{"id":18,"date":"2022-04-28T13:50:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T13:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startersites.io\/blocksy\/gadgets\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:34:28","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/groupebm.net\/niyem.bawana\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"18\" class=\"elementor elementor-18\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f1d81b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1f1d81b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;gradient&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-919a766 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"919a766\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<style>.spin-hero{max-width:900px;margin:0 auto;text-align:center;padding:0 10px;font-family:Alexandria,sans-serif;}.spin-hero-kicker{color:#B3A369;font-size:12px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.18em;text-transform:uppercase;margin:0 0 16px;}.spin-hero-title{color:#ffffff;font-weight:700;font-size:clamp(2rem,4.5vw,2.9rem);line-height:1.15;margin:0 0 16px;}.spin-hero-sub{color:rgba(255,255,255,0.8);font-size:clamp(1rem,1.6vw,1.15rem);line-height:1.75;max-width:760px;margin:0 auto;}.spin-hero-cta{display:flex;justify-content:center;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:12px;margin-top:30px;}.spin-hero-cta a{display:inline-block;padding:13px 26px;border-radius:6px;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Alexandria,sans-serif;transition:background .2s,color .2s,border-color .2s;}.spin-btn-gold{background:#B3A369;color:#13294b;font-weight:700;border:1.5px solid #B3A369;}.spin-btn-gold:hover{background:#c9bb85;border-color:#c9bb85;color:#13294b;}.spin-btn-ghost{background:transparent;color:#ffffff;font-weight:600;border:1.5px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.55);}.spin-btn-ghost:hover{border-color:#B3A369;color:#B3A369;}.spin-hero-cta a:focus-visible{outline:3px solid #ffffff;outline-offset:2px;}<\/style><div class=\"spin-hero\"><p class=\"spin-hero-kicker\">SPIN Group<\/p><h1 class=\"spin-hero-title\">News &amp; Updates<\/h1><p class=\"spin-hero-sub\">Announcements, publications, conference activity, and opportunities to join the group.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b9a69f8 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"b9a69f8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-140ef13 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"140ef13\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<style>\n.spin-timeline { max-width: 650px; margin: 2rem auto; padding: 0 1rem; position: relative; }\n.spin-timeline::before {\n  content: '';\n  position: absolute;\n  left: calc(1rem + 4px);\n  top: 0;\n  bottom: 60px;\n  width: 2px;\n  background: #D5D5D5;\n}\n.spin-timeline .entry { display: flex; gap: 16px; margin-bottom: 28px; position: relative; }\n.spin-timeline .dot-line { display: flex; flex-direction: column; align-items: center; position: relative; z-index: 1; }\n.spin-timeline .dot { width: 10px; height: 10px; border-radius: 50%; background: #C8C8C8; flex-shrink: 0; margin-top: 4px; border: 2px solid #fff; box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px #D5D5D5; }\n.spin-timeline .dot.gold { background: #B3A369; box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px #B3A369; }\n.spin-timeline .content { padding-bottom: 4px; }\n.spin-timeline .date { font-size: 11px; color: #999; margin: 0 0 4px; font-family: Alexandria, sans-serif; }\n.spin-timeline .headline { font-size: 14px; font-weight: 500; color: #003057; margin: 0 0 4px; font-family: Alexandria, sans-serif; }\n.spin-timeline .desc { font-size: 12px; color: #666; margin: 0; line-height: 1.6; font-family: Alexandria, sans-serif; }\n.spin-timeline .link { font-size: 12px; color: #003057; font-weight: 500; display: inline-block; margin-top: 6px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Alexandria, sans-serif; }\n.spin-timeline .link:hover { color: #B3A369; }\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"spin-timeline\">\n\n  <div class=\"entry\">\n    <div class=\"dot-line\">\n      <div class=\"dot gold\"><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"content\">\n      <p class=\"date\">April 2026<\/p>\n      <p class=\"headline\">Seeking volunteer student researchers<\/p>\n      <p class=\"desc\">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.<\/p>\n      <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/t2Xhniz31wJKDqc26\" target=\"_blank\">Student Interest Form \u2192<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"entry\">\n    <div class=\"dot-line\">\n      <div class=\"dot\"><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"content\">\n      <p class=\"date\">March 2026<\/p>\n      <p class=\"headline\">OTST 2026 abstract submitted<\/p>\n      <p class=\"desc\">Weakly supervised GFRP damage localization using terahertz imaging, achieving 99% classification accuracy and 0.67 mAP.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"entry\">\n    <div class=\"dot-line\">\n      <div class=\"dot\"><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"content\">\n      <p class=\"date\">September 2025<\/p>\n      <p class=\"headline\">Paper published in Composites Part B: Engineering<\/p>\n      <p class=\"desc\">Automated classification of subsurface impact damage in thermoplastic composites using depth-resolved terahertz imaging and deep learning.<\/p>\n      <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.compositesb.2025.113033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the paper \u2192<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"entry\">\n    <div class=\"dot-line\">\n      <div class=\"dot\"><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"content\">\n      <p class=\"date\">In preparation<\/p>\n      <p class=\"headline\">X-ray damage detection manuscript in preparation<\/p>\n      <p class=\"desc\">Two-stage pipeline using ResNet-18 classification and YOLOv8 with Grad-CAM pseudo-labels for automated damage localization in composite structures.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPIN Group News &amp; Updates Announcements, publications, conference activity, and opportunities to join the group. 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