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Gautam Biswas
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering, Vanderbilt University
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Software Integrated Systems
Gautam Biswas conducts research in Intelligent Systems with primary interests in monitoring, control, and fault adaptivity of complex cyber-physical systems. In particular, his research focuses on Deep Reinforcement Learning, Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Anomaly Detection methods, and Online Risk and Safety analysis applied to Air and Marine vehicles as well as Smart Buildings. His work, in conjunction with Honeywell Technical Center and NASA Ames, led to the NASA 2011 Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Technology and Innovation Group Award for Vehicle Level Reasoning System and Data Mining methods to improve aircraft diagnostic and prognostic systems.
His research is supported by funding from the Army, NASA, and NSF. He has published extensively and currently has over 600 refereed publications. He is a Fellow of the IEEE Computer Society, Asia Pacific Society for Computers in Education, and the Prognostics and Health Management society.
: 304E ISIS Building
1025 16th Ave S
Nashville, Tennessee - 37212- : gautam.biwas@vanderbilt.edu
Marcos Quinones-Grueiro
Research Scientist, Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University
Marcos Quinones Grueiro has worked on the design of data-driven methods for the health monitoring of systems with multiple operating modes. He has developed methods for fault detection and diagnosis of Chemical and Industrial Processes, leak detection and location in Water Distribution Networks, process health management of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and fault-tolerant control and energy optimization of Buildings. His research interests are developing and applying foundational machine learning and reinforcement learning methods for the safety, control, and optimization of cyber-physical systems in crucial areas, such as transportation, water industry, manufacturing, and energy. He has authored a book, 14 journal papers, and 7 book chapters, and participated in more than 35 international conferences including ACC, ICRA, CCTA, and IFAC.
: 304G ISIS Building
1025 16th Ave S
Nashville, Tennessee - 37212- : marcos.quinones.grueiro@vanderbilt.edu
Abel Diaz Gonzalez
Research Assistant, Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University
Research Assistant, Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University Timothy Darrah graduated magna cumme laude from Tennessee State University with a bachelor’s of science in computer science in 2017 prior to entering the PhD program here at Vanderbilt University. His focus is on extending the current state-of-the-art in health management technologies for cyber physical systems to include system-level prognostics, predictive maintenance, and decision making. He spent the summer of 2019 as an intern at NASA Ames Research Center, developing a system-level prognostics framework for UAV powertrain systems as well as constructing a hardware-in-the-loop testbed. He was recently awarded a prestigious NASA Fellowship which will support his PhD thesis research on resource-constrained decision making under uncertainty. Previously he worked on a Navy STTR project developing a more advanced health management system for the Navy’s fleet of combatant crafts. Timothy served 7 years in the U.S. Army as an airborne infantryman and later as an avionics maintenance technician. He was deployed to Afghanistan in 2011, has received numerous awards for conduct and achievements, held the rank of staff sergeant, and was honorably discharged in 2013.Alumni
Timothy Darrah
