March 21, 2025 – Last week, BID4R Lab had the opportunity to attend and present at the 2025 Conference on Systems Engineering Research. Three significant events included Dr. Watson’s session, “Opportunities at the Boundaries between Systems Engineering and Design Theory”; master’s student Fayruz Maysha’s presentation, “Kinship Infrastructure Design: A Biologically-Inspired Approach for Emergency Response Systems”; and undergraduate Grace
Gratton’s presentation, “Evaluation of a Biologically-Inspired Multi-Agent System Consensus Algorithm to Develop Application Insights”. The conference was held in Long Beach, CA, from March 18–21 and featured 61 insightful talks and 7 panels focused on systems engineering.
Both Fayruz’s and Grace’s presentations were well received and sparked lively discussions following their talks. Dr. Watson’s panel, organized with Dr. Alexander Murphy from Florida Polytechnic University, featured insightful contributions from Dr. Taylan Topcu – Assistant Professor at Virgina Tech, Zak Ouzzif – Chief System Architect at Anduril Industries, and Dr. Zoe Szajnfarber – Professor and Director of Strategic Initiatives at George Washington University. Overall, our lab enjoyed the memorable discussions on the exciting work being done in systems engineering and looks forward to the next CSER conference!
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