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CeRIS Team

Leadership

Dr. Prabha Sundaravadivel

Dr. Prabha Sundaravadivel

Director, CeRIS

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Dr. Shekhar Borah

Dr. Shekhar Suman Borah

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

PhD Students

Harshitha Manjunatha

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

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

Kruthik Narasimhamurthy

Thesis: Autonomy in Aerial Robots

MS in Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas

Aryan Anand

 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

Chase Brown

Project: Edge AI for Ground Robots

Roland Eugene Kincaid

Roland Eugene Kincaid III

Project: AI controlled environment for Botanical Experiments.

Interns

Samvada Jain Manel

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

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

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