Hi! I'm Farhad Nawaz, a 5th year PhD candidate at GRASP lab, University of Pennsylvania.

I am co-advised by Dr. Nikolai Matni and Dr. Nadia Figueroa.  I am broadly interested in learning and control methods for dynamical systems, with application to robotics. My PhD work focuses on learning from demonstrations to generate safe and stable low-level motions for robots in human-centered environments, while also integrating high-level specifications for interactive tasks.  I worked as a research intern at the Honda Research Institute, USA, where I developed trajectory planning algorithms for autonomous driving.

Prior to this, I worked on multi-agent path planning algorithms for stochastic environments with Dr. Melkior Ornik for my master's degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I also spent a year at Indian Institute of Science with Dr. Ashwini Ratnoo working on guidance and control laws for quad-copters. I have a Bachelor’s degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India.