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Mohammad Javad Khojasteh

I am a postdoctoral scholar with Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From 2020 to 2022, I was a postdoctoral associate with Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT. In 2020, I was a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech, and a visitor at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where I worked with Team CoSTAR. I did my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Intelligent Systems, Robotics, and Control) at UC San Diego. Before joining UCSD, I got two bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at Sharif University of Technology.

Research Interests:

I am passionate about solving real-world problems by applying machine learning, data-driven optimization and control, and statistical signal processing. My current research focuses on three main areas:

• Autonomous robot systems: I develop scientific principles for autonomous robot systems—where artificial intelligence and robotics come together—to increase their security, safety, and efficiency.

• Applied ocean science: I develop new methods for parameter estimation, machine learning, and marine robotics for autonomous data collection at sea for oceanographic research.

• Quantum engineering: I aim to advance the fundamental knowledge of transformative quantum technologies to realize supremacy in sensing, computation, and communication. I work on data-driven control of quantum systems.

Email: m1khojasteh@ucsd.edu, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, Twitter.

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Updates:

• September 2023: I am attending the Iver autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) operator training, L3Harris Technologies, San Diego.

• June 2023: I am attending the Mathematical Problems in Industry (MPI) Workshop, hosted by SIAM.

• May 2023: Invited Talk, Metron, Inc.

• September 2022: Media Coverage, Between Two Universes, written by Raleigh McElvery, MIT News and LIDS/All Magazine: Profiles my research at MIT.

• May 2021: Organizer and chair, Invited Session on Safe and Risk-aware Planning and Control for Learning-enabled Systems, ACC 2021.

• May 2021: Program Committee, Workshop on Safe Robot Control with Learned Motion and Environment Models, ICRA 2021.

• May 2021: Organizer and chair, 9TH IEEE Workshop on Advances in Network Localization and Navigation (ANLN), GLOBECOM 2021.

• April 2021: Talk, Seminar on Control and Information.

• December 2021: Invited Talk, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 347N Tech Talk, hosted by Dr. Amir Rahmani and Dr. Federico Rossi.

• September 2020: Invited Talk, Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS), MIT.

• July 2020: Invited Talk, Autonomous Systems Lab, Stanford University, hosted by Prof. Marco Pavone.

• April 2020: Invited Talk, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

• August 2019: I am attending the Robustness in Learning and Statistics summer school.

• April 2019: Invited Talk, Wireless Systems Lab, Stanford University, hosted by Prof. Andrea Goldsmith.

• February 2019: Talk, Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA 2019).

• August 2018: I received Travel Award for 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

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