Ali Pakniyat. Curriculum Vitae. Education. Academic Appointments. Research Interests. Publications. Theses. Patents

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1 Education Ali Pakniyat Curriculum Vitae Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering. MCGILL UNIVERSITY, Montreal, Canada. GPA: 4.0 / 4 Supervisor: Peter E. Caines Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering. SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Tehran, Iran. GPA 1 : / 20 Supervisors: Hassan Salarieh & Aria Alasty Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering. SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY, Shiraz, Iran. GPA 2 : / present Supervisor: Mohammad Eghtesad Academic Appointments Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, USA. Mentor: Ram Vasudevan Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, MCGILL UNIVERSITY, Montreal, Canada. CONTROL THEORY Research Interests Optimization and Optimal Control, Hybrid Systems, Calculus of Variations, Probability and Stochastic Processes, Multi-Agent Systems, Mean-Field Games. APPLICATION AREAS Autonomous Driving, Vehicle Electrification, Micro Electrical-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Mathematical Finance, Robotics, Large-Scale Networks. Publications Theses [PhD] A. Pakniyat,"Optimal Control of Deterministic and Stochastic Hybrid Systems: Theory and Applications", Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, [MSc] A. Pakniyat,"On the Nonlinear Dynamics and Bifurcations in a New Class of MEMS Gyroscopes with Parametric Resonance", Master s thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, [BSc] A. Pakniyat,"Solving Differential Equations using Wavelet Transform", Bachelor Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, Patents [P1] B. Boulet, M. S. R. Mousavi, H. V. Alizadeh, and A. Pakniyat "Seamless Transmission Systems and Methods for Electric Vehicles", US B2. 1 Ranked 2 nd among 57 students in the program of Applied Mechanics, and 3 rd among 130 students in the M.Sc. program of Mechanical Engineering. 2 Ranked 1 st among 80 students in the B.Sc. program. Last Update: February /7

2 Published Journal Papers [J5] A. Pakniyat, P. E. Caines, "On the Relation between the Minimum Principle and Dynamic Programming for Classical and Hybrid Systems", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 62, no. 9, pp , [J4] A. Pakniyat, P. E. Caines, "Hybrid Optimal Control of an Electric Vehicle with a Dual- Planetary Transmission", Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, vol. 25, pp , [J3] M. S. R. Mousavi, A. Pakniyat, T. Wang, and B. Boulet, "Seamless Dual Brake Transmission for Electric Vehicles: Design, Control and Experiment", Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 94, pp , [J2] A. Pakniyat, H. Salarieh, "A Parametric Study on Design of a Microrate-Gyroscope with Parametric Resonance", Measurement, vol. 46, no. 8, pp , [J1] A. Pakniyat, H. Salarieh, A. Alasty, "Stability Analysis of a New Class of MEMS Gyroscopes with Parametric Resonance", Acta Mechanica, vol. 223, no. 6, pp , Under Review Journal Papers [R2] A. Pakniyat, P. E. Caines, "Stochastic Hybrid Minimum Principle", Under review by SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON). [R1] A. Pakniyat, P. E. Caines, "On the Hybrid Minimum Principle", Under review by IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Submitted Conference Papers [C17] A. Pakniyat, R. Vasudevan, "Optimal Distribution Regulation for Linear Quadratic Gaussian Hybrid Systems", Submitted to the 6th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, Oxford, UK, [C16] D. Firoozi, A. Pakniyat, P. E. Caines, "A Hybrid Optimal Control Approach to Mean Field Games with Switching and Stopping Strategies", Submitted to the 6th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, Oxford, UK, Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed) [C15] A. Pakniyat, P. E. Caines, "A Class of Linear Quadratic Gaussian Hybrid Optimal Control Problems with Realization Independent Riccati Equations", Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 2017, pp [C14] D. Firoozi, A. Pakniyat, P.E. Caines,"A Mean Field Game Hybrid Systems Approach to Optimal Execution Problems in Finance with Stopping Times", Proceedings of the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Melbourne, Australia, 2017, pp [C13] A. Pakniyat, P. E. Caines, "On the Stochastic Minimum Principle for Hybrid Systems", Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2016, pp [C12] A. Pakniyat, P. E. Caines, "On the Minimum Principle and Dynamic Programming for Hybrid Systems with Low Dimensional Switching Manifolds", Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, 2015, pp [C11] A. Pakniyat, P. E. Caines, "Time Optimal Hybrid Minimum Principle and the Gear Changing Problem for Electric Vehicles", Proceedings of the 5th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2015, pp [C10] A. Pakniyat, P. E. Caines, "On the Relation between the Hybrid Minimum Principle and Hybrid Dynamic Programming: a Linear Quadratic Example", Proceedings of the 5th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2015, pp [C9] M. S. R. Mousavi, A. Pakniyat, M. K. Helwa, and B. Boulet, "Observer-Based Backstepping Controller Design for Gear Shift Control of a Seamless Clutchless Two-Speed Transmission for Electric Vehicles", Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2015, pp Last Update: February /7

