People

Faculty

Assistant Professor

Salma Elmalaki

Current PhD Students

Tianyu Zhao

Joined Fall 2021

Research Interest: Fairness in Decision-Making for Human-Cyber-Phsyical System

Diana Romero

Joined Fall 2022

Research Interest: Privacy-aware and User-Centric design for Collabrotive Immersive Enviornment

Mahmoud Srewa

Joined Fall 2024

Alumnus

PhD Students

PhD. Mojtaba Taherisadr

Joined Fall 2020 – Graduated Fall 2024
PhD Thesis: Methodologies for Personalized Privacy-Aware Machine Learning in Human-in-the-Loop Systems

Last known location: AI Scientist at Avodah

MS Students

MS. Ruchi Patel

Joined Fall 2023 – Graduated Fall 2024
MS Thesis: Optimizing Gesture Recognition on Hololens 2 Using CNNs with Early Exits

MS. Puya Fard

Joined Spring 2024 – Graduated Fall 2024
MS Project: Human-aware automotive testbed using CARLA with VR environment
Last known location: Embedded Software Engineer at TP-Link Systems Inc

Undergraduate Researchers

Kenny Moc, Arushi Arora, Sai Sravan Gogulapati

Joined Spring 2023
Graduated Spring 2023
Research Project: Emotional-aware Adaptive Music Synthesis

Yixin Zhang

Joined Fall 2022
Graduate Spring 2023
Research Project: Smart Crowd Management
Milestone: Best UG thesis award and an accepted paper at DESTION’24
Last known location: Graduate student at CMU

Anikait Rao

Joined Winter 2021
Graduated Spring 2022
Research Project: Human-in-the-Loop Task Delegation
Milestones: Build an autonomous car testbed with physical dynamics
Last known location: Meta

Armand Ahadi-Sarkani

Joined Spring 2020
Graduated Winter 2021
Research Project: Personalized ADAS
Award: Gold Medal The ACM SIGBED Student Research Competition (SRC’21)
Last known location: Qualcomm