Articles, reports, and other short publications produced by faculty, staff, and students affiliated with Mississippi State University's James Worth Bagley College of Engineering.
Articles
Advancing Sweetpotato Quality Assessment with Hyperspectral Imaging and Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Toukir Ahmed, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Yuzhen Lu, Daniela S. Jones, Michael Kudenov, Cranos Williams, Arthur Villordon, and Mohammed Kamruzzaman
National-Scale Open Cattle Feedlot Detection Using Deep Learning and High-Resolution Aerial Images: Spatial Distribution and Animal Welfare Analysis, Uilson R.V. Aires, Vitor S. Martins, Dakota J. Hester, Thainara M.A. Lima, and Lucas B. Ferreira
Investigating Implementation Practices and Initiatives for Using Blue Light to Enhance Work Zone Safety in the United States, Mohammad Nafe Assafi, Jun Wang, Isaac L. Howard, Kiara Batson, and William Crook
Multi-objective Optimisation of Dual Inlet Cyclone Separator Using Response Surface Methodology, Saikat Barua, Mohammad Zulafif Bin Rahim, and Qingqing Liu
Multi-objective Optimisation of Dual Inlet Cyclone Separator Using Response Surface Methodology, Saikat Barua, Mohammad Zulafif Bin Rahim, and Qingqing Liu
Softening the Impact of Collisions in Contention Resolution, Umesh Biswas, Trisha Chakraborty, Maxwell Young, and Qian M. Zhou
A Gentle Wakeup Call, Umesh Biswas and Maxwell Young
Drought and Low Nitrogen Impact on Finger Millet Yield and Grain Nutrition, Chami Rampati Dewage, Mohan K. Bista, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, and Raju Bheemanahalli
Changes in Life-Space Mobility With Loss of Relatives and Friends Among Older Adults: Results From the UAB Study of Aging, Amelia Driggers, Richard E. Kennedy, Beverly Rosa Williams, Cynthia J. Brown, and David R. Buys
Kidney-Related Operations Research: A Review, Mahdi Fathi and Marzieh Khakifirooz
A Multi-Objective Model for Risk Mitigating in Supply Chain Design, Mahdi Fathi, Vahid Nooraei, Masoud Narenji, Mahour Mellat-Parast, and Panagote M. Pardalos
FieldSeg: A Scalable Agricultural Field Extraction Framework Based on the Segment Anything Model and 10-m Sentinel-2 Imagery, Lucas B. Ferreira, Vitor S. Martins, Uilson R. V. Aires, Nuwan Wijewardane, Xin Zhang, and Sathish Samiappan
Application Of Calibration Transfer Techniques Between Different Mid-Infrared Spectrometers/Modules To Improve Accuracy In Estimating Soil Properties, Yasas Gamagedara, Gary Feng, Travis Waiser, Mary Love Tagert, Vitor S. Martins, and Nuwan K. Wijewardane
Spectroscopy-Based Models Outperform Pedotransfer Functions for Estimating Soil Hydraulic Properties, Yasas Gamagedara, Gary Feng, Travis Waiser, Michael Williams, Mary Love Tagert, Vitor S. Martins, and Nuwan K. Wijewardane
Comparative Analysis of Raw and Preprocessed Vis–NIR and MIR Spectra for Soil Property Estimation, Yasas Gamagedara and Nuwan K. Wijewardane
Can We Use a Mid-Infrared Fine-Ground Soil Spectral Library to Predict Non-Fine-Ground Spectra?, Yasas Gamagedara, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Gary Feng, Cathy Seybold, Michael Williams, Mary Love Tagert, and Vitor S. Martins
Hyperspectral Reflectance-Based Phenotyping for Quantitative Genetics in Crops: Progress and Challenges, Marcin Grzybowski, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Abbas Atefi, Yufeng Ge, and James C. Schnable
Variation in Morpho-Physiological and Metabolic Responses to Low Nitrogen Stress Across the Sorghum Association Panel, Marcin W. Grzybowski, Mackenzie Zwiener, Hongyu Jin, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Abbas Atefi, Michael J. Naldrett, Sophie Alvarez, Yufeng Ge, and James C. Schnable
User Expectations of Privacy in Robot Assisted Therapy, Zachary Henkel, Kenna Baugus, Cindy L. Bethel, and David C. May
Cobalt Chromium in Biomedical Applications and the development of a PSPP map, Nouralhouda Jamal
Data compression in additive manufacturing: Recent progress and opportunities, Dongmin Ethan Kang and Wenmeng Tian
