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”.
Alali presented his paper at the conference and it was one of three selected for this award. Under the supervision of ECE Assistant Professor Mahdi Imani, Alali’s research focuses on machine learning, reinforcement learning, and Bayesian Statistics. This is the second prestigious award received by Alali. He was a 2023 best paper finalist at the 2023 IEEE American Control Conference.