ALIREZA NEMATI

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Cincinnati, OH 45220

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Innovative Electrical Control Engineer with 5 years of varied professional experience in multidisciplinary en- gineering teams. Expert in autonomous vehicles and control system electrical design with focus on designing state of the art control schemes. Specialize in project design, independent self-starter and team leadership. CORE SKILLS

Linux

ROS

MavROS

Serial Communication

Autonomous Vehicle

SLAM

Hokuyo Laser

Sensor Fusion

Open CV

Motion Capture

Micro-controllers

Kalman Filter

C++

FPGA

PID Calibration

PCB

LabView

Solidworks

AutoCAD

PLC

HVAC

Leadership

Problem-Solving

Control Theory

System Integration

WORK EXPERIENCE

Graduate Researcher Jun. 2015 { Present

UAV MASTER Lab, University of Cincinnati

{ Built a fully autonomous vehicle for the Autonomous Aerial Vehicle Competition held by Air Force Research Center.

{ Practical experience in control algorithm implementation.

{ Experienced the translating of variety control techniques into code.

{ Designed unique fault tolerant control technique in the case of motor failure for quadrotor vehicle.

{ Programmed Arduino board for the fault tolerant quadcopter.

{ Flight test team senior member for project SIERRA.

{ Flight test demonstration inWest Virginia to gather real time data of the wild re with the collaboration of WV forestry department.

Skill used: Leadership, Open CV, ROS, MavROS, Serial Communication, SLAM, Tracking, Hokuyo Laser, Sensor Fusion, Optitrack Motion Capture, Kalman Filter, C++, FPGA, PID Calibration, I2C, UART, Zigbee, IR Sensors.

Graduate Researcher Jan. 2013 { May 2015

Co-operative Distributed Systems Lab, University of Toledo

{ Supervised two separate senior design students to build an autonomous UAV for indoor navigation, Summer 2014 and Spring 2015.

{ Supervised senior design students to build a UAV equipped with robotic arm, Fall 2014.

{ Derived the nonlinear model of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).

{ Designed and built a single axis and double axis tilting quadcopter.

{ Designed an adaptive controller based on self-tuning regulators for Quadcopter.

{ Designed stochastic Luenberger reduced-order observer for miniature coaxial UAV.

{ Studied the optimization of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Control (HVAC) principles to minimize energy usage in sustainable buildings.

Skill used: Leadership, Microcontroller, Arduino, Open CV, ROS, MavROS, Serial Communication, C++, PID Calibration, Optitrack Motion Capture.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Project Engineer (full time) Jan. 2011 - Jul. 2012 Zaytoon Co., Shiraz, Iran

{ Supervised a multidisciplinary maintenance technician team for plant operation of a 1M qrft plaza.

{ Performed preventative maintenance on all HVAC and mechanical room equipment.

{ Designed and implemented mechanical room monitoring system.

{ Proposed and applied engineering solutions for equipment availability, reliability and safety.

{ Managed eld examinations of existing HVAC systems including chillers, cooling towers, air compres- sors and electrical components.

{ Designed variable speed motor controller based on sprinkler water line pressure. Electrical Field Engineer (full time) Aug. 2007 - Jan. 2011 ShibKooh Zaytoon Company, Shiraz, Iran

{ Assisted the Site Director in various duties such as reviewing the electrical information and recom- mended changes to the clients

{ Prepared project baselines and ensured that projects were carried out successfully

{ Scheduled electrical work in coordination with the electrical engineers, contractors and clients

{ Handled the work of the project and participated in weekly meetings with various departments and clients; Prepared the electrical budget for projects

{ Checked installed electrical systems on a regular basis and ensured smooth functioning

{ Organized inspection of plant materials, ensured that they met the required standards and all safety regulations were followed in facility equipment

Skill used: AutoCAD, HVAC Duct Design, Honeywell BMS Software, Mechanical Drawing Software, Lu- minaire Design.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering Aug. 2012 - Jul. 2016 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Control Systems Aug. 2005 - May 2007 Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran

B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Control and Instrumentation Aug. 2001 - May 2005 Shahid Rajaee University, Tehran, Iran

PUBLICATIONS

US Patent

{ Alireza Nemati, Manish Kumar and Mehdi Hashemi. World Frame Based Radio Controller For Multi-rotor UAVs. Provisional Patent by University of Toledo, February 2015.

{ Alireza Nemati, Manish Kumar and Rumit Kumar. Fault Tolerance Quadcopter . Provisional Patent Has Been Filed by University of Cincinnati, February 2016. Journal Publications

{ Alireza Nemati and Manish Kumar. Control of Microcoaxial Helicopter Based on a Reduced-Order Observer, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 04015074, 2015.

{ Alireza Nemati, M. Haddad Zarif and M. M. Fateh. Helicopter Adaptive Control with Parame- ter Estimation Based on Feedback Linearization, International Journal of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, volume 10 number 1, pp. 56-61, 2007.

