Faculty
Current PhD Students

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