Hadi Tavakoli Nia

PhD Candidate at MIT

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Education: • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA   Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, 2010-present.   Supervisors: Alan Grodzinsky and Christine Ortiz • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA   M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, 2010, GPA: 4.9/5 • Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran   M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, 2006, GPA: 3.53/4 • Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan   Researcher (Part of M.Sc. program), 2005, GPA: 4/4 • Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran   B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, 2003, GPA: 3.61/4 Awards: • Whitaker Health Sciences Fellowship (2011-2013) • ONR Special Research Fellowship in Ocean Acoustics (2008-present) • JASSO Fellowship (Japan Student Service Organization) for research at Tokyo Institute of Technology (2004-2005) • Selected in 8th National Mechanical Engineering Olympiad (2003) • Silver Medal, National Computer Olympiad (1998) • Ranked 6th amongst nearly 20 000 participants in the Nation-Wide University Entrance Exam for M.S degree in Mechanical Engineering (2003) • Ranked 54th amongst nearly 250 000 participants in the Nation-Wide University Entrance Exam for B.S degree in Mechanical Engineering (1999) • Award from the president of Sharif University of Technology for one year research at Center of Excellence in Design Robotics and Automation (CEDRA) (2004)