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

MSc

John Cuellar
MSc student (2021-present)

PhD

Qixu Wang
PhD student (2022-present)
Patrick McNamee
PhD student (2021-present)
Balajikartikeyan Chandrasekaran
PhD Student, co-advised (2019-present)

Alumni

Brendan Healy

MSc student

Miles Kiefer

MSc student (2021)

Max Dommers

BSc student

Jared Meek

BSc student

Uyiosa Amadasun

MSc student

Tran Ly

BSc student

Jeremiah Pineda

BSc student

Derek Chang

BSc student

Archer Hovey

BSc student

Suveen Emmanuel

MSc student, Wichita State University

Karan Sridharan

MSc student, Wichita State University (2018-2020)

Kaitlyn Sabala

BSc student, Wichita State University

Maziar Abhari

PhD student, Wichita State University

Thomas Nguyen

BSc student, Wichita State University

Sarah Eck

MSc student, Wichita State University