Kasra Khosoussi
Scholar

Kasra Khosoussi

Google Scholar ID: SRCCuo0AAAAJ
The University of Queensland
RoboticsSLAMOptimizationMachine Learning
Citations & Impact
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Citations
906
 
H-index
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i10-index
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Publications
20
 
Co-authors
43
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Selected Publications: 'Distributed Certifiably Correct Pose-Graph Optimization' (IEEE T-RO 2021 - conditionally accepted), 'Reliable Graphs for SLAM' (IJRR 2019 - Invited Paper), 'A Resource-Aware Approach to Collaborative Loop Closure Detection with Provable Performance Guarantees' (IJRR 2020 - Invited Paper), 'CLEAR: A Consistent Lifting, Embedding, and Alignment Rectification Algorithm for Multi-View Data Association' (IEEE T-RO 2020), 'A Sparse Separable SLAM Back-End' (IEEE T-RO 2016). Awards: Finalist for the ICRA 2018 Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper Award.
Research Experience
  • Currently a Research Scientist in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (MIT AeroAstro), also a member of the MIT Aerospace Controls Lab. Prior to this, was a postdoc at MIT LIDS / AeroAstro / Aerospace Controls Lab collaborating with Prof. Jonathan P. How. Serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), and was also an Associate Editor for ICRA 2020 and IROS 2020.
Education
  • Ph.D. (Robotics), 2017 from the Centre for Autonomous Systems (CAS) at the University of Technology Sydney, advised by Prof. Shoudong Huang and Prof. Gamini Dissanayake; Visiting student 2015-2016 at the University of Southern California, working with Prof. Gaurav S. Sukhatme; B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, advised by Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad (ARAS).
Background
  • Research Interests: Perception algorithms, safe and reliable autonomy. Areas of expertise: Optimization, Riemannian Geometry, Spectral Graph Theory, Estimation Theory, Approximation Algorithms, and Distributed Computing.
Miscellany
  • Personal interests or hobbies not mentioned.