Bio: Behnaz Papari (S’10-M’2018) received the BS and MS.c in Electrical Engineering in 2008 and 2011 from the University of Bushehr and K. N. Toosi University of Technology, IRAN, respectively. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Florida State University, the USA in 2018.  Prior to joining the Department of Automotive Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University in Spring 2022, Dr. Papari was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine Engineering Technology at Texas A&M University and an Assistant Professor of Practice at the Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) for three years at UNC Charlotte where she taught at undergraduate and graduate levels.  Her background is in power systems controls with an emphasis on modeling, analysis, planning, and AI-based optimization and her current research interests are in distributed controls and secure control frameworks under uncertainty, applications on energy system modeling, and stochastic optimization, electric vehicle, including electric and hybrid-electric, and energy storage systems.

Bio: Grace Muriithi is a PhD Candidate in Automotive Engineering at the Clemson University International Centre for Automotive Research. She is currently undertaking research in resilience and security enhancement of cyber-physical systems with a particular focus on (Hybrid) Electric Vehicles (HEVs) and electric vehicle charging stations (EVCSs). Grace received her BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya and her MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Her research interests include Cyber-physical systems security, Machine Learning, Energy Management, Microgrids, and vulnerability analysis in advanced control systems.  

Bio: Ali Arsalan received his bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering in 2015 from UCET, IUB, Pakistan. After that, he served as a Lab. Engineer at Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology (KFUEIT), Pakistan from January 2017 to August 2022. He also completed his master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from UET, Lahore, Pakistan in 2019. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Automotive Engineering at Clemson University, SC, USA as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Secure Energy and Automation Laboratory (SEAL) at the International Center for Automotive Research (ICAR), Greenville. His research interests include Optimization, Microgrids, Energy Management, EV Technologies, Cyber Security, and Power System Resiliency towards cyber threats.

Bio: Asif Ahmed Khan completed his bachelor’s program in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from BRAC University, Bangladesh in 2019. After that, he joined PEMEC (Power Energy Management & Engineering Company), where he was involved in a project, the aim of which was to study the electrical network of Dhaka South in order to improve the power factor of the entire system under the operation of DPDC (Dhaka Power Distribution Company). Later, he also gained some experience working at Neural Semiconductor, a VLSI company in Bangladesh. He was part of the Physical Design team and worked with Cadence EDA tools like Innovus and Genus. Asif will start his Ph.D. in Automotive Engineering at the  Department of Automotive Engineering, Clemson University in the Spring of 2024. He will work as a Graduate Research Assistant under the supervision of Dr. Behnaz Papari at RT-COOL (Real-Time Control and Optimization Laboratory). His research interests include Power Systems, Power Electronics, Cyber-physical Systems and Machine Learning. 

Bio: Chirag Mutha is an Automotive Semiconductor Engineer with a specialized background in Semiconductor Device Physics, Thermal Engineering, Design and Manufacturing of Semiconductor and Automotive Components. My current research is focused on the study of Organic Thin-Film Transistors (OTFTs) and the investigation of Hysteresis in OTFTs. My objective is to propose innovative solutions to optimize device performance, emphasizing thermal engineering and device packaging.

Bio: Douglas Scruggs is a graduate student in Electrical Engineering from Barnwell, SC. He completed his bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University. He has completed three CO-OP rotations with JTEKT Koyo's machine design group. He has also completed three summer internships with the Savannah River Site.

Bio: Kashyap Bagri is a graduate student pursuing a master's degree in automotive engineering at CU-ICAR. Originally hailing from West Bengal, India, he comes from a region known for its rich cultural heritage and delectable traditional sweets. My academic passion revolves around delving into the intricacies of powertrain control systems. As an active member of the Deep Orange 15 team, he is committed to our mission of constructing a high-speed off-road autonomous rescue vehicle for the US Army. He find great fulfillment in this challenging endeavor. In his free time, you'll often find him indulging in his favorite hobbies, which include immersing himself in the world of music and enjoying the thrill of playing cricket. These pastimes offer him a perfect balance between my academic pursuits and personal interests. Additionally, he is currently engaged in a project with SEAL, where he's focused on the creation of a surrogate model for tracked vehicles. This model aims to accurately predict velocity with minimal error and challenge traditional physics-based models. With a keen enthusiasm for automotive engineering and a passion for music and cricket, he is constantly seeking new horizons in the automotive field and personal growth. 

Bio: Yusuf Hasan Yucesan, a Greenville, South Carolina native, is currently pursuing his undergraduate degree at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, with an expected graduation in spring 2024. He graduated from Riverside High School and ventured into the world of technology at ICAR, where he worked with Dr. Papari in the SEAL lab. There, he played a key role in setting up the local network, Raspberry Pis, and the SEL-2488 GNSS switching server, connecting it to the RT-COOL lab at Clemson University. 

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Bio: Evan Conroy is a high school student at St. Joseph's Catholic School. He is an intern at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research and helped create a website for Dr. Papari. On top of the web design, Evan is helping in the lab and learning the appliances for future use.