Ali Reza Pedram

I'm a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma. My research lies at the intersection of autonomy, robotics, and machine learning, with a particular focus on developing AI and ML systems for robotic applications. I am especially interested in data-efficient learning, probabilistic generative models for planning and control, and decision-making under uncertainty in both single-agent and multi-agent systems. A central theme of my work is designing algorithms that enable intelligent agents to reason, learn, and act efficiently with minimal processing, sensing, and communication.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology, affiliated with the Department of Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, I earned my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, where my research focused on robotics and autonomous systems. Before that, I was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany. I completed my undergraduate studies at Sharif University of Technology, where I pursued a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Physics.