Student Success

Students from IMPRESS LAB — K. Al Mahmud, J. Halder, B. Baray, and T. Anjum — achieved third place in the AERPAW Autonomous UAV Student Challenge #2, competing among 22 registered teams. Of those, 16 teams submitted projects for evaluation using the AERPAW digital twin, and 11 advanced as finalists for live testbed experiments at Lake Wheeler Field Labs. The full rankings are available Rankings Competition website: Winners.

Abesh Ghosh was awarded a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) Grant in 2025.The title of the project is “Unlocking Forest Vital Signs: High-Resolution Spatiotemporal VOD Mapping at Large Scales Through GNSS-T and LiDAR Fusion, Advancing NASA Earth Observation Systems.” . Selections.

Students from IMPRESS LAB (A. Ghosh, E. Hoque, J. Halder, B. Baray, K. Al Mahmud, T. Anjum) distinguished themselves by securing a position among the top six teams in the IEEE GRSS Student Grand Challenge 2025, out of 32 international submissions. At the Fifth GRSS Student Grand Challenge (SGC), student teams develop an end-to-end remote sensing application based on unmanned vehicles (e.g. drones, remote controlled planes or helicopters, underwater vehicles, rovers, stratospheric balloons…).

Kaies Al Mahmud has been accepted for the 2025 CyberPowder Fellows Program.  CyberPowder is an NSF-funded wireless networking hands-on training and research mentoring program for US-based graduate students. (NSF CyberTraining award number: 2417934)

M. Ehsanul Hoque’s paper, submitted to the 2025 URSI NRSM Student Paper Competition, has been selected as an HONORABLE MENTION. 2025.

Abesh Ghosh is selected as a finalist for IEEE IGARSS 3MT competition with his work on forest vegetation optical depth mapping using GNSS signals in 2024. Three Minute Thesis

Md Mehedi Farhad was awarded a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) Grant in 2023. The title of the project is “Recycling the Radio Spectrum: Enhancing NASA’s Earth Observing Systems Products over Forested Terrain by Direct Measurement of Vegetation Optical Depth” Selections.

Md Mehedi Farhad was a 2023-2024 Outstanding Hall of Fame Student by the College of Engineering award winner as well as 2023-2024 Best ECE Graduate Researcher winner.MSU honors top graduate students, faculty mentors

Dylan R Boyd was awarded a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) Grant in 2021. The title of the project is “Recycling the radio spectrum: Can anthropogenic signals in LEO be repurposed for science? Advancing soil moisture remote sensing with NASA Signals of Opportunity datasets, forward modeling, and physics-guided machine learning”. Selections. ECE Graduate Student Wins NASA FINESST Grant

Dylan R Boyd was a 2020-2021 Bagley College of Engineering and Office of Research and Development (ORED) Graduate Student award winner as well as 2020-2021 Best ECE Graduate Researcher winner. ECE Graduate Student Receives BCoE Graduate Research Award

Preston Peranich was awarded Mississippi Space Grant Consortium (MSSGC) Graduate Fellowship, 2019 and 2020. Graduate Student Spotlight – Preston Peranich

Orhan Eroglu was awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship in 2019.The title of the project is “Unveiling CYGNSS Land Signatures for High Spatiotemporal Soil Moisture Estimation.” Selections. Mississippi State graduate student wins grant from NASA