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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
  • Learning Analytics

PhD STUDENTS

Courtney Surmanek
PhD Student

Md Nazmul Kabir Sikder

Research Interests:

  • Explainable, Safe, and Assured AI
  • AI for Smart Grids and Water Distribution Systems
  • Detecting Outlier Events in Cyber-Physical 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
  • NLP
  • Causal Learning
Courtney Surmanek
PhD Student

Matthew Wilchek

Research Interests:

  • Computer Vision
  • AI Assurance
  • Human-AI Collaboration
Courtney Surmanek
Research Associate

Ian Roessle

Research Interests:

  • AI for Public Policy
  • Hybrid Symbolic AI
  • XAI
  • Formal Languages and Reasoning

MASTERS STUDENTS

Laura York
Graduate Research Assistant

Chhayly Sreng

Research Interests:

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

Justice Lin

Research Interests:

  • AI for Water Security
  • AI Assurance
  • Soft Sensors

UNDERGRADUATES

Laura York
Undergraduate Researcher, Virginia Tech

Reilly Oare

Major: Biological Systems Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Intelligent Water Systems
  • Analyzing Watersheds
  • Data-Driven Analytics
Madison
Undergraduate Researcher, University of Mary Washington

Madison Williams

Major: Political Science and Government

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES 

Laura York
Virginia Tech

Dan Sobien

Research Interests:

  • Causal Learning
  • AI for Water Distribution Systems
  • Cyberbiosecurity
Laura York
Deloitte

Dhruv Nandakumar

Research Interests:

  • Cybersecurity
  • AI Assurance
  • Data Poisoning

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 Meta

Amanda Tolman, Graduate Teaching Assistant at Radford University

Minh Nguyen, MSc non-thesis at Virginia Tech