3 [C8] A. Pakniyat, P. E. Caines, "On the Relation between the Minimum Principle and Dynamic Programming for Hybrid Systems", Proceedings of the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2014, pp [C7] A. Pakniyat, P. E. Caines, "The Gear Selection Problem for Electric Vehicles: an Optimal Control Formulation", Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, 2014, pp [C6] M. S. R. Mousavi, A. Pakniyat, and B. Boulet, "Dynamic Modelling and Controller Design for a Seamless Two-Speed Transmission for Electric Vehicles", Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Antibes, France, 2014, pp [C5] A. Pakniyat, P. E. Caines, "On the Minimum Principle and Dynamic Programming for Hybrid Systems", Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, 2014, pp [C4] A. Pakniyat, P. E. Caines, "The Hybrid Minimum Principle in the Presence of Switching Costs", Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2013, Florence, Italy, 2013, pp [C3] A. Pakniyat, H. Salarieh, G. Vossoughi, A. Alasty, "A Modification on Performance of MEMS Gyroscopes by Parametro-Harmonic Excitation", Proceedings of the 10th ASME Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis (Volume 5), Istanbul, Turkey, 2010, pp [C2] A. Pakniyat, H. Salarieh, A. Alasty, "Stability Analysis of a Novel MEMS Gyroscope Actuated by Parametric Resonance Using Floquet Theory", Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Nano-Structures, Kish Island, Iran, 2010, pp [C1] A. Pakniyat, M. Eghtesad, "Solving Differential Equations using Wavelet Transform" (in Persian), Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Tehran, Iran, Honours and Awards Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Funding 2015 GERAD 3 Doctoral Fellowship McGill Engineering Doctoral Award (MEDA) [McGill] Graduate Excellence Award in Engineering Geoff Hyland Fellowship in Engineering [McGill] Engineering Graduate Recruitment Award 2014 [McGill] Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel (GREAT) Award 2014 IEEE-CSS 4 Travel Award for the 53rd Conference on Decision and Control 2010 Sharif University of Technology Top Student Graduation Award Shiraz University Top Student Graduation Award Shiraz University Exceptional Talents Award 2008 Finalist 5 in the Iranian Mechanical Engineering Olympiad 2008 Ranked in the top 0.7% 6 in the nationwide university entrance exam for master s degree 2004 Ranked in the top 0.07% 7 in the nationwide entrance exam for bachelor s degree 2004 NODET 8 Exceptional Talents Award 2002 Semi-Finalist 9 in four National Olympiad Competitions: Physics, Mathematics, Computer, and Chemistry Olympiads 3 Groupe d Études et de Recherche en Analyse des Décisions (Group for Study and Research in Decision Analysis) 4 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - Control Systems Society 5 Ranked 15 th in the final stage (nationwide) and 1st in the regional stage 6 Ranked 62 nd among more than applicants in Mechanical Engineering 7 Ranked 206 th among more than applicants 8 National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents 9 Among the top 200 (nationwide) Last Update: February /7

4 2001 Semi-Finalist in the Iranian Physics Olympiad 1997 Semi-Finalist in the Iranian Elementary-School Mathematics Olympiad MCGILL UNIVERSITY MCGILL UNIVERSITY SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY SHIRAZ NODET 8 CENTER Teaching Experience Course Lecturer Probability and Statistics for Engineers, Fall 2016, Winter 2017 Control and Robotics Laboratory, Winter 2016, 2017 Teaching Assistant Nonlinear and Hybrid Control Systems, Winter 2013, 2017 Control Systems, Fall 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Stochastic Control and Decision Theory, Winter 2014 Mathematical Foundations of Systems, Fall 2013, 2015 Control and Robotics Laboratory, Winter 2014, 2015 Introduction to Numerical Methods in Electrical Engineering, Winter 2014, 2015 Robust Control, Fall 2010 Automatic Control, Spring 2010, Fall 2010 Mechanical Vibrations, Spring 2008 Dynamics of Machinery, Spring 2008 Machine Design II, Fall 2007 Machine Design I, Spring 2007 Dynamics, Fall 2006 Teacher Mechanics for Physics Olympiad, Summer 2005, 2006 Calculus for Physics Olympiad, Summer 2005, 2006 Technical Presentations Invited Talks University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, USA Stanford University Stanford, USA University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA University of California, Irvine Irvine, USA IEEE Montreal Concordia University, Montreal, Canada The 7th Biannual Meeting on System and Control Theory, Kingston, Canada The 6th Biannual Meeting on System and Control Theory, Waterloo, Canada Alma Mater Talks Michigan Robotics Colloquium, Ann Arbor, USA CIM GERAD Informal Systems Seminar (ISS), Montreal, Canada CIM REPARTI Research Showcase, Montreal, Canada CIM GERAD Informal Systems Seminar (ISS), Montreal, Canada CIM Research Showcase, Montreal, Canada CIM Informal Systems Seminar (ISS), Montreal, Canada CEDRA Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran CECMME Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran Last Update: February /7

