PhD Students

Present

Karen da Mata

Email: kalvesdamata (at) UMassD (dot) edu

Dissertation Topic: TBD

Biography: 

Karen da Mata is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She received her Master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in Computer Engineering (December 2023) and her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from UFOP – Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (February 2018)

 

Joshua Steakelum


Email: jsteakelum (at) umassd (dot) edu

Dissertation Topic: Agent-based Modeling

Biography: 

Joshua Steakelum is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He received his Master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in Computer Engineering (May 2022) and his Bachelor’s degrees from UMass Dartmouth in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering (May 2021).

Fatemeh Salboukh


Email: fsalboukh (at) umassd (dot) edu

Dissertation Topic: Statistical and Machine Learning Models for Software Reliability and Resilience

Biography: 

Fatemeh Salboukh is a PhD student in the Department of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She received her Master’s from the University of Allame Tabataba’i in Mathematical Statistics (September, 2020) and Bachelor’s degree from Yazd University (July, 2018) in Applied Statistics.

Priscila de Paula Silva


Email: psilva4 (at) umassd (dot) edu

Dissertation: Predictive System Resilience Modeling

Biography: 

Priscila de Paula Silva is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She received her Master’s from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in Computer Engineering (May, 2022) and Bachelor’s degree from UFOP – Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (September, 2017) in Electrical Engineering.

 

Past

Christian Ellis


Email: cellis3 (at) umassd (dot) edu

Dissertation: Terrain Aware Autonomous Ground Navigation in Unstructured Environments Informed
by Human Demonstrations

Biography:

Christian Ellis’ research interests include autonomous systems and AI safety.

 

Venkateswaran Shekar

Email:  vshekar (at) umassd (dot) edu

Dissertation:

Dynamic Transportation Network Demand Profiling With Applications to Measure Network Vulnerability and Congestion Management

Biography:

Venkateswaran Shekar is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Maskura Nafreen

 

Email: mnafreen (at) umassd (dot) edu

Dissertation:

Reliability and Performance Modeling of Software Applications and Processes

Biography: 

Maskura Nafreen is a Senior Reliability Engineer at ASML. Her research interests include systems and software reliability, robust system design, and statistical data analysis. She received her PhD (2021) from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Saikath Bhattacharya, PhD

Dissertation:

Tradespace Analysis incorporating Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Affordability.

Biography:

Saikath’s research interests include intelligent systems, prognostics and health management, machine learning, statistical data analysis and modeling, and tradespace analysis. He received his Master’s and Bachelor’s degree from KIIT Bhubaneswar (2011) and Nagpur University India (2009) in Electronics and Communication systems. He also studied briefly at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Vidhyashree Nagaraju, PhD

Dissertation:

Software Reliability and Security Assessment: Modeling and Algorithms.

Biography: 

Vidhyashree is an assistant professor at the University of Tulsa in the Tandy School of Computer Science, since August, 2020. Her research interests include software reliability, software metrics, performance evaluation, cyber security, system engineering, software rejuvenation, and maintenance theory.

Bentolhoda Jafary, PhD

Dissertation:

Reliability and Maintenance Modeling of Systems Subject to Positive and Negatively Correlated Component Failure.

Biography:

Bentolhoda Jafary is a Reliability Engineer at AeroVironment in Simi Valley, California. She received her MS (2015) and PhD (2019) from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her research interests includes reliability modeling and maintainability.