Secure & Resilient Autonomy

Research in CYPHR's Secure & Resilient Autonomy track seeks to envision building mixed human-robot teams for high-risk zones.

vijay anand

Research Track Lead

Vijay Anand, Associate Professor of Information Technology

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Affiliated Faculty

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Dr. Aaron Adams

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Dr. Adams is Associate Professor and Assistant Chair in Engineering Technology at KSU. He directs the START Lab, focusing on nuclear materials, additive manufacturing, and energy systems. He has secured $4M+ in external funding.

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Dr. Harun Avci

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Dr. Avci is an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Analysis at KSU’s Coles College of Business. His research develops algorithms for simulation optimization applied to energy, inventory, and agriculture.

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Dr. Xiao Huang

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Dr. Huang is a Professor of Economics at KSU. His research focuses on econometrics, financial modeling, causal inference, and high-dimensional data. He leads the KSU-Equirax and KSU-Emerson Data Science Labs.

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Dr. Kazi Aminul Islam

Dr. Kazi Aminul Islam serves as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. He leads the AST AI Lab, where he mentors students and conducts advanced research. His academic interests focus on deep learning, digital image processing, and developing secure, trustworthy, and explainable artificial intelligence systems with practical applications in healthcare and environmental remote sensing.
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Dr. Sahidul Islam

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Dr. Islam is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at KSU. His research focuses on TinyML, energy-aware computing, and privacy-preserving ML for IoT and embedded systems. Published in ICCAD, DATE, IEEE TCAD.

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Dr. Amir Karami

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Dr. Karami is an Associate Professor of Data Science and Analytics in the College of Computing and Software Engineering. His research interests are AI and human behavior, social media analytics, business analytics, misinformation, health informatics, text mining, and computational social science.

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Dr. Manohar Raavi

Dr. Manohar Raavi serves as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Kennesaw State University. His primary research interests lie in advanced cybersecurity, specifically focusing on network security, post-quantum cryptography, and applied cryptography. Additionally, he explores secure wireless communication and actively mentors students, guiding the university’s competitive cybersecurity teams through national defense and hacking challenges. 
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Dr. Christopher Simpkins

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Dr. Simpkins is an assistant professor of computer science at Kennesaw State University.  His research interests lie in reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, and deep learning.  Before joining KSU he led AI for a global IoT company, was a senior cloud architect at IBM, research scientist at Georgia Tech Research Institute, and KC-135 pilot and T-37 instructor pilot in the USAF.