SPIN Group
News & Updates
Announcements, publications, conference activity, and opportunities to join the group.
April 2026
Seeking volunteer student researchers
The SPIN (Sensing, Physics-informed Intelligence, and Nondestructive Evaluation) Group invites motivated undergraduate and graduate students to join as volunteer researchers on ongoing projects in defect modeling with SolidWorks, multiphysics simulation in COMSOL and ANSYS, and machine learning for engineering applications. Volunteers gain hands-on research experience and structured mentorship; students interested in the machine learning projects should have prior Python programming experience.
Student Interest Form →March 2026
OTST 2026 abstract submitted
Weakly supervised GFRP damage localization using terahertz imaging, achieving 99% classification accuracy and 0.67 mAP.
September 2025
Paper published in Composites Part B: Engineering
Automated classification of subsurface impact damage in thermoplastic composites using depth-resolved terahertz imaging and deep learning.
Read the paper →In preparation
X-ray damage detection manuscript in preparation
Two-stage pipeline using ResNet-18 classification and YOLOv8 with Grad-CAM pseudo-labels for automated damage localization in composite structures.