Shahriar Badsha | Dr. Shahriar Badsha is an assistant professor in cybersecurity at UNR. His main research focus includes assuring security, privacy, reliability and integrity in Advanced Manufacturing and Industrial IoT with Blockchain and Cryptography."
David Feil-Seifer | Dr. Feil-Seifer is an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering. His research in advanced manufacturing includes
- Investigations into how human-robot interaction can be best structured for everyday workplace interaction
- Distributed cognitive architectures for enabling multi-human multi-robot teams to complete complex tasks
- Curriculum development for robotics education that occurs pre-graduate school
Hung La | Dr. La is an expert in robotics and control systems. He has authored/co-authored over 100 papers in major journals and international conferences. Several of his papers have won best conference paper awards and best paper finalist. He has managed over $2.5 million of federally funded projects (NSF, NASA, DOT) as the role of PI and Co-PI. He founded and is directing the Advanced Robotics and Automation (ARA) Lab
Monica Nicolescu | Dr. Nicolescu is the director of the University's Robotics Research Lab. She conducts research in the areas of human-robot interaction, robot control, learning, and multi-robot systems. Dr. Nicolescu’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Department of Energy and Nevada Nanotech Systems. In 2006 she was a recipient of the NSF Early Career Development Award (CAREER) Award for her work on robot learning by demonstration.
Haoting Shen | Dr. Shen is an assistant professor with research emphasis in cybersecurity. His inter-disciplinary research covers both software and hardware. The research topics in advance manufacturing include the assurance of supply chain security and developing security primitives through novel materials by micro/nano-fabrication.
Alireza Tavakkoli | Dr. Tavakkoli is an associate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research interests are at the cross-section of visual computing and robotics, with an emphasis on robot vision, semantic world representation, and efficient teleoperation. At the University of Nevada, Reno he is affiliated with the computer vision laboratory and the integrative neuroscience program.