Abhishek Dubey
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Dr. Abhishek Dubey is an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science, as well as a Chancellor Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University. He directs the SCOPE Lab at the Institute for Software-Integrated Systems and serves as a Senior Research Scientist within the institute. Dr. Dubey is currently on an IPA assignment as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, overseeing the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Smart and Connected Communities (SCC), and Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) programs.
His broad research interest is in the design and operation of decision procedures for societal-scale Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) with a focus on transportation and mobility, emergency response, and electric infrastructure. His current work explores non-stationarity and long-term impact, investigating principled, non-myopic optimization methods that enhance resilience, performance, and assurance of cyber-physical systems. He currently leads Smart and Connected Community research efforts focusing on design and optimization of public transit systems in Chattanooga, TN, and Nashville, TN, through his group smarttransit.ai, as well as emergency response system optimization through statresp.ai. Dr. Dubey’s work has been supported by organizations such as NSF, NASA, DOE, ARPA-E, AFRL, DARPA, Nissan, Siemens, Cisco, and IBM.
In addition to his academic research, Dr. Dubey has co-founded Mobius AI, a company focused on bringing cutting-edge technology in logistics and fleet management to the market, bridging the gap between research and practical applications.
A recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2022), Dr. Dubey has published over 200 articles. He previously served as the Director of Graduate Studies for Vanderbilt’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University).
Research Areas
Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Public Transit, Emergency Response Systems, Power Grids
Fault-tolerance, Anomaly detection, Mitigation
Impact and Highlights
- Our team won the institute director’s award for the best community software deployment in Jan 2025.
- Our team won the best paper award at ICCPS 2024
- Abhishek was awarded the Chancellor Faculty Fellowship in 2024
- Abhishek is the general co-chair of ICCPS 2024.
- Abhishek was awarded the NSF Career grant in January 2023.
- Abhishek is the Program Co-Chair of ICCPS 2023 and General Chair of SmartComp 2023, two premier conferences in the areas of smart and connected communities and cyber-physical systems.
- The Adviser framework based on the microtransit algorithms developed by our team won the IJCAI 2022 Social Good Best Paper Award. The project is being piloted in Nigeria to help with vaccination program.
- The research on incident prediction and proactive stationing was identified as a as a high value project in the Safety, Security, and Emergencies category by the AASHTO Research Advisory Committee. The highlight of the work was the analysis of showing approximately 40 percent reduction in incident response time on Tennessee highways. It was presented at TRB 2023 as a poster.
- Abhishek was named as the Research Champion Innovator by Google Cloud for 2023.
- The results from our work on transithub was transferred to Metropolitan Transit Authority of Nashville.
- Technical co-chair of the Connected Nashville Strategy Document in 2018.
- Led Nashville projects at the Global Cities Team Challenge organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) between 2015 and 2017. The projects received funding from National Science Foundation and included collaborative work with Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) and Nashville Fire Department.
- Abhishek was selected as one of the Research Innovators in 2022 by Google Cloud.
- Led the Gulch Traffic Density Assessment Project in collaboration with Nashville Planning Department between 2017 and 2018.
- Our research with Nashville through initiatives such as Transit Hub has lead to an ongoing collaboration between Nashville and Vanderbilt University. The first event was hosted in January 2022
- Our paper on Anomaly based Incident Detection in Large Scale Smart Transportation Systems was selected as the best paper nominee award at the 13th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems.
Patents
- Forecasting Energy Consumption in a Mixed Transit Fleet. Abhishek Dubey, Michael Wilbur, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Aron Laszka. USA Provisional Patent Application, 2021. Full Application is Under Review.
- Data-Driven Forecasting of Cascading Effects of in Networked Systems. Provisional Patent 2019.
Software
- Smart Transit - Software as a service cloud platform for transit agencies focusing on energy and schedule optimization.
- Statresp - Software as a service cloud platform for state department of transportation and city emergency departments focusing on resource allocation, optimization and dispatch.
- CoSMoS - open source ARINC-653 compliant operating system.
- MODICUM - online market software for enabling computational outsourcing for batch computations in smart cities.
- Resilient Information Architecture Platform for Smart Grid, now a Linux foundation project.
- ARINC-653 emulator for Linux and the first open source operating system implementation for Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE).
- Modular middleware for integrating blockchain and CPS called SolidWorx.
- CHARIOT, a reasoning engine for online reconfiguration of cyber physical systems.
- ReSonAte, A Runtime Risk Assessment Framework for Autonomous Systems
- TRANSAX - a middleware for transactive energy systems.
- F6MDK, a full stack implementation of a containerized application system for fractionated satellites.
Experience
Education
Students (Graduated)
- Michael Wilbur. Ph.D. Data-Driven Algorithms for Smart Transportation Systems. 2022.
- Shreyas Ramakrishna. Ph.D. Dynamic Safety Assurance of Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems. 2022.
- Ava Pettet. Ph.D. Principled Algorithms for Real-time Sequential Decision Making for Large Scale. Cyber-Physical Systems. 2022.
- Scott Eisele. Ph.D. Resolving Challenges in Multi-Stakeholder CPS Using Distributed Ledgers. 2020.
- Fangzhou Sun. Ph.D. Algorithms for Context-Sensitive Prediction, Optimization and Anomaly Detection in Urban Mobility (Co-advised with Jules White). 2018.
- Pradhan, Subhav. Ph.D. Algorithms and Techniques for Managing Extensibility in Cyber-Physical Systems (Co-advised with Aniruddha Gokhale). 2017.
- Matthew Burruss. M.S Enhancing the Robustness of Deep Neural Networks Against Security Threats Using Radial Basis Functions. 2020.
- Sanchita Basak. M.S Spatiotemporal Anomaly Detection and Prediction of Anomaly Propagation Path Using LSTM Networks. 2020.
- Chinmaya Sama. M.S Time-dependent and Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Routing using Federated Learning. 2019.
Projects
Recent Publications
Contact
Contact me at first dot last name at vanderbilt edu