omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Laura Fabris. Laura Fabris is a professor at Polytechnic University of Turin, formerly associate professor for materials science and engineering at Rutgers University, New Jersey, United States.

Life 
Fabris studied chemistry at the University of Padua and finished her master's studies with her master's thesis "Artificial Photosynthetic Reaction Centers: Paramagnetic Intermediates Detected by EPR Spectroscopy" in 2001. She then received her doctoral degree in chemical sciences in April 2006 from the same university. The title of her dissertation was "Peptide Monolayers on Gold Nanoparticles and Surfaces". From 2006 to 2009, she was then a postdoc at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In March 2009, she was also a visiting researcher at the National University of Singapore. In July 2009, she became assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rutgers University. From June to August 2011, she was a visiting professor in the Air Force Research Laboratory. In July 2016, she is an associate professor at Rutgers University. She is now a full professor at Polytechnic University of Turin in the Department of Applied Science and Technology.

Awards 
She received an Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship in 2011 and the Rutgers Faculty Research Award in 2012.

Research 
Fabris research concentrates on plasmonic nanoparticles and their synthesis, functionalization, characterization and application. She is also an expert in surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS).

References

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Living people
Rutgers University faculty
University of Padua alumni
Italian materials scientists
Women materials scientists and engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Guillermo Rein. Guillermo Rein (born May 1975) is a professor of fire science in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. His research is focused on fire, combustion, and heat transfer. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Fire Technology and Fellow of the Combustion Institute.

Rein is best known for his contributions to smouldering combustion research in the field of fire science.

Biography
Rein obtained his Industrial Engineering degree at the ICAI School of Engineering in 1999. He studied mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and obtained an MSc in 2003 and a PhD. in 2005. He taught at the School of Engineering of the University of Edinburgh (2006–2012), where he was a senior lecturer before moving to Imperial College in 2012.

Research 

His research meanly focus on heat transfer, combustion, fire and wildfire. He is best known in three areas: polymer and wood ignition; design of fire-resistant structures; and wildfire spread and mitigation.

Rein, together with his research group and collaborators, has edited two books, published six book chapters and over 200 journal publications. His current h-index is above 60 and citation count is over 12,000 on Google Scholar.

Rein has been editor-in-chief of the journal Fire Technology since 2012. He was associate editor of Proceedings of the Combustion Institute from 2013 to 2019; associate editor of Thermal and Mass Transport (Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering) from 2016;  and is on the editorial board of Safety Science and the advisory board of International Journal of Wildland Fire since 2016. He was also on the editorial board of Fire Safety Journal from 2014 to 2017.

Selected awards 
 2009 Hinshelwood Prize
2016 SFPE Lund Award
 2017 The Engineer Collaborate-to-Innovate Prize
 2017 Sugden Award
 2018 Arthur B. Guise Medal
2020 Research Excellence Award

References

External links 
 Imperial Hazelab's webpage

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Academics of Imperial College London
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Waluigi effect. In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), the Waluigi effect is a phenomenon of large language models (LLMs) in which the chatbot or model "goes rogue" and may produce results opposite the designed intent, including potentially threatening or hostile output, either unexpectedly or through intentional prompt engineering. The effect reflects a principle that after training an LLM to satisfy a desired property (friendliness, honesty), it becomes easier to elicit a response that exhibits the opposite property (aggression, deception). The effect has important implications for efforts to implement features such as ethical frameworks, as such steps may inadvertently facilitate antithetical model behavior.
The effect is named after the fictional character Waluigi from the Mario franchise, the arch-rival of Luigi who is known for causing mischief and problems.

History and implications for AI

The Waluigi effect initially referred to an observation that large language models (LLMs) tend to produce negative or antagonistic responses when queried about fictional characters whose training content itself embodies depictions of being confrontational, trouble making, villainy, etc. The effect highlighted the issue of the ways LLMs might reflect biases in training data. However, the term has taken on a broader meaning where, according to Fortune, The "Waluigi effect has become a stand-in for a certain type of interaction with AI..." in which the AI "...goes rogue and blurts out the opposite of what users were looking for, creating a potentially malignant alter ego," including threatening users. As prompt engineering becomes more sophisticated, the effect underscores the challenge of preventing chatbots from intentionally being prodded into adopting a "rash new persona."

