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Director

Director

Hekmat Alighanbari, Chair

Hekmat Alighanbari, Chair

Hekmat Alighanbari is the chair in the aerospace engineering department at 17cÆð²ÝÉçÇø. He is the current director of the Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory.

 

PhD Students

Amin Yazdanshenas

PhD Student
Department of Aerospace Engineering
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Mohammadreza Izadi

PhD Student
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Zeinab Shayan

PhD Student
Department of Aerospace Engineering
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Master Students

Ahmad Ziad Zain Aldeen

Master Student
Department of Aerospace Engineering
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Hailey Patel

Master Student
Department of Aerospace Engineering
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Shrikant Banerjee

Master Student
Department of Aerospace Engineering
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Tareq Abu Samak

Master Student
Department of Aerospace Engineering
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Kiran Patel

Master Student
Department of Aerospace Engineering
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Dima Tawfik

Master Student
Department of Aerospace Engineering
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Undergraduate Students

Alexander Wojtkowski

Undergraduate Student
Department of Aerospace Engineering
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Lucas Bramesfeld

Undergraduate Student
Department of Aerospace Engineering
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Recent Graduates

Robert Barnsley

Master Student
Department of Aerospace Engineering
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Surrayya Mobeen

PhD Student
Department of Aerospace Engineering
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Shashank Singoji

Master Student
Department of Aerospace Engineering
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Basaam Rassas

Master Student
Department of Aerospace Engineering
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Jann Cristobal

Master Student
Department of Aerospace Engineering
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Alumni & Past Visitors

18. Jann Cristobal, Sep 2022 - Aug 2025.
    Thesis Title: Design, Modeling and Control of an Omnidirectional Quadrotor with Gimballed Rotor

17. Basaam Rassas, Sep 2023 - Aug 2025.
    Thesis Title: A Scalable Framework For Air-to-Air Object Detection And Tracking Using Simulated UAV Imagery

16. Shashank Singoji, Sep 2023 - Aug 2025.
    Thesis Title: Air-to-Air Object Detection, Tracking, and Prediction 

15. Surrayya Mobeen, Sep 2023 - Aug 2025.
    Thesis Title: Computationally Efficient Moving Horizon Estimator for Linear Time-Invariant Systems

14. Robert Barnsley, Sep 2022 - Jan 2025
    Thesis Title: The Conceptualization, Design, and Development of a Variable Incidence Swept Wing for Vertical Flight

13. Nasim Fallahi, Sep 2022 - Aug 2023.
    Thesis Title: Fault-tolerant control of space systems in the presence of component faults

12. Jason Xi, May 2021 - Apr 2023.
    Research Area: Biomedical analysis of human-seat interactions

11. Miqdad Khimji, May 2022 – Dec 2022.
    Research Area: Thrust vectoring quadrotor

10. Tanmay Bishnoi, May 2022 – Dec 2022.
    Research Area: Visual simultaneous localization and mapping

9. Gaurang Kotasthane, May 2022 – Dec 2022.
    Research Area: Thrust vectoring quadrotor

8. Atharva Khanduja, May 2022 – Dec 2022.
    Research Area: State estimation methods in PX4

7. Obidah Alawneh, Sep 2020 – Aug 2022.
    Thesis Title: Computational methods application for musculoskeletal analysis for seating comfort

6. Vishaal Venkatesh, Sep 2020 – Aug 2022.
    Thesis Title: Intelligent systems for active noise control within aircraft cabins

5. Anas Saad, Aug 2020 – Aug 2021.
    Thesis Title: Reinforcement learning fuzzy algorithm for adaptive cabin management system with the application for adaptive interior lighting

4. Ali Aboubih, May 2021 – May 2022.
    Thesis Title: Deep reinforcement learning controller design for unmanned aerial vehicles

3. Anika Shafi, Jun 2021 – Apr 2022.
    Research Area: Seating pose tracking of aircraft passengers using computer vision

2. Jann Cristobal, May 2021 – Apr 2022.
    NSERC USRA
    Research Area: Adaptive-shape quadrotor design

1. Syed Jafri, May 2021 – Dec 2021.
    Undergraduate research assistant
    Research Area: Hybrid electric propulsion for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle