Principle Investigator (PI)
Principle Investigator (PI)
School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AME), The University of Oklahoma, 865 Asp Ave, Norman, OK, 73072, USA
Research Assistant Professor, Clemson University, 05/2020-07/2021
Visiting Research Scientist, Stanford University, 08/2019-04/2020
Post-doc, Clemson University, 09/2017-07/2019
Ph.D., Clemson University, Automotive Engineering (2017)
B.S., Hunan University, Automotive Engineering, China (2013)
PhD. Students
Research area: End to End learning for self-driving path planning, traffic light/ traffic sign detection, reinforcement learning, vehicle on-road testing, transformer-based supervised learning architecture design, point to point navigation.
Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Oklahoma (2022 Spring - present)
M.S., University of Pittsburgh, Information Science (2020)
B.E., Northeastern University, China, Software Engineering (2018)
Research area: End-to-End Path Planning, Data Driven Modeling and Control for Autonomous Vehicles
Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Oklahoma (2023 Fall - present)
M.S., University of California Davis, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (2023)
M.S., University of Isfahan, Iran, Aerospace Engineering (2020)
B.S., Islamic Azad University of Najaf Abad Branch, Aerospace Engineering (2016)
Research area: Data Driven Modeling and Control for Building Energy Saving
Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Oklahoma (2024 Fall - present)
B.S., Xiangtan University, China, Electrical Engineering (2009)
Research area: Bird-Eye-View (BEV) space construction, End to End learning, lidar based localization
Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Oklahoma (2024 Fall - present)
B.S., Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, Mathematics (2023)
Research area: Estimation and Control for Autonomous Vehicles
Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Oklahoma (2026 Spring - present)
M.S., Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, Instrumentation and Control (2024)
B.S., Rajshahi University of Engineering, Bangladesh, Mechatronics Engineering (2019)
Research area: lidar based localization, data-driven steering dynamics modeling and control, vehicle integration with Autoware autonomous driving platform, vehicle testing
Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Oklahoma (2026 Summer - present)
B.S., The University of Oklahoma, Mechanical Engineering (2026)
M.S. Students
Research area: Drive-by-wire system development for 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5
Research area: BEV construction using 360 degree cameras for autonomous driving
Undergraduate Students
Research area: vehicle retrofit for autonomous driving
Research area: Automatic annotation for autonomous driving
Past Students
Ph.D.:
Ziba Arjmandzadeh (2025, Dissertation: Optimal Control for Self-Driving Path Planning and Thermal Management)
M.S.:
David Yun (Reinforcement Learning based adaptive horizon path planning for autonomous vehicles)
Undergraduate:
Connor Little (Vehicle retrofit for autonomous driving)
Collin Burch (Vehicle prototyping, modification, instrumentation, drive-by-wire modification, micro-controller coding, vehicle CAN communication, vehicle closed course testing, data acquisition, steering control)
Victoria Lee (Autonomous Vehicle development with micro-controllers and CAN communication)
Gregory O'Loughlin (Autonomous Vehicle driver-by-wire hardware design)
Andrew McWilliams (Autonomous Vehicle localization and navigation)
Dawson Mcclary (Vehicle dynamics)