Meet the Team

Firas Asfar

Computer Engineer

Firas is a 4/4 Computer Engineering major from Staten Island, NY.

Meghan Haggerty

Mechanical Engineer

Meghan is a 4/4 Mechanical Engineering major concentrating in Sustainable Energy, from Hillsdale, NJ.

Arth Jani

Computer Engineer

Arth is a 4/4 Computer Engineering major concentrating in Software Engineering with a minor in Finance, from Marlboro, NJ.

Matthew Kirby

Mechanical Engineer

Matthew is a 4/4 Mechanical Engineering Major from New City, NY. He is pursuing his Masters Degree in Systems Engineering with a concentration in Large-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems through the 4+1 Masters Program.

Maria Manoussakis

Mechanical Engineer

Maria is a 4/4 Mechanical Engineering major from Wyckoff, NJ. She is pursuing her Masters Degrees in Mechanical Engineering concentrating in Product Design (M.E.) and also a Masters in Business Administration (M.B.A).

Daniel Tierney

Mechanical Engineer

Daniel is a 5/5 Mechanical Engineering major from Havertown, PA.

Advisor: Professor Hamid Jafarnejad Sani

Dr. Hamidreza Jafarnejadsani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology and director of the Safe Autonomous Systems Lab (SAS Lab). Before joining the faculty at Stevens, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Hamidreza received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from UIUC in 2018, where he worked in the Advanced Controls Research Laboratory. He got his B.S. and M.S. degrees both in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tehran in 2011 and the University of Calgary in 2013, respectively. Hamidreza currently serves as a topic editor for the Journal of Frontiers in Control Engineering, and he is a member of IEEE, AIAA, and ASEE professional societies. His research interests include control, optimization, robotics, machine learning, and cyber-physical security. In particular, he is interested in the resilient control design for intelligent autonomous systems in uncertain and adversarial environments.

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