Students

Current Graduate Students

• Ayda Eghbalian - PhD (LinkedIn)
  Expected Graduation: Fall 2027

• Sadia Mubashshira - PhD (LinkedIn)
  Expected Graduation: Spring 2028

• Mushfiqur Azam - PhD (LinkedIn)
  Expected Graduation: Spring 2028

• OFM Riaz Rahman Aranya - PhD (Webpage)
  Expected Graduation: Spring 2028

Past Graduate Students

• Kebin Peng - PhD (LinkedIn)
  Graduated: Summer 2023
  Last Known Position: Senior Software Engineer at MathWorks

• Omar Medjaouri - MS (LinkedIn)
  Graduated: Spring 2022
  Last Known Position: Research Engineer at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)

Current Undergraduate Students

• Joshua Silva (LinkedIn)
  Expected Graduation: Spring 2024

Past Undergraduate Students

• Soren Watterson (LinkedIn)
  Expected Graduation: Spring 2025

• Jenelle Millison (LinkedIn)
  Graduated: Spring 2023
  Last Known Position: Data Scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab

• Jeff Dong (LinkedIn)
  Graduated: Spring 2023
  Last Known Position: Software Developer at Paycom

• Ker Xiang Teh (LinkedIn)
  Graduated: Spring 2023
  Last Known Position: Application Security Engineer at HEB

• Hector Pineda (LinkedIn)
  Graduated: Spring 2023
  Last Known Position: Software Developer at HEB

• Ivy Vasquez Sandoval (LinkedIn)
  Graduated: Fall 2020
  Last Known Position: Robotics Software Engineer at Plus One Robotics

PhD Dissertation Committees

• "Leveraging Latent Fields", Ethan Payne, PhD Dissertation, Committee Member, Spring 2024.

• "Containerized Computer Vision Applications on ARM-Powered Edge Devices", Osamah Alqaisi, PhD Dissertation, Committee Member, Spring 2024.

• "Multimodal Feedback Techniques to Increase Accessibility of Immersive Virtual Reality", Rasel Mahmud, PhD Dissertation, Committee Member, Fall 2023.

• "Leveraging Explainability to Increase Efficiency and Transparency in Computer Vision", David Patrick, PhD Dissertation, Committee Member, Fall 2023.

• "Analyzing the Geometric Structure of Deep Learning Decision Boundaries", Michael Geyer, PhD Dissertation, Committee Member, Fall 2023.

• "Enhancing Depth Estimation in Adverse Lighting Scenarios for Autonomous Driving", Kebin Peng, PhD Dissertation, Committee Chair, Summer 2023.

• "Towards Understanding the Impacts of Virtual Terrain on User Experience in VR", Samuel Ang, PhD Dissertation, Committee Member, Summer 2023.

• "Towards Automatic Cybersickness Detection, Early-Prediction, and Reductions for Virtual Reality Applications", Rifatul Islam, PhD Dissertation, Committee Member, Spring 2022.

• "Aquatic Virtual Reality: From Feasibility to Application", Raphael Costa, PhD Dissertation, Committee Member, Summer 2020.

MS/UG Thesis & Project Committees

• "3D Hand Pose Estimation Informed by the Human Kinematic Chain", Jenelle Millison, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Committee Chair, Spring 2023.

• "Optimizing Electric Vehicle Charging Stations and training robots in City Scale Digital Twin", Nithish Reddy Gundla, MS Project, Committee Member, Spring 2023.

• "3D Digital Twin Representation for Building Indoors", Susheela Sri Akunuru, MS Thesis, Committee Member, Fall 2022.

• "AI Federated Learning for Face Recognition at the Edge", Sadia Afrin, MS Thesis, Committee Member, Summer 2022.

• "Attention-Based Audio Driven 3-D Facial Animation", Neda Zand, MS Thesis, Committee Member, Summer 2022.

• "HR-STAN: High-Resolution Spatio-Temporal Attention Network for 3D Human Motion Prediction", Omar Medjaouri, MS Project & Comprehensive Exam, Committee Chair, Spring 2022.