Hamid Jafarnejad Sani

Hamid Jafarnejadsani is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he directs the Safe Autonomous Systems Lab. His research develops resilient control methodologies for autonomous systems operating in adversarial environments, with applications in unmanned aerial vehicles and multi-robot systems.

Education:

• PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2018)
• MS in Mechanical Engineering, University of Calgary (2013)
• BS in Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran (2011)

Research focuses on cyber-physical security, adaptive control under uncertainty, and adversarial machine learning. Funded projects include NSF-supported work on attack-resilient vision-guided UAVs and IARPA contracts for neural rendering algorithms. Recent publications address distributed attack detection in multi-robot systems, adversarial image perturbations against autonomous vehicles, and emergency landing control under system failures.

Dr. Jafarnejadsani teaches dynamics and control engineering courses while leading research in secure autonomous systems. Lab investigations develop novel approaches for maintaining system integrity against evolving cyber threats.