Postdocs

Apoorva Chawla (Postdoc in 2022-2026)
Background: Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India)
Topic: Hybrid Analytics for Sensor Validation

Vitor Elias (Postdoc in 2022-2025)
Background: Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
Topic: Graph Signal Processing for Ground Motion Monitoring

PhD Graduates

Khadija Shaheen (PhD Student in 2021-2025)
Background: M.Sc. Electrical Engineering (National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan)
PhD Thesis: "Model-Based Sensor Validation for Digital Twins" defended on 12.12.2025
PhD Committee:
Prof. Baltasar Beferull-Lozano (Simula Metropolitan, Norway),
Dr. Geethu Joseph (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands),
Prof. Stefan Werner (NTNU),
Prof. Kimmo Kansanen (NTNU)

Mohammed Ayalew Belay (PhD Student in 2021-2025)
Background: M.Sc. Computer Engineering (Hawassa University, Ethiopia)
PhD Thesis: "Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Digital Twins" defended on 25.11.2025
PhD Committee:
Prof. Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi (University of Agder, Norway),
Dr. Rita P. Ribeiro (University of Porto, Portugal),
Prof. Giampiero Salvi (NTNU),
Prof. Stefan Werner (NTNU)

Muhammad Asaad Cheema (PhD Student in 2021-2025)
Background: M.Sc. Electrical Engineering (National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan)
PhD Thesis: "Topology-Aware Machine Learning in IoT Systems" defended on 11.06.2025
PhD Committee:
Prof. Nirvana Meratnia (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands),
Dr. Ashish Rauniyar (SINTEF Digital, Norway),
Prof. Kimmo Kansanen (NTNU),
Prof. Giampiero Salvi (NTNU)

Gianluca Tabella (PhD Student in 2020-2024)
Background: M.Sc. Chemical Engineering (University of Bologna, Italy)
PhD Thesis: "Distributed Detection and Localization" defended on 09.04.2024
PhD Committee:
Prof. Visa Koivunen (Aalto University, Finland),
Dr. Myrto Konstantinidou (NCSR DEMOKRITOS, Greece),
Prof. Geir Egil Dahle Øien (NTNU),
Prof. Kimmo Kansanen (NTNU),
Prof. Stefan Werner (NTNU)

Hossein Darvishi (PhD Student in 2020-2023)
Background: M.Sc. Electrical Engineering (K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran)
PhD Thesis: "Machine-Learning Sensor Validation for Digital Twins" defended on 09.06.2023
PhD Committee:
Prof. Mikael Gidlund (Mid Sweden University, Sweden),
Prof. Sabita Maharjan (University of Oslo, Norway),
Prof. Kimmo Kansanen (NTNU),
Prof. Geir Egil Dahle Øien (NTNU)

Visiting Students

Matteo Vitali
in 2021 while PhD Student at Marche Polytechnic University, Italy