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.