Curriculum Vitae
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Informatics
Aug 2022 – May 2026Pennsylvania State University — University Park, PA
Research on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, Cybersecurity for Cyber-Physical Systems, and Game-Theoretic Security. Advised by Dr. Aron Laszka.
Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science
Aug 2018 – May 2022University of Houston — Houston, TX
Thesis: Adversarial Deep Reinforcement Learning for Moving Target Defense.
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Engineering
Sep 2013 – May 2018Shahid Beheshti University — Tehran, Iran
Software Engineering track. Senior project on IoT smart home energy monitoring.
Industry Experience
Software Engineer
Dec 2025 – PresentGoogle — Sunnyvale, CA
AI & Machine Learning Co-OP
Jul 2024 – Aug 2024Schneider Electric (Triconex) — Lake Forest, CA
- Collaborated on US patents for Automated Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) of safety controllers.
- Applied supervised and adversarial reinforcement learning to mitigate safety hazards in Industrial Control Systems.
Fullstack Software Engineer
Sep 2017 – Aug 2018Hamisystem Sharif — Tehran, Iran
- Built 100+ software components and APIs for myMCI billing platform serving 27M+ mobile customers.
Research Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
Aug 2022 – Dec 2025Pennsylvania State University — University Park, PA
- Led research across multiple NSF, ARO, and NIST-funded grants focusing on multi-agent RL in cyber-physical systems.
- Engineered scalable distributed RL training environments on HPC clusters using Slurm and MPI.
Graduate Research Assistant
Aug 2018 – Aug 2022University of Houston — Houston, TX
- Developed game-theoretic deep RL algorithms for adaptive Moving Target Defense and decentralized energy markets.
Selected Honors & Awards
2023
Distinguished Paper Award 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '23)
2022 – 2024
Graduate Tuition Fellowship Pennsylvania State University
2018
Rank 41 / 10,000+ Iranian National MSc Entrance Exam in Information Technology
2016
8th Place ACM ICPC Asian Regional Contest (Sharif University of Technology)
2018 – 2022
Graduate Tuition Fellowship & Waiver University of Houston
Technical Skills
Languages
AI & Machine Learning
Software & Systems
Service & Memberships
- Program Committee: The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025)
- Reviewer: 22nd Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023)
- Professional Memberships: ACM (Professional Member), IEEE (Student Member)