CEMSE Weekly Updates - September 16, 2025 Tue, Sep 16 2025 Newsletter Stay informed about the upcoming events and the latest news from CEMSE. Forays into modular drones: Sierpinsky tetrahedra, dodecahedra, and Alexander Graham Bell Eric Feron, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Sep 21, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 modular drons Modular drones offer attractive options for addressing demanding mission requirements without having to build monolithic and large machines. Several such drones have been designed, built, and flown at Georgia Tech's Decision and Control (DCL) laboratory and KAUST's Robotics, Intelligent Systems, and Control (RISC) laboratory. These drones attempt to address some of the perceived weaknesses of prior industrial and academic designs, including lack of structural integrity and possible identity confusion among the modules. Coincidentally, some of the designs echo the fractal kites designed by Alexander Graham Bell more than a century ago and still built and flown today. Advice and Comments About Research Peter Wonka, Professor, Computer Science Sep 22, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 academic life This talk provides a collection of advice and commentary on the multifaceted nature of the research process and life as a graduate student. Nonparametric Functional Quantiles, Skewness, and Probability Bands via the Functional Signed Directionality Emmanuel Ambriz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics Sep 25, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 functional signed directionality We propose the Functional Signed Directionality (FuSD), a nonparametric order for function-valued random elements that defines a pushforward distribution on the real line. This construction enables probabilistic inference in the functional domain: we define set-valued functional quantiles, introduce quantile-based summaries of functional spread and skewness, and construct tight probability bands that reflect the underlying functional law via the FuSD distribution.
