ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING · CONTROL SYSTEMS

Alireza
Pahlavani.

I work on control problems where nonlinear dynamics, autonomous systems, and electrical infrastructure meet.

x₁x₂NONLINEAR STATE PORTRAIT · SIMULATED
STATE-SPACE STUDY

Model the dynamics. Test the assumptions. Keep what survives.

I / RESEARCH DIRECTION

Three problems.
One engineering instinct.

Better models matter only when they improve the decisions made around a physical system.

01

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS / SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION

Linear structure, nonlinear dynamics.

I study Koopman operators and Extended Dynamic Mode Decomposition as a route from measured nonlinear trajectories to finite-dimensional lifted models that can be evaluated, interpreted, and used in control-oriented workflows.

Koopman operatorsEDMDObservable designMATLABPython

Ongoing research · Shahid Beheshti University

02

SAFE AUTONOMY / MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

Stay safe. Stay connected.

I investigate collision avoidance and connectivity-preserving coordination for interacting agents, with particular attention to disturbances, moving obstacles, and the gap between mathematical constraints and implementable controllers.

Control barrier functionsGraph connectivityMulti-agent controlSimulation

Safety-critical coordination research

03

SMART ENERGY / GRID INTERACTION

A battery is also a grid resource.

My engineering work around electric-vehicle charging connects constrained schedules, user departure requirements, battery limits, and bidirectional vehicle-to-grid operation with practical power-system considerations.

EV chargingVehicle-to-gridOptimizationPower systems

Ongoing engineering internship

A WORKING PRINCIPLE

Build the simplest model that can still answer the engineering question.
01 MODEL02 VERIFY03 COMPARE04 IMPLEMENT

II / REPRODUCIBLE PROJECTS

Show the method.
Show the evidence.

Public-facing simulations are reproducible, synthetic where appropriate, and separate from unpublished university or employer work.

P1KOOPMAN / EDMD

Held-out nonlinear prediction

A reproducible Duffing-like benchmark with trajectory-level train, validation, and test separation, ridge-selected EDMD, and a linear DMD reference model.

84.6%lower multistep RMSE vs. linear DMD

Python · NumPy · SciPy · automated tests

Synthetic benchmark; result is scenario-specific, not a claim of general performance.

P2SAFE MULTI-AGENT CONTROL

Safety and connectivity under motion

Four-agent coordination with pairwise separation, bounded communication edges, a moving obstacle, and a constrained safety filter applied to nominal goal-seeking commands.

100%solver success in the recorded demonstration

Python · constrained optimization · simulation

Deterministic portfolio demonstration with single-integrator dynamics.

P3EV / V2G OPTIMIZATION

Departure-aware charging

A 24-hour linear-programming example that respects battery and charger constraints, reaches the required departure state of charge, and compares against immediate charging.

90%required departure SOC achieved

Python · linear programming · CSV reporting

Illustrative tariffs only; no commercial or employer dataset is used.

III / FIELD NOTES

Built across
labs and industry.

2026 — NOW
Undergraduate Control Systems Researcher

Shahid Beheshti University

Data-driven nonlinear dynamics, system identification, and safety-critical coordination.

2026 — NOW
Technical & Project Assistant

Electrical Networks Research Institute

Technical documentation, simulation support, project coordination, and institute web development.

2026 — NOW
EV Charging & V2G Engineering Intern

Fara Control Ideh Pajouhan

Charging control, scheduling strategies, and bidirectional grid interaction.

2025 — 2026
Instrumentation Engineering Intern

Pishro Energy Engineering Company

P&IDs, instrument datasheets, maintenance-related engineering, and technical documentation.

2022 — NOW
Independent Full-Stack Web Developer

Independent practice

Web applications using Python, Django, JavaScript, and front-end technologies.

IV / TECHNICAL TOOLKIT

MODELING & CONTROL

Nonlinear dynamics · Koopman-EDMD · Control barrier functions · Multi-agent systems

COMPUTATION

Python · MATLAB / Simulink · C / C++ · COMSOL · Scientific simulation

ENERGY & HARDWARE

EV charging · Vehicle-to-grid · Instrumentation · STM32 · Altium Designer

SOFTWARE & WEB

Django · JavaScript · HTML / CSS · Bootstrap · Technical writing

V / NEXT STEP

Looking for
the right problems.

I am interested in research-oriented work spanning control, intelligent systems, safe autonomy, and sustainable energy.