About me:

I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines, and director of the Autonomy, Robotics, & Intelligent Algorithms (ARIA) Lab. Before joining Mines, I was a research scientist at MIT. I received my PhD in Electrical Engineering, MS in Mathematics, and MS in Electrical Engineering from UT Dallas. I got my BS in Electrical Engineering from IKIU, Iran.  My CV is available here. 

Research overview:

Our research at ARIA lab focuses on robotics and computer vision topics such as robust perception, visual navigation, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), multi-robot SLAM, and multi-agent systems. The mission of our lab is to pioneer algorithmic technologies for robust robotic perception and autonomy, such as certifiable perception algorithms, relaxation/estimation techniques for computationally challenging robotic problems, and algorithms that are extremely robust to errors/outliers in the data (e.g., 99% outliers). ARIA lab integrates these technologies into real-world robots, and expands further to multi-robot settings to create a resilient internet of robot teams that communicate and compute on the cloud.