Education
Swarm Robotics
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UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO (SUNY) – Buffalo, NY USA 01/2021
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering; Cumulative GPA: 4.00/4.00 Dissertation: Decentralized Planning Algorithms and Hybrid Learning for Scalable and Explainable Swarm Robotic Systems Core courses: Advanced Robotics, Robotics Algorithms, Network Science, Stochastic Simulation and Inference, High-Performance Computing (HPC) 1, Machine Learning, Heuristic Optimization, CAD Application. |
Humanoid Robots
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UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN – Iran 03/2015
Master of Science (MS), Mechatronics Engineering; Cumulative GPA: 18.79/20.00 Ranked 2nd out of 12 students. Thesis: “Push Recovery and Balancing of NAO Humanoid Robot”. Core courses: Advanced Robotics, Neural Network, Nonlinear Control, Optimal Control, System Identification, Model Predictive Control, Convex Optimization. |
Robot Manipulators
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SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY – Iran 07/2011
Bachelor of Science (BS), Robotics Engineering; Cumulative GPA: 17.03/20.00 Ranked 1st out of 57 students. Final Project: “A Comparative Study on Solving Inverse Kinematics of Serial Robots using Neural Networks and Neuro-Fuzzy Methods”. Core courses: Robotics, Robot Control, Sensors, Microprocessors, Control, Mechanism Design, Dynamics, Fuzzy Control. |
Service to the Community
- Technical Committee Member
- AIAA Uncrewed Systems IOC since 2022
- Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion (RAS-APCRM), a branch of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
- Software Engineering for Robotics and Automation (RAS-SERA), a branch of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
- Mobile Manipulation (RAS-MoMa), a branch of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
- Conference Session Chair and Organizer from 2022 till now:
- AIAA Aviation UAS-03: Autonomous Mission Management Concepts & Technologies II
- AIAA Aviation UAS-07: Autonomous Tasks/System Integration; Systems and Capabilities for Unmanned, Deep Space Missions II
- Conference Session Chair and Organizer from 2020 till now:
- ASME IDETC DAC-02: AI & ML for Challenging Real-World Problems in Design Automation
- ASME IDETC DAC-14: Metamodel-Based Design Optimization (MBDO)
- Reviewer for 6 Peer-reviewed Journals in the areas of Robotics, Machine Learning, and AI:
- Journal of Field Robotics, 2021 - Present
- Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2021 - Present
- Autonomous Robots (Springer), 2020 - Present
- Intelligent Service Robotics (Springer), 2014-2020
- Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (Taylor & Francis), 2020
- IEEE Access (IEEE), 2019
- Reviewer for International Conferences in the areas of robotics and design:
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019
- ASME IDETC/CIE: Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), 2020
- ASME IDETC/CIE: Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2020
- ASME IDETC/CIE: Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR), 2020
- ASME Power & Energy Conference, 2018
- RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM), 2014