Compensating Misalignment Using Dynamic Random-Effect Control System: A Case of High-Mixed Wafer Fabrication, Marzieh Khakifirooz, Chen-Fu Chien, and Mahdi Fathi
Development of Smart Semiconductor Manufacturing: Operations Research and Data Science Perspectives, Marzieh Khakifirooz, Mahdi Fathi, and Kan Wu
Model Mis-Specification of Generalized Gamma Distribution for Accelerated Lifetime Censored Data, Marzieh Khakifirooz, Sheng-Tsaing Tseng, and Mahdi Fathi
Improved Chlorophyll and Water Content Estimations at Leaf Level with a Hybrid Radiative Transfer and Machine Learning Model, Jiating Li, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Yufeng Ge, and Yeyin Shi
Effects of Liquid Properties on Pressure Loss in a Passive Rotation-based Phase Separator, Qingqing Liu, Georges Chahine, Chao-Tsung Hsiao, and Jason Hartwig
Are Black Robots Like Black People? Examining How Negative Stigmas about Race Are Applied to Colored Robots, Jeannice Louine, David C. May, Daniel W. Carruth, Cindy L. Bethel, Lesley Strawderman, and John M. Usher
Robust Plant Segmentation of Color Images Based on Image Contrast Optimization, Yuzhen Lu, Sierra Young, Haifeng Wang, and Nuwan Wijewardane
Comparison of four ChIP-Seq analytical algorithms using rice endosperm H3K27 trimethylation profiling data., Brandon M. Malone, Feng Tan, Susan M. Bridges, and Zhaohua Peng
Cross-Ontology multi-level association rule mining in the Gene Ontology., Prashanti Manda, Seval Ozkan, Hui Wang, Fiona M. McCarthy, and Susan M. Bridges
Survey of Factors for the Prediction of Human Comfort with a Non-anthropomorphic Robot in Public Spaces, David C. May, Kristie J. Holler, Cindy L. Bethel, Lesley Strawderman, Daniel W. Carruth, and John M. Usher
Assessing a VisNIR Penetrometer System for In-Situ Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon Under Variable Soil Moisture Conditions, M. O. F. Murad, E. J. Jones, B. Minasny, A. B. McBratney, N. Wijewardane, and Y. Ge
Assessing Hydrological and Water Quality Responses to Dynamic Landuse Change at Watershed Scale in Mississippi, Dipesh Nepal, Prem B. Parajuli, Ying Ouyang, S. D. Filip To, and Nuwan Wijewardane
Evaluation of Wetland Area Effects on Hydrology and Water Quality at Watershed Scale, Dipesh Nepal, Prem Parajuli, Ying Ouyang, Filip To, Nuwan Wijewardane, and Vivek Venishetty
Reflectance and Interactance Spectroscopy for Detecting Root Knot Nematode Galls in Harvested Sweetpotatoes, Hoang M. Nguyen, Adrienne M. Gorny, Simon Fraher, Ali Altaqui, Jerome Maleski, Cranos Williams, Daniela S. Jones, Yuzhen Lu, Mohammed Kamruzzaman, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, and Michael W. Kudenov
Carbon Partitioning Effects on Martensitic Phase Transformation of Type 301 Steel Under Various Thermal Processing Conditions, YubRaj Paudel, Shiraz Mujahid, Dawn Van Iderstine, Zackery McClelland, Haitham El Kadiri, and Hongjoo Rhee
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem): Preliminary Analysis of the Consistency of Remote Sensing Reflectance Product over Aquatic Systems, Rejane S. Paulino, Vitor S. Martins, Cassia B. Caballero, Thainara M. A. Lima, Bingqing Liu, Akash Ashapure, and Jeremy Werdell
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem): Preliminary Analysis of the Consistency of Remote Sensing Reflectance Product over Aquatic Systems, Rejane S. Paulino, Vitor S. Martins, Cassia B. Caballero, Thainara M. A. Lima, Bingqing Liu, Akash Ashapure, and Jeremy Werdell
Graph Symbolic Regression to Interpret the Propagation of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Across the U.S. and Mexico, Tamanna Rashme, Zhonghan Zhang, Jason Weeks, Marouane Benbrahim, Zhijan Zhang, Zhiqian Chen, Nisha Pillai, Ram Ramkumar, and Bindu Nanduri
Graph Symbolic Regression to Interpret the Propagation of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Across the U.S. and Mexico, Tamanna Rashme, Zhonghan Zhang, Jason Weeks, Marouane Benbrahim, Zhijan Zhang, Zhiqian Chen, Nisha Pillai, Ram Ramkumar, and Bindu Nanduri
