Pouria Sarhadi is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire. He has worked as a research fellow at Queen's University Belfast (2021-2022), University of Surrey (2019-2021) and as an adjunct professor at the Babol Noshirvani University of Technology BNUT (2016-2018). He has held key roles to play in the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Horizon Europe projects and provided consultancy to industries. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Member of IET (MIET), and also recognised as a UK “Global Talent” by the UKRI. In the past 15 years, he has conducted research on a wide range of ground, marine, and aerial autonomous vehicles, which has resulted in more than 50 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications. Pouria is on the Editorial Board of the Applied Ocean Research journal (Elsevier), a member of the IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Technical Committee on Marine Robotic Systems (TC7.2), and the advisory board of Machines journal. He has served as an external examiner for PhD students and as a reviewer for many top-tier journals and funding bodies, including EPSRC. Furthermore, he is passionate about transforming academic theories into industrial products. Pouria holds a PhD in Control Engineering, and his research studies include:  

• Control theory and applications
• Adaptive control and system identification
• Modelling and simulation
• Machine learning in control application
• Autonomous vehicles
• Systems engineering

Pouria is interested in supervising talented and motivated Master and PhD students (* currently, only self-funded projects). Research collaboration can be considered. To discuss this matter further, please contact me by email. 

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