Curriculum vitae

Ph.D., Computing & Information Systems

University of Melbourne

Thesis: Exploring and Exploiting Human Behavioural Responses to Robot Failures in Human-Robot Interaction

Supervisors: Wafa Johal and Vassilis Kostakos

MSc, Mechanical Engineering

Sharif University of Technology

Thesis: Empirical motion-time pattern for human gaze behaviour in social situations using DNNs

Supervisors: Alireza Taheri and Ali Meghdari

GPA: 18.10/20 (3.87/4.00)

BSc, Mechanical Engineering

University of Tehran

Thesis: Controller design for a refrigerator using Peltier modules

Supervisor: Ehsan Hosseinian

GPA: 17.45/20 (3.80/4.00)

Researcher

Interactive Technologies Lab (IXT), University of Melbourne

• Built ROS-based collaborative tasks on Tiago with diverse failure conditions and conducted controlled user studies with more than 50 participants.
• Developed pipelines integrating eye tracking, ROS synchronisation, and real-time gaze feature extraction for human-centred failure detection.
• Designed a simulation-based failure detection framework in NVIDIA Isaac using behaviour trees and vision–language model reasoning for autonomous detection and recovery.
• Developed emotional expressions on Furhat using facial action units, with VLM- and user-based evaluation.
• Contributed to live robotics demonstrations for academic and public audiences.

Research Assistant

CEDRA, Sharif University of Technology

• Programmed and ran HRI experiments with Nao and Opo robots to study gaze behaviour in children and young adults.
• Built deep learning models for lip reading and facial emotion recognition from video data.

University of Melbourne

• Usability Evaluation Methods (INFO20004) — Marker, Semester 2, 2026.
• Elements of Data Processing — Tutor, Semester 2, 2025 and Semester 1, 2026.
• Machine Learning — Tutor, Semester 1, 2026.
• Master's project supervision — March–July 2024. Supervised development of a web application for annotating ROSBag data.

Monash University

• Intelligent Robotics (ECE4078) — Lab tutor, Semester 2, 2026.

Sharif University of Technology

• Social Cognitive Robotics — Tutor, January–June 2023.
• Advanced Math 1 — Tutor, September–December 2022.