
Background
I received my B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and my M.S. in the same field in 2010 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am currently a Ph.D. student in the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where I work with Dr. Tim Bretl. I also collaborate with Dr. Eric Perreault and Dr. Levi Hargrove at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. My PhD degree is supported by the NRSA predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Health.
Research Interests
My interests lie in robotics, control theory and machine learning with applications to building intelligent systems and robots. In particular, I am interested in using mathematical tools along with principles from neuroscience to model human perception and decision-making and subsequently design efficient and robust software systems and control algorithms for prosthetic devices and robotic systems.
Publications
N. Aghasadeghi, A. Long and T. Bretl, “Inverse Optimal Control for a Hybrid Dynamical System with Impacts”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May. 2012.
R. Ma, N. Aghasadeghi, J. Jarzebowski, T. Bretl and T. Coleman, “A Stochastic Control Approach to Optimally Designing Hierarchical Flash Sets in P300 Communication Prostheses”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE), vol. 20, no. 1, January 2012.
N. Aghasadeghi and T. Bretl, “Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning in Continuous State Spaces with Path Integrals”, IEEE International Conference onIntelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct. 2011.
M. Nassar, K. Gulati, A. K. Sujeeth, N. Aghasadeghi, B. L. Evans and K. R. Tinsley, “Mitigating Near-Field Interference in Laptop Embedded Wireless Transceivers”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2008.
In the News
WCIA Evening News
the Orthotics & Prosthetics EDGE trade publication
http://www.oandp.com/articles/NEWS_2013-05-28_02.asp
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign – College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Coordinated Science Laboratory
http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=2503
http://csl.illinois.edu/news/powered-prosthetic-devices-help-amputees-walk-naturally
Contact Information
aghasad1@illinois.edu