SIAVASH FARZAN

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I am a Lockheed Martin Endowed Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Previously, I was an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Robotics Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). I earned my PhD in Robotics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where I was a member of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM).
My research focuses on solving fundamental challenges for autonomous robots to operate in unstructured and dynamic real-world settings. I have several years of experience in industry as an embedded systems engineer that informs my research, teaching, and service. I regularly teach undergraduate and graduate level courses and laboratories in the areas of Robotics, Mechatronics, Controls, and Embedded Systems. My Erdös Number is 5.

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News

Jul '24

Paper accepted at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)!

Jun '24

Honored to be awarded the 'Lockheed Martin Endowed Professorship' for individual research contributions.

Jun '24

I'll be serving as the chair for the 'AI Reasoning Methods for Robotics' session at the 21st IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2024).

May '24

Our undergraduate research team qualified in the simulation stage (ranked in the top 10 out of 39 teams) for the 2024 ACC Self-Driving Car Student Competition and will compete in the hardware stage in Toronto in July.

May '24

Paper accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)!

May '24

Paper accepted at the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2024)!

May '24

Congrats to Akshay Jaitly on successfully defending his thesis!

Apr '24

Two papers accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2024)!

Jan '24

Paper accepted at the 2024 American Control Conference (ACC)!

Dec '23

Congrats to Vishrut Bohara on successfully defending his thesis!

Jun '23

I'll be joining the Electrical Engineering Department at Cal Poly as an Assistant Professor, starting in Fall 2023.

May '23

Received the Rho Beta Epsilon Award for Excellence in Robotics Education!

May '23

Congrats to Rohith Venkataramanan on successfully defending his thesis!

Apr '23

I have been awarded the Class of ’57 Teaching Development Travel Grant!

Mar '23

Paper accepted at the 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition!

Nov '22

I will be serving as the lead judge in WPI's 2023 Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE) for the Robotics Engineering, Cyberphysical Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering areas!

Sep '22

I will be serving as a judge for the MassTLC's Tech Top 50 in the categories of Technology of the Year: Advanced Manufacturing and Technology of the Year: Robotics!

Jul '22

Paper accepted to the Wiley Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing!

May '22

Paper accepted to the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control! Check out the paper and the video.

Mar '22

Paper accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (TCST)! Check out the paper and the video.

Jul '21

I will be joining the Robotics Engineering Department at WPI as an Assistant Teaching Professor, starting in Fall 2021.

Jun '21

I successfully defended my PhD dissertation!

Aug '20

Paper accepted at CDC '20! Check out the paper and the video.

Jul '20

In less than three months, more than 9000 students from 149 countries have enrolled in our online Mechatronics course on edX! Check out the news here: Learning Mechatronics by Doing Mechatronics

Jun '20

Paper accepted at IROS '20! Check out the paper and the video.

Apr '20

Our lab-based online Mechatronics course is launched on edX: The Mechatronics Revolution: Fundamentals and Core Concepts

Jan '19

Paper accepted at ACC '19! Check out the paper and the video.

Jun '18

Paper accepted at IROS '18! Check out the paper and the video.

Jan '18

Paper accepted at ICRA '18! Check out the paper and the video.

Apr '17

Our research is featured on IEEE Spectrum, ASME and BBC News!

Mar '14

Paper accepted at CEC '14! Check out the paper and the video.

Jun '13

Paper accepted at IROS '13! Check out the paper and the video.