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- 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