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. My research group is the Robotics, Aerospace, and Information Networks (RAIN) Laboratory; I am the Executive Director of the Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation (JCATI) and a member of the WA State Academy of Sciences. 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}
}