Students

Graduate Research Assistant — MIND Lab Members

  • Ashish Ashish “Conformal Temporal Convolutional Forecasting for Battery-Aware Micro-UAV Mission Monitoring”
  • Chaitanya Chodi “Battery-Aware Autonomous Drone Simulation and Temporal Fusion-Based Predictive Modelling for Energy-Efficient Mission Planning” Spring 2026
  • Tej Acharya “GPS Trajectory-Based Traffic Congestion Detection and Classification Using Delaunay Triangulation and Graph Neural Networks” “HAGTNet: Hierarchical Attention-based Graph Transformer Network for GPS Trajectory-Based Traffic Flow States Detection” Best Poster Presentation Award, IEEE Southeast Michigan AI Summit, 2026 Spring 2025 – Fall 2025
  • Maleha Ansari “GPS Trajectory-Based Traffic Congestion Detection and Classification Using Delaunay Triangulation and Graph Neural Networks” Fall 2025 – Spring 2026
  • Rinkuben Patel “Graph Neural Network-Enabled Intelligence for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems” Fall 2025
  • Rup Boyana “Insights into Road Safety: A Study of Holland City’s Crash Trends” Fall 2023 – Spring 2024
  • Keerthana Mahalingam “Unveiling Housing Insights: Exploring Community Feedback Using the Apriori Algorithm” Fall 2023 – Spring 2024
  • Pavan Paravada “Adaptive Traffic Control: SARSA Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Urban Mobility” Fall 2023 – Spring 2024
  • Neelmani Kashyap “Augmented Reality Visualization for Underground Utilities” Best Poster Award, LTU Research Day 2022 Spring 2022 – Spring 2023

PhD Committee Service

  • Md. Hasibul Hasan Qualifying Exam — Advisor: Dr. Yifei Ma
  • Logesh Rajendran Qualifying Exam — Advisor: Dr. Nishantha Bandara
  • Pedro Guillen Dissertation Committee — Advisor: Dr. Matthew Cole

Master’s Project Committee

  • Benjamin Holman
  • Peighton Andrews

Prospective Students

If you would like to work with me on a research project, thesis, or dissertation, please email me with your recent CV.