JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (“*” students under my direct supervision)
Under review
- H. Nemati*, and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Bio-inspired robotic tap testing: a novel method for measuring acoustic responses in wooden structures”, Measurement Science and Technology.
- H. Park*, S. Torabnia, M. Abbas, K. Hsu, and E. Dehghan-Niri, “A Probabilistic Framework for In-situ Ultrasound-Based Estimation of Elastic Moduli in Thermoacoustic consolidation (TAC) Process”, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.
- P. Meshki Zadeh*, S. Torabnia, N. Fonsenca, K. Hsu, and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Acoustic-Based Characterization of Process Energy and Bond Formation Dynamics in Ultrasound-Assisted Additive Manufacturing”, NDT&E International.
- H. Nemati*, and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Finite Element Modeling of Aye-aye Auditory Structures: Insights into Bioacoustic Sensing and Spatial Hearing”, Applied Acoustics.
- N. Masurkar*, H. Nemati*, and E. Dehghan-Niri “Aye-aye percussive foraging integrates frictional gliding and percussive tapping: kinematic and acoustic evidence”, Scientific Report.
- A. Vellingiri*, P. Meshki Zadeh*, and E. Dehghan-Niri , ” In-Situ Acoustic Emission Monitoring for Porosity Detection in Directed Energy Deposition Manufacturing”, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Engineering.
- A. Vellingiri*, P. Meshki Zadeh*, and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Deconvolution-Based Acoustic Emission Monitoring for Defect Detection in Directed Energy Deposition”, Materials Evaluation.
- P. Meshki Zadeh*, S. Torabnia, N. Fonsenca, K. Hsu, and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Nonlinear Dynamics of Structure-Borne Acoustic Fields in Resonance-Assisted Deposition Using Phase-Space Analysis”, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS and PRESENTATIONS (“*” students under my direct supervision)
- A. Vellingiri*, Z. Smoqi, P. Rao, and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Exploring Ultrasound Thermography for Porosity Assessment in Metallic Additive Manufacturing”, 2026 17th International Conference on Materials and Manufacturing Technologies (ICMMT 2026), Tokyo, Japan, March 26-29, 2026.
- Meshki Zadeh*, S. Torabnia, N. Fonsenca, K. Hsu, and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Phase-Space Signal Processing of Acoustic Data for Advanced Manufacturing in-situ Monitoring”, 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, May 4-8, 2026.
- Meshki Zadeh*, and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Enhancing C-Scan Resolution in Scanning Acoustic Microscopy for Microelectronic Package Inspection”, 9th International Conference on Circuits, Systems and Simulation (ICCSS 2026), Bangkok, Thailand, May 08-10, 2026.
- Meshki Zadeh, S. Zamen, H. Nemati, and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Evaluation of Rolling Contact Fatigue (RCF) Cracks on Railheads Using Phase-Space Signal Processing”, 2026 7th International Conference on Electronics and Signal Processing (ICESP 2026), Da Nang, Vietnam, Jan. 10-12.
- Nemati, N. Masurkar, and E. Dehghan Niri, “Aye-Aye Inspired Acoustic Sensing for Robotic Tap-Testing: From Auditory Morphology to Bioinspired Sensor Design 2025 the 9th International Conference on Automation, Control and Robotics (ICACR 2025), Xi’an, China, Nov. 28-30, 2025.
- Nemati*, and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Bioinspired Acoustic Sensing: Lessons from Aye-Aye Tap Testing for Cavity Detection”, The 114th Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME) and the 42nd National Academic Symposium, Taiwan, Dec. 5-6, 2025.
- Dehghan-Niri, “Acoustics-based In-Situ Monitoring and Quality Control of Additively Manufactured Parts: Challenges and Opportunities in Automotive and Aeronautical Applications”, International Conference on Mechanical, Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering (ICMAAE-25), Bangkok, Thailand, Aug. 18-19, 2025.
- Meshkizadeh, K. Back, N. Fonesca, S. Torabnia, K. Hsu, and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Monitoring Resonant-Assisted Deposition (RAD) Process Using Optical Microphones” ASNT Reseach Symposium, Indianapolis, IN, June 23rd to 27th 2025.
- Nasr, N. Masurkar, P. Meshkizadeh, E. Dehghan-Niri, “Gas Leakage Localization Through Bio-Inspired Motion Strategy on Robotic Platforms”, ASNT Reseach Symposium, Indianapolis, IN, June 23rd to 27th 2025.
- Dehghan-Niri, N. Masurkar, H. Nemati, Z. Good, H. Halliday, and J. Liebig, “Overcoming Challenges in the Biomimetic Study of Termite Drumming Behavior” The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 10th to 14th, 2024.
- Meshkizadeh*, M. Tehrani, and E. Dehghan Niri, “Improving Nondestructive Evaluation of Additively Manufactured Composites using Ultrasound Data Fusion”, American Society for Composites 39th Annual Technical Conference, Oct. 21st-24th, 2024.
- Meshkizadeh* and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Exploring Signal Processing Techniques for Resolution Enhancement in Scanning Acoustic Microscopy for Microelectronic Package Inspection”, ASME 2024 International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems, San Jose, California, USA, October 8th to 10th, 2024.
