Mary Wisell
PhD Student
Research Interests: Physical AI in Open World, Multimodal Continual Learning, Vision-Language Action Models (VLAs), Multi-agent systems
Affiliation: JDP SDSU-UCI (Co-advisor Marco Lavorato, UC-Irvine)
Summer Internship at IDEXX - Summer 2025
Aditi Naiknaware
PhD Student
Research Interests: Multimodal AI Systems, Contextual Learning, Temporal Out-of-Distribution Detection, Robust AI for Remote Wound Care.
Affiliation: JDP SDSU-UCI (Co-advisor Amir Rahmani, UC-Irvine)
Chase Cabrera
Master in AI and Technology
Research Interests: Reasoning for AI Systems, Multi-agent AI.
Affiliation: San Diego State University
Thea Enache
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Research Interests: Multi-expert learning for Healthcare
Affiliation: San Diego State University
Alumni
PhD Students
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Josh Andel, PhD Thesis Title: Investigating Deep Neural Network Behavior During Continual Learning, April 2025
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Soheil Gharatappeh, PhD Thesis Title: Efficient Strategies for Learning Tasks Based on Information Transfer, April 2025.
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Mahsa Mozafarinia, PhD Project Title: Generative Models for Continual Task Learning, September 2022-January 2025.
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Sepideh Neshatfar, PhD Thesis Title: Robust Subgraph Learning, January 2021-August 2025.
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Madan R. Ganesh, Next Bosch AI - Pittsburgh, PhD Thesis Title: Compression and Curriculum Strategies for Efficient Learning in Deep Neural Networks, July 2022.
Master Students -
Aditi Naiknaware, Next PhD student at UCI-SDSU, Master Project Title: Temporal Out-of-Distribution Detection for Vision-Language Models in Open-World, Summer 2026
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Tanishq Patil, Graduate Research Assistant, Project Title: Human-Object Interaction, Summer 2026
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Bijal Bharadva, Graduate Research Assistant, Project Title: Continual Learning for Vision-Language Models, Summer 2026
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Mary Wisell, Next PhD student at UCI-SDSU, Master Project Title: A Novel Framework for Sequential Multi-Source Transfer Learning: From Theory to Cancer Detection, April 2025
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Jovon Craig, Master Project Title: A Theoretical Perspective on Subnetwork Contributions to Adversarial Robustness, July 2023.
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Nicholas Soucy, Next IDEXX - Portland, Master Thesis Title: Performance Enhancement of Hyperspectral Semantic Segmentation Leveraging Ensemble Networks, November 2022.
Graduate Interns -
Aayush Manandhar, Ph.D. student, Summer 2023, Research: Transfer Learning
Undergraduate Students -
Francis Fernandez: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Fall 2024 - Summer 2026
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Saad Alrajhi: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Spring 2025 - Spring 2026
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Jake Basile: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Spring 2025 - Summer 2025
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Rhiannon Gould: Undergraduate Research Assistant, March 2022-August 2024.
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Nicholas Jacobs: Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Maine, Next PhD student at University of Utah
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Jona Fejzoy: Undergraduate Research Assistant - Visitor from Northeastern University, 2023-2024
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Daniel Shobayo: Undergraduate Research Assistant - Visitor from Mass-Boston, 2023
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Aidan Dominian: Undergraduate Research Assistant - Visitor from Northeastern University, 2023-2024
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Ian stebbins: Undergraduate Research Assistant - Visitor from Bowdoin College, Summer 2022
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Thomas Gause: Undergraduate Research Assistant, February 2021 - December 2021
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Dawsin Blanchard: Undergraduate Research Assistant, February 2020 - August 2020
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Alex Feren, Undergraduate Research Assistant, January 2020 - March 2020
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Klei Bendo, Undergraduate Research Assistant, January 2020 - March 2020
High School Students -
Sara Abhyankar: Scripps Ranch High School (San Diego Unified School District), Spring 2025 - Spring 2026
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Brianna Auspland: Portland High School (Upward Bound program), May 2024-August 2024
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Lana Friess, Bangor High School, March 2023 - September 2023
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Simon Socolow, Orono High School, May 2020 - January 2021, Williams College.