Group Members

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Current Members

Current Postdocs
 
 Dr. Ali Irshayyid (2025-present)
 
Current Ph.D. Students
 
 Zhaodong Zhou (2022-present)  Thirumal Siruvole (2023-present)
 
 Dalitso Kuntambila (2023-present)  Wanqun Yang (2024-present)
 
 Hussein Alawsi (2024-present)  Khaled Alsharif (2025-present)
 
 Luke Nuculaj (2025-present)  Yara Mahmoud (2025-present)
 
Current Master Students
 
 Owais Ogdeh (2025-present)   Jacob Bowden (2025-present)
 

Former Members

Former Ph.D. Students:
 
 Ranya Badawi (March 2025; Now with General Motors)

Ph.D. Dissertation: Event-triggered MPC for DC-DC Converters
  Ali Irshayyid (October 2024; Continued as Postdoc)

Ph.D. Dissertation: Highway Merging Control Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Exploring Centralized and Decentralized Schemes
Former Master Students
 
  Cory Ness (Fall 2024 for Graduate Engineering Project; Now with CTR Electronics, LLC.)

Graduate Engineering Project: Flywheel System Characterization using Extended Kalman Filter
  David Flessner (July 2024; Now with Stellantis)

Master Thesis: Reinforcement Learning-Based Event-Triggered Active Battery Cell Balancing Control for Electric Vehicle Range Extension
  Luke Nuculaj (March 2024; Founded a startup on embedded systems)

Master Thesis: Simultaneous Cell State Estimation via Dense Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter
  Christopher Rother (February 2023; Joined Northrop Grumman)

Master Thesis: Development of A Four-Wheel Steering Scale Vehicle for Autonomous Vehicle Motion Control Evaluation
Former Undergraduate Students
 
  Sivasakthi Muthukumar (Winter 2024; Joined General Motors)
  Andrew McGhee (Winter 2024)
  George Trupiano (Winter 2024)
  Luis Gomez (Winter 2024)
  Armela Gjokaj (Fall 2023)

Honor Thesis: Vehicle Parking Space Monitoring System
  Seeyam Chowdhury (Winter 2023)

Honor Thesis: Medication Dispensing System
 Matthew Adams (Summer 2022)
  Steven DeCoste (Winter 2022; Joined General Motors; Co-advised with Prof. Dan DelVescovo)

Honor Thesis: Developing an Algorithm for Minimizing Steady State Engine Testing Time
 Ziwei Zhou (Fall 2021)
 Shan Huang (Fall 2020 & Summer 2021; Continued as MS student at OU)
 
Former High School Students
 
 Aaron Sun (Troy High School; 09/2023-05/2024; Accepted to University of Michigan)
 Alice Chen (Novi High School; Summer 2024; Accepted to University of Michigan)
 

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