Irfan Ahmad Ganie
I am an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University Northwest, where I direct the Adaptive Intelligence & Autonomous Systems (AIAS) Lab.
My research develops adaptive and learning-based control methods for intelligent autonomous systems, with emphasis on safe reinforcement learning, neural control, human–robot collaboration, cooperative robotics, humanoid robotics, and cyber-physical systems.
Recent News
- Aug. 2026 — Joined Purdue University Northwest as Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and established the AIAS Lab.
- 2026 — Received a Summer Mentoring Grant of $9,559 from Wilkes University for student robotics research.
- 2026 — Paper published in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems on safety-aware continual reinforcement learning.
- 2026 — Paper published in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics on safe optimal cooperative manipulation in human–robot teams.
- 2026 — Presented work on safety-critical adaptive spiking neural control at the American Control Conference.
Research
Our goal is to develop adaptive, safe, and intelligent control frameworks that allow autonomous systems to learn online, cooperate with humans and other robots, and remain reliable under uncertainty and physical constraints.
Adaptive Learning Control
- Adaptive optimal control
- Learning-based control
- Online reinforcement learning
- Continual and lifelong learning
- Safety-critical nonlinear control
Intelligent & Humanoid Robotics
- Humanoid robotics
- Human–robot collaboration
- Cooperative multi-robot control
- Robot manipulation
- Autonomous mobile systems
Neural & Cyber-Physical Systems
- Spiking neural networks
- Graph neural control
- Adaptive neural learning
- Energy-efficient intelligence
- Cyber-physical safety
Selected Publications
Teaching
Students & Mentoring
I mentor undergraduate and graduate students working in control, robotics, reinforcement learning, humanoid robotics, and intelligent autonomous systems.
Previous Research Students
Joshua Roman
Undergraduate research mentee, Wilkes University
Matthew Kralj
Undergraduate research mentee, Wilkes University
Master's Thesis Committee Service
Nick Romas
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Wilkes University, 2026 — Thesis Committee Member
Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2025
M.Tech., Cyber-Physical Systems
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, 2021
B.E., Electrical Engineering
University of Jammu, 2018