Research Group
Current Students
Swati Kar · Ph.D. Student (2025 – )
Swati Kar is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her research focuses on trustworthy and interpretable artificial intelligence. She earned her bachelor's degree from Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh) and her M.Sc. from Clarkson University (USA). In her free time, she enjoys traveling and fishing.
Ammar Tojaga · M.S. Student (2025 - )
Ammar Tojaga is pursuing his Master’s in Cybersecurity at UTC while working full-time as a software engineer at TVA. He is working on developing a competitive learning platform that introduces students to AI safety and prompt injection. In his free time, he enjoys soccer, the outdoors, and working on side projects.
Graduated Students
Caleb Henderson · M.S. (Spring 2025)
Project Title: “Benchmarking Variational Autoencoders for Single-Cell RNA-Seq on PBMC Data.”
Jordan Selph · M.S. (Fall 2024)
Project Title: “The Science of Soccer: Predicting Premier League Outcomes Using Historical Data.”
Milan Artis · M.S. (Summer 2024)
Thesis: “A Comparative Study of the Performance of Machine Learning Methods and Deep Neural Networks in Network Intrusion Detection.”
Selected Publications
Here are a few recent publications highlighting my current research directions.