Scholars

This page highlights scholars who collaborate with me on research, publications, and project development, including current students and alumni.

Research Lead

Srinivas Rahul Sapireddy
Srinivas Rahul Sapireddy, Ph.D. LinkedIn
Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, Illinois State University
Guide Hardware-Aware AI RF Signal Classification
Research interests
  • Hardware-efficient deep learning models
  • Low-power RF signal classification
Active topics / papers
  • Efficient Deep Neural Networks

Current Students

Abreham Mesfin
Abreham Mesfin LinkedIn
UMKC — B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering (Expected 2028)
Current Logic Design Engineering Computation
Research interests
  • Minimization techniques for Boolean functions
  • Low-power circuit implementations
Active topics / papers
  • Digital Circuit Optimization Techniques (To be submitted)

Alumni

Hemanth Bandi
Hemanth Bandi LinkedIn
UMKC — M.S. Computer Science (Spring 2023)
Alumni RF Deep Learning Reinforcement Learning
Research interests
  • RF modulation recognition
  • Reinforcement learning
Active topics / papers
  • Reinforcement Learning manuscript (Springer, To be submitted)
  • Benchmarking R-aware binning with envelope-feature baselines (IEEE, submitted)