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Abenezer Taye

Vanderbilt University

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2026

[1]

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

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 Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (SciTech), 2026

[2]

Remote ID Spoofing Attacks and Defenses

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 Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (SciTech), 2026

[3]

Detection of Compromised UAVs using Graph Machine Learning

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 Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (SciTech), 2026

[4]

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

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 Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (SciTech), 2026

[5]

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

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 Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (SciTech), 2026

2025

[6]

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

A. G. Taye, Peng Wei

Journal of Aerospace Information Systems (JAIS), 2025

[7]

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

Jadon Xu, Can X. Vu, A. Taye, Amin Tabrizian, Peng Wei

AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND, 2025

[8]

Energy-Aware Strategic Traffic Management for Urban Air Mobility

A. G. Taye, Shulu Chen, Peng Wei

AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (SciTech), 2025

[9]

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

Can X. Vu, Mahyar Ghazanfari, Kevin Dong, A. Taye, Amin Tabrizian, Peng Wei

AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND, 2025

[10]

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

Daniel Ding, Can X. Vu, A. Taye, Amin Tabrizian, Peng Wei, Zhenhao Zhao

AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND, 2025

[11]

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

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), 2025

2024

[12]

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

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

[13]

Using Large Language Models to Automate Flight Planning Under Wind Hazards

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), 2024

[14]

A Survey on Reinforcement Learning in Aviation Applications

Pouria Razzaghi, Amin Tabrizian, Wei Guo, Shulu Chen, A. Taye, Ellis Thompson, Alexis Bregeon, Ali Baheri, Peng Wei

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2024

[15]

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

A. G. Taye, Peng Wei

AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (SciTech), 2024

[16]

Energy Demand Analysis for eVTOL Charging Stations in Urban Air Mobility

A. G. Taye, Priyank Pradeep, Peng Wei, James C. Jones, Timothy Bonin, Derek Eberle

AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND, 2024

2023

[17]

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

A. Taye, Ellis L. Thompson, Peng Wei, Timothy Bonin, James C. Jones

AIAA AVIATION Forum, 2023

2022

[18]

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

A. G. Taye, Josh Bertram, Chuchu Fan, Peng Wei

AIAA AVIATION Forum, 2022

[19]

A Survey of eVTOL Aircraft and AAM Operation Hazards

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 Forum, 2022