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Feras Batarseh Profile
Associate Professor, BSE

Feras A. Batarseh

Research Interests:

  • AI Assurance
  • Intelligent Water Systems
  • Cyberbiosecurity & Smart Farms
  • Data-driven Agricultural Policy
  • Context and Causality

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

Aparajita Sengupta
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Ajay Kulkarni

Research Interests: 

  • AI for Water Security
  • Agricultural Trade Forecasting Using ML
  • Cybersecurity in Agriculture

PhD STUDENTS

Courtney Surmanek
PhD Student

Md Nazmul Kabir Sikder

Research Interests:

  • Detecting Outliers in Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Explainable, Safe, and Assured AI
  • AI for Water Distribution Systems
Laura York
PhD Student

Mehmet Yardimci

Research Interests:

  • Trustworthy AI
  • AI Assurance for Water Supply Systems
  • Meta-learning
  • Cyberbiosecurity
Laura York
PhD Student

Chelsea Wang

Research Interests:

  • AI Assurance for Policy Making
  • Causal Learning
  • Water Policy using Reinforcement Learning
Courtney Surmanek
PhD Student

Matthew Wilchek

Research Interests:

  • Trustworthy Computer Vision
  • Distributed Agents for Shared Perception
  • AI Applications for Augmented Reality
Courtney Surmanek
PhD Student

Lauren Pincus

Research Interests:

  • Cybersecurity for Ag & Water
  • AI Assurance
  • Green AI

MASTERS STUDENTS

Courtney Surmanek
Graduate Research Assistant

Trey Ward

Research Interests:

  • Controlled-Environment Agriculture
  • Cyberbiosecurity
  • Designing Biological Systems
Laura York
Graduate Research Assistant

Chhayly Sreng

Research Interests:

  • AI for Water Systems
  • Soft Sensors
  • Trustworthy AI
Laura York
Graduate Research Assistant

Justice Lin

Research Interests:

  • AI for Water Security
  • Generative Adversarial Networks
  • Cyberbiosecurity
Courtney Surmanek
Graduate Research Assistant

Shubham Deshmukh

Research Interests:

  • Computer Vision for Water Systems
  • Trustworthy AI
  • Deep Learning

UNDERGRADUATES

Laura York
Undergraduate Researcher, Virginia Tech

Reilly Oare

Major: Biological Systems Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Intelligent Water Systems
  • Analyzing Watersheds
  • Data-Driven Analytics

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES 

Laura York
Virginia Tech

Dan Sobien

Research Interests:

  • Causal Learning
  • AI for Water Distribution Systems
  • Cyberbiosecurity
Laura York
Virginia Tech

Samson Adeoye

Research Interests:

  • Cybersecurity Policy
  • Cyberbiosecurity Education Programming
  • Cybersecurity Analysis & Evaluation

AFFILIATED RESEARCHERS 

Chih Hao "Andy" Huang, George Mason University

Fazel Keshtkar, St. John's University

Gopinath Munisamy, University of Georgia

Connie McNeely, George Mason University

Sei Jeong, University of Georgia

Anderson Monken, Georgetown University

A3 Lab Alumni

Sai Gurrapu, MSc VT, Machine Learning Engineer at Apple

Dominick Perini, BSc VT, Associate AI Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman

Yan Dong, Graduate Student at Virginia Tech

Pei Wang, Data Scientist at Microsoft

Nitish Gorentala, Software Engineering Intern at Capital One

Amanda Tolman, Graduate Teaching Assistant at Radford University

Minh Nguyen, Software Engineer at BlackRock

Ian Roessle, Lieutenant Commander at U.S. Department of Defense

Madison Williams, Research Assistant at RAND Corporation