People
Faculty Director
Ph.D. Students
Swapnil Guragain
[January 2021 - Present]
Graduated Students
Shishir Rai, PhD
[August 2017 - December 2023]
Current: Senior Software Engineer, STERIS
[August 2016 - August 2021]
Current: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Houston Clear Lake
Past Students Advised
PhD Students
Tala Talaei Khoei Fall 2017 – Spring 2019
Mayank Ladoia Fall 2016 – Spring 2018
MS Thesis Students
Aisha Aljohani Thesis: ”Distributed Robot Coordination Handling Obstructions and Faults”, Summer 2016 – December 2017
Rusul Alsaedi Thesis: “On the Mutual Visibility of Fat Mobile Robots", Fall 2015 – May 2016
PhD Dissertation Committee
Roshani Parmar (Nirma University, India), “Embedded Systems”
Xiangxu Lin (Computer Science), “Proactive AI-Assistend Telemanipulation Framework for Humanoid Robot”, Defended Prospectus: Summer 2024
Jishu Medhi (Aerospace Engineering), “Reliable, Secure and safe deep learning”, Defended Prospectus: Spring 2024
Hanan Almutairi (Mathematics), “Quadrature Rules with Applications to Error Estimation”, Defended: Summer 2024
Anshuman Misra (Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), “Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Causality Detection and Causal Ordering in Distributed Systems”, Defended: Summer 2024
Krishna Aryal (Physics), “3-Dimensional QCD Phase Diagrams”, Defended: Spring 2024
Suman Raj Pandey (Physics), “Collective physical phenomena in materials with strong electronic correlations”, Defended: Fall 2023
Jiafeng Jin (Mathematics), “Modeling and Approximation of Complex Networks”, Defended: Fall 2023 (graduate faculty representative)
Debobroto Das Robin (Computer Science), “Leveraging PISA Switches for Traffic-Aware In-network Load Balancing in Data Center Networks”, Defended: Fall 2023
Alex Konic (Physics), “Ground States and Behaviors in Correlated Electron Materials”, Defended: Summer 2023
Shiva Bhattarai (Physics), “Neutron Scattering Study of NI-V and CE(NI,CU)SN”, Defended: Fall 2022
Jeff Peterson (Physics), “Compact Star Equation of State with Temperature and Magnetic Field Effects”, Defended: Fall 2022 (Graduate Faculty Representative)
Dom Lal Kunwar (Physics), “Super conductivity, magnetism, quantum criticality and hidden order in quantum materials”, Defended: Summer 2022
Drona Dahal (Physics), “Understanding the working mechamism of vertical organic field effect transistors”, Defended: Summer 2022
Niranjan Rai (Computer Science), “Efficient query processing over large road-network graphs”, Defended: Spring 2022
Ahmed Al-Baghdadi (Computer Science), “Efficient query processing over spatial-social networks”, Defended: Spring 2022
Reem Alsuhaibani (Computer Science), “A Comprehensive Examination of Factors for Assessing the Quality of Method Names in Source Code”, Defended: Spring 2022
Xin Hong (Geography), “A Convolution Neural Network for Detecting and Mapping Built Environment at Neighborhood Scale”, Defended: Summer 2021 (Graduate Faculty Representative)
Dekrayat Almaalol (Physics), “Non-equilibrium dynamics of the quark-gluon plasma from theory to phenomenology”, Defended: Summer 2021
Md Amjad Hossain (Computer Science), “Design of Crowd-scale Multi-party Telepresense System with Distributed Multipoint Control Unit based on Peer to Peer Network”, Defended: Summer 2020
Heather Michaud Guarnera (Computer Science), “Hyperbolicity, Injective Hulls, and Helly Graphs”, Graduated: Summer 2020
Purva Gawde (Computer Science), “Integrated analysis of temporal and morphological features using machine learning techniques for real time diagnosis of arrhythmia and irregular beats”, Defended: Fall 2018