On Topological Measures and Network Vulnerability Patterns: A Comparative Analysis, Saviz Saei, Kash Barker, Nazanin Tajik, and Alireza Ermagun
Time-Dependent Restoration Routing Problem: An Efficient Initial Solution, Saviz Saei and Nazanin Tajik
Prediction of Community Transmission Level of Covid-19 Using Machine Learning Algorithms Based on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, Saviz Saei, Yibin Wang, Mohammad Marufuzzaman, Nazanin Morshedlou, and Haifeng Wang
Recovery Response of Soybean to Waterlogging During the Flowering and Early-Seed Filling Stages, Lekshmy V. Sankarapillai, Bikash Adhikari, Chamika A. Silva, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, and Raju Bheemanahalli
Considering the Influence of Land Use/Land Cover on Estuarine Biotic Richness with Bayesian Hierarchical Models, Andrew Challen Shamaskin, Sandra B. Correa, Garrett M. Street, Anna C. Linhoss, and Kristine O. Evans
Helmet Prototype Response Time Assessment using NCAA Division 1 Collegiate Football Athletes, Zachary Shelly, Ethan Stewart, Tate Fonville, Reuben F. Burch V, Harish Chander, Lesley Strawderman, David C. May, JohnEric Smith, Daniel Carruth, and Cory Bichey
Visible-Near Infrared and Mid Infrared Spectroscopy for Rapid Nutrient Profiling: A Comparative Assessment and Model Transferability Using Fresh and Dry-Ground Plant Tissues in Cotton, Chamika A. Silva, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Raju Bheemanahalli, and Ammar B. Bhandari
Assessment of Different VisNIR and MIR Spectroscopic Techniques and the Potential of Calibration Transfer Between MIR Laboratory and Portable Instruments to Estimate Soil Properties, F. H. C. A. Silva, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Michael S. Cox, and Xin Zhang
Parental Perspectives About What It Means to Bully, Kristen L. Stives, David C. May, and Cindy L. Bethel
Strategies to Combat Bullying: Parental Responses to Bullies, Bystanders, and Victims, Kristen L. Stives, David C. May, Melinda Pilkinton, Cindy L. Bethel, and Deborah K. Eakin
CottonSim: A Vision-Guided Autonomous Robotic System for Cotton Harvesting in Gazebo Simulation, Thevathayarajh Thayananthan, Xin Zhang, Yanbo Huang, Jingdao Chen, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Vitor S. Martins, Gary D. Chesser, and Christopher T. Goodin
Automated Yield Monitor Data Post-processing Pipeline via Explainable Model Benchmarking and Stacked Ensemble, Minhaj Uddin, Sathishkumar Samiappan, and Jessica Drewry
Automated Yield Monitor Data Post-processing Pipeline via Explainable Model Benchmarking and Stacked Ensemble, Minhaj Uddin, Sathishkumar Samiappan, and Jessica L. Drewry
Simulation Modeling of Pedestrian Behavior in the Presence of Unmanned Mobile Robots, John M. Usher, Ross McCool, Lesley Strawderman, Daniel W. Carruth, Cindy L. Bethel, and David C. May
Can We Use Visible-Near Infrared and Mid Infrared Spectroscopy as a Tool for Wetland Soil Identification?, Caleb R. Whatley, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Chamika A. Silva, Mary Love Tagert, Raju Bheemanahalli, and Prem Parajuli
Fine Grinding Is Needed To Maintain The High Accuracy Of Mid-Infrared Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy For Soil Property Estimation, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Yufeng Ge, Jonathan Sanderman, and Richard Ferguson
A Leaf-Level Spectral Library to Support High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping: Predictive Accuracy and Model Transfer, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Huichun Zhang, Jinliang Yang, James C. Schnable, Daniel P. Schachtman, and Yufeng Ge
Deep Transfer Learning for UAV-Based Cross-Crop Yield Prediction in Root Crops, Suraj A. Yadav, Yanbo Huang, Kenny Q. Zhu, Rayyan Haque, Wyatt Young, Lorin Harvey, Mark Hall, Xin Zhang, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Ruijun Qin, Max Feldman, Haibo Yao, and John P. Brooks
