About

I'm Arman, a mechatronics engineering master's student (mechanical engineering background) working across control systems, data-driven modeling, and reinforcement learning. The throughline across my projects — from data-driven dynamics of a tendon-driven continuum robot to using RL to detect and mitigate cyber-physical attacks on autonomous systems — is a single goal: building autonomous systems that are safe, reliable, and able to work alongside people. I also TA a machine learning course, designing hands-on exercises for students. I'm currently looking for PhD positions and job opportunities in secure, trustworthy autonomy.

Experience

Research Experience

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Advanced Robotic and Automated Systems (ARAS) Lab · K. N. Toosi University of Technology
    Fall 2023 – present
    • Data-driven modeling and control of continuum robots using screw theory
    • Kinematic control of mecanum mobile robots via time-varying MPC
    • Redundancy resolution for cable-driven parallel manipulators

    Publications

    • Kinematic control of a mecanum mobile robot using time-varying model predictive control, 12th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM), 2024
    • Kinematics Control of Continuum Robots Based on Screw Theory, International Journal of Robotics, Theory and Applications, 2025
    • A Novel Bio-Intelligent Real-Time Redundancy Resolution Method for Cable-Driven Parallel Manipulators, 12th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM), 2024
    • Continuum Robotics
    • Mobile Robots
    • MPC
    • Screw Theory
    • Cable-Driven Robots
  • Graduate Research Assistant
    Advanced Process Automation & Control (APAC) Lab · K. N. Toosi University of Technology
    Fall 2024 – present
    • Cyberattack detection using adversarial reinforcement learning in power systems
    • Secure and trustworthy autonomy for cyber-physical systems
    • Reinforcement Learning
    • Cybersecurity
    • Power Systems
    • Cyber-Physical Systems

†Teaching

Teaching Experience

  • Spring 2026

    Deep Generative Models

    Dr. Behrooz Nasihatkon

  • Spring 2026

    Machine Learning

    Dr. Mahdi Aliyari-Shoorehdeli

  • Spring 2026

    Introduction to AI

    Dr. Mahdi Aliyari-Shoorehdeli

  • Fall 2025

    System Identification

    Dr. Mahdi Aliyari-Shoorehdeli

  • Fall 2024

    Linear Control Systems

    Dr. Bijan Moaveni

  • Fall 2024

    Dynamics

    Prof. S. Ali A. Moosavian

  • Fall 2024

    Dynamics & Vibration Lab

    Prof. S. Ali A. Moosavian