Dr. Amir Ajorlou nominated for Best Ph.D.Thesis Award in Quebec

Amir Ajorlou, a recently-graduated student supervised by Amir Aghdam in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been nominated for the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in the Province of Quebec.  His thesis was called “Connectivity Preservation in Distributed Control of Multi-Agent System.” Ajorlou is a two-time gold medal winner of the International Mathematical Olympiad, and the author of over 30 papers in the most prestigious journals and conferences in control systems, which to date been cited over 200 times. He obtained his Ph.D. from Concordia University in 2013, and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.