Faculty

Ali Karimoddini, Ph.D.     |     Director

Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

North Carolina A&T State University

Greensboro, NC, 27411

Office: (336) 285-3313   |   Fax: (336) 334-7716

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Postdocs, Research Scientists, and Visiting Faculty

Jose Matute, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research Interests: Autonomous Vehicles Control, Sensor Fusion, Transportation Technology

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Tesfamichael Getahun, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research Interests: Computer vision, Autonomous Vehicles, Sensing, Perception

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Milad Khaleghi, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research Interests: Reliable and Fault-Tolerant Control Systems, Intelligent Fault Diagnosis, Discrete Event Systems, Machine Learning, Adaptive Control, Metaheuristic Algorithms

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Aliasghar (Al) Arab, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research Interests: Autonomous Vehicles, Mobile Robots, Learning Predictive Control, Safety-Critical Systems, Secure Communications

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Daniel Tobias

Autonomy Specialist

Research Interests: Autonomy, Embedded Systems, Software Integration, Autonomous Driving Software

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Ph.D. Students

Kareem A Hogan

Ph.D. Student 

Research Interests: Sensor Fusion and Perception

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William Gray

Ph.D. Student 

Research Interests: UAS Control and Perception, Smart Agriculture

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Michael Dejene Azage 

Ph.D. Student 

Research Interests: Perception, Planning, and Control for Autonomous Vehicles (AV), Sensor Fusion for AVs, Wireless Sensor Networks

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Negasa Cherena Yahi 

Ph.D. Student 

Research Interests: Adaptive Control, Motion and path planning, Flight Control, and Urban Air Mobility Traffic Management

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Azmol Fuad 

Ph.D. Student 

Research Interests: Reliability, Fault Diagnosis, Discrete Event Systems, Motion and path planning, Flight Control, and Urban Air Mobility Traffic Management

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Tienake Phuapaiboon 

Ph.D. Student 

Research Interests: Connected Autonomous Vehicles, Sensing and Perception, and Machine Learning.

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Masters Students

Research Undergraduate Students

Former Team Members

Former Postdocs and Visiting Faculty

Redwan Newaz, Ph.D.

Research Interest: Motion Planning Under Uncertainty, Optimal Control, Deep Learning, Policy Synthesis, Model Checking 

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Mubbashar Khan, Ph.D.

Research Interest: Cognitive Radios, Secondary Radio Spectrum Trade, Connected Autonomous Vehicles, Test and Evaluation, Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Systems

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Solomon Gebreyohannes, Ph.D.

Research Interest: Test and Evaluation, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Robotics Systems

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Former Graduate Students

Alejandro White, Ph.D.

Ph.D. Dissertation: Failure Diagnosis of Discrete Event Systems Under Unknown\Uncertain Activation Conditions

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Laya Shamgah, Ph.D.

Ph.D. Dissertation: Reactive Symbolic Planning and Control of Autonomous Vehicles in Adversarial Environments

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Abel Hailemichael, Ph.D.  

Ph.D. Dissertation: Robust Control and Data-driven Test and Evaluation of Autonomous Vehicles 

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Ira Wendell Bates

Ph.D. Dissertation: Resilient Cooperative Control and Fault Diagnosis Systems 

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Solomon Gudeta

Ph.D. Student 

Research Interests: Robotic Swarm 

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Tadewos Tadewos

Ph.D. Student 

Research Interests: Formal Verification of Teaming Autonomous Vehicles 

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Md Khurram Monir Rabby

Ph.D. Student 

Research Interests: Human-Machine Cooperation and Interaction 

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Muhammad Islam

Ph.D. Student 

Research Interests: Perception Systems and Sensor Fusion for Self-driving Cars 

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Justin Blackman 

MS Student 

Research Interests: Cooperative Coordination and Control of Aerial and Ground Robotics

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Daniel Tobias 

MS Student 

Research Interests: Robotics, Mapping, and Optimization.

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Emmanuel Marfo 

MS Student 

Research Interests: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Computer vision, bridge inspection

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Mohammadreza Behniapoor

Master Thesis: Development and Modeling of a Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV)

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Vinh K

Master Thesis: Optimal Cooperative Tasking and Coordination of UAVs in a Search and Coverage Mission

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Edward Kofi Mahama 

MS Student 

Research Interests: Design of Testing and Evaluation Techniques for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Enabled for  Bridge Inspection 

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Nnamdi J. Enyinna 

Master Thesis: Developing an Enhanced Type-2 TSK Fuzzy Logic Controller 

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Former Undergraduate Students

Kristofer Bailey 

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William Hall 

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Brianna D. Patterson 

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Usama Chaudhry  

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William Gray

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Kenneth Lindsay 

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Princeton Perry 

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Christopher Cannon 

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Andrew Neal 

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Chris Goldman 

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Kevin Loncke 

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Usama Chaudhry  

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Jonathan Alston

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Dennis Hernandez

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Alan Kruger 

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Daniel Tobias

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Luke Abers

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Tyisheam Jackson 

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Glenn Hall

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Marcus Blue 

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Derrick Azorlibu 

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Amiri Fanning

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Theodore Wilson 

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Tianyang Zhang 

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Temesgen Gebregziabher 

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John Jenkins 

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Zhuoning Yuan 

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Brittney Bowles 

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Ningxin Shi 

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Maissa Mbaye 

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Reginald Farmer 

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Emmanuel Arzate 

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Evan Olney 

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Nicholas Donald 

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Billy Whitehead 

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