Mohammad Pirani
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Joint appointment with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Ottawa
Email: mpirani@uottawa.ca
Mohammad Pirani
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Joint appointment with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Ottawa
Email: mpirani@uottawa.ca
Brief Biography:
Dr. Pirani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa. He also holds an Adjunct Professor position with the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he previously served as a Research Assistant Professor from 2022 to 2023. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto (2019–2022) and in the Department of Automatic Control at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden (2018–2019). He completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and MASc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo and BASc. in Mechanical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and his research interests include systems and control, network science, and cyber-physical systems.
Recent Updates:
Our paper demonstrating the vulnerabilities of automotive systems to cyber threats will be presented at this year’s European Control Conference (ECC). [article]
Check out our recent publications on reliable learning and control in automotive systems, featured in several new research papers.
I now hold a dual appointment with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
I now hold an adjunct professor position with the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
Our research paper entitled: "Network Critical Slowing Down: Data-Driven Detection of Critical Transitions in Nonlinear Networks" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
Recently promoted to the Senior Member status in IEEE.
Our tutorial and survey paper on graph-theoretic approaches to resilience in distributed control systems is forthcoming in Automatica, offering a comprehensive resource for researchers in this field.