Dr. Rahul Bhadani

Assistant Professor, ECE

Contact

301 Sparkman Drive
Engineering Building
Room 217H
Huntsville, AL 35899
Campus Map

256.824.6302
rkb0022@uah.edu

Biography

Rahul Bhadani is an assistant professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He was formerly a post-doctoral appointee at Vanderbilt University in the Institute for Software Integrated Systems. He obtained his MS (2022) in Statistics, MS (2021) in Optical Sciences and MS (2017) and PhD (2022) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Arizona, and a B.E. (2012) in Information Technology from Bengal Engineering & Science University in India. His research primarily focuses on Cyber-physical Systems for intelligent transportation, robotics, and energy systems. His research techniques are grounded in model-based design, statistical methods, and control systems. He is a recipient of the best paper award at the IEEE Vehicular Network Conference 2018. He is also a part of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society award-winning CIRCLES Consortium. His teaching interests include signal processing, model-based design, statistical machine learning, and quantum information processing.

Courses Taught: 

  • CPE 381: Signals and Systems for Computer Engineers
  • CPE 221: Computer Organization
  • CPE 490/590: Machine Learning for Engineering Applications

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Education

  • PhD (2022) Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Arizona
  • MS (2022) Statistics, The University of Arizona
  • MS (2021) Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona
  • MS (2017) Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Arizona
  • BE (2012) Information Technology, Bengal Engineering & Science University, Shibpur

Honors & Awards

  • Best paper award, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, Taipei City, December 2018

Recent Publications

  • Amaury Hayat, Arwa Alanqary, Rahul Bhadani, Christopher Denaro, Ryan J. Weightman, Shengquan Xiang, et al. "Traffic Smoothing Using Explicit Local Controllers: Experimental Evidence for Dissipating Stop-and-go Waves with a Single Automated Vehicle in Dense Traffic.", IEEE Control Systems Magazine, February 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCS.2024.3503402

  • Jonathan W. Lee, Han Wang, Kathy Jang, Amaury Hayat, Rahul Bhadani, Matthew Bunting, Arwa Alanqary, William Barbour et al. "Traffic Control via Connected and Automated Vehicles: An OpenRoad Field Experiment with 100 CAVs", IEEE Control Systems Magazine, February 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCS.2024.3498552

  • Nathan Lichtlé, Eugene Vinitsky, Matthew Nice, Rahul Bhadani, Matthew Bunting, et al. "From Sim to Real: A Pipeline for Training and Deploying Traffic Smoothing Cruise Controllers", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Sept 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2024.3463407

  • Xi Chen, Rahul Bhadani, K. Larry Head, "MSMA: Multi-agent Trajectory Prediction in Connected
    and Autonomous Vehicle Environment with Multi-source Data Integration", The 24th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals, Shenzhen, China, July 23-26, 2024.

  • Rahul Bhadani, Satyaki Banik, Hao Tu, Srdjan Lukic, Gabor Karsai. "Model-based Design Tool for Cyber-physical Power Systems using SystemC-AMS", 6th Workshop on Design Automation for CPS and IoT (DESTION 2024), May 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/DESTION62938.2024.00016

  • Rahul Bhadani, Hao Tu, Srdjan Lukic, Gabor Karsai. "Modeling and Real-Time Simulation of Microgrid Components Using Systemc-AMS", 2023 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), San Antonio, TX, USA, December 2023, pp. 3214-3225. https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC60868.2023.10408025

  • Rahul Bhadani, and Ivan B. Djordjevic. "Optimized Receiver Design for Entanglement Assisted Communication using BPSK", Optics Express, Optics Express 31, no. 24 (2023): 39765-39783, November 2023, https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.496792

  • M. Nice, M. Bunting, G. Zachar, Rahul Bhadani, P. Ngo, J. Lee, A. Bayen, D. Work, J. Sprinkle. "Parameter Estimation for Decoding Sensor Signals", 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) May 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3576841.3589622

  • Rahul Bhadani, M. Bunting, M. Nice, F. Wu, A. Hayat, J. Lee, A. Bayen, B. Piccoli, B. Seibold, D. Work. "Approaches for Synthesis and Deployment of Controller Models on Automated Vehicles for Car-following in Mixed Autonomy", The 3rd Workshop on Data-Driven and Intelligent CyberPhysical Systems for Smart Cities (DI-CPS), May 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3576914.3587711

  •  A full list of publications can be viewed on Dr. Bhadani's Google Scholar page https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=wykFPlYAAAAJ