Ahmad Al-Tawaha is a Ph.D. student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.  He is advised by Ming Jin. His research is aimed at developing efficient methods for solving interdisciplinary optimization, control, and machine learning problems that are motivated by real-world applications. ,

Danfeng (Daphne) Yao is a professor of computer science at Virginia Tech. She is an Elizabeth and James E. Turner Jr. ’56 Faculty Fellow, CACI Faculty Fellow, and affiliate faculty at the Sanghani Center. Her research interests include building cyber defenses, as well as machine learning for digital health, with a shared focus on accuracy […]

Wenjia Song is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science. She is advised by Danfeng (Daphne) Yao. Song’s research focuses on applications of machine learning in medical predictions and cybersecurity.

Vanshaj Khattar is a Ph.D. student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His advisor is Ming Jin. His research interests lie at the intersection of reinforcement learning, optimization, and statistical learning. More specifically, he is interested in how to develop trustworthy reinforcement learning algorithms for real-world applications, which involve addressing challenges like non-stationarity, […]

Tanmoy Sarkar Pias is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science. He is advised by Danfeng (Daphne) Yao. His research focuses on improving the trustworthiness of machine learning-based systems used in healthcare.

Ming Jin joined Virginia Tech in 2020 as an assistant professor in Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is core faculty at the Sanghani Center. Jin’s expertise is in optimization, control, and machine learning (especially reinforcement learning). His research is broadly related to trustworthy AI, cyber-physical systems, security, and human-in-the-loop decision making. Jin’s […]

Sanjula Karanam was a master’s degree student in computer engineering in the Department of Computer Science. She was advised by Danfeng (Daphne) Yao. The objective of her research is to detect ransomware and benign files on a Windows machine using their behavioral aspects, more specifically, dynamic API calls made by a file during execution. The API […]

A strong emphasis on research, a robust commitment to sustainability, and a large international presence among its faculty served as common themes in Virginia Tech’s showing in various national and global rankings this fall. The university wrapped up the calendar year by being ranked in a tie for No. 265 out of 2,000 universities listed […]

Virginia Tech’s 2022 Fall Commencement ceremony takes place today. “We wish our graduates at the Sanghani Center all the best as they receive their Ph.D. and master’s degrees and take the next step toward achieving their career goals,” said Naren Ramakrishnan, the Thomas L. Phillips Professor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech and […]

Each year, heat waves kill more Americans than any other natural disaster. Climate change has exacerbated the problem by creating measurably higher temperatures in areas of cities with fewer economic and social resources to mitigate the impacts of heat, according to Theo Lim, an assistant professor of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Tech. Lim is leading a multidisciplinary […]