Twenty graduate students participated in the 18th annual Intelligent Systems Center (ISC) Poster Presentation on Oct. 24 in the Havener Center at Missouri S&T. The poster presentation, funded by the Intelligent Systems Center, is held each year to offer students the opportunity to present their research results. The guest speaker for the awards ceremony was Dr. David Borrok, Vice Provost and Dean for the College of Engineering and Computing.

The winners and the names of their posters are:

• First place: Abhay Goyal, advised by Dr. Sanjay Madria, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of computer science, “MinerFinder: A GAE-LSTM Method for Predicting Location of Miners in Underground Mines”
• Second place (tie): Saeid Alipour, advised by Dr. Arezoo Emdadi, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, “Strong-yet-Ductile Titanium Alloys by Additive Manufacturing”
• Second place (tie): Irfan Ahmad Ganie, advised by Dr. Jagannathan Sarangapani, Rutledge-Emerson Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering, “Online Lifelong Deep Reinforcement Learning based Tracking Control for Leader Follower Mobile Robot Formation”

Each student was presented an award certificate from the ISC Director, Dr. Frank Liou, and ISC Poster Presentation Chair, Dr. Sanjay Madria. The first-place winner will receive a monetary award of $500, and the second-place winners will each receive a monetary award of $250.