CeRIS Team

Leadership

Dr. Prabha Sundaravadivel

Director, CeRIS

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

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

Faraz Hussain Syed

MS in Mechanical Engineering

Project: AgriReach: Sensor-Guided Aerial Robotics

Varun Valluvan

MS in Electrical Engineering

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Nayeli Solis

Project: Hardware Integration and Flight Control for Autonomous Drone Swarms

Roland Eugene Kincaid III

Project: AI controlled environment for Botanical Experiments.

Research Interns

Sasikala Thangavel

Master's in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Samvada Jain Manel

BE in Information Science and Engineering

Alumni

Dr. Shekhar Suman Borah

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

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

Ashton Fitzgerald

Project: Real-Time Affective Frameworks

Chase Brown

Project: Edge AI for Ground Robots

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