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San Mateo, CA, US

San Mateo, CA, US

San Mateo, CA, US

San Mateo, CA

Palo Alto, California, United States

• Continuing in Area Manager and Research Director roles (detailed below) for SRI’s newly acquired division (PARC), while co-leading the transition from Xerox to SRI as a member of PARC’s Executive Management Team.
• Leading a major pivot in the business model from “PARC 4.0” focused on self-sustaining open innovation and deep-tech spinouts to predominantly U.S. Government contracts and commercial product sales/licensing.
• Won a $7.2M contract from DARPA (METALS program, starting Feb 2023), $2.3M in other DoD sub-contracts, and a $500K commercial contract on computational design for manufacturing of fusion reactors (most under.

Palo Alto, California, United States

• Managed a cross-disciplinary innovation portfolio in DDM, 20-40% focused on R&D support to Xerox’s 3D printing business unit for its 0-to-1 products (hardware+software) and 60-80% to seed new business opportunities for.
• Drove strategy, assessed commercial potential, and allocated internal funds (annual budget of $8-11M) to projects, ranging from early-stage exploratory research to new venture incubation and partnership with Xerox 3DP.
• Developed new business (Government and commercial projects with external paying customers) totaling $10M+.
• Led a major pivot in the business model from “PARC 3.0” focused on R&D support for Xerox innovation business units (e.g., Xerox 3DP, recently acquired by ADDiTEC) to “PARC 4.0” focused on self-sustaining open innovation.

Palo Alto, California, United States

• Founded the CD Area at PARC and grew it by 50%+ within one year of its creation by hiring top talent.
• Managed and mentored 20+ Research Scientists and Software Engineers (8-15 at any time, at different levels).
• As PI/co-PI, continued leading/co-leading successful execution of Government projects: - DARPA CompMods (two projects, $2M): Symbolic computing and AI to democratize computing for scientists, reducing level of effort.
• As PI/PM’s mentor, ensured successful execution and shipping of Government and corporate R&D projects: - ARPA-E DIFFERENTIATE ($0.6M): AI-assisted topology optimization of turbine blades for metal 3D printing. - Xerox.
• Trained and supported 10+ PIs in developing research proposals ($80M+) for Government and commercial business.

Palo Alto, California, United States

• As PI/co-PI, developed concepts, established frameworks, and led/co-led successful execution of Government projects: - DARPA CompMods, project MP-Pro ($1M): A multi-physics compiler to map symbolic differential.
• Developed two winning proposals (2×$1M Disruptioneering projects) and helped the DARPA PM in conceptualizing the DARPA Computable Models (CompMods) program ($9M).
• Developed commercial business ($0.5M) with Sandvik Coromant for automated CNC turn-mill process planning.
• Made significant individual contributions to Government and commercial research projects, including manufacturing process planning, physics-compatible/mimetic ML, and part-scale 3DP simulation.
• Mentored Scientists, Postdocs, and Interns (grad students). Officially co-advised a Ph.D. student until his defense.

Palo Alto, California, United States

• As sole PI, developed concepts, established frameworks, and led successful execution of DARPA AIRA, project Cyber-Physicist ($1M) on AI-assisted scientific discovery, applied to non-destructive characterization of.
• Developed two winning DARPA proposals: $1M AI Exploration (AIE) in DARPA AI Research Associate (AIRA) and a $750K Disruptioneering project in DARPA Fundamental (FUN) Design programs.
• Developed 0-to-1 software for hybrid additive+subtractive manufacturing process planning in C++ and CUDA-C.
• Made significant individual contributions to Government and commercial research projects, including manufacturing process planning, support removal for additive manufacturing (AM), classification of topological defects.

Berkeley, California, United States

• Developed a formal framework for “property-based” interoperability of CAx systems (DARPA- and NSF-funded).
• Applied the formal framework to study CAD-CAD data exchange and CAD-CAE/CAM/CAPP integration scenarios.

Storrs, Connecticut, United States

Served in different roles including Activities Coordinate (EC member), Senator-at-Large (elected across graduate school) and student representative at the Faculty Standards Committee, Senator of School of Engineering (appointed by Dean's office), and member of unionization organizing committee.

Storrs, Connecticut, United States

• Developed an analytical framework for implicit geometric modeling to compute on shapes (3D) and motions (6D) represented via fields/queries and compute topological and morphological operations via Dirac delta calculus.
• Developed a general theory of shape complementarity and applied it to define geometric energies and gradients for haptic force feedback to snap objects into best-fit assembly configurations.
• Developed a robust virtual reality (VR) platform for real-time mechanical assembly and protein docking assistance, with interoperating asynchronous graphics (60 Hz), haptics (1 kHz), and geometric computation (10-30.
• Implemented 80K+ lines of code, including multi-threaded C/C++ backend, CUDA-C kernels, OpenGL rendering, and device APIs to concurrently use haptic devices from different vendors (3DS Touch and Haption Virtouse6D).

Storrs, Connecticut, United States

• Graded course assignments in undergraduate classes: Computer-Aided Design, Modeling, and Graphics (1 semester), Senior Design Project I (1 semester), and Senior Design Project II (1 semester).

Watertown, Connecticut, United States

• Developed 0-to-1 software prototype, based on proof-of-concept developed in the previous internship (detailed below), improved for commercial-strength robustness and delivered to the company’s productization team..

Watertown, Connecticut, United States

• Developed a GPU-accelerated machine learning framework, applied for the first time to hydraulic simulation of real-world large water distribution networks and a genetic algorithm for pump/valve control to optimize.

Tehran, Tehran, Iran

• Adjunct instructor in undergraduate classes: Dynamics of Machinery (4 semesters), Mechanism Design (1 semester), Design of Machine Elements II (1 semester), and Physics I: Mechanics and Thermodynamics (1 semester).
• Invited lecturer in graduate class of Advanced Fluid Mechanics (1 semester) on Theodorsen’s theory of wing sections.

Tehran, Iran

Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, 4.08/4.00 (A+)

Activities and Societies: Student Association of Graduate Engineers (SAGE), Graduate Student Senate (GSS), Graduate Employee Union (GEU)..

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science And Engineering, 4.06/4.00 (A+)

Activities and Societies: Student Association of Graduate Engineers (SAGE), Graduate Student Senate (GSS), Graduate Employee Union (GEU)..

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, 17.60/20 (A)

Activities and Societies: Student Representative of the Class of 2008.-Thesis: Extended Theory of Wing Sections of Arbitrary Shape.