Five Graduate Students Win Awards for Research Posters at ARISE Symposium
At the 2025 Annual ARISE Symposium five graduate students received recognition for their outstanding research posters aimed at boosting resilience in Kansas.
Three judges selected the award winners out of 20 submissions, based on a set of criteria for how well the content was organized, clarity, whitespace, and effective use of graphics and text. Highest rated posters led to a first-place award, a three-way tie for second place, and a third-place award.
College students from Kansas State University, the University of Kansas, and Wichita State presented posters at the symposium on April 3rd in Garden City, Kansas. About 90 scientists and community partners gathered at the event from across Kansas to share research related to the U.S. National Science Foundation EPSCoR Track-1 project that seeks to build research capacity in Kansas and develop adaptive and resilient infrastructure systems.
First Place Award
Adaeze Okeukwu-Ogbonnaya, Kansas State University, “A Stochastic Hetero-Functional Graph of Interdependence Infrastructure - An Agent Based Modeling Approach,” with co-authors Niranjana Unnithan and George Amariucai.
Second Place Awards
Sachinth Viththarachchige, Wichita State University, “The Effects of Critical Infrastructure Interdependence on Power System Resilience,” with co-author Visvakumar Aravinthan.
Cynthia Esiaka, University of Kansas, “Examining the Collaborative Contributions of the Community-Engaged Research Network within ARISE,” with co-authors: Dola Williams; Alej Martinez, & Jomella Watson-Thompson
Eric Luiz Pereira, Wichita State University, “CRISP: A Cost-Effective Framework for Real-Time State of Health Assessment in Lithium-Ion Batteries,” with co-authors Damilola Ogun and Davi Soares.
Third Place Award
Priyanka Gautam, Kansas State University, “Scalable Criticality Analysis in Interdependent Infrastructure Systems via Functionality Graphs and GNNs,” with co-authors Rahul Madbhavi and Balasubramaniam Natarajan.