5 Conference Presentations IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, USA IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, Atlanta, USA IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, USA IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy ASME Conference on Engineering Systems Design & Analysis, Istanbul, Turkey Conference on Nanostructures, Kish Island, Iran ISME Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Tehran, Iran Master s Thesis Bachelor Honours Thesis Journal Reviewer Conference Reviewer Student Supervision Tapan Mujumdar, "Hybrid Dynamic Modelling and Optimal Control of a Four- Legged Walking Robot", Master s Thesis, Co-Supervised with Ram Vasudevan, University of Michigan, 2017 present. Stefan Carciumaru, "Transmission in Electric Vehicles", Bachelor Honours Thesis, Co-Supervised with Peter E. Caines, McGill University, Review Services IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC) SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON) Automatica Nonlinear Dynamics (NODY) - Springer Sensors - MDPI IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) IFAC World Congress ACM Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC) IEEE European Control Conference (ECC) ISME International Conference Mechanical Engineering IEEE CSS SIAM M Robotics ROAHM CIM GERAD REPARTI CEDRA CECMME ISME Scientific Community Memberships Current: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - Control Systems Society Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Michigan Robotics Group Robotics and Optimization for the Analysis of Human Motion Lab Past: Centre for Intelligent Machines Groupe d Études et de Recherche en Analyse des Décisions (Group for Study and Research in Decision Analysis) Regroupement pour l étude des Environnements PARTagés Intelligents (Centre for the Study of Distributed Intelligent Shared Environments) Center of Excellence in Design, Robotics, and Automation Center of Excellence for Computational Methods in Mechanical Engineering Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineers Last Update: February /7

6 Professional Training Certifications Technical Research Training 2017 Mean Field Games Workshop, IPAM 10, University of California, Los Angeles 2016 Aerospace Summer School, Concordia University 2016 Meeting on System and Control Theory, Queen s University 2015 Workshop on Dynamic Games in Management Science, GERAD HEC Montréal 2015 Mathematical Cybernetics: Hybrid, Stochastic and Decentralized Systems, Carlton University 2014 Symposium on Advanced Electric Vehicle Drivetrains, McGill University IEEE 2014 Meeting on System and Control Theory, University of Waterloo Teaching Related Training 2018 Postdoctoral Course on College Teaching in STEM, University of Michigan 2017 Motivating Engineering Students: Strategies to Increase Engagement, Univ. of Michigan 2017 Perspectives on Teaching: A Faculty Panel, University of Michigan 2017 Workshop on Graduate Supervision, McGill University 2011 Graduate Teaching Workshop, McGill University General Training 2017 Academic Identity Management, University of Michigan 2017 Research Integrity Workshop, McGill University 2016 NASA Engineering and Science Activities, IEEE CPMT/EMC Workshop on How to Organize an IEEE Event, IEEE POCO Workshop on Basic Business Skills for Non-Business Graduate Students, McGill University 2010 Workshop on Invention: Technology Development and Commercialization, University of Southern California Sharif University of Technology Leadership and Volunteer Experiences 2018 present Chair, Chapter 12 (Control Systems) - IEEE SEM (Southeast Michigan) Section 2017 present Mentor, Association for Women in Science (AWIS) - University of Michigan Seminar Coordinator, Informal Systems Seminars (ISS) - McGill University Debate Mediator, CafeDebate - CaféLitt Montreal Event Organizer, McGill Iranian Students Association (MISA) 2016 Survey & Perform Team Member, Persian Poetry and Literature Seena Cultural Group Fundraiser, Omid Group - Hope for Children with Cancer Mentor, Buddy Program - McGill International Student Services Organizing Member, Orientation McGill Post-Graduate Students Society 2013 Organizing Member, Orientation McGill International Students Society 2009 Control Group Representative, Sharif Mechanics Industrial Festival Department Representative, University Open Day - Shiraz University 10 Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics 11 IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology / ElectroMagnetic Compatibility Societies 12 IEEE Panel of Conference Organizers Last Update: February /7

7 References Peter E. Caines Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University (+1) Ram Vasudevan Assistant Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (+1) James R. Forbes Assistant Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University (+1) Richard B. Vinter Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London (+44) (0) Mohammad Eghtesad School of Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University (+98) Aditya Mahajan Associate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University (+1) Benoit Boulet Associate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University (+1) Hassan Salarieh Associate School of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology (+98) Aria Alasty School of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology (+98) Roland P. Malhamé Department of Electrical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal (+1) ext Last Update: February /7

Timothy H. Chung EDUCATION RESEARCH

Timothy H. Chung EDUCATION RESEARCH Timothy H. Chung MC 104-44, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Email: timothyc@caltech.edu Phone: 626-221-0251 (cell) Web: http://robotics.caltech.edu/ timothyc EDUCATION Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering May 2007 Thesis: