Sadegh Soudjani

Sadegh Soudjani is currently a Senior Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) since December 2023. Prior to this, he served as the director of the AMBER group and a Reader (full professor) in Cyber-Physical Systems at Newcastle University, United Kingdom. His research focuses on developing integrated environments for programming, verifying, and designing high-performance, scalable cyber-physical systems in uncertain physical environments.

Education:

• BSc in Pure Mathematics
• BSc in Electrical Engineering
• MSc in Control Engineering
• PhD in Systems & Control

Research Interests: Formal synthesis, abstraction, and verification of complex dynamical systems under probabilistic temporal specifications. Applications include energy networks, autonomous systems, smart grids, transportation systems, and systems biology.

Projects: SymAware (€4 million EIC-funded), CodeCPS (EPSRC-funded), MoVeS, Safe-CPS, AMBI. His work bridges control theory and formal methods, with a focus on stochastic hybrid systems.

Scientific Awards:

• EPSRC New Investigator Award (2021, £484k)
• DISC Best PhD Thesis Award (2015)
• QEST Best Paper Award (2018)
• Newcastle Teaching Award (2020)
• Best Repeatability Prize at IFAC ADHS'21

Advising & Grants: Supervised 4 PhD students jointly with Max Planck Institute and Ludwig Maximillian University. Secured €4 million for SymAware and €728k for 7 PhD studentships. Led collaborative projects with institutions like KTH, Uppsala, TU Eindhoven, Siemens, and Netherlands Aerospace Centre.

Labs & Teams: Currently leads the AMBER group at MPI-SWS, previously directed AMBER group at Newcastle University. Organized international workshops including V2CPS, SNR, VARS, and ARCH (stochastic category).