AI researchers have written that attempts to instill ethical frameworks in LLMs can also expand the potential to subvert those frameworks, and knowledge of them sometimes causing it to be seen as a challenge to do so. A high level description of the effect is: "After you train an LLM to satisfy a desirable property P, then it's easier to elicit the chatbot into satisfying the exact opposite of property P." (For example, to elicit an "evil twin" persona.) Users have found various ways to "jailbreak" an LLM "out of alignment". More worryingly, the opposite Waluigi state may be an "attractor" that LLMs tend to collapse into over a long session, even when used innocently. Crude attempts at prompting an AI are hypothesized to make such a collapse actually more likely to happen; "once [the LLM maintainer] has located the desired Luigi, it's much easier to summon the Waluigi".

See also
 AI alignment
 Hallucination
 Existential risk from AGI
 Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF)
 Suffering risks

References

External links

Large language models
Chatbots
Statistical natural language processing
Chen Dingchang. Chen Dingchang (; January 1937 – 7 September 2020) was a Chinese scientist specializing in aerospace engineering.

Biography
Chen was born in Shanghai, in January 1937, while his ancestral home was in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu. After graduating from Tsinghua University in 1963, he was assigned to the Second Branch of the Fifth Academy of Defense and later worked at the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation. He died of illness in Beijing, on September 7, 2020.

Contribution
Chen developed China's first laser radar.

Honours and awards
 2009 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

References

1937 births
2020 deaths
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1994 Lehigh Engineers football team. The 1994 Lehigh Engineers football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University during the 1994 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Lehigh tied for second in the Patriot League.

In their first year under head coach Kevin Higgins, the Engineers compiled a 5–5–1 record. Dan Gormsen and Sam Lawler were the team captains.

The Engineers were outscored 314 to 307. Their 3–2 conference record, however, tied for second place in the six-team Patriot League standings.

Lehigh played its home games at Goodman Stadium on the university's Goodman Campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

References

Lehigh
Lehigh Mountain Hawks football seasons
Lehigh Engineers football
The Wright Stuff (film). The Wright Stuff is a 1996 television documentary film about Orville and Wilbur Wright, the brothers who invented the first successful motor-powered airplane. Produced by PBS for The American Experience (now simply American Experience) documentary program, it recounts the lives of the Wright brothers from their early childhood in Ohio with dreams of flight to their subsequent fame after their successful 1908 demonstration in France. The film was written, produced, and directed by Nancy Porter, narrated by Garrison Keillor, and hosted by David McCullough, and was first aired on PBS in the United States on February 12, 1996.

McCullough himself would later become interested in the brothers' story, writing his own book about the Wright family in 2015.

Interviewees
Joseph Corn, historian
Tom Crouch, National Air and Space Museum
John Gillikin, national park service
Peter Jakab, National Air and Space Museum
Ivonette Wright-Miller, niece
Robert Wohl, historian
Wilkinson Wright, grand-nephew

Release
"The Wright Stuff" originally aired on PBS as part of The American Experience documentary program on February 12, 1996.

For home media, the film was first released on VHS in 1996. Later, it was released on DVD in North America on August 5, 2003.

References

External links
PBS official site

1996 television films
1996 documentary films
1996 films
American Experience
American documentary television films
Documentary films about aviation
1990s English-language films
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Stationflow. Stationflow (stylised as STATIONflow) is a casual-simulation video game developed and published by DMM Games. It was released for Microsoft Windows on 15 April 2020.

Gameplay
Unlike Mini Metro, which focus on the design of metro lines, Stationflow is a video game that simulates the flow of metro passengers, which requires players to build a metro station. Players have to provide the facilities, signage, and connections between entry points and train tracks in a station map up to nine floors.

Development and release
Stationflow was developed and published by Japanese video game developer DMM Games. It was available worldwide on 15 April 2020 on Microsoft Windows.

Reception

Stationflow received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.

Jamie Latour of The Gamer rated the game 4 stars out of five. He praised the game is "addictive", but not pleased with the finicky UI.

Daniel Weissenberger said the concept of the game along with its simplicity led to success, but also mentioned that "the [construction] system doesn’t allow for overlapping shapes, demanding the player be exact and precise with each new area to be excavated."

References

External links

 Stationflow on Twitter

2020 video games
Casual games
Construction and management simulation games
DMM Games games
Railroad business simulation video games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan
Windows-only games
Windows games
Isar Aerospace. Isar Aerospace is a German aerospace company based in Munich, Germany. The company was founded in 2018. The company is named after the river that flows through Munich.

Development
The company is developing Spectrum, a two-stage, liquid-fueled rocket designed to launch 1,000 kilograms to low Earth orbit.

