Sina Heydari H +1-650-***-**-**

B adhefe@r.postjobfree.com

http://scf.usc.edu/ sinaheyd/

Personal Information

Citizenship United States

Address *** ******* **** ** ***********, 934 Downey Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90007 Webpage http://scf.usc.edu/ sinaheyd/

Education

2016 – present Ph.D. in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Advisor: Prof. Eva Kanso

2016 – 2018 M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering

Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. 2011 – 2016 B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Work Experience

2016 – present Research Assistant at Kanso Bio-Inspired Motion Lab Los Angeles California. Mathematical modeling of locomotion in biological systems. Summer 2015 Internship at Research Center for Science and Technology in Medicine Tehran Iran. Design, 3D fabrication and installation of parts of the casing for a surgical robotic system. Research Interests/ Experience

2019 – present Understanding locomotion via RL, advised by: Prof. Kanso, Dr. Merel. Learning swimming and turning gaits in fish

Learning decentralized locomotion gaits in multi-legged robots 2019 – present Flowtaxis and source seeking via RL, advised by: Prof. Kanso. Learning control strategies for flowtaxis in the wake of oscillating airfoils 2018 – present Decentralized sensory-motor control, advised by: Prof. Kanso. Decentralized control in sea star inspired sensory-motor systems 2016 – 2020 Hydrodynamic fish schooling, advised by: Prof. Kanso. Emergence of collective motion in passively interacting swimmers Publications

Jan 2020 Heydari, S., Johnson, A., Ellers, O., McHenry, MJ., Kanso, E. Sea star inspired crawling and bouncing (J. Royal Soc. Interface).

Featured on BBC News and World Update, USC News, Mashable under review Jiao, Y., Ling, F., Heydari, S., Heess, N., Merel, J., Kanso, E. Learning to swim in potential flow

(Phys. Rev. Fluids).

under review Heydari, S., Kanso, E. School cohesion, speed, and efficiency are modulated by the swimmers flapping motion (J. Fluid Mechanics).

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Presentations and Posters

Jan 2020 Heydari, S., Po, T., McHenry, MJ., Kanso, E. Sea star inspired crawling and bouncing Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Annual Meeting Abstract, Jan. 3-7, 2020 Austin, TX. Jan 2020 Po, T., Heydari, S., Kanso, E., McHenry, MJ. The neuromechanics of locomotion in sea stars

(Protoreaster nodosus) Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Annual Meeting Abstract, Jan. 3-7, 2020 Austin, TX.

Nov 2018 Heydari, S., McHenry, MJ., Kanso, E. Sea star inspired locmotion APS DFD 2018: 71st Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics. Nov 2017 Heydari, S., Shelley, M., Kanso, E. Improved swimming performance in hydrodynamically-coupled airfoils APS DFD 2017: 70th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics.

Related Coursework

- Machine Learning and Computational Physics - Analysis of Algorithms

- Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Chaos - Computational Fluid Dynamics

- Performance Analysis using Markov Models - Incompressible Fluid Dynamics Skills

Matlab, Python, C++, OpenFOAM, ANSYS Fluent, Solidworks, AutoCAD, Linux, LATE X

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