Research Energetic Materials 2016.
  • Hexamethylene Triperoxide Diamine (HTMD) Oxley, J Trace Explosive Detection Workshop 2016.
  • Raman for Tracking Thermal Effects in Energetic Materials McLennan, L. North American Thermal Analysis Society International Conference 2016.
  • Creation of Pyrotechnic Foams Levine, R. North American Thermal Analysis Society International Conference 2016.
  • Sol-Gel Synthesis of a Series of First Row d-Block Ferrites via the Epoxide Addition Method UaCearnaigh, D.C., Baghi, R., & Hope-Weeks, L.J. RSC Advances, 6(53), pp. 48212-48221 2016. DOI: 10.1039/prep.201500161.
  • Synthesis and Degradation of Hexamethylene Triperoxide Diamine (HTMD) Oxley, J.C., Smith, J.L., Porter, M., McLennan, L. Colizza, K., Zeiri, Y., Kosloff, R., & Dubnikova Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, 41(2), pp. 334-350 2016. DOI: 10.1002/prep.201500151.

Thrust R2

  • Effects of Volume Scaling in AIN Nano Plate Resonators on Quality Factor Qian, Z., Hui, Y. & Rinaldi, M. Proceedings of the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS) 2016.
  • Chemical Sensing Based on Graphene-Aluminum Nitride Nano Plate Resonators Qian, Z., Hui, Y., Liu, F., Kar, S. & Rinaldi, M. Proceedings of the IEEE Sensors 2015 Conference, pp. 1-4 DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2015.7370507 2015.
  • A Compilation of Cold Case Investigations using Scanning Electron Microscopy Platek, M.J. & Gregory, O.J. SPIE Scanning Microscopies Symposium 2015.
  • Stability of Optical Trajectories in Rotationally Asymmetric Multipass Cells Harden, G.H., Cortes-Herrera, L.E., & Hoffman, A.J. Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics 2016.
  • Oxide Nanowires for Chemical Sensing Caron, Z., Patel, V., Meekins, D., Platek,M., & Gregory., O.J. Fall MRS Meeting 2015.
  • Trace Explosives Detection Using Zinc Oxide Nanowires Caron, Z., Mallin, D., Champlin, M., & Gregory, O. 250th American Chemical Society National Meeting 2015.
  • Trace Explosive Detection using Zinc Oxide and Copper Oxide Nanowire Catalysts Caron, Z. & Gregory, O. Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Society - FACSS/SciX Conference 2015.
  • Chapter 4. Aspects of Particle Adhesion and Removal Quesnel, D., Rimai, D., Schaefer, D., Beaudoin, S., Harrison, A., Hoss, D., Sweat, M., & Thomas, M. Developments in Surface Contamination and Cleaning, Volume 1, 2nd Ed., Kohli, R. and Mittal, K., Eds., Wiley, pp. 119 - 147 2015. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-323-29960-2.00004-6.
  • Detection of Gas-Phase Explosive Analytes Using Fluorescent Spectroscopy of Thin Films of Xanthene Dyes Qi Zhang, H. & Euler, W.B. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 225, pp. 553 - 562 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2015.11.098.
  • Graphene-Aluminum Nitride Nano Plate Resonant Infrared Detector Qian, Z., Hui, Y., Liu, F., Kar, S., & Rinaldi, M. Nature Microsystems and NanoEngineering 2016. DOI: 10.1038/micronano.2016.26.

