Positions:

• 2024 - Current: Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).

  • Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering

  • Global Cybersecurity Institute (GCI)

  • Center for Human-aware AI (CHAI)

  
  

• 2023 - 2024: Postdoctoral scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO).

  • Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL)

  
  

  2023 - 2024: Visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

  
  

  2020 - 2022: Postdoctoral scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

  • Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS)

  
  

• 2020: Postdoctoral scholar at California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

  • Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST)

  • visitor at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

  • worked with Team CoSTAR (Collaborative SubTerranean Autonomous Resilient Robots)

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  Education:

  • 2015-2019: Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego.

  
  

  • 2015-2017: M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego.

  
  

  • 2010-2015: B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technolog.

  
  

  • 2010-2015: B.Sc. in Theoretical Mathematics,‎ Sharif University of Technology.

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  Selected Awards:

  • Gleason Endowed Professorship, RIT, 2024

  • Tammy L. Blair Best Paper Award, International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF), 2024

  • Fellowship with financial support, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California San Diego, 2015

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  Collaborative Distance:

  • My Erdös Number is 3, and I met the edges two times (J. A. Salehi --> F. R. K. Chung; M. Franceschetti --> L. J. Schulman).

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