Lab Members

Sam Chevalier
Assistant Professor + BDF"L"
Samuel.Chevalier@uvm.edu

Ben Drillings
PhD Student since 2025 (Co-Advised with Amrit Pandey)
Research: GPU-based global optimization methods; rural electrifictaion
Benjamin.Drillings@uvm.edu

William Wheeler
Postdoc since 2025 (Co-Advised with Amrit Pandey)
Research: Network robustness; rural electrification
William.Wheeler@uvm.edu

Eren Tekeler
PhD Student since 2024
Research: Neural network verification
Eren.Tekeler@uvm.edu

Peter Fisher
MS Student since 2024
Research: Distribution grid resilience
Peter.A.Fisher@uvm.edu

Duncan Starkenburg
Undergraduate Researcher since 2024
Research: Neural network verification
https://github.com/dstarkenburg

Saba Rafiei
PhD Student since 2023
Research: GPU-based optimization; neural network verification
Seide-Saba.Rafiei@uvm.edu

Omid Mokhtari
PhD Student since 2023 (Co-Advised with Mads Almassalkhi)
Research: Network reduction
Omid.Mokhtari@uvm.edu
Group Alumni

Muhammad Adeel Arif
Adeel graduated with his MS in Electrical Engineering from UVM in the spring of 2025. He now works at Dominion Energy as a DERMS engineer.
adeelarif.vt@gmail.com