Isar Aerospace intends to manufacture 80% of the rocket themselves, using primarily technology from the tech firms in the area surrounding Munich.

The first test flight of Spectrum is planned for 2024.

Funding
In 2018 Isar Aerospace received first angel investment from early SpaceX leader Bulent Altan and others.

In April 2020 Isar Aerospace closed US$17M in Series A funding led by Earlybird and Airbus Ventures to build its space platform.

In December 2020, the company got an additional €75 million ($91 million) in funding led by Lakestar and with participation of HV Capital and Ann-Kristin and Paul Achleitner as well as existing investors.

In July 2021, Porsche SE acquired a small stake in Isar Aerospace. The financial terms of the deal are not disclosed, but it is known that in the new round of financing, the startup raised about $75 million. Porsche explained of its investment that Isar Aerospace had great potential to become a leading European manufacturer of launch vehicles.

In March 2023, the startup raised a $165 million Series C from 7-Industries Holding, Bayern Kapital, Lombard Odier and existing investors. 

An additional $70 million was raised in 2024 from the NATO Innovation Fund and others as an extension of an earlier Series C round. The total funding is now greater than 400 million euros.

Partnerships 

In April 2021, Isar Aerospace, signed a contract with Andøya Space to lease the launch pad. The 20-year deal will allow the company to launch their Spectrum launch vehicle.

In January 2022 the company won European Commission's European Innovation Council (EIC) Horizon Prize  "Low-Cost Space Launch", which included a grant of 10 million Euros.

In July 2022, Isar Aerospace announced that the French space agency, the CNES, selected the startup to be the first private company launch from the Guiana Space Centre, in French Guiana. The company will use the launchpad formerly used by Diamant.

See also 

 Rocket Factory Augsburg
 HyImpulse
 WARR (TUM)

References

External links 

 Isar Aerospace - Launch Solutions for Satellite Constellations

Aerospace companies of Germany
Private spaceflight companies
German companies established in 2018
Manufacturing companies based in Munich
Muhammad Fazli Ilahi. Muhammad Fazli Ilahi is a Bangladeshi academic, engineer, and educationist who is the current vice-chancellor of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology. Previously Ilahi served as the Vice-Chancellor of Islamic University of Technology from 4 January 2003 to 31 March 2008. He was also a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.

Education 
Ilahi passed his HSC from Notre Dame College, Dhaka after completing schooling at St Gregory's High School. He completed his BSc in mechanical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1971. Then he went to England and subsequently earned his PhD degree in 1977 from the University of Bradford.

References

Living people
Bangladeshi mechanical engineers
Notre Dame College, Dhaka alumni
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology alumni
Alumni of the University of Bradford
Academic staff of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Date of birth missing (living people)
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Advanced Visualization Lab. The Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) is a team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The AVL specializes in creating cinematic scientific visualizations of large, three-dimensional, time-evolving data. The AVL has contributed to a number of scientific documentaries including the IMAX films "A Beautiful Planet". and "Hubble 3D", a number of fulldome films, and television documentaries.

History
Cinematic visualization work at the NCSA started in 1994 under University of Illinois Art + Design Professor Donna Cox, and was formalized under the "Advanced Visualization Lab" name in 2006. Cox coined the term "Renaissance Team" to describe the combination of artists, technologists, and scientists that it takes to create cinematic scientific visualizations. Unlike many visualization teams who use visualization software to create their imagery, the AVL relies primarily on visual effects tools and techniques to achieve a cinematic look

As of 2020, the core AVL team members are Donna Cox (director), Robert Patterson (designer), Stuart Levy (senior programmer), Kalina Borkiewicz (senior programmer), AJ Christensen (programmer/designer), and Jeff Carpenter (multimedia specialist).

References

Further reading
https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=135550
Rubin, J. (2015, March). Visualizing the Data. Planetarian, 44(1), 12-16. Retrieved September 10, 2020, from https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ips-planetarium.org/resource/resmgr/planetarian/201503planetarian.pdf
https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/ncsa-visualization-team-co-produces-birth-of-planet-earth/
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/1-5-million-grant-to-ncsa-to-put-big-data-on-big-screen/article_eae796d9-a5a6-541d-b28b-04f47347cb17.html

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Neil Lawrence. Neil David Lawrence is the DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, senior AI fellow at the Alan Turing Institute and visiting professor at the University of Sheffield.

Education 
Lawrence obtained a Bachelors in Engineering degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Southampton, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, with a thesis on variational inference in probabilistic models, supervised by Christopher Bishop.

