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PhD Students

Arriz Jorquiera, Mariana
Research Area: Image denoising with DL, stochastic programming, and multi-objective
optimization with applications in Healthcare
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Asru, Avijit Saha
Research Area: Multi-objective Optimization, Machine Learning, Neural Architecture
Search, Bayesian Optimization, Reinforcement Learning

Bakht, Ahtesham
Research Area: AI-driven optimization for last-mile delivery, logistics and warehousing

Bhattarai, Aadya
Research Area: Platooning and autonomous driving fuel consumption modelling

Bustos Villella, Nicolas
Research Area: Object detection and synthetic image generation using CNN-based models

Cantarino, Daniela
Research Area: Stochastic programming and optimization for large-scale modeling with
applications in healthcare

Ghasemi Saghand, Esmat
Research Area: Developing energy-efficient training strategies and architectures for
neural networks

Jafaripakzad, Maryam
Research Area: Healthcare Systems Engineering, Data science and informatics

Myers, Robert
Research Area: Engineering Education, Learning Analytics, Optimization, ML/DL using
LLM

Khanal, Ashim
Research Area: Multiobjective Optimization and Deep Reinforcement Learning with application
in environment protection and sustainability

Navarro De La Cruz, Jose
Research Area: Graph neural networks, hybrid ML-optimization pipelines, combinatorial optimization,
differentiable decision trees

Wang, Bingjie
Research Area: Optimal test design for Bayesian reliability under multi-stage uncertainties,
Machine learning incorporating domain knowledge













