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Location: Los Angeles, CA
Email: sina.heydari@csun.edu
About me
About me
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). I completed my PhD at USC's Bio-inspired Motion Lab where I was advised by Professor Eva Kanso. Before joining CSUN, I taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses at Santa Clara University.
My research combines physics-based models with data-driven approaches, specifically Reinforcement Learning, to study and control bio-inspired dynamical systems.
Learn more about my experience in my CV or my Google Scholar account.
What's up?
2025.08.01 Joined CSUN as an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department.
2023.09.01 Joined SCU as a mechanical engineering faculty.
2023. 03. 20 Successfully defended my PhD thesis!
2022. 11. 07 Gave a tutorial on "distributed motor control via Reinforcement Learning" at Janelia's neurotheory workshop.
2022. 05. 23 Started my internship at Twitter as a Machine Learning engineering intern.
2022. 04. 22 Presented my work on flow interactions in flapping swimmers at SoCal Fluids XV.
2022. 01. 02 Gave a virtual talk on learning tube feet control for sea star locomotion at SICB 2022.
2021. 11. 22 Presented our work on flow interactions in flapping swimmers at APS DFD 2021.
2021. 09. 13 Gave an invited talk at the Seminar of Frontiers in Bio-inspired Soft Robotics.
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