Siavash Farzan, PhD

SIAVASH FARZAN

Research Team

Principal Investigator

Siavash Farzan (sfarzan@)
Assistant Professor, Cal Poly

I lead a group of graduate and undergraduate students to develop safety-critical and robust planning and control algorithms for autonomous cyber-physical systems such as autonomous vahicles, aerial drones, and robot manipulators.

I'm consistently seeking ambitious graduate and undergraduate students interested in cyber-physical systems and robotics. If you're motivated by addressing fundamental challenges for autonomous systems and are considering theoretical/experimental research collaborations with me at Cal Poly or WPI, feel free to contact me at sfarzan@calpoly.edu.

Current Students

	Vishrut Bohara (vbohara@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - Present Research interests: safety-critical control, autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles
	Varun Gampa (vgampa@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - Present Research interests: learning-based control, model predective control
	Chinmayee Prabhakar (cprabhakar@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - Present Research interests: learning-based coordinated control, unmanned aerial vehicles
	Sumeet Shanbhag (sshanbhag1@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - Present Research interests: motion planning, autonomous vehicles, sim2real transfer
	Chaitanya Gaddipati (cgaddipati@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - Present Research interests: control of PDE systems, robust/adaptive control
	Harshal Bhat (hbhat@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - Present Research interests: safety-critical adaptive control, autonomous vehicles
	Shivam Sharma (ssharma4@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - Present Research interests: simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), agricultural robotics
Past Students
	Shiva Tekumatla (stekumatla@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2021-22 (now at Honeywell) Research interests: underactuated robotics, controls, learning-based control
	Ghokulji Selvaraj (gselvaraj@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2021-22 Research interests: robotic vision, deep learning, agricultural robotics
	Wael Mohammed (wmohammed@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2022 (now at Berkshire Grey) Research interests: vision-based robotic manipulation
	Yichen Guo (yguo2@) Undergraduate Student, WPI, 2022 (now at Cornell) Research interests: robust control, ROS-based mobile robots
	Tian Yu (Annie) Fan (tfan@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2022 (now at MathWorks) Research interests: robot manipulation and control
	Khizar Amjed Mohamed (kamjedmohamed@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2022 (now at Boardwalk Robotics) Research interests: learning-based control, underactuated robots
	Jidnyesha Patil (jpatil@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2022 (now at Smartapp) Research interests: motion planning and control, autonomous vehicles
	Aditya Patil (apatil@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2022 (now at ArcBest) Research interests: robust adaptive control, quadrotor aerial vehicles
	Rohith Venkataramanan (rvenkataramanan@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2022-23 Thesis title: Perception-Driven Robotic Manipulation and Motion Planning for Packaging of Dynamic Compressible Objects
	Harin Vashi (hvashi@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2022-23 (now at Outrider) Research interests: motion planning, multi-agent systems

Senior Capstone Design Teams

	Drone Swarms for Search and Rescue Missions Anderson MacMillan, Wyatt Colburn, Rushabh Shah, Chris Short Undergraduate Students, Cal Poly, Fall 2023 - Spring 2024 Areas: localization, control, embedded systems
	Autonomous Apple Harvesting Robot Jack Cline, Tyus Green, Devon Woolston Undergraduate Students, Cal Poly, Fall 2023 - Spring 2024 Areas: manipulation, grasping, navigation
	Cal Poly Gen 2 Battle Bot Kelvin Villago Undergraduate Student, Cal Poly, Fall 2023 - Spring 2024 Areas: embedded systems, PCB design
	Stair-Capable Robot Vacuum Benjamin Draper and Sawyer Wofford (co-advised with Jing Xiao) Undergraduate Students, WPI, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022 Areas: novel robotic mechanism design, feedback control, embedded systems "Winner of the 2022 Provost's MQP Award for Robotics Engineering"
	A Hopping Two-Wheeled Segway Robot Christian Defranco, Brian Desousa, and Samuel Mwangi Undergraduate Students, WPI, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022 Areas: novel robotic mechanism design, feedback control, ROS-enabled embedded systems
	Small-Size Soccer Robots Spencer Belleville, Conner Christinsen, Ashley Espeland, David Lapointe, Noah Page, Logan Rinaldi, Nathan Rogers, Benjamin Schwantes, Evan Vadeboncoeur, Yifei Zhao Undergraduate Students, WPI, Fall 2022 - Spring 2023 Areas: multi-agent systems, motion planning, embeeded systems, mechatronics
	Robotic CNC Tending Work Cell with Remote Access Brian Francis, Mayank Govilla, Nikolas Neathery Undergraduate Students, WPI, Fall 2022 - Spring 2023 Areas: robotic manipulation, system integration, motion planning