About Me

I am a multidisciplinary scientist interested in understanding, modeling, and controlling complex engineering and natural systems. I serve as Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Flight Operations Research Lead at Joby Aviation in San Carlos, California, and was previously a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. I earned my Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, specializing in chaotic dynamical systems, and held a postdoctoral fellowship in applied mathematics at Florida State University, where I worked with the late Christopher Hunter on kinetic theory, N-body systems, and galactic dynamics. My earlier faculty and research appointments include Sharif University of Technology, Tehran (Professor of Mechanical Engineering); the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Visiting Member, Astrophysics); and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan (Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics). My current research centers on the science and technology of dense eVTOL operations, autonomous air traffic control, reinforcement learning for the control of multi-body and multi-agent systems, and galactic dynamics. In my personal time, I like to think about profound questions such as the origin of matter and gravity.

Fun fact: my Erdős number is 3.