Jordan Adamek (Computer Science), “Concurrent Geometric Routing”, Defended: Summer 2017
Brian M. Bartman (Computer Science), “Supporting Software Exploration with a Syntactic Aware Source Code Query Language”, Defended: Summer 2017
MS Thesis Committee
Keith Machina “A novel framework for efficient path planning through real-time cost map generation using neural networks for search and rescue missions”, Defended: Spring 2024
Neha Yalamanchi “A longitudinal study of mental health patterns from social media”, Defended: Summer 2021
Pradeep Kumar Paladugula “Robo Lake: An Elastic and Secure Distributed Data Management System for Immersive Telepresence Robots”, Defended: Fall 2020
Alex Wolfe “Mental Models of Computer Security among Adolescents”, Defended: Spring 2021
Irvin Cardenas “Blockchain, smart contracts and cryptocurrencies in robotics: use cases, economics, and human-robot interaction”, Defended: Fall 2020
Kendric Hood “Improving Cryptocurrency Blockchain Security and Availability through Adaptive Security and Partitioning”, Defended: Summer 2020
Nathan Kanyok “Situational Awareness Monitoring for Humans-in-the-Loop of Telepresence Robotic Systems”, Defended: Fall 2019
Xiangxu Lin “Novel Mental Health Management and Therapy Through Virtual Reality”, Defended: Fall 2019
Paul Bryant “Expanding The Build and Eexecute environment to streamline containerized workflows in a high performance computing ecosystem”, Defended: Fall 2018
Michael Romeo “Routing Among Planetary Bodies”, Defended: Summer 2018
Kevin Whalen “A Map System to Disseminate National Science on Forests for the Creation of Regional Tree Planting Prioritization Plans”, Defended: Fall 2017
Alfred Shaker “Comparison of the performance of NVIDIA accelerators with SIMD and Associative Processors on Real-Time Applications”, Defended: Fall 2017
Esraa Alzaidi “Experiments on Chordal Graph Hellification”, Defended: Summer 2017
Asaad Al Thoubi “Analysis of One Approximation Algorithm for Graph Linearization”, Defended: Spring 2017
Safa Shubbar “Ultrasound Medical Imaging Systems Using Telemedicine and Blockchain for Remote Monitoring of Responses to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Women’s Breast Cancer: Concept and Implementation”, Defended: Spring 2017
Hanan Muhajab “Extended Coupled Probabilistic Timed Automata for Monitoring Eating Activities of Elderly Person”, Defended: Fall 2016
Hayder Alash “The Impact of Mobility Models on Routing Protocols for Various Traffic Classes in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, Defended: Spring 2016
Honors Thesis Committee
Joseph Oglio “Partitionable Blockchain”, Defended: Spring 2020
Undergraduate Students
Yug Patel SURE student, Summer 2023 – Spring 2024
Lukas Leyden COF, Fall 2023 – Spring 2024
Nathan Naples COF, Fall 2023 – Spring 2024
Kaitlin Cochran COF, Fall 2022 – Spring 2023
Yaseen Shaikh COF, Fall 2022 – Spring 2023
Priyank Shah COF, Fall 2022 – Spring 2024
Isak Sabelko COF, Fall 2021 – Spring 2023
Abhishek Pandit SURE, Summer 2022
Ishan Bhandari SURE, Summer 2022
Vala Zeinali Summer 2018
Paul Birkholtz SURE, Summer 2017
High School Students
Rebecca Jocob “Science Experience”, Summer, Fall 2024, Spring 2025
Luke Rapaka Fall 2023 – Spring 2024
Will Frautschy “Science Experience”, Fall 2022
Raghav Kasibhalta “Science Experience”, Summer/Fall 2020
Jade Goodwin “Science Experience”, Spring/Summer 2017
Alex Reichart “Science Experience”, Spring/Summer/Fall 2016