- I. Martinez-Monteagudo, and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Guided-Ultrasound-Enhanced-Evaporation (GUEE): Reducing Energy Consumption During Falling Film Evaporation” Conference on Food Engineering, Seattle, WA, August 25 to 28th, 2024.
- N. Masurkar, H. Nemati, and E. Dehghan-Niri, Advancing the biomimetic design for automated tap scanning through Aye Aye’s behavioral studies utilizing high-resolution thermal cameras, The Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE), Denver, CO, July 22nd-24th, 2024.
- N. Masurkar, H. Nemati, and E. Dehghan-Niri, Enhancing Biomimetic Design of Tap Scanning Sensors through High-Resolution Thermal Camera-Based Behavioral Studies, SPIE Smart Strctures and Nondestructive Evaluation, Long Beach, CA, 25th -28th March 2024.
- N. Masurkar, H. Nemati, and E. Dehghan-Niri, Automated Robotic Approach for Source Localization of Minor Gas Leak Using a Two-Microphone Array, ASNT Research Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA, 25th-28th June, 2024.
- N. Masurkar, H. Nemati, and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Bio-inspired Tap Testing Modeling: A Prospective Study for Inspection of Composite Structures”, The Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE), Austin, TX, 24th -27th July 2023.
- N. Masurkar, H. Nemati, H. Marvi, and E. Dehghan-Niri, “An Automated Robotic Approach for Inspection of Metallic Tubular Structure”, 31st ASNT Research Symposium, Columbus, Ohio, June 26th – 30th, 2023.
- E. Dehghan-Niri, S. Hespeler, M. Juhasz, H. Halliday, and M. Lang, “Simplified unsupervised statistical anomaly detection for in-situ quality control of Directed Energy Deposition (DED) Additive Manufacturing”, Solid Freeform Fabrication, Austin, Texas, July 25th to 27th 2022.
- J. Kang and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Aye-aye’s middle finger kinematic modeling during tap-scanning”, SPIE, Smart Structures/NDE, 300 Long Beach Blvd, Long Beach, CA, 2022.
- H. Nemati and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Pioneering a biomimetic approach for the acoustic near-field measurement of aye-aye biological auditory system”, SPIE, Smart Structures/NDE, 300 Long Beach Blvd, Long Beach, CA, 2022.
- S. Hespeler*, E. Dehghan-Niri, and M. Juhasz, “Deep Learning for Inter-Layer Classification During In-situ Quality Control of Additive Manufactured Parts”, the IMAC-XL Conference & Exposition on Structural Dynamics, the Rosen Plaza in Orlando, Florida, USA, Feb. 7-10, 2022.
- S. Hespeler*, E. Dehghan-Niri, and M. Juhasz, “Deep learning for Real-time Non-destructive Inter-layer Quality Control during Additive Manufacturing Process”, TMS 2022 Annual Meeting, Anaheim Convention Center & Anaheim Marriott, Feb. 27th-March 3rd, 2022.
- S. Zamen* and E. Dehghan-Niri, Recurrence Analysis of EMAT Data for Rolling Contact Fatigue Cracks Detection in Railroad Tracks, Virtual, ASNT Digital Imaging for NDT 2021, Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, NV, July 2021.
- E. Dehghan-Niri, S. Zamen*, and D. Jauregui “Development of technical guidance for the assessment of oversize and overweight vehicle permit fees in New Mexico (Phase II): Bridges”, TransCon Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States, April 2021.
- H. Nemati*, F. Alvidrez*, A. Das, N. Masurkar, M. Rudraboina, H. Marvi and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Toward Automated Ultrasonic Inspection of Pipelines and Tubular Components” ASNT Research Symposium, Virtual, March 2021
- S. Zamen*, M. Ilami, V. Senthilkumar, H. Marvi, and E. Dehghan-Niri, Experimental Evaluation of Friction Effects on Lamb Waves Generation, Virtual, 2020 ASNT Annual Conference.
- H. Nemati*, M. Ilami, J. Bhadra, H. Marvi and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Evaluation of curvature effects on the performance of an integrated robotic gripper equipped with electromagnetic acoustic transducers”, Virtual, 2020 ASNT Annual Conference.
- E. Dehghan-Niri and D. Cortes “Over size/over weight permit structure”, TransCon Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States, April 2019.
- M. Ghyabi* and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Structural health monitoring of metallic plate-like structures for partial crack detection”, ASNT 28th Research Symposium, Hyatt Regency Orange County Garden Grove, CA, April 1-4, 2019.
- S. Zamen* and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Interlayer Adhesion Characterization of Polymer Based Additive Manufactured (AM) Components Using Nonlinear Ultrasound in Phase-Space Domain”, ASNT 28th Research Symposium, Hyatt Regency Orange County Garden Grove, CA, April 1-4, 2019.
- M. Ghyabi* and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Comparison of Coverage Areas of Two Different Sensor Network Arrangements for Structural Health Monitoring of Plate-Like Structures”, SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation, Denver, CO, 3-7 March, 2019.
