Group Members
I am looking for passionate and highly motivated Ph.D. students to join my group. Please send the following directly to me:
- Cover letter to summarize past experience and to explain how you can fit into our project.
- Detailed CV with name and contact information for 3 references.
- Transcripts for both master and undergraduate degrees. Transcripts from outside of US must be evaluated by a current member of NACES such as WES.
- GRE/TOEFL (if applicable).
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) |  | Yara Mahmoud (Incoming) |
| Current Master Students | |||
 | Owais Ogdeh (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 |
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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 | |
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Cory Ness (Fall 2024 for Graduate Engineering Project; Now with CTR Electronics, LLC.) Graduate Engineering Project: Flywheel System Characterization using Extended Kalman Filter |
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David Flessner (July 2024; Now with Stellantis) Master Thesis: Reinforcement Learning-Based Event-Triggered Active Battery Cell Balancing Control for Electric Vehicle Range Extension |
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Luke Nuculaj (March 2024; Founded a startup on embedded systems) Master Thesis: Simultaneous Cell State Estimation via Dense Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter |
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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 | |
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Sivasakthi Muthukumar (Winter 2024) |
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Andrew McGhee (Winter 2024) |
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George Trupiano (Winter 2024) |
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Luis Gomez (Winter 2024) |
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Armela Gjokaj (Fall 2023) Honor Thesis: Vehicle Parking Space Monitoring System |
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Seeyam Chowdhury (Winter 2023) Honor Thesis: Medication Dispensing System |
 | Matthew Adams (Summer 2022) |
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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) |
| | Alice Chen (Novi High School; Summer 2024) |