Vignesh Narayanan

Vignesh Narayanan is an Assistant Professor in the Artificial Intelligence Institute (AII) and Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina (USC), with affiliations to the Carolina Autism and Neurodevelopment (CAN) Research Center. He bridges AI with dynamical systems theory, computational neuroscience, and cyber-physical systems (CPS) to enhance safety and efficiency in human-AI collaboration.

• Education: B.Tech (SASTRA University, India, 2012), M.Tech (National Institute of Technology, India, 2014), Ph.D. (Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2017), Postdoc (Washington University in St. Louis, 2017-2021)

His research spans dynamic modeling, AI integration, and neuroscience-inspired systems. Key projects include:

• Developing safety-constrained virtual health assistants using knowledge graphs to align with medical protocols
• Advancing collaborative autonomy for drones/vehicles through event-triggered control mechanisms
• Creating digital twins for opinion dynamics to analyze information propagation in social systems
• Designing quantum-echo state networks for chaotic system prediction on NISQ hardware

Recent publications demonstrate expertise in reinforcement learning for battery health monitoring (2024), reservoir computing for time series reconstruction (2025), and knowledge-infused AI frameworks for explainable decision-making.

His lab team includes researchers like Bharath Muppasani and Erik Connerty, while recent grants from NSF, AFOSR, and DoD fund projects on collaborative autonomy and secure cyber-physical control.