Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis - Research Group

Current PhD Students

Prachi Pratyusha Sahoo Secure, Intermittent, and Model-Free Autonomous Framework for Cyber Physical Systems Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Lijing Zhai Architectures for Hardening Security in Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems Alma mater: Beihang University, China

Nick-Marios Kokolakis Pursuit-Evasion Games and Geofencing Alma mater: University of Patras, Greece

Filippos Fotiadis Non-Equilibrium Learning for Security and Stealthiness Alma mater: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Jose Messias Magalhaes Junior Morphing Vehicles and Physics Informed Learning Alma mater: Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Brazil

Joshua Netter Urban Air Mobility and Motion Planning Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Surabhi Athalye Security of Cyber-Physical Systems Alma mater: Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Current MS Students

• Manthan Joshi, Ground Robot Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance
  Alma mater: Gogte Institute of Technology

• Barin Ahmad Moghimi, PINN-based Learning
  Alma mater: Harvard and Columbia

• Cedric Olivier Etoundi Moutymbo, Reinforcement Learning
  Alma mater: West Virginia University

• Austin Hurst, Strategic Missile Guidance
  Alma mater: Brigham Young University

• Nidhi Kandpal, Cyber-Physical Systems
  Alma mater: Bharati Vidyapeeth, India

• Alistair Sequeira, Learning-based Control for Urban Air Mobility
  Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology

Current Undergraduate Students

• Rishikesh Prabhuram, PID Auto Tuning
  

• Savanna Scott, Intermittent Learning
  

Current PhD Visitor

• Nejat Tukenmez, Reinforcement Learning for Autonomy
  

Recent PhD and MS Alumni

• Hanqing Zhu, 2020-2022
  PhD thesis: A Systems Engineering Approach to the Design and Education of a Robotic Baby
  Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology, Lorraine, France
  Final advisor after the departure of Eric Feron
  Current position: Research Scientist, META

• Taehwan Seo, 2021-2022
  Master thesis: Verification of Adversarially Robust Reinforcement Learning Mechanisms in Autonomous Systems
  Alma mater: Purdue
  Current position: GNC Engineer, Boeing

• Kevin Pierre Martial Garanger, 2020-2022
  PhD thesis: Versatile and Structurally Efficient Aerial Systems Assembled from Polyhedral Rotorcraft Modules
  Alma mater: Ecole Polytechnique, France
  Final advisor after the departure of Eric Feron
  Current position: Postdoc, University of California, Irvine

• Aris Kanellopoulos, 2017-2021
  PhD thesis: Control and Game-Theoretic Methods for Secure Cyber-Physical-Human Systems
  Alma mater: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  First position: Research Engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Current position: Postdoc, KTH, Sweden

• Thanakorn Khamvilai, 2020-2021
  PhD thesis: Optimization-based Design of Fault-Tolerant Avionics
  Alma mater: Kasestart University, Thailand
  Final advisor after the departure of Eric Feron
  Current position: Research Assistant Professor, Penn State University

• Evan Hammac, 2020-2022
  Master project: Air to Air Electrical Refueling
  Alma mater: Arizona State University
  Current position: Research Engineer, GTRI

• Rafiya Tasnim, 2022
  Master project: Reinforcement Learning for Inner-loop Flight Control
  Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
  Current position: Flight Controls Engineer, Lockheed Martin

• Aqib Syed, 2020-2022
  Master project: Shape Morphing
  Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
  Current position: PhD student, Stanford

• Yoobin Kim, 2020-2022
  Master project: Shape Morphing
  Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
  Current position: Mandatory Military Service in South Korea

• Dylan Staatz, 2020-2022
  Master thesis: Model-Free Multi-Agent Motion Planning with Non-Uniform Sensors
  Alma mater: Kansas State University
  Current position: Engineer, Sandia National Laboratories

• Vansh Kareer, 2020-2022
  Master project: An Exploration of Individual and Centralized Approaches to Trajectory Planning in an Urban Air Mobility Simulation
  Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
  Current position: Engineer, Lockheed Martin

• Zelin Hu, 2020-2022
  Master project: Q-learning and Humans-in-the-Loop
  Alma mater: University of California, Irvine
  Current position: PhD student, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Brian Solar, 2021-2022
  Master project: Reachability Analysis for Optimal Control
  Alma mater: University of Central Florida
  Current position: Engineer, GTRI

• Danish Hussain, 2020-2021
  Master project: UAV Spoofing Mechanisms
  Alma mater: University of Texas, Austin
  Current position: Engineer, Pratt & Whitney

• Zirui Xu, 2018-2020
  Master project: Motion Planning with Moving Obstacles
  Alma mater: Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
  Current position: PhD student, University of Michigan

• Joshua Netter, 2020-2021
  Master project: Moving Target Defense for Drones
  Alma mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
  Current position: PhD student, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Pavan Kumar Gundu, 2017-2019
  Master thesis: High-Speed Platooning of UGVs using an Intermittent Learning Algorithm
  Alma mater: IIT Madras, India
  Current position: ADAS Research Engineer, Ford Motor Company
  Jointly with Ryan Gerdes

• Maria Grammatopoulou, 2018
  Master project: Resilient Predictive Q-learning for IoT
  Alma mater: Technical University of Crete, Greece
  Current position: Program Manager, Transportation Operations Planning, Amazon
  Jointly with Nathan Lau

• George Kontoudis, 2016-2018
  Master thesis: Design and Development of Anthropomorphic, Adaptive Robot Hands for Robust Grasping, and Dexterous, in-hand Manipulation
  Alma mater: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  Current position: Postdoc, University of Maryland, College Park
  Jointly with Tomonari Furukawa

Former Post-doctoral Fellows, Research Engineers, Visitors, and Interns

• Dr. Aris Kanellopoulos, 2022 (currently a Postdoc at KTH, Sweden)

• Constantinos Costopoulos, 2022 (currently a student at the National Technical University of Athens)

• Daniel Zhao, 2022 (currently a high school student at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham)

• Jianning Cui, 2020-2021 (currently a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania)

• Fukai Han, 2021 (currently an undergraduate student at the Ohio State University)

• Yannis Loukidis, 2021 (currently a high school student at East Brunswick High School)

• Sofia Karamintziou, 2017 (PhD from National Technical University of Athens, Greece; Placement: Associate at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, as of September 2017)