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- Keywan Mohammadi (M.Sc. from Tarbiat Modares University)
Project Title: TBD
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- Alexander Oman (B.Sc. from Concordia University)
Project Title: TBD
2- Bao Ma (B.Sc. from Nanyang Institute of Technology)-Co-supervisor (Prof. Subhash Rakheja)
Project Title: TBD
3- 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
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- Erfan Doroudian (B.Sc. from KNTU University)-December 2024
Project Title: Integrating Vision-Language Models with Reinforcement Learning for Human-Aligned Decision-Making of Autonomous Vehicles
2- 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