- S. Zamen* and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Analyzing nonlinear behavior of ultrasound wave in phase-space domain”, SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation, Denver, CO, 3-7 March, 2019.
- S. Zamen*, A. Alvarez, B. Weldon, and E. Dehghan-Niri, “Electromagnetic alignment of feromagnetic fibers in fresh concrete mortar: 3D printing prospective”, ACI Convention, Rio All-Suites Hotel, Las Vegas, NV, 2018.
- S. Ghyabi*, R. Salazar*, E. Dehghan-Niri, “Total Focusing Method Development for Lamb Wave based Structural Health Monitoring”, ASNT 27th Research Symposium, DoubleTree by Hilton Universal Orlando, Orlando, FL, March 26-29, 2018.
- E. Dehghan-Niri, “Quantitative Phase-Space Nonlinear Ultrasound (PSNU)”, ASNT 27th Research Symposium, DoubleTree by Hilton Universal Orlando, Orlando, FL, March 26-29, 2018.
- H. Al-Beer*, A. A. Hassen, J. Lindahl, E. Dehghan-Niri, “Characterization of Interlayer Adhesion in Polymer Based Additive Manufactured (AM) Components Using Nonlinear Ultrasound”, ASNT Annual Conference, Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, Nashville, TN, 30 October – 2 November 2017.
- E. Dehghan-Niri, A. Farhidzadeh, S. Salamone, “Multi-mode (passive-active) Real Time Corrosion and Leak Monitoring of Cylindrical Structures”, The 23rd ASNT Annual Research Symposium, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 24-27, 2013.
- E. Dehghan-Niri, A. Farhidzadeh, S. Salamone, “Acoustic Emission Source Localization in Anisotropic Structures Through Nonlinear Kalman Filtering Estimation”, The 9th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring IWSHM, Stanford University, Sep. 10-12, 2013.
- E. Dehghan-Niri, A. Farhidzadeh, S. Salamone, Z. Zhong, A. Aref , A. Fliatrault, “Post-Earthquake Assessment of Rehabilitated Pipelines Using Guided Ultrasonic Waves (GUWs)”, The 22nd ASNT Annual Research Symposium, the Peabody Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, March 18-21, 2013.
- A. Farhidzadeh, E. Dehghan-Niri, A. Mustafa, S. Salamone, “Introducing Vision-Based Damage Index for Quantification of Cracks Pattern in Concrete Structures”, The 22nd ASNT Annual Research Symposium, the Peabody Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, March 18-21, 2013.
- E. Dehghan-Niri, A. Farhidzadeh, S. Salamone, “Adaptive Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) for Acoustic Emission Source Localization in Plate-like Structures”, SPIE, Smart Structures/NDE, San Diego, CA, 11-15 Mar. 2013.
- A. Farhidzadeh, E. Dehghan-Niri, S. Salamone, “Gaussian Mixture Modeling of Acoustic Emissions for Structural Health Monitoring of Reinforced Concrete Structures” , SPIE, Smart Structures/NDE, San Diego, CA, 11-15 Mar. 2013.
- A. Farhidzadeh, S. Salamone, E. Dehghan-Niri, B. Luna, A. Whittaker, “Damage assessment of reinforced concrete shear wall using Acoustic Emission (AE) ”, ASNT NDE/NDT for Highways and Bridges: Structural Materials Technology (SMT), New York LaGuardia Airport Marriott, NY, 21-24 Aug. 2012.
- A. Rezaei, E.Dehghan-Niri, G. Dargush, S. Weber, “A new control strategy to improve the ground source heat pump’s efficiency with recycled products”, ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Houston, TX, 9-15 Nov. 2012.
- E. Dehghan-Niri, S.Salamone, “Probabilistic approach to Acoustic Emission (AE) source location and wave velocity estimation in isotropic plate like structures”, ASNT Spring Symposium and Research Conference, Dallas, TX, 19-23 Mar. 2012.
- E. Dehghan-Niri, S.Salamone, P. Singla, “AE source localization using Extended Kalman Filter in the Presence of Time of Flight (TOF) and Velocity uncertainty”, SPIE, Smart Structures/NDE, San Diego, CA, 11-15 Mar. 2012.
- E. Dehghan-Niri, S. Mehdi Zahrai, Amir F.Rod, “The new approach to design of Impact Damper (ID) Vs. harmonic load and comparison of optimum ID with optimum Tuned Mass Damper (TMD)”, International Conference on Structural Engineering Dynamics ICEDyn 2009 ,Ericeira, Portugal, 22 to 24 of Jun. 2009.
- E. Dehghan-Niri, A. Mohtat, S.M. Zahrai, “Effectiveness-robustness compromise for optimum design of MTMD systems through multi objective GA optimization”, 7th European Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN 2008), Southampton, UK, Paper E277, 2008.
- M. Zahrai, E. Dehghan-Niri, A. Mohtat, “Design methodology for MTMD performance optimization using a new criterion for robustness”, ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Rethymno (COMPDYN2007), Crete, Greece, Paper No. 1462, 2007.