Building AI-driven solutions for national defense and critical infrastructure at Vanderbilt University's Institute for Software Integrated Systems. Research in cybersecurity, autonomous systems, and engineering design — funded by DARPA, AFRL, NSF, and NIST.
Active and completed research programs supported by DARPA, AFRL, NSF, and NIST.
Active
Training AI agents to autonomously defend networks against advanced persistent threats using reinforcement learning. $6.89M grant.
Completed
Symbiotic Design for CPS — AI-driven Bayesian optimization, deep learning surrogates, and CAD-CFD toolchains for UUV/UAV design. AFRL funded.
Completed
Safety assurance for learning-enabled autonomous systems — rare event testing and out-of-distribution detection.
Completed
Web-based GridLAB-D Design Studio for smart grid simulation and transactive energy evaluation.