M. Umar B. Niazi
Postdoctoral Associate
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Office: 32-D566
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
Email: niazi [at] mit [dot] edu
I am a postdoctoral researcher at MIT's Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS), advised by Munther Dahleh. I previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, where I worked with Karl H. Johansson. I received my Ph.D. in Automatic Control Engineering from Grenoble INP, Université Grenoble Alpes (France), under the supervision of Carlos Canudas-de-Wit.
I am a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow for the period Sep 2022-Aug 2025. I was a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at the European Control Conference (ECC) in 2019.
Research Interests
- Incentive-based control of sociotechnical systems
Dynamic incentive design
Online learning in Stackelberg games
Applications: Ecodriving and smart mobility systems
- Secure monitoring and control of cyber-physical systems
Secure state estimation
Anomaly detection and identification
Applications: Transportation networks, epidemic processes, smart buildings