Hello! I am Iman, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. My research interests are Stochastic Control, Hybrid Systems, and Convex Optimization. I am working under the supervision of Abhishek Halder.

I enjoy hiking, watching movies, playing piano, surfing, and running in my free time.

Conference/Workshop Organization
Co-Chair for the 5th NorCal Control Workshop .

Supervisor and Mentor for MS Thesis
Charlie Yan (Electrical and Computer Engineering). Summer 2022 – Spring 2023.
M.S. Thesis: Neural Schrödinger Bridge with Sinkhorn Losses.

Academic Experience
Guest Instructor for Nonlinear Control Theory, Spring 2022, UCSC.
Teaching Assistant for Signals and Systems, Spring 2021 , UCSC.
Teaching Assistant for Analog Electronics, Winter 2020,UCSC.
Teaching Assistant for Robot Automation: Intelligence through Feedback Control, Fall 2020, UCSC.
Teaching Assistant for Linear Control Course, Fall 2014, IKIU.

Reviewer Service

Journals
Systems & Control Letters
Automatica
Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems

Conferences
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022, 2023
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2022, 2023
American Control Conference (ACC), 2022, 2023, 2024
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2022, 2023
Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), 2022

Industrial Experience
Application Engineer intern at Onsemi: (September 2022-January 2023)
Electrical Engineer and Maintenance Manager at SOKHT AMA co: (2016-2018)

Industrial Projects

Aluminum Die-Cast machine:

Project manager and engineer for reconstruction and automation of Russian Die-Cast machine: 400, 250, and 160 tons.

Auxiliary equipment of Aluminum Die-Cast machine:

Project manager and engineer for reconstruction and automation of Die-Cast lube spraying system for Agrati 1200 tons, Idra 1100 and 320 tons, and Ardi 420 tons Die-Cast.

Project manager and engineer for reconstruction and automation of Die-Cast ladle systems for Buhler 400 tons , Idra 1100, 320 tons Die-Cast.

Project manager and engineer for designing of shot monitoring system for Ardi 420 tons Die-Cast. (SOKHT AMA.co 2017)

Industrial Test Machine:

Project manager and engineer for designing, constructing of leakage test machine for oil support and water pump of tu5, tu3, and xu7 engine of Peugeot cars manufactured by Iran Khodro.co . (SOKHT AMA.co 2016 and 2017)

Project manager and engineer for designing, constructing of performance test machine for oil pump of tu5 engine Peugeot cars manufactured by Iran Khodro.co. (SOKHT AMA.co 2017)