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Hamed Nademi - Associate Professor,
Electrical Engineering

Innovation Project: Achieving Resilient Green Data Centers for AI Computing

Dr. Hamed Nademi鈥檚 research lab, the SITE Lab, conducts research and development studies that explore novel power conversion and control solutions for industrial applications, microgrids, marine energy, autonomous digital power grids, transportation electrification, and renewable energy integration. Dr. Nademi has served as PI/Co-PI with industry-sponsored projects including utility companies. He worked extensively with the Power Electronic Center of SIEMENS, and the Industrial Automation Division, ABB before transition into academia. He has authored more than 80 published papers and holds seven patents on energy conversion circuits and controls. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

As a Faculty Innovation Fellow, Dr. Nademi focuses on maintaining service reliability, achieving sustainability and ensuring energy efficiency of modern AI computing data centers, IT infrastructure, and server-side workloads where limited public information on the real-world measurements is available. The main challenge is how to balance these factors for developing green high-performance computing systems. This unique research tends to comprehend fast dynamics and unobservable dynamic processes that could cause destabilization of the data center power distribution system. The proposed project stands out by integrating automation, advanced predictive analytics, and identification of those working conditions prone to malfunction, thus offers practical insight for the new data center developers and industry sector. This interdisciplinary work will engage students from multiple majors with potential industry collaboration to construct the laboratory prototype for performing hands-on experiments of a use case data center electric power distribution system through real-field measurements and real-time datasets.

Jon Spenard - Associate Professor,
Anthropology

 Innovation Project: 爆料社区 Digital Cultural Heritage Lab

Dr. Jon Spenard is an archaeologist who specializes in ancient Maya society. He received is M.A. from Florida State University and his Ph.D. from UC Riverside. Both projects were investigations of ancient Maya cave ritual practices. His current project, the 鈥淩io Frio Regional Archaeological Project,鈥� blends traditional 鈥渄irt鈥� archaeology with cutting edge digital technologies to investigate the ancient Maya of the Mountain Pine Ridge region of Belize. With the aid of those technologies, what began as a study of ritual caves expanded to incorporate a previously undocumented ancient Maya city, and most recently ancient granite quarries and stone tool workshops that provisioned millions of households throughout Belize, Guatemala, and southern Mexico for nearly 3,000 years.

As a Faculty Innovation Fellow, Dr. Spenard aims to develop the 爆料社区 Digital Cultural Heritage Lab (DCHL), a pilot program in Anthropology that draws on Dr. Spenard鈥檚 expertise with digital technologies and the department鈥檚 long-standing Collaborative Anthropology approach. Equipped with the Anthropology Department鈥檚 specialized equipment including high-end 3D scanners, digital photography and photogrammetry lab, reflectance transformation imaging, 360-degree camera, ground penetrating radar, geolocational equipment, etc., the DCHL will assist industry partners in complying with federal and state laws that regulate archaeological practice. Partners will be able to lease lab equipment for their own use if they have in-house expertise, or they can contract with the DCHL to complete the project for them.