CyPhy Group

I am motivated by computing applications that address the needs of individuals, businesses, and society. I am especially interested in the intersection of the logical and physical realms. In this space, computing and AI become less obtrusive and a more natural part of the external world. Physical objects acquire the appearance of novel affordances due to embedded computation, sensing, (machine) learning, and actuation. New applications arise that improve the quality of life, enhance social interactions, increase accessibility of information, and help advance fundamental knowledge in many environmental, biological, and physical disciplines. In this new realm, cyber-physical researchers redefine computer science. New models and paradigms are invented to describe the interaction dynamics between social, information, and physical processes. Novel lanes in machine intelligence are developed to pave the way for safe and seamless composition of AI and the physical world. New underlying theoretical foundations are developed to understand these artifacts and dynamics. New distributed services are built to seamlessly utilize physical data, social inputs, and computational intelligence and offer new capabilities that advance a myriad of applications. Data mining, edge AI, reinforcement learning, and estimation-theoretic techniques are reimagined for the new application space to better identify data patterns, learn context, and act autonomously in complex environments without human assistance. I work with (and occasionally lead) multidisciplinary teams that investigate the aforementioned aspects of tomorrow's computing systems.