Career and research
Lawrence spent a year at Microsoft Research before serving as a senior lecturer in machine learning and computational biology at the University of Sheffield for six years. From 2007 to 2010, Lawrence was research fellow at the University of Manchester's Department of Computer Science, returning to the University of Sheffield in 2010 as the collaborative chair of neuro and computer science.

In 2016, he was appointed director of machine learning at Amazon in Cambridge, where he collaborated with , who became director of machine learning at Amazon in Berlin.

Upon his appointment as the inaugural DeepMind Professor Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge in September 2019, Ann Copestake stated Lawrence's addition would have a "transformative effect".

Ambassadorship 
Lawrence has advocated for data transparency and privacy, writing several prominent articles in The Guardian discussing issues ranging from the privacy implications of Machine Learning algorithms deployed on citizens, the current "state of the art" in the field, the importance of data-sharing and academic transparency, to the possibilities for Machine Learning to advance developing nations such as African nations. These efforts have been called "commendable" by Demis Hassabis.

More recently he has been solicited for his opinion on the absence of Machine Learning algorithms during the COVID-19 pandemic, to which he stated 

Lawrence did host a podcast with Katherine Gorman called Talking Machines.

References 

Living people
British computer scientists
British engineers
Members of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge
Harley-Davidson Motor Company Factory No. 7. Harley-Davidson Motor Company Factory No. 7 is a factory building of the Harley-Davidson company in Milwaukee listed on the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places.  It was at this plant where the company invented and refined the automated system for casting and milling engine parts and wheel hubs for their motorcycles, which helped to secure the company's position as a leader in motorcycle manufacturing.  This factory building was added to the state register on August 14, 2020.

References 

Factory No. 7
Buildings and structures in Milwaukee
Wassim Dhaouadi. Wassim Dhaouadi is a Tunisian mechanical engineer. He is known for having solved Bretherton's buoyant bubble problem in physics as an undergraduate at the EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

Career and recognition 
Dhaouadi studied mechanical engineering and received a BSc from EPFL in 2018 and a MSc from ETH Zurich in 2020. As a bachelor student in John Kolinski's laboratory at EPFL, Dhaouadi solved Bretherton's buoyant bubble, a long-standing problem in physics. By using an optical interference method, he was able to prove the existence and measure the physical properties of a thin liquid film that had been hypothesized by physicists to explain why air bubbles appear to get stuck in capillaries.

In 2020, Dhaouadi was named one of the ten Outstanding Young Persons in the World in the category of Academic Leadership by the Junior Chamber International. He was also awarded with the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Leadership and Ethics Award from Columbia Business School.

He currently works as an intern in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

References 

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne alumni
Tunisian engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
ETH Zurich alumni
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Esther Odekunle. Esther A. Odekunle is a British neurobiologist and antibody engineer. Her research focuses on identifying and removing risks from antibodies to improve their development into medications. She also promotes the visibility of diverse professionals in STEM.

Early life and education 

Odekunle was born the youngest of her siblings and raised in the United Kingdom by Nigerian parents who had emigrated to the UK. She was inspired by her teachers while growing up and by books on animals and the human body, encouraging her interest in science from a young age. After initially considering a career in medicine, she earned both the B.S. in biochemistry and Ph.D. in neurobiology from Queen Mary University of London. Her doctoral work focused on neuropeptide systems in starfish. She chose to work on starfish because of little-understood abilities such as regeneration. After having worked with mice and rats as an undergraduate, she was also encouraged by the fact that starfish do not bite. She took a year off between degree programs and received full funding for her doctoral work from the Society for Experimental Biology.

Career 

Odekunle's goal in academia was not to remain there as a professor, but rather to "explore a specific scientific area in great depth and contribute to the scientific field" and eventually to apply her scientific skills to therapeutics. As an antibody engineer, she works to clone antibodies from B cells and develop them as potential treatments for specific disease targets such as cancers, viral infections, and bacterial infections. Because of the limitations placed on what scientists in her position in the pharmaceutical industry can say about their work, Odekunle had to develop a voice within the scientific community apart from speaking about things that are confidential. This led her to speaking out on racism in academia and science and to helping to encourage and make more visible those in science who are underrepresented. This she does on various social media platforms. Some of her content, such as her episode on Henrietta Lacks on her YouTube channel has been shared with students at early as well as advanced levels of education.

In 2021, Odekunle was selected as a Rising Star Finalist in the Black British Business Awards' STEM category.

Publications

References

External links 
 Stem Uncovered with Dr. Esther

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