People

Students and visiting researchers.

Research grows through close supervision and collaboration. This page records current doctoral work and visiting research stays without using personal photographs.

Current PhD students

Primary supervision

PhD students for whom I am the main supervisor.

Since January 2025

Pablo Valle Entrena

Doctoral research in automated program repair and testing of cyber-physical systems.

Since April 2025

Ayesha Irshad

PhD student.

Since June 2025

Amna Khan

PhD student.

Since June 2025

Khizra Sohail

PhD student.

Since September 2025

Asier Martinez

PhD student.

Since January 2026

Arusa Kanwal

PhD student.

External co-supervision

PhD students at Simula Research Laboratory, co-supervised with Professor Shaukat Ali.

Since June 2023

Jiahui Wu

PhD student at Simula Research Laboratory.

Since May 2024

Karoline Nylænder

PhD student at Simula Research Laboratory.

Research master’s students

Research master’s student · Future PhD student

Paola Roggero

Research master’s student preparing to continue into doctoral research.

Visiting researchers

Incoming research stay · September 2026

Masoud Jamshidiyan Tehrani

Six-month SNSF-supported research stay focused on vulnerabilities in robotic perception and navigation systems.

  • PeriodSeptember 2026 · six months
  • ContextSimulation-based validation and real-world deployment of autonomous intelligent systems
Incoming visiting researcher · From September 2026

Muhammad Yousaf

Visiting researcher joining the lab from September 2026.

Former PhD students, postdocs, and visitors

PhD student · 2020–2022

Dr. Jon Ayerdi

Completed his PhD with an Excellent Cum Laude distinction. He is now an Associate Professor at Mondragon University.

Postdoctoral fellow · December 2021–September 2022

Dr. Ernest Bota Pobee

Former postdoctoral fellow with the research group.

Former visiting researcher

Dr. Sehrish Malik

External postdoctoral researcher from Simula Research Laboratory who visited the lab.

Visiting researcher · April–May 2026

Beena

Former visiting researcher during a two-month research stay.

Research visits and collaboration

I welcome conversations about doctoral research, research visits, and collaboration in software testing, cyber-physical systems, Physical AI, dependable AI, and autonomous systems.

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