About Me

I am a multidisciplinary dynamicist interested in the understanding, modeling, and control of complex engineering and natural systems. I serve as Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Flight Operations Research Lead at Joby Aviation in San Carlos, California. Prior to joining Joby, I was a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. I received my Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, specializing in chaotic dynamical systems, and was a postdoctoral fellow in applied mathematics at Florida State University, where I worked with the late Christopher Hunter on kinetic theory, N-body systems, and galactic dynamics. I have held faculty and research positions at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran (Professor of Mechanical Engineering); the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Astrophysics Visiting Member); and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan (Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics). My current research centers on developing the science and technology of dense eVTOL operations, autonomous air traffic control, learning-based control of multi-body and multi-agent systems, and galactic dynamics.