PhD Students

Meet SEOR's PhD Students

  • A headshot of Syed Waqas Ahmed, a PhD student in the Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR).

    PhD Student, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interest: AI enhanced Model based Systems Engineering (MBSE), and Digital Twins
  • A headshot of Ahmad Alghamdi, a PhD student in the Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR).

    PhD Student, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interest: Systems Architecture, MBSE Evaluation and Validation
  • A headshot of Emmanuel Amo, a PhD student in the Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR).

    PhD Student, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: Designing frameworks for AI deception detection in autonomous systems, scheduling and optimization
  • A headshot of Alex Anvari, a PhD student in the Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR).

    PhD Student, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: Cyber defense implementation, enterprise cybersecurity program management, large-scale IT deployment, Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM), socio-technical systems
  • A headshot of Shahab Aref, a PhD student in the Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR).

    PhD Student, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: Applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in synthetic data generation, validation, safety analysis for aviation systems
  • A headshot of Erfan Ashouri, a PhD student in the Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR).

    PhD Student, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, machine learning (computer vision), probabilistic modeling, stochastic processes, risk modeling, decision-making under uncertainty
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    PhD Student, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: Generative models for transportation application, security of machine learning (ML) models
  • A headshot of Mohsen Behradfar, a PhD student in the Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR).

    PhD Student, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: Applied machine learning, deep learning, optimization, predictive analytics, healthcare analytics
  • A headshot of Oyshik Bhowmik, a PhD student in the Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR).

    PhD Student, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: Digital twin, discrete optimization, stochastic optimization, data analytics, machine learning (ML)
  • A headshot of Bahador Dodge, a PhD student in the Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR).

    PhD Student, Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Research Interests: Complex system lifecycles, simulation modeling, machine learning (ML), verification and validation (V&V)