Mehran Mesbahi

Guggenheim Hall 318E

University of Washington

Seattle, WA 98105

Email: mesbahi@uw.edu

I am a Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics and an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. I received my Ph.D. from USC in 1996, was a member of the Guidance, Navigation, and Analysis group at Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1996-2000 and then an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota from 2000-2002. I am currently the Director of the Robotics, Aerospace, and Information Networks (RAIN) Laboratory and the Executive Director of the Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation (JCATI). My research interests are distributed and networked aerospace systems, autonomy, and control theory and learning.

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news

Jul 10, 2022	Shahriar receives the 2022 excellence in teaching award! see the announcement ; congrats Shahriar!
May 31, 2022	Newsha passed her Ph.D. general exam. Congrats!

selected publications

Vector-valued Privacy-Preserving Average Consensus

Lulu Pan, Haibin Shao, Yang Lu, Mehran Mesbahi, Dewei Li, and Yugeng Xi

arXiv Sep 2022

arXiv Bib

@article{Pan2022-zq,
  title = {Vector-valued {Privacy-Preserving} Average Consensus},
  author = {Pan, Lulu and Shao, Haibin and Lu, Yang and Mesbahi, Mehran and Li, Dewei and Xi, Yugeng},
  month = sep,
  year = {2022},
  journal = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {eess.SY},
  eprint = {2209.10786},
}

Towards a Theoretical Foundation of Policy Optimization for Learning Control Policies

Bin Hu, Kaiqing Zhang, Na Li, Mehran Mesbahi, Maryam Fazel, and Tamer Başar

arXiv Oct 2022

arXiv Bib

@article{Hu2022-fy,
  title = {Towards a Theoretical Foundation of Policy Optimization for
                      Learning Control Policies},
  author = {Hu, Bin and Zhang, Kaiqing and Li, Na and Mesbahi, Mehran and Fazel, Maryam and Ba{\c s}ar, Tamer},
  month = oct,
  year = {2022},
  journal = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {math.OC},
  eprint = {2210.04810},
}

Riemannian Constrained Policy Optimization Via Geometric Stability Certificates

Shahriar Talebi, and Mehran Mesbahi

IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Oct 2022

Bib

@article{Talebi_cdc2022,
  title = {Riemannian Constrained Policy Optimization Via Geometric Stability Certificates},
  author = {Talebi, Shahriar and Mesbahi, Mehran},
  journal = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
  year = {2022},
}

Robust Controller Synthesis for Vision-based Spacecraft Guidance and Control

Newsha. Rahimi, Shahriar Talebi, Aditya Deole, Mehran Mesbahi, Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay, and Amir Rahmani

AIAA SCITECH Oct 2022

Bib

@article{Rahimi2022-hy,
  title = {Robust Controller Synthesis for Vision-based Spacecraft Guidance
                  and Control},
  author = {Rahimi, Newsha. and Talebi, Shahriar and Deole, Aditya and Mesbahi, Mehran and Bandyopadhyay, Saptarshi and Rahmani, Amir},
  journal = {AIAA SCITECH},
  publisher = {AIAA},
  year = {2022},
}

A Customized First-Order Solver for Real-Time Powered-Descent Guidance

Purnanand Elango, Abhinav Kamath, Yue Yu, Behcet Acikmese, Mehran. Mesbahi, and John M. Carson

AIAA SCITECH Oct 2022

Bib

@article{Elango2022-kd,
  title = {A Customized {First-Order} Solver for {Real-Time}
                  {Powered-Descent} Guidance},
  author = {Elango, Purnanand and Kamath, Abhinav and Yu, Yue and Acikmese, Behcet and Mesbahi, Mehran. and Carson, John M.},
  journal = {AIAA SCITECH},
  publisher = {arc.aiaa.org},
  year = {2022},
}

Graph Theoretic Methods in Multiagent Networks

Mehran Mesbahi, and Magnus Egerstedt

Jul 2010

Bib

@book{Mesbahi2010-pq,
  title = {Graph Theoretic Methods in Multiagent Networks},
  author = {Mesbahi, Mehran and Egerstedt, Magnus},
  publisher = {Princeton University Press},
  month = jul,
  year = {2010},
  language = {en},
  url = {https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691140612/graph-theoretic-methods-in-multiagent-networks}
}