Lab Members

Sam Chevalier

Sam Chevalier

Assistant Professor + BDF"L"

Samuel.Chevalier@uvm.edu



Ben Drillings

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

William Wheeler

Postdoc since 2025 (Co-Advised with Amrit Pandey)

Research: Network robustness; rural electrification

William.Wheeler@uvm.edu



Eren Tekeler

Eren Tekeler

PhD Student since 2024

Research: Neural network verification

Eren.Tekeler@uvm.edu



Peter Fisher

Peter Fisher

MS Student since 2024

Research: Distribution grid resilience

Peter.A.Fisher@uvm.edu



Duncan Starkenburg

Duncan Starkenburg

Undergraduate Researcher since 2024

Research: Neural network verification

https://github.com/dstarkenburg



Saba Rafiei

Saba Rafiei

PhD Student since 2023

Research: GPU-based optimization; neural network verification

Seide-Saba.Rafiei@uvm.edu



Omid Mokhtari

Omid Mokhtari

PhD Student since 2023 (Co-Advised with Mads Almassalkhi)

Research: Network reduction

Omid.Mokhtari@uvm.edu




Group Alumni

Muhammad Adeel Arif

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