Experience & Leadership

Experience & leadership

Research and teaching, alongside mentoring, service, and recognition.

Research & teaching experience

Graduate Researcher and PhD Candidate

2022 - Present

McMaster University

Research in deep reinforcement learning, safe reinforcement learning, scientific machine learning, and control for nonlinear process systems across simulation, Aspen Dynamics, and laboratory experimentation.

Teaching Assistant

2023 - 2026

McMaster University

Supported Process Control, Transport Phenomena, and Reactor Design through tutorials, grading, student consultation, and examination support.

Leadership, service & recognition

SERVICE

Engineering Council Member

McMaster Engineering Graduate Society

2025 - Present

Represent Chemical Engineering graduate students, support communication between students and faculty, and contribute to reviewing graduate-student submissions for EGS awards.

MENTORING

Summer Student Mentoring and Supervision

Mentored and supervised summer students in research activities over four years.

RECOGNITION

2024 CSChE Best Poster Presentation

CSChE Student Poster Presentation Competition

2024

Presented “A Study on Distillation Columns Investigating Generative Adversarial Networks for Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Chemical Processes.”

Education

PhD Process Systems Engineering

2022 - Expected Jan 2027

McMaster University

Thesis: Data-Driven Control and Fault Detection for Complex Process Systems

MSc Process Design Engineering

2018 - 2021

University of Tehran

Thesis: Data-Driven Modeling and Metaheuristic Optimization of a Residual Fluid Catalytic Cracking Process

BSc Chemical Engineering

2012 - 2017

Iran University of Science and Technology

Thesis: Design of a municipal-waste leachate treatment plant