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Mohammad Javad Khojasteh

Gleason Endowed Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering

Kate Gleason College of Engineering

Affiliated with Global Cybersecurity Institute (GCI)

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)

Director of the Khojasteh Autonomous Systems Laboratory (KAS Lab)

Email: mjkeme@rit.edu, Google Scholar, LinkedIn.

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). I direct the Khojasteh Autonomous Systems Laboratory (KAS Lab). I am affiliated with the Global Cybersecurity Institute (GCI) at RIT.

Before joining RIT, I held postdoctoral positions at Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT, and Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST) at Caltech, where I worked with Team CoSTAR as visitor at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. I did my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Intelligent Systems, Robotics, and Control) at UC San Diego. Before that, I earned two bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Sharif University of Technology.

Research Interests:

I am passionate about solving real-world problems by applying machine learning, data-driven optimization and control, and statistical signal processing. My current research focuses on three main areas:

• Autonomous robot systems: developing scientific principles for autonomous robot systems, integrating artificial intelligence and robotics to enhance the security, safety, and efficiency of these systems

• Applied ocean science: innovating new methods in machine learning and marine robotics for autonomous data collection at sea

• Quantum engineering: advancing fundamental knowledge in quantum technologies to achieve supremacy in sensing and computing

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