Biography
I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham in UK. Prior to my current position, I was a Senior Scientist at the Automatic Control Laboratory (IFA), Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, at ETH Zürich in Switzerland. From 2017 to 2020, I was a Postdoctoral and then a Senior Researcher at the Division of Decision and Control Systems, Department of Intelligent Systems, at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
I am passionate about developing verifiable and deployable AI-driven methodologies to enable Cyber-Physical Systems autonomy. This primarily includes studying fundamental aspects of increasingly dynamic, interactive, and context-varying CPSs, ranging from stability, safety, robustness, and performance specification to software-hardware integration, hierarchical decision making, managing components' interactions, and controlling the macroscopic and microscopic behaviours of such large-scale and safety-critical systems.
My current research interests include safe control of networked systems, multi-stake-holder decision-making and co-design theory, distributed control over communication networks, stochastic processes and data-driven models, predictive control, and cooperative sensing and perception. My main application areas are robotics, smart transportation systems, and samrt industry.
Education
PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, TU Munich, Germany, 2017.
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Systems, Control, and Robotics), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010.
B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2008.