ASPIN People

Forough Nasihati Gourabi
Research areas: Optimal estimation, low Earth orbit satellites, situational awareness, sensor fusion

Artun Sel
Research areas: Autonomous navigation, sensor fusion, motion planning

Sharbel Kozhaya
Research areas: Cognitive sensing, opportunistic navigation, machine learning

Shaghayegh Shahcheraghi
Research areas: Cognitive sensing, 5G, opportunistic navigation

Samer Watchi Hayek
Research areas: Autonomous vehicles, sensor fusion, simultaneous localization and mapping

Joe Saroufim
Research areas: Situational awareness, autonomous vehicles, sensor fusion

Faezeh Mooseli
Research areas: 5G and beyond, opportunistic navigation

Will Barrett
Research areas: Satellite-based navigation, sensor fusion

Prof. Laura Ruotsalainen
Visiting faculty from University of Helsinki, Finland, 2023
Research areas: Intelligent transportation systems, sensor fusion, machine learning, indoor navigation

Prof. Jiwon Seo
Visiting faculty from Yonsei University, South Korea, 2020-2021
Research areas: Autonomous ground vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, integrity monitoring, opportunistic navigation

Dr. Zeinab Shadram
Postdoctoral scholar, 2021-2022
Research areas: Software-defined radio, 5G
Job upon conclusion: PHY Wireless

Dr. Joe Khalife
Postdoctoral scholar, 2020-2021
Research areas: Aerial vehicle navigation, low Earth orbit satellites, cognitive sensing, adaptive estimation
Job upon conclusion: Apple

Dr. Mahdi Maaref
Postdoctoral scholar, 2017-2020
Research areas: Autonomous ground vehicles, opportunistic perception, autonomous integrity monitoring, unmanned aerial vehicles
Job upon conclusion: oneNav

Dr. Mohammad Neinavaie
Dissertation: Cognitive sensing and navigation with unknown terrestrial and LEO satellite signals, 2023
Job upon graduation: Apple

Dr. Kimia Shamaei
Dissertation: Exploiting cellular signals for navigation: 4G to 5G, 2020
Job upon graduation: Apple

Dr. Joe Khalife
Dissertation: Precise navigation with cellular signals: Receiver design, differential and non-differential frameworks, and performance analysis, 2020
Job upon graduation: Postdoctoral researcher, University of California, Irvine

Dr. Joshua Morales
Dissertation: Inertial radio SLAM: Standalone and collaborative architectures, 2020
Job upon graduation: StarNav

Halim Lee
Visiting Ph.D. scholar from Yonsei University, South Korea, 2020-2021
Research areas: Motion planning, integrity monitoring, opportunistic navigation
 

Ralph Sabbagh
Research areas: Satellite-based navigation; estimation theory; Non-thesis, 2023
Job upon graduation: Ph.D. student, University of California, Irvine

Nadim Khairallah
Thesis: Towards opportunistic navigation with LEO satellites: Adaptive clock estimation and closed-loop ephemeris tracking, 2022
Job upon graduation: SpaceX

Alex Nguyen
Thesis: Aerial vehicle navigation with terrestrial signals of opportunity: Performance analysis and transmitter selection, 2022
Job upon graduation: Air Force Research Laboratory

Ali Abdallah
Thesis: Indoor navigation with cellular signals utilizing synthetic aperture for multipath mitigation, 2022
Job upon graduation: Google

Jamil Haidar-Ahmad
Research areas: Satellite-based navigation, opportunistic navigation; Non-thesis, 2022
Job upon graduation: ASML

Mohamad Orabi
Research areas: Cognitive software-defined radio, opportunistic navigation, satellite-based navigation; Non-thesis, 2022
Job upon graduation: oneNav

Trier Mortlock
Research areas: Satellite-based navigation, opportunistic navigation; Non-thesis, 2021
Job upon graduation: Ph.D. student, University of California, Irvine

Christian Ardito
Research areas: Satellite-based navigation; Non-thesis, 2020
Job upon graduation: MaXentric Technologies

Sonya Ragothaman
Thesis: Path planning for autonomous ground vehicles using GNSS and cellular LTE signal reliability maps and GIS 3-D maps, 2018
Job upon graduation: The Aerospace Corporation

Jesse Garcia
Thesis: Autonomous surface vehicle measurement location planning for optimal underwater acoustic transponder localization, 2018
Job upon graduation: Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, San Diego

Carlos Acebes Cebrián
Double B.S. Thesis in Aerospace Systems Engineering and Telecommunication Systems Engineering: Opportunistic Navigation with Iridium Next LEO Satellites, 2020
Job upon graduation: Indra Sistemas, Barcelona, Spain