Abolfazl Lavaei
SEC scholar July – September 2024
Abolfazl Lavaei is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing at Newcastle University, United Kingdom. Between January 2021 and July 2022, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich, working with Prof. Emilio Frazzoli on “Trustworthy Safety-Critical AI for Autonomous Vehicles”. He was also a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at LMU Munich between November 2019 and January 2021. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 2019. His research mainly focuses on theoretical and practical aspects of Safe Verification, Learning and Control of Large-Scale Stochastic Cyber-Physical Systems with application to autonomous systems. He is the recipient of several international awards for his work.
During his sabbatical from July to September 2024, he will exchange knowledge with Professor Sandberg’s research group to enhance the safety and security of cyber-physical systems through innovative data-driven techniques while expanding his network within the Digital Futures community.
Contact: Abolfazl.Lavaei@newcastle.ac.uk
Host
Henrik Sandberg
Professor, Division of Decision and Control Systems at KTH EECS, Member of the Strategic Research Committee, Chair Working group Trust, PI of research project Learning in Routing Games for Sustainable Electromobility (RoSE), Co-PI of research project Causal Reasoning for Real-Time Attack Identification in Cyber-Physical Systems, Co-PI of research project Decision-making in Critical Societal Infrastructures (DEMOCRITUS), Digital Futures Faculty
+46 8 790 72 94hsan@kth.se