Masoud Abbaszadeh

Masoud Abbaszadeh received BSc. MSc and PhD degrees from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, and University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in 2000, 2002, and 2008, respectively, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 2001 to 2004, he was working as a Control and Automation Engineer. From 2008 to 2011, he was with Maplesoft, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, as a Research Engineer. From 2011 to 2013, he was a Senior Research Engineer at United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT, USA, working on advanced control systems, and complex systems modeling and simulation. Since 2013 he has been with GE Research Center, Niskayuna, NY, USA, where he is currently a Principal Research Engineer. His research interests include estimation and detection theory, robust and nonlinear control, and machine learning with applications in cyber-physical security & resilience and autonomous systems.

Dr. Abbaszadeh has been the recipient of multiple awards including 2018 GE Dushman Award, 2020 GE Research Controls & Optimization Innovation Award and 2020 GE Research Technology Award. He has authored over 170 peer-reviewed papers, 9 book chapters, and holds 42 issued US patents with more than 40 additional US patents pending.

He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and a member of IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board. He has also held an Adjunct Professor position at the Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA.