Team

Dr. Hamid Taghavifar (Ph.D., FHEA, Senior Member IEEE)

Dr. Taghavifar is the LACITS lab director and an Assistant Professor with the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering (MIAE) at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Email: hamid[dot]taghavifar[at]concordia[dot]ca

Graduate Students:

Ph.D. 

1-  Amir Afsharinejad (M.Sc. from Shiraz University)-Co-supervisor (Prof. Anh-Tu Nguyen)

Tentative Project Title: Robust LPV Path-Tracking Control for Autonomous Ground Vehicles

2- Neda Shamaeian (M.Sc. from KNTU University)-Co-supervisor (Prof. Youmin Zhang)

Project Title: TBD

3- Zhizhong Guo (M.Sc. from Shanghai University of Engineering Science)-Co-supervisor (Prof. Wen-Fang Xie)

Project Title: Integrative Human-Centric Predictive Control and Motion Planning of autonomous vehicles

4- Jules  Karangwa (M.Sc. from Fujian University of Technology)-Co-supervisor (Prof. Subhash Rakheja)

Project Title: TBD

M.Sc.

1- Erfan Doroudian (B.Sc. from KNTU University)

Project Title: TBD

2- Bao Ma (B.Sc. from Nanyang Institute of Technology)-Co-supervisor (Prof. Subhash Rakheja)

Project Title: TBD

Alumni:

 Ph.D. 

1- Felix Josef Batsch (Graduated from Coventry University)-May 2022

Project Title: Active Learning with Gaussian Processes for the Investigation of Critical Scenarios in Autonomous Driving  


MASc

1- Victor Rasidescu (B.Sc. from Concordia University)-July 2024

Project Title: Socially Aware Path Planning For Autonomous Road Vehicles 

Project Files: https://github.com/LACITS-CONCORDIA/Victor-Rasidescu-MASC-Thesis

Visiting Students:

Ph.D. 

1- Angelo Ugenti (Polytechnic University of Bari) May-August 2023