People

Current Students

• Abenezer Taye, Ph.D. student (MAE@GW)
• Shulu Chen, Ph.D. student (ECE@GW, co-advise with Prof. Tian Lan)
• Binshuai (Derek) Wang, Ph.D. student (CS@GW)
• Amin Tabrizian, Ph.D. student (CS@GW)
• Alexis Bregeon, Ph.D. student (ENAC/Université Toulouse III, co-advise with Prof. Daniel Delahaye)
• Can Vu, Ph.D. student (MAE@GW)

Past PhD Students

• Wei Guo, Ph.D. 2023 (CS@GW, co-advise with Prof. Robert Pless)
  Ph.D. dissertation title: Safe and Trustworthy Deep Reinforcement Learning for Aircraft Separation Assurance
• Josh Bertram, Ph.D. 2022 (ECE@ISU, co-advise with Prof. Joseph Zambreno)
  Ph.D. dissertation title: Applying FastMDP to Complex Aerospace-related Problems
• Marc Brittain, Ph.D. 2021 (AE@ISU, co-advise with Prof. Leifur Leifsson)
  Ph.D. dissertation title: Learning-based Decision Making for Safe and Scalable Autonomous Separation Assurance
• Hao Sun, Ph.D. 2021 (MAE@GW, co-advise with Prof. James Lee)
  Ph.D. dissertation title: Modeling and Simulation of Tumor Growth by Finite Element and Machine Learning Methods
• Syed Shihab, Ph.D. 2020 (AE@ISU, co-advise with Prof. Christina Bloebaum)
  Ph.D. dissertation title: DeepARM: An Airline Revenue Management System for Dynamic Pricing and Seat Inventory Control using Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Xuxi Yang, Ph.D. 2020 (AE@ISU)
  Ph.D. dissertation title: Learning-based Perception and Control with Adaptive Stress Testing for Safe Autonomous Air Mobility
• Xufang Zheng, Ph.D. 2019 (AE@ISU, with minor in statistics)
  Ph.D. dissertation title: Air Transportation Direct Share Analysis and Forecasting
• Guodong Zhu, PhD, 2019 (AE@ISU)
  Ph.D. dissertation title: Decision Making under Uncertainties for Air Traffic Flow Management
• Priyank Pradeep, PhD, 2019 (AE@ISU)
  Ph.D. dissertation title: Arrival Management for eVTOL Aircraft in On-Demand Urban Air Mobility

Past Postdocs

• Pouria Razzaghi, Postdoc Researcher 2023 (MAE@GW)
  Project title: A Verification Framework for Certifying Learning-Based Safety-Critical Aviation Systems

Past MS Students

• Yue Li, MS 2023 (Data Science@GW)
  M.S. project title: Identifying Similar Weather Sequences for Airline Decision Making
• Josh Bertram, MS, 2020 (ECE@ISU)
  M.S. thesis title: A New Solution for Markov Decision Processes and its Aerospace Applications
• Mohammad Anwar Manjanoor, MS, 2019 (ECE@ISU)
  M.S. project title: Autonomous Drone Racing Platform
• Daniel Zhou, MS, 2019 (AE@ISU)
  M.S. thesis title: Airline Fleet Planning and Utilization Hours Comparison Studies
• Imke Kleinbekman, MS, 2019 (co-advise with Prof. Mihaela Mitici, visiting from TU Delft) 
  M.S. thesis title: eVTOL Arrival Sequencing and Scheduling for On-Demand Urban Air Mobility
• Abdullah Alnaqeb, MS, 2017 (AE@ISU)
  M.S. thesis title: Online Prediction of Battery Discharge and Flight Mission Assessment for Electrical Rotorcraft