Thrust R3

  • Fast Multistatic Fourier-Based Forward and Inverse Operators for Compressive Sensing Imaging Rodriguez Vaqueiro, Y., Alvarez, Y., Gonzales-Valdes, B., Las-Heras, F., & Martinez-Lorenzo, J. A. AP-S 2015 - IEEE AP-S International Symposium 2015.
  • Consensus-Based Imaging using ADMM for a Compressive Reflector Antenna Heredia Juesas, J., Allan, G., Molaei, A., Tirado, L., Blackwell, W., & Martinez-Lorenzo, J. A. AP-S 2015 - IEEE AP-S International Symposium 2015.
  • Imaging Effectiveness of Multistatic Radar for Human Body Imaging Gonzales-Valdes, B., Rappaport, C., Martinez-Lorenzo, J. A., Alvarez, T., & Las-Heras, F. 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, pp. 681-682 2015.
  • Identifying Weak Dielectric Objects on Conductive Surfaces in Millimeter-Wave Imaging Brevett, T., Gonzales-Valdes, B., & Rappaport, C. 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, pp. 683-684 2015.
  • Ray Tracing for Simulation of Millimeter Wave Whole Body Imaging Systems Williams, K., Tirado, L., Chen, Z., Gonzalez-Valdes, B., Martinez-Lorenzo, J. A., & Rappaport, C. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 63(12), pp. 5913-5918 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2015.2486801.
  • Millimeter Wave Imaging Architecture for On-The-Move Whole Body Imaging Gonzales-Valdes, B., Alvarez, Y., Rodriquez-Vaquiero, Y., Arboleya-Arboleya, A., Garcia-Pino, A., Rappaport, C., Las-Heras, F., & Martinez-Lorenzo, J. A. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 64(6), pp. 2328-2338 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2016.2539372.
  • Improving Security Screening: A Comparison of Multistatic Radar Configurations for Human Body Imaging Gonzalez-Valdes, B., Alvarez, Y., Mantzavinos, S., Rappaport, C. M., Las-Heras, F., & Martinez-Lorenzo, J. A. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Vol. PP, No. 99, pp. 1-1 2016. DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2016.2569447.
  • Improved SAR Imaging Contour Extraction Using Smooth Sparsity-Driven Regularization Ghazi, G., Rappaport, C., & Martinez-Lorenzo, J. A. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 266-269 2016.
  • Characterization of α- and β-RDX Polymorphs in Crystalline Deposits on Stainless Steel Substrates Figueroa-Navedo, A.M., Ruiz-Caballero, J.L., Pacheo-Londoño, L.C. & Hernández-Rivera, S.P. Crystal Growth & Design 2016. DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.6b00078.
  • Detection of Highly Energetic Materials on Non-Reflective Substrates Using Quantum Cascade Laser Spectroscopy Castro-Suarez., J.R., Hidalgo-Santiago, M., & Hernández-Rivera, S.P. Appl. Spectrosc. 69(9) pp. 1023 - 1035 2015. DOI 10.1366/14-07626.

Thrust R4

  • Group Membership Prediction Zhang, Z., Chen, Y., & Saligrama, V. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV15) 2015.
  • Efficient Deep Learning Algorithms for Deep Supervised Hashing Zhang, Z., Chen, Y., & Saligrama, V. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016) 2016.
  • Efficient temporal Sequence Comparison and Classification using Gram Matrix Embeddings on a Riemannian Manifold Zhang, X., Camps, O., & Snaier, M. 2016 IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 4498 - 4507 2016.
  • Zero-Shot Learning via Semantic Similarity Learning Zhang, Z & Saligrama, V. International conference on Computer Vision (ICCV15) 2015.
  • Zero-Shot Based on Latent Embeddings Zhang, Z & Saligrama, V. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016) 2016.
  • Robust X-Ray based Material Identification Using Multi-Energy Sinogram Decomposition in Anomaly Detection and Imaging with X-Rays (ADIX) Yuan, Y., Tracey, B., & Miller, E. Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 9847 2016.
  • Performance Bounds for Sinogram Decomposition and Potential Befits of Multi-Energy Data Yuan, Y., Tracey, B., & Miller, E. 4th International Conference on Image Formation in X-Ray Computed Tomography 2016.
  • Efficient Identification of Weiner Systems Using a Combination of Atomic Norm Minimization and Interval Matrix Properties Yilmaz, B., & Szanier, M. IEEE 54th Conf. on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 109 - 114 2015. DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2015.7402094.
  • Identification of a Class of Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) Models with Applications to Covariance Propagation Wang, Y., Sznaier, M., Camps, O., & Pat, F. IEEE 54th Conf. on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 795 - 800 2015. DOI:10.1109/CDC.2015.7402327.
  • High Performance Model Based Image Reconstruction Wang, X., Sabne, A., Kisner, S. J., Bouman, C., & Midkidd, S. P. 21st ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP) 2016. DOI: 10.1145/2851141.2851163.
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