{"id":1345,"date":"2019-05-01T15:06:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T19:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/?page_id=1345"},"modified":"2021-10-10T17:17:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T21:17:39","slug":"keith-brown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/research-projects\/projects-2025\/2019-summer-projects\/keith-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span>Automating Structural Discovery<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>PROJECT DESCRIPTION<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/files\/2015\/12\/ME.Faculty.KeithABrown_June2015.jpg\" class=\"attachment-r_eng_profile_thumb alignright\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/files\/2015\/12\/ME.Faculty.KeithABrown_June2015.jpg 3648w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/files\/2015\/12\/ME.Faculty.KeithABrown_June2015-424x636.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/files\/2015\/12\/ME.Faculty.KeithABrown_June2015-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" \/><span>The Brown group is exploring a new paradigm of manufacturing in which autonomous research systems construct, test, and revise designs without human interaction through a cycle that involves automated experiments and machine learning to select experiments. As this type of system produces an enormous volume of experimental data, there are tremendous opportunities for gleaming insight into the structural basis of material properties, such as mechanical metamaterial response. In this project, the student will utilize our autonomous research system to ask and answer questions about the metamaterial properties of structural systems. In addition to guiding experiments and performing analysis, the student will also select samples for post hoc analysis using advanced characterization approaches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>LABORATORY MENTOR<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"agongora@bu.edu\"><span>Aldair Gongora<\/span><\/a><a href=\"mailto:agongora@bu.edu\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RESEARCH GOALS<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>\u2022\u00a0Determine the structural basis for metamaterial mechanics in polymer lattices<\/span><br \/>\n<span>\u2022\u00a0Incorporate an imaging system to record mechanical tests<\/span><br \/>\n<span>\u2022\u00a0Automate a data analysis process for mechanical data and images<\/span><br \/>\n<span>\u2022\u00a0Perform high resolution characterization of structures<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>LEARNING GOALS<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>\u2022\u00a0Learn about autonomous research systems and how machine learning can contribute to materials development<\/span><br \/>\n<span>\u2022\u00a0Develop a set of skills for image processing and high throughput data analysis<\/span><br \/>\n<span>\u2022\u00a0Learn how to develop heuristics for classifying data<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more about Professor Brown on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/keith-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">faculty page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automating Structural Discovery PROJECT DESCRIPTION The Brown group is exploring a new paradigm of manufacturing in which autonomous research systems construct, test, and revise designs without human interaction through a cycle that involves automated experiments and machine learning to select experiments. As this type of system produces an enormous volume of experimental data, there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14840,"featured_media":0,"parent":1341,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1345\/revisions\/1853"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}