Ali Tajer
Associate Professor
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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(518) 276-8237
6040 Jonsson Engineering Center, 110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
Ph.D. Students
Anmol Dwivedi
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B.Tech., NIT Tiruchirappalli
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Awards
Baliga Fellowship (2021-2022)
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I received my B.Tech. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from NIT Tiruchirappalli in May 2019. I joined RPI as a Ph.D. student in August 2019. My research interests include Power Systems, Optimization and Signal Processing techniques for Power System Analysis.
Zirui Yan
B.Sc. & B. Tech, University of Science and Technology of China
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I received my B.Sc. degree in Statistics and the B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Technology from USTC in May 2020. I joined RPI as a PhD student in August 2021. My research interests include optimization, machine learning and statistical signal processing.
Homepage: https://ziruiyan.github.io
Shiuli Subhra Ghosh
B.Tech., NIT, M.Sc., Chennai Mathematical Institute
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Awards
J. Baliga Fellowship (2022-23)
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I obtained my B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India, in 2018. Before joining Chennai Mathematical Institute for M.Sc. in Data Science (2020-22), I worked with Jindal Stainless Limited as an Associate Manager at Cold Rolling Mill Electrical and Automation Department. I joined RPI as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2022. My research interests include a data-driven approach to power systems analysis, process control, and trustworthy AI/ML.
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Homepage - https://bonnya15.github.io/
Former Doctoral Students
Burak Varıcı
B.Sc., Bogazici University
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Current affiliation
Carnegie Mellon University
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Awards
IBM AI Horizon Fellowship (2021-2024)
Belsky Award for Computational Sciences and Engineering (2022)
Allen B. DuMont (2024)
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Homepage: https://bvarici.github.io
Arpan Mukherjee
M.Tech., IIT-Kharagpur
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Current affiliation
Imperial College London
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Awards
J. Baliga Fellowship (2019-2020)
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Kamron Fazel
B.Sc., RPI, M.Sc., Penn State University
Saurabh Sihag
B.Tech, M.Tech, IIT-Kharagpur
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Current affiliation
University of Pennsylvania
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Awards
J. Baliga Fellowship (2016-17)
Charles M. Close ‘62 Doctoral Prize (2021)
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Safak Bayram
Ph.D., North Carolina State University
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Current affiliation
Senior Lecturer, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland
Former MS and BS Students
Mateo Mengis (M.Sc.)
Harris Group
Hsin-Ting Shih (M.Sc.)
Logistic Solutions
Zhongyang Zhao (M.Sc.)
Greenwich Commodities
Andrew Ngyuan (M.Sc.)
MITRE
Henry Rogers
Yingjie Xing
Northwestern University
Rahul Jain
MIT Lincoln Lab
Carl Chen
Cornell University
Haozhe Liu
Yunyun Zhang
Cornell University
Bingjia Wang
Cornell University
Sage Trudeau
Northeastern University
Vincent Cerati
Fidessa
Grant Barron
Wyman Gordon
James hanford
MIT Lincoln Lab
Stanley Cheung
MIT Lincoln Lab
Jesse Greeves
MIT Lincoln Lab
Phil LaGambino
MITRE
Jack Keats
MILCOS
Alex Link
Lockheed Martin
Visitors
Prof. Mohamed Abdallah
Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
Zeyu Sun
Graduate Student, University of Michigan Ann-Arbor
Jingqi Huang
Graduate Student, UCSD​
Song Wang
Graduate Student, UCSD
Yifan Zhang
Beihang University