Director and Principal Investigator

Vedhus Hoskere, Ph.D.
Assistant ProfessorCivil and Environmental Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering (Joint appointment)
PhD, 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.
Graduate Students

Subin Varghese
PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Houston, 2025 (Expected)
MS, Engineering Data Science, University of Houston, 2021
BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, 2018
Awards and honors: Subin was a prize winner for the best paper award at the ASCE EMI Conference SHMC competition in 2023.

Deepank Singh

Joshua Genova

Charles Abdo
MS, Engineering Data Science, University of Houston, 2025 (Expected)
BS, Computer Science, University of Houston, 2023

Chanmin Park
MS, Engineering Data Science, University of Houston, 2025 (Expected)
BS, Computer Science, Northeastern University, 2021

Asad Rahman

Reza Bazrgary
PhD, Civil Engineering, University of Houston, 2028 (Expected)
BS, Civil Engineering Sharif University of Technology, 2019

Abdul Wahid Mangi

Delaram Hassanlou
PhD Civil Engineering, University of Houston, 2028 (Expected)
BS Civil Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, 2023
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