
CeRIS Team
Leadership

Dr. Prabha Sundaravadivel
Director, CeRIS
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Dr. Shekhar Suman Borah
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
PhD Students

Harshitha Manjunatha
Thesis: Integration of AI in Real-Time Solutions
The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas.
Master’s in Information and Communication Systems, Technical University of Chemnitz,
Germany.

Prajwal Mahesha Sethurani
Thesis: Edge AI
The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas.
Master’s in Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Arizona.
Graduate Students

Kruthik Narasimhamurthy
Thesis: Autonomy in Aerial Robots
MS in Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas

Aryan Anand
Thesis: Mobile Robots for Resource-Constrained Environments
MS in Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Ashton Fitzgerald
Project: Real-Time Affective Frameworks

Chase Brown
Project: Edge AI for Ground Robots

Roland Eugene Kincaid III
Project: AI controlled environment for Botanical Experiments.
Interns

Samvada Jain Manel
Mobile Application Developer
Graduate in Information Science and Engineering
Alumni
Masroor Ul Hasan Syed
Graduate Student
Thesis: Deep Learning Abstention using Geometric Algorithms
Year: Fall 2024 - Spring 2026
Maliha Kabir
Graduate Student
Thesis: Amphibious Robots for Environmental Sensing.
Year: Fall 2022 – Spring 2024
Mohammed Sharif Ahmed
Graduate Student
Thesis: Use-Inspired Edge Computer Vision Models.
Year: Spring 2022 – Fall 2023
Prosenjit Ghosh
Graduate Student
Thesis: Robotics for Assisted Living.
Year: Fall 2021 – Spring 2023
Alhagie Sallah
Graduate Student
Thesis: IoT-Based Affective Framework for Infant Monitoring.
Year: Fall 2018 – Spring 2020
Youseff Baiji
Graduate Student
Thesis: IoT-Based LoRaWAN-Enabled Oil Leak Detection.
Year: Fall 2018 – Spring 2019

Theoren Stroud
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Project: Computer Vision on the Monitoring Edge.
Year: Spring 2024 – Summer 2025
Currently pursuing M.S. at Texas A&M University

Rafael Rayes-Ramirez
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Project: Leaf Analysis.
Year: Spring 2024 – Summer 2025
Currently pursuing M.S. at Texas Tech University
Slade Sills
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Project: Autonomy in Low-Cost Drones.
Year: Spring 2024
Matthew Hooge
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Project: Autonomous Medical Drone.
Year: Fall 2023 – Fall 2024
Parker Wilmoth
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Project: IoT for Smart Healthcare.
Year: Spring 2020 – Spring 2023
Currently pursuing Ph.D. at Florida Atlantic University
Conrad Fjetland
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Project: Design and Stability of 6T/7T SRAM Cells.
Year: Spring 2021
Conrad Tumwesigye
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Project: Health-Aware Smart Tourism.
Year: Spring 2019 – Spring 2020
Martin Alvarez
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Project: Smart Street Lighting.
Year: Summer 2019