People

Zahra Nili

Zahra Nili

Director
Dr. Zahra Nili is an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering Department and director of Dynamic Systems and Intelligent Machines Lab at San Diego State University (SDSU). Dr. Nili holds a B.S. from University of Tehran, an M.S. from Tarbiat Modares University, and a Ph.D. from University of Quebec (École de Technologie Supérieure). Dr. Nili’s current research interests include acoustic perception, deep learning & sequence modeling, cooperative robotics, swarm optimization, motion planning, robot learning, autonomy, and nonlinear dynamical systems.

BSc

Max Dommers
BSc student (2021-present)
Jared Meek
BSc student (2021-present)
Tran Ly
BSc student (2020-present)
Jeremiah Pineda
BSc student (2020-present)
Derek Chang
BSc student (2020-present)
Archer Hovey
BSc student (2020-present)
Kaitlyn Sabala
BSc student, Wichita State University (2020-present)
Thomas Nguyen
BSc student, Wichita State University (2020-present)

MSc

Brendan Healy
MSc student (2021-present)
John Cuellar
MSc student (2021-present)
Uyiosa Amadasun
MSc student (2021-present)
Jeff Thomspson
MSc student (2020-2021)
Sarah Eck
MSc student, Wichita State University (2019-present)

PhD

Patrick McNamee
PhD student (2021-present)
Balajikartikeyan Chandrasekaran
PhD Student, co-advised (2019-present)
Maziar Abhari
PhD student, Wichita State University (2019-present)

Alumni

Miles Kiefer

MSc student (2021)

Suveen Emmanuel

MSc student, Wichita State University

Karan Sridharan

MSc student, Wichita State University (2018-2020)