folks

students, collaborators, and alumni who shaped the work in the lab and the conversations around it.

current vanderbilt phd students

Mohamad H. Kazma

Mohamad H. Kazma

phd candidate

expected august 2026

observability, partitioning, stability, and uncertainty propagation in linear and nonlinear dynamical systems with infrastructure applications.

Abdallah Albustami

Abdallah Albustami

phd candidate

expected august 2028

stealthy cyberattacks, nonlinear differential-algebraic models, and security of water and power infrastructure.

Gavin Blair

Gavin Blair

phd student

expected august 2030

current doctoral student in the lab.

Jafar Mandouri

Jafar Mandouri

phd candidate

expected august 2029

uncertainty quantification and reliability assessment for intermodal freight transportation.

recent vanderbilt graduates

Salma M. Elsherif

Salma M. Elsherif

phd, may 2025

current affiliation: staff water resources engineer, arcadis

monitoring and control of quantity-quality dynamics for resilient drinking water networks.

Muhammad Nadeem

Muhammad Nadeem

phd, may 2025

current affiliation: postdoc, florida international university

control, identification, and model reduction of nonlinear differential-algebraic power-system models with renewables-heavy dynamics.

Daokuan Zhu

Daokuan Zhu

phd student

august 2024 to may 2025

short-term doctoral work in the lab.

postdoctoral scholars

MirSaleh Bahavarnia

MirSaleh Bahavarnia

postdoc, august 2022 to may 2025

former postdoctoral scholar

control of connected autonomous vehicle platoons, controllability in power systems, and scalable feedback design.

Wenjie Mei

Wenjie Mei

postdoc, august 2023 to may 2025

former postdoctoral scholar

nonlinear control, stochastic systems, and learning-enabled dynamical systems.

Hongchao Zhang

Hongchao Zhang

postdoc, august 2025 to present

co-advised with meiyi ma and taylor johnson

safe and robust control for cyber-physical systems at the intersection of control, ai, and formal methods.

utsa phd alumni

Sebastian A. Nugroho

Sebastian A. Nugroho

phd, may 2021

current affiliation: connected and intelligent systems technical specialist, cummins inc.

control node and sensor selection in dynamical systems, differential-algebraic power-system observers, and traffic sensing.

Shen Wang

Shen Wang

phd, may 2021

current affiliation: associate professor, beijing university of posts and telecommunications

control-theoretic modeling, system identification, and model reduction for drinking water quality dynamics.

secondary phd and master's advising

Alfredo Avila

Alfredo Avila

Ankur Pipri

Ankur Pipri

Anvesh Anche

Anvesh Anche

Raviraj Tavaragondi

Raviraj Tavaragondi

Amir Baharvandi

Amir Baharvandi

Hamid Fekri

Hamid Fekri

Manan Bhagat

Manan Bhagat

Neharika Raut

Neharika Raut

Morteza Dabaghmanesh

Morteza Dabaghmanesh

Aime Mutuyeyezu

Aime Mutuyeyezu

Paresh Risbud

Paresh Risbud

Mohammadhafez Bazrafshan

Mohammadhafez Bazrafshan

undergraduate students

Mackenzie Hall

Mackenzie Hall

Antonio Anzaldua

Antonio Anzaldua

Junhwan Lee

Junhwan Lee

Diane Squire

Diane Squire

David Chu

David Chu

Mohammad Habibi

Mohammad Habibi