Congratulations to the DARPA team which was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM 2025) that took place in Stanford, CA recently. IWSHM is the top international conference on the topic of structural health monitoring and related areas.

The title of the paper is "Embedded Piezoelectric Sensing for Metallic Components: A Novel SHM Architecture for Self-Aware Structures” with student authors Peiyuan Zhou, Jinhan Ren, James Schure, Shinan Huang, Sazedur Rahman, as well as Professors S. Mishra, J. Samuel, S. Akin and F. Kopsaftopoulos.