Expertise

Areas of Research

  • Additive Friction Stir
  • Automation and Mechatronic Systems
  • Biomechanics
  • Dynamic Systems and Control
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Machine Learning
  • Mechanical Systems
  • Mechatronics
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Power-Assist Exoskeletons and Orthoses
  • Robot Control
  • Robotics
  • Robotics and Human Systems
  • Switched and Hybrid Systems

Our major research areas concentrate on the following four categories

  1. Dynamic modeling and vibration control of distributed-parameters systems
  2. Piezoelectric-based actuators and sensors with applications to vibration and control
  3. Modeling, control and identification of microelectromechanical systems
  4. Dynamics, control and manipulation at the nanoscale
Past Affiliations

Department Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Alabama

Associate Chair, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Northeastern University (past)

Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Northeastern University (past)

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences, Clemson University (past)

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences, Clemson University (past)

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Northeastern University (past)

Communities
Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Degrees
PhD, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Mechanical Engineering , 1998
MSc, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, Mechanical Engineering, 1995
BSc, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, Mechanical Engineering, 1992