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Dr. Tanushree Roy serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech University's Whitacre College of Engineering and is an Affiliate Faculty member at the National Wind Institute. Her research pioneers resilient human-centric smart city infrastructures through the integration of control theory, mathematical modeling, and machine learning to address critical challenges in safety, security, and resource optimization for urban systems.
Her academic foundation includes:
- Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University (2022)
- M.S. in Mathematics from University of Central Florida (2015)
- M.E. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institutes of Engineering Science and Technology, India (2011)
- B.Tech in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, India (2009)
Dr. Roy's research centers on cybersecurity, fault diagnostics, and socio-technical systems with specialized applications in smart transportation networks and battery energy storage systems. She develops innovative frameworks that merge human-centric sensing with technical measurements to combat cyberattacks and physical faults in cyber-physical-social systems, emphasizing safety-critical resilience for urban citizens. Her methodology uniquely combines model-based control with data-driven machine learning to address challenges like social data integrity, human behavior modeling, and multi-scale anomaly characterization.
Analysis of her 15 most recent publications (2021-2025) reveals dominant trends in cyberattack detection for connected vehicles, thermal fault tolerance in battery systems, and socio-technical traffic modeling. Key technical approaches include Koopman operator theory for secure estimation, control barrier functions for safety certification, and redundancy-based data fusion techniques. These works consistently bridge theoretical control systems with practical smart city implementation, demonstrating strong interdisciplinary connections between transportation engineering, energy systems, and cybersecurity.
No scientific awards are documented in the provided information.
Dr. Roy actively mentors three PhD students—Sanchita Ghosh (since 2022), Faysal Ahamed, and Soumyoraj Mallick (both since 2024)—alongside undergraduate researcher Mercedes Hernandez. Her research is executed through the Smart Human-centric Automation Resilience (SHARE) Lab, which has secured projects including the secure autonomous mobility testbed and participates in workforce development via Texas Tech's Engineering Research Internship Experience (ERIE) program for high school students.
The SHARE Lab operates at the intersection of transportation and energy systems, maintaining two primary research thrusts: resilient human-centric transportation networks and safeguarding battery energy storage infrastructure. Current projects include SUMO-based cyberattack validation for connected vehicle platoons, self-learning voltage estimation under sensor attacks, and thermal fault-tolerant battery management. The lab maintains active collaborations with national conferences (ACC, CCTA) and industry partners to advance real-world implementation of resilient smart city technologies.