{ Mohammadreza Radmanesh, Manish Kumar, Alireza Nemati and Mohammad Sarim. Dynamic Optimal UAV Trajectory Planning in the National Airspace System via Mixed Integer Linear Pro- gramming, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace En- gineering, 0954410015609361, 2015.

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{ Alireza Nemati and Manish Kumar. Dynamic Modeling and Control of a Quadcopter with Tilting Rotors, submitted to IEEE Transactions Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2015. Book Chapters

{ Seyyed Soheil Sadat Hosseini and Alireza Nemati. Application of Genetic Programming for Electrical Engineering Predictive Modeling: A Review, Handbook of Genetic Programming Applications, Springer International Publishing, pp. 141{154, 2015.

{ Seyyed Soheil Sadat Hosseini, Alireza Nemati, et al. Solutions of non-smooth economic dispatch problems by swarm intelligence. Adaptation and Hybridization in Computational Intelligence. Springer International Publishing, pp. 129{146, 2015.

{ Seyyed Soheil Sadat Hosseini, Alireza Nemati, et al. Reactive Power and Voltage Control Based on Mesh Adaptive Direct Search Algorithm, Engineering and Applied Sciences Optimization. Springer International Publishing, pp. 217{231, 2015.

{ Manish Kumar, Mohammad Sarim and Alireza Nemati. Autonomous Navigation and Target Geolo- cation in GPS Denied Environment, Multi-Rotor Platform Based UAV Systems. Wiley Publishing,

{ Manish Kumar, Alireza Nemati, Anoop Sathyan and Kelly Cohen. Real-time Video and FLIR Image Processing for Enhanced Situational Awareness, Multi-Rotor Platform Based UAV Systems. Wiley Publishing,

Conference Papers

{ Mohammadreza Radmanesh, Alireza Nemati, Mohammad Sarim and Manish Kumar. Flight For- mation of Quad -copters in Presence of Dynamic Obstacles using Mixed Integer Linear Programming, Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. ASME, 2015.

{ Alireza Nemati, et al. Autonomous Navigation of UAV through GPS-Denied Indoor Environment with Obstacles, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AIAA SciTech, DOI: 10.2514/6.2015-0715, 2015.

{ Mohammad Sarim, Alireza Nemati and Manish Kumar. Autonomous Wall-Following Based Navi- gation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Indoor Environments. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AIAA SciTech, DOI: 10.2514/

6.2015-0715, 2015.

{ Mohammad Sarim, Alireza Nemati, Manish Kumar and Kelly Cohen. Extended Kalman Filter based Quadrotor State Estimation based on Asynchronous Multisensor Data, Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. ASME, 2015.

{ Alireza Nemati, et. al. Design, Fabrication and Control of a Tilt Rotor Quadcopter: Theory and Experiments, submitted to American Control

Conference (ACC), IEEE, 2016.

{ Mohammadreza Radmanesh, Manish Kumar, Alireza Nemati and Mohammad Sarim. Solution of Traveling Salesman Problem with Hotel Selection in the Framework of MILP-Tropical Optimization, submitted to American Control Conference (ACC), IEEE, 2016.

{ Alireza Nemati and Manish Kumar. Modeling and Control of a Single Axis Tilting Quadcopter, American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 3077{3082. IEEE, 2014.

{ Alireza Nemati and Manish Kumar. Non-Linear Control of Tilting Quadcopter Using Feedback Lin- earization Based Motion Control. Dynamic System and Control Conference (DSCC), pp. V003T48A005- V003T48A005, ASME, 2014.

{ Abolhassan Razminia, Alireza Nemati, et. al. Adaptive Synchronizations in Chaotic Secure Com- munication Systems Using Chua Circuits, New Trends in Nanotechnology and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Cankaya University, Turkey, 2010.

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HONORS & AWARDS

{ 1st Place in Autonomous Aerial Vehicle Competition (AAVC) 2015, Apr. 2015 Team leader

{ 1st Place in Autonomous Aerial Vehicle Competition (AAVC) 2014 Aug. 2014 Team leader

{ Ranked top 5% among all graduate students, Department of Electrical Engineering and Robotics, Shahrood University of Technology. July 2007

{ Fellowship from Shahrood University of Technology as an\Exceptionally Talented" student, Shahrood University of Technology. September 2006

COMPUTER SKILLS

{ Programming: MATLAB, C/C++, HTML,

{ Software/Library: SolidWorks, MATLAB Simulink,d-SPACE, AutoCAD, PLC, PSpice, OpenCV, ROS.

REFERENCES

Manish Kumar, Ph.D.

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Cincinnati

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Ali Minai, Ph.D.

Department of Electrical Engineering

University of Cincinnati

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Kelly Cohen, Ph.D.

Department of Aerospace Engineering

University of Cincinnati

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Younes Kheradmand, P.E.

Shibkooh Zaytoon CEO

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