He has published over 200 articles. Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2022). His team won the institute director’s award for the best community software deployment in Jan 2025. The team won the best paper award at ICCPS 2024. He was awarded the Chancellor Faculty Fellowship in 2024. He is the general co-chair of ICCPS 2024. He was awarded the NSF Career grant in January 2023. He is the Program Co-Chair of ICCPS 2023 and General Chair of SmartComp 2023. The Adviser framework based on the microtransit algorithms developed by his team won the IJCAI 2022 Social Good Best Paper Award. He was named as the Research Champion Innovator by Google Cloud for 2023. The results from his work on transithub were transferred to Metropolitan Transit Authority of Nashville.
Research Experience
He is an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science, as well as a Chancellor Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University. He directs the SCOPE Lab at the Institute for Software-Integrated Systems and serves as a Senior Research Scientist within the institute. Currently, he is on an IPA assignment as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, overseeing the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Smart and Connected Communities (SCC), and Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) programs. Previously, he served as the Director of Graduate Studies for Vanderbilt’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. He has co-founded Mobius AI, a company focused on bringing cutting-edge technology in logistics and fleet management to the market, bridging the gap between research and practical applications.
Education
Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University; B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University).
Background
His broad research interest is in the design and operation of decision procedures for societal-scale Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) with a focus on transportation and mobility, emergency response, and electric infrastructure. His current work explores non-stationarity and long-term impact, investigating principled, non-myopic optimization methods that enhance resilience, performance, and assurance of cyber-physical systems. He currently leads Smart and Connected Community research efforts focusing on design and optimization of public transit systems in Chattanooga, TN, and Nashville, TN, through his group smarttransit.ai, as well as emergency response system optimization through statresp.ai.