Posted November 26, 2025
In November 2025, Peiyuan Zhou successfully defended his PhD thesis in the MANE Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research developed an advanced monitoring method that helps future aircraft structures “feel, think, and react” to damage and changing conditions. By combining smart statistical modeling, regularization, and Bayesian uncertainty quantification, his work makes vibration-based health monitoring more reliable for complex, realistic aerospace components rather than just simple lab specimens.