Director and Principal Investigator

Vedhus Hoskere, Ph.D.
Assistant ProfessorPhD, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020
MS, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020
MS, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016
BS, Civil Engineering, BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, India, 2014
Vedhus Hoskere joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Houston as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2020. His current research interests are highly interdisciplinary, at the intersection of civil engineering, computer science and robotics. His doctoral work at the University of Illinois with Billie F. Spencer Jr. focused on developing artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision solutions for rapid and automated civil infrastructure inspection and monitoring.
Masters Students

Joshua Genova
MS Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2022BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2018
Joshua is an MSEE student with a focus in Robotics and Control. His research is about developing robotic systems for infrastructure maintenance. Joshua enjoy’s playing basketball and volleyball, social dancing, and cooking different kinds of foods for his friends and family.

Subin Varghese
MS Candidate, Engineering Data Science, 2022BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, 2018
Subin Varghese joined the Masters in Science in Engineering data science program at the University of Houston in Fall 2020. Subin has professional experience as a field engineer in the petroleum industry, designed medical devices, and worked as a consultant in remote patient monitoring. His research interest is in the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in engineering and the medical field.
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