Experience

  • Postdoctoral Researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),  June 2015 – present
    • Envirobot: Developing an aquatic robot which can ‘smell’ polluting substances, using integrated biological and chemical sensors.
  • Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), January 2013 – May 2015
    • Cooperative navigation for localization and guidance of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs).
  • Teaching assistant at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), October 2012 – January 2013
    • Teaching assistant for Optimization and Algorithms course with responsibilities such as: Theoretical and practical lectures, exams supervision, exams grading, projects supervision and guidance.
  • Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), October 2007 – December 2008
    • Collaboration in academic projects and publications in peer reviewed conferences focused on: Nonlinear Robust Adaptive State Estimation using nonlinear estimation theory with applications to navigation, tracking, surveillance, and output-feedback control.

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy: Electrical and computer engineering
    Title of thesis: Nonlinear robust adaptive estimation.
    Institute for systems and robotics (ISR), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015.
  • Master of Science:  Instrumentation and automation engineering
    Title of thesis: Instrumentation sensor network design for process plant monitoring and control.
    Petroleum university of technology (PUT), Tehran, Iran, 2007.
  • Bachelor of Science:  Electrical engineering
    Title of thesis: Conversion of existing motor-generator to micro-machine.
    Amirkabir university of technology (Tehran polytechnic), Tehran, Iran, 2004.

A PDF version of my CV/resume is available here.