Azad Ghaffari
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Biography
Azad Ghaffari's research interests include control design for safety critical cyber-physical systems, distributed supervisory controller design for swapping modularity over smart networks, control of state-dependent sampled rate systems, high-precision motion control of servo-systems, aggregate demand response in power systems, extremum seeking and its application to maximum power point tracking in photovoltaic and wind energy conversion systems, sliding mode control, and linear matrix inequalities. He has completed postdoctoral appointments at UCSD as well as the University of Michigan, and has six years of industrial training on control, automation, and instrumentation of various power systems.
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
- M.S., K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
- B.S., K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Courses taught by Azad Ghaffari
Winter Term 2024 (current)
- ME7995 - Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering II
- ME4420 - Dynamic Modeling and Control of Engineering System
Fall Term 2023
Winter Term 2023
- ME4420 - Dynamic Modeling and Control of Engineering System
- ME7995 - Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering II
Fall Term 2022
- ME6550 - Modeling and Control of Dynamic Systems
- ME7995 - Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering II