Faculty

Research interests: Biometrics, Computer Vision, Image Classification, Deep Learning

PhD Students

Research interests: Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Natural Hazard Detection, NLP

Research interests: Generative AI, Audio Signals, DeepFakes

Research interests: Digital Attacks and Biometrics

Research interests: Adversarial ML, Face Biometrics and Digital Manipulations

Co-Advised

Research interests: Deep Learning, NLP

Research interests:Computer Vision, Multimodal Deepfakes, NLP and Image Processing

M.S Thesis Students

Thesis: Spoof-resilient systems and computer vision

Thesis:Anomaly detection for Deepfake

Thesis: Anomaly detection on Deepfake videos

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Former PhD Students

Parshuram Aarotale
Thesis: Advanced Deep learning Techniques for Biomedical signal and Image Analysis for healthcare., Wichita State University, 2025.
Sreeraj Ramachandran
Thesis: Methods for mitigating bias of biometric systems, Wichita State University, 2025.
Aakash Varma Nadimpalli
Thesis: Passive and ProActive Methods for Facial Forgery-based DeepFake Detection, Wichita State University, 2024.
Anoop Krishnan (First Employed: Postdoc. at Cox School of Business at SMU, Texas)
Thesis: Understanding and Mitigating Bias in AI: An Application to Biometrics Systems, Wichita State University, 2024.
Ali Almadan (First Employed: Deep Learning Specialist at Armaco, Saudi Arabia)
Thesis: Deep learning models for mobile and wearable biometrics, Wichita State University, 2023.
Smitha Haridasan (First Employed: Postdoc. at Atrium Health Wake, North Carolina)
Thesis: Computer vision techniques for fire detection and localization, Wichita State University, 2023.

Former M.S Thesis Students

Ayesha Manzoor
Thesis: Bias mitigation stratergies for facial attribute classification leveraging fine-grained features and chatgpt , University Of North Texas, 2025
Deepika Shanmugasundaram(First Employed: PhD in CSE at WSU, Kansas)
Thesis: Harnessing unlabeled data for improving generalization of deep learning methods, Wichita State University, 2023.
Madhurika Patil (First Employed: PhD in CSE at UNT, Texas)
Thesis: Deep learning models for natural disaster assessment using satellite imagery, Wichita State University, 2022.
Brian Neas (First Employed: Software Engineer at Amazon, Colorado)
Thesis: Bias of facial analysis at NIR spectrum, Wichita State University, 2022.
Shreyas Dharanesh (First Employed: Data Engineer at T-Mobile, Kansas)
Thesis: Mask - aware face recognition system, Wichita State University, 2021.

Former Undergraduate Research Assistants

Alaejah Robinson(First Employed: Wesley Hospital, Kansas)
Project: Facial Data Collection from Older Adults using Smartphones, Wichita State University, 2023.
Paulina Castaneda(First Employed: Textron Aviation, Kansas)
Project: AI and ML Solutions for Image Analysis, Wichita State University, 2022.

20 Masters projects in different Computer Vision applications