Experiences
Co-founder and Director of Artificial Intelligence,
August 2020 - Present
Leading the development and product management,
My main responsibilities include:
product vision and product strategy development;
sprint planning and sprint review (from scrum framework);
project development management;
technical architectural design of the products (with key team members)
code reviews and product testing;
handling internal and external collaborations;
and sometimes writing code myself!
mojow.ai, Edmonton, Canada.
Artificial Intelligence Systems Manager,
March 2019 - January 2020
Leading the artificial intelligence development team,
My main responsibilities include: roadmap planning for the team;
developing the company-wide data strategy (from collecting and storage to
processing and inference);
handling internal and external collaborations;
using state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning algorithms to add
new capabilities to our autonomous power platform;
introducing new AI powered products;
Dot Technology Corp, Regina, Canada.
Autonomous Systems Developer,
May 2018 - February 2019
Design and development of guidance, navigation and control of
Dot; a 175 HP multi implement
autonomous power platform for use in agriculture. Used nonlinear optimal control
techniques and multiple
optimization tools for trajectory generation, avoidance, path smoothing and
tracking.
Developed mostly in Python and C languages.
Dot Technology Corp, Regina, Canada.
Lecturer,
January 2018 - April 2018
Teaching Mechatronics to 3rd and 4th year engineering
students.
I had a class of 42 students. I covered most of the topics including: sensors;
actuators; modeling;
control design; programming; and six labs specifically tailored to the class
lectures. For the labs I was using VEX Robotics Platform.
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of
Regina, Canada.
Research Assistant,
January 2015 - April 2018
Modeling, control, simulation and design of unmanned aerial
vehicles.
University of Regina, Canada.
Research Project, (Collaboration between University of Regina and Micropilot Inc.)
August 2016 - August 2017
Path planning and controlled crash landing of a quadcopter in
case of rotor failure.
Sponsor: Micropilot Inc. Canada.
Research Project, (Collaboration between University of Regina and Quanser Inc.)
September 2015 - January 2016
Design & implementation of a learning-based controller for
Quanser Qube-Servo with fuzzy logic and neural network.
Sponsor: Quanser Inc. Canada.
Education, Training and Skills
Summer School, Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning
July 24 - August 2, 2019
The 2019 DLRLSS is hosted by CIFAR and the Alberta Machine
Intelligence Institute (Amii),
with participation and support from Mila and the Vector Institute.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Master of Applied Science, Industrial Systems Engineering
September 2015 - May 2018
My forcus was on mathematical modeling, control design and
simulation of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
University of Regina, Canada.
Thesis title: Modeling and Control of Multi-Rotor
UAVS: Design for Safety and Performance.
Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering
September 2010 - September 2014
My forcus was on optimization, dynamical systems, control and
simulation.
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Computer Skills:
Engineering Software and Frameworks:
Honors and Awards
- Finalist at the 3rd edition of IEEE Entrepreneurship Forum and Startup Contest EFSC @ IROS 2017, Vancouver, Canada, September 2017
- Best Paper Awrad, Paper title: Revised propeller dynamics and energy-optimal hovering in a monospinner, The 4th International Conference of Control, Dynamic Systems, and Robotics, Toronto, Canada, August 2017.
- Line Faculty Scholarship Faculty of engineering and applied science, University of Regina, Canada, January 2017
Licenses and Certificates
- Agile Project Management, from Lynda, June 2019 - Present
- Compliant UAV Pilot, License No: GEN4UAV-18, from Transport Canada, March 2018 - Present
- CPD Certificate of Attendance and Learning, License No: 600373, from The CPD Standards Office, June 2016 - Present
Professional Activities
Reviewer
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- International Journal of Systems Science
Professional Memberships
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
- IEEE Control Systems Society
- Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS)