Publications

2026

Networked Simulation for Cybersecurity Evaluation of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Dense Urban Environments[1]

Abel Diaz-Gonzalez, Austin Coursey, Bryce Bjorkman, Daniil Shatokhin, Cailani Lemieux-Mack, Noah W. Dahle, Robert E. Canady, A. Taye, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Gautam Biswas, Bryan Ward, AIAA SciTech, Orlando, FL, Jan. 2026

Remote ID Spoofing Attacks and Defenses[2]

Bryce Bjorkman, Stanley Zheng, Austin Coursey, Cailani Lemieux-Mack, Samuel Gonzalez, Abel Diaz-Gonzalez, Noah W. Dahle, Neils Koroma, Robert E. Canady, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Gautam Biswas, A. Taye, Bryan Ward, AIAA SciTech, Orlando, FL, Jan. 2026

Detection of Compromised UAVs using Graph Machine Learning[3]

Noah W. Dahle, Robert E. Canady, Austin Coursey, Abel Diaz-Gonzalez, Cailani Lemieux-Mack, Bryce Bjorkman, A. Taye, Bryan Ward, Gautam Biswas, Xenofon Koutsoukos, AIAA SciTech, Orlando, FL, Jan. 2026

A Survey of Security Challenges and Solutions for Advanced Air Mobility and eVTOL Aircraft[4]

Mahyar Ghazanfari, Iman Sharifi, Peng Wei, A. Taye, Abel Diaz-Gonzalez, Austin Coursey, Bryce Bjorkman, Robert E. Canady, Bryan Ward, Gautam Biswas, Xenofon Koutsoukos, AIAA SciTech, Orlando, FL, Jan. 2026

A Survey of Security Challenges and Solutions for UAS Traffic Management (UTM) and small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS)[5]

Iman Sharifi, Mahyar Ghazanfari, A. Taye, Peng Wei, Abel Diaz-Gonzalez, Austin Coursey, Bryce Bjorkman, Robert E. Canady, Bryan Ward, Gautam Biswas, Xenofon Koutsoukos, AIAA SciTech, Orlando, FL, Jan. 2026

2025

Energy-Efficient Trajectory Planning and Feasibility Assessment Framework for Drone Package Delivery[6]

A. G. Taye, Peng Wei, Journal of Aerospace Information Systems (JAIS), 2025

Small UAS Landing Site Detection with ArUco Markers and Deep Learning Based Computer Vision[7]

Jadon Xu, Can X. Vu, A. Taye, Amin Tabrizian, Peng Wei, AIAA Aviation, San Diego, CA, Jun. 2025

Energy-Aware Strategic Traffic Management for Urban Air Mobility[8]

A. G. Taye, Shulu Chen, Peng Wei, AIAA SciTech, Orlando, FL, Jan. 2025

Transformer or CNN? Benchmarking Real-Time Detection Transformer and YOLOv8 for Small UAS Autonomous Landing[9]

Can X. Vu, Mahyar Ghazanfari, Kevin Dong, A. Taye, Amin Tabrizian, Peng Wei, AIAA Aviation, San Diego, CA, Jun. 2025

Synthetic Data Generation for Computer Vision Based Autonomous Landing for Small UAS Package Delivery[10]

Daniel Ding, Can X. Vu, A. Taye, Amin Tabrizian, Peng Wei, Zhenhao Zhao, AIAA Aviation, San Diego, CA, Jun. 2025

Safe to Fly? Real-Time Flight Mission Feasibility Assessment for Drone Package Delivery Operations[11]

A. Taye, Austin Coursey, Marcos Quinones-Grueiro, Chao Hu, Gautam Biswas, Peng Wei, 36th International Conference on Principles of Diagnosis and Resilient Systems (DX 2025)

2024

Safe and Scalable Real-Time Trajectory Planning Framework for Urban Air Mobility[12]

A. G. Taye, Roberto Valenti, Akshay Rajhans, Anastasia Mavrommati, Pieter J. Mosterman, Peng Wei, Journal of Aerospace Information Systems (JAIS), 21 (8), 641-650, 2024

Using Large Language Models to Automate Flight Planning Under Wind Hazards[13]

Amin Tabrizian, Pranav Gupta, A. Taye, James Jones, Ellis Thompson, Shulu Chen, Timothy Bonin, Derek Eberle, Peng Wei, 2024 AIAA DATC/IEEE 43rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

A Survey on Reinforcement Learning in Aviation Applications[14]

Pouria Razzaghi, Amin Tabrizian, Wei Guo, Shulu Chen, A. Taye, Ellis Thompson, Alexis Bregeon, Ali Baheri, Peng Wei, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2024

Flight Mission Feasibility Assessment of Urban Air Mobility Operations Under Battery Energy Constraint[15]

A. G. Taye, Peng Wei, AIAA SciTech, Orlando, FL, Jan. 2024

Energy Demand Analysis for eVTOL Charging Stations in Urban Air Mobility[16]

A. G. Taye, Priyank Pradeep, Peng Wei, James C. Jones, Timothy Bonin, Derek Eberle, AIAA Aviation, San Diego, CA, Jun. 2024

2023

Probabilistic Evaluation for Flight Mission Feasibility of a Small Octocopter in the Presence of Wind[17]

A. Taye, Ellis L. Thompson, Peng Wei, Timothy Bonin, James C. Jones, AIAA Aviation, San Diego, CA, Jun. 2023

2022

Reachability based Online Safety Verification for High-Density Urban Air Mobility Trajectory Planning[18]

A. G. Taye, Josh Bertram, Chuchu Fan, Peng Wei, AIAA Aviation, San Diego, CA, Jun. 2022

A Survey of eVTOL Aircraft and AAM Operation Hazards[19]

Ellis L. Thompson, A. G. Taye, Wei Guo, Peng Wei, Marcos Quinones, Ibrahim Ahmed, Gautam Biswas, Jesse Quattrociocchi, Steven Carr, Ufuk Topcu, James C. Jones, Marc W. Brittain, AIAA Aviation, San Diego, CA, Jun. 2022