- 2024 Northeastern College of Engineering Impact Award
- Two cover articles for Science (Robotics) Magazine
- One Science Article in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Science Magazine Altmetric
- Winner of NASA top honor, ARTEMIS Award, with Northeastern Team in 2022 BIG IDEA Competitions
- Winner of 2022 NASA’s Game Changing Program Award
- Winner of 2020 NASA’s Game Changing Program Award
Research Experience
Currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University.
Education
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: J. Grizzle), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2014
- MS, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: R. D’Andrea), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), 2010
- BSc, Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2007
Background
Research Interests: Design and development of robots with nontrivial morphologies; Analysis and closed-loop feedback design of nonlinear systems; Robot locomotion (legged & fluidic-based); Robotics-inspired biology.