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ECE PhD Receives ACC 2025 Best Paper Finalist Award
Seyed Hamid Hosseini, PhD’26, electrical engineering, working under the supervision of Assistant Professor Mahdi Imani, received a Best Paper Finalist Award at the 2025 American Control Conference (ACC 2025) for his paper titled “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Intervention of Partially Observable Regulatory Networks.”
$1.2M DARPA Grant To Enhance Security of Mixed Reality Systems
ECE Assistant Professor Mahdi Imani was awarded a $1.2 million DARPA grant for “VeriPro: Verified Probabilistic Cognitive Reasoning for Tactical Mixed Reality Systems.” This multidisciplinary effort includes partners from Penn State University (lead), Design Interactive Inc., Kennesaw State University, George Washington University, and the University of Southern California.
ECE PhD Receives Best Student Paper Finalist Award at IFAC SYSID 2024
Mohammad Alali, PhD’25, electrical engineering, received the Best Student Paper Finalist Award from the 20th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2024), which was held at Northeastern, for his paper “Kernel-Based Particle Filtering for Scalable Inference in Partially Observed Boolean Dynamical Systems”.
$1.5M ONR Award for Cultivating Human-AI Synergy
ECE Assistant Professor Mahdi Imani, in collaboration with George Washington University, has been awarded a $1.5 million Office of Naval Research (ONR) award. This project aims to enhance collaboration, communication, and learning among teams of human and AI agents.
New Methods To Improve Statistical Inference of Complex Systems
ECE Assistant Professor Mahdi Imani was awarded a $385,000 NSF grant for “Statistical Inference Through Data-Collection and Expert-Knowledge Incorporation.” The project aims to develop algorithms that advance data collection and incorporate user and expert knowledge into the modeling process.
Best Student Paper Award at ACC 2023
Mohammad Alali, PhD’26, electrical engineering, received the Best Student Paper Award Finalist from the 2023 American Control Conference (ACC 2023) for his paper “Reinforcement Learning Data-Acquiring for Causal Inference of Regulatory Networks,” which was one of the five papers selected for this award.
Imani Awarded $590K NIH Trailblazer Grant for Mathematical Modeling of Microbial Communities
ECE Assistant Professor Mahdi Imani was awarded a $590K NIH Trailblazer R21 grant for New and Early Stage Investigators from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) for “Bayesian Dynamical Modeling of Microbial Communities”.
New Faculty Spotlight: Mahdi Imani
Mahdi Imani joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2021 as an Assistant Professor.