TRACE Team and Collaborators
PI’s and Senior Persons
Dr. Nirmalya Roy (IoT/CPS, Robotics, ERS, Smart Health, Director, Center for Research in Use-Inspired Cyber-Physical Systems (CYPRESS), Associate Director, Center for Real-time Distributed Sensing and Autonomy (CARDS)), UMBC
Dr. Anuradha Ravi (IoT/CPS, Networking and Communication), UMBC
Dr. Jianwu Wang (Big Data Analytics), UMBC
Dr. Sanjay Purushotham (Computer Vision), UMBC
Dr. James Foulds (Fair AI/ML), UMBC
Dr. Shimei Pan (NLP), UMBC
Dr. Zhiyuan Chen (Privacy & Security), UMBC
Dr. Andrea Kleinsmith (Affective Computing/HCI for ERS), UMBC
Dr. Md Osman Gani (Causal AI), UMBC
Dr. Houbing Song (CPS/IoT), UMBC
Dr. Zahid Hasan (Computer Vision), UMBC
Dr. Bipendra Basnyat (IoT/CPS Entrepreneurship), AI Sense LLC
Dr. Derek Paley (Robotics, Director, Maryland Robotics Center), UMD
Co-PI’s
Dr. Nalini Venkatasubramanian, UC Irvine (Distributed Systems, Middleware, CPS/IoT; Co-Director of Center for Emergency Response Technologies (CERT)).
Dr. Sharad Mehrotra, UC Irvine (Data management and processing for smart space and IoT Applications, Large Language Models and GenAI, Building Privacy-aware middleware, Director of Center for Emergency Response Technologies (CERT))
Guest Researchers
Dr. Simone Silvestri, University of Kentucky (Mobile Networks, CPS), an EPSCoR Institute
Dr. Shahriar Nirjon, UNC Chapel Hill (h/w s/w Co-Design)
Dr. Hafiz Khan, Kennesaw State University (Human-AI teaming)
Dr. Abu Zaher Faridee, Amazon (Sustainability & Mitigating Climate related Disaster)
Dr. Sreenivasan Ramamurthy, Bowie State University (Autonomous Robotic Systems), an HBCU Institute
Dr. Kasthuri Jayarajah, NJIT (Human Autonomy Teaming, AR/VR/MR)
Dr. Sajjad Hossain, Microsoft (Active and Reinforcement Learning, LLM)
Dr. Tim Finin (AI), University of Maryland Baltimore County
Dr. Vandana Janeja (spatio-temporal mining), UMBC.