Calibrated PATH-Based Modeling and Overlapping Cylindrical Voxelization for Maize LAI Mapping Using UAS-LiDAR, Suraj A. Yadav, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Xin Zhang, Daniel McCraine, Chamika A. Silva, and Jagman Dhillon
Context-Aware Deep Learning Model for Yield Prediction in Potato Using Time-Series UAS Multispectral Data, Suraj A. Yadav, Xin Zhang, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Max Feldman, Ruijun Qin, Yanbo Huang, Sathishkumar Samiappan, Wyatt Young, and Francisco G. Tapia
Smartphone-Based High-Fidelity 3D Semantic Segmentation of Finger Millet Panicles Using 3D Gaussian Splatting for Automated Phenotyping and Yield Estimation, Yican Yang, Mohan K. Bista, Alekhya Chakravaram, Nisarga Kodadinne Narayana, Raju Bheemanahalli, Lorin Harvey, Dong Chen, and Nuwan K. Wijewardane
Beyond Flips and Rotations: Evaluating NeRF and 3DGS-Based Synthetic View Augmentation: A Case Study of Detecting Visual Skinning Damage on Sweetpotato Storage Roots, Yican Yang, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Lorin Harvey, and Xin Zhang
Sweetpotato Moisture Content and Textural Property Estimation Using Hyperspectral Imaging and Machine Learning, Yican Yang, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Lorin Harvey, and Xin Zhang
Nondestructive Detection Of Sweet Potato Leaf Curl Virus Using 3D Laser Imaging Combined With Deep Learning, Yican Yang, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Tyler J. Slonecki, Phillip A. Wadl, Sharon A. Andreason, Jingdao Chen, and Lorin Harvey
High Throughput Analysis of Leaf Chlorophyll Content in Sorghum Using RGB, Hyperspectral, and Fluorescence Imaging and Sensor Fusion, Huichun Zhang, Yufeng Ge, Xinyan Xie, Abbas Atefi, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, and Suresh Thapa
Books
Competitive Conquest: Charting the Climb to Pokémon Supremacy, Robert Dilworth
Book Chapters
Ambient-Intelligent Decision Support System for Smart Manufacturing, Mahdi Fathi, Marzieh Khakifirooz, Yiannis Ampatzidis, and Panos M. Pardalos
Decision Support for Smart Manufacturing, Mahdi Fathi, Marzieh Khakifirooz, Panos M. Pardalos, and Daniel J. Power
Conference Proceedings
iGenOrch: Intelligent Orchestration Framework for Multi-Model LLM Inference on Edge Platforms, Faiza Akram, Maisha Rahman Chowdhury, Gabriella Dunne, Katherine Williams, Kaleb Love, Asad Waqar Malik, and Samee U. Khan
Moving Toward an Intelligent Interactive Social Engagement Framework for Information Gathering, Cindy L. Bethel, Zachary Henkel, Deborah K. Eakin, David C. May, and Melinda Pilkinton
He Can Read Your Mind: Perceptions of a Character-Guessing Robot, Zachary Henkel, Cindy L. Bethel, John Kelly, Alexis Jones, Kristen Stives, Zach Buchanan, Deborah K. Eakin, David C. May, and Melinda Pilkinton
Are Coaches Open to AI Tools? An Initial Investigation in Baseball and Softball, Delma I. Nieves-Rivera, Christopher Archibald, and Cindy L. Bethel
A Comparative Analysis of RAG and Non-RAG Models to Improve Access to Service Provider Information for Older Adults in Mississippi, Saviz Saei and Sujan Anreddy
Beyond Accuracy: Evaluating LLMs for Validating Community Service Provider Directory, Saviz Saei, Sadhan Ghimire, and Sujan Anreddy
Sequential and Parallel Algorithms in Influence Maximization: An Investigation, Zijian Zhang
Preprints
Loss Model for Gallium Nitride DC-DC Buck Converter, Rushi Patel and Daniel Costinett
Machine Learning and Network Analysis to Predict Hypothetical Protein Functions of Aeromonas hydrophila, Harun Pirim, Zaidur Rahman, Saviz Saei, Sangam Gyawali, Mohammad Marufuzzaman, Nazanin Tajik, and Hasan Tekedar
A Computational Method for Estimating Burr XII Parameters with Complete and Multiple Censored Data, Saviz Saei, Mohsen Mohammadi, Mahsa Fekriseri, and Kouroush Jenab
Scenario-Based Optimization of Network Resilience: Integrating Vulnerability Assessments and Traffic Flow, Saviz Saei and Nazanin Tajik
Research Data
CUSCN30: the dynamic dataset of Curve Number from 2008 to 2021 over conterminous United States, Qiong Wu, John J. Ramirez Avila, and Jinxi Song
