Bio

Anahita Jamshidnejad received her PhD cum laude from the Delft University of Technology, Delft Center for Systems and Control. The subject of her PhD thesis was "Efficient predictive model-based and fuzzy control for green urban mobility". Since February 1, 2019, she is Assistant Professor at the Department of Control and Operations, Delft University of Technology, where she has established her research group on Mathematical Decision Making (MDM). 

In October 2017, she was awarded an individual Niels Stensen Fellowship, which enabled her to do 1 year of research at ETH Zürich, Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control on the topic of model predictive control for search-and-rescue robots in uncertain environments. 

In November 2018, she won the 1st Prize in the 2018 IEEE ITSS Best PhD Dissertation Award competition for her PhD thesis. The 1st Prize award consists of a plaque and a cash award of USD 2000.

In November 2019, she was awarded an NWO Open Mind grant on "Drones interacting with children with autism via dance-movement therapy". 

In December 2019, she was awarded an NWO Open Competition Domain Science - XS grant on "Creative social robots with evolutionary AI for dementia therapy". 

In April 2020, she co-founded the AI*MAN lab, where the Mathematical Decision Making group collaborates with the Intelligent Systems group (EEMCS faculty) on integrating optimization theory and AI approaches for decision making of artificial agents, in teams composed of humans and artificial agents.  

In November 2020, she was awarded an NWO Veni grant on "Autonomous drones flocking for search and rescue".