Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi

PhD Student
Advisor: Ali Jadbabaie

GRASP Laboratory Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering University of Pennsylvania

Economics Department School of Arts and Sciences University of Pennsylvania

E-mail: atahbaz (at) seas (dot) upenn (dot) edu

Phone: 215-898-5814

Fax: 215-573-2048

Address:

3330 Walnut Street
GRASP Laboratory, Levine Hall L402
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

My Curriculum Vitae

Education:

Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical and Systems Engineering (Expected June 2009)
University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, PA
Advisor: Professor Ali Jadbabaie



AM, Economics, August 2008
University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, PA



MSE, Electrical Engineering, June 2006
University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, PA



BSc, Electrical Engineering, September 2004
Sharif University of Technology , Tehran, Iran

Journal Papers:

Distributed Coverage Verification Algorithms in Sensor Networks Without Location Information
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi and Ali Jadbabaie
Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, August 2008.

Consensus Over Ergodic Stationary Graph Processes
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi and Ali Jadbabaie
Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, July 2008.

A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Consensus Over Random Networks
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi and Ali Jadbabaie
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 791-795, April 2008.

Distributed Coverage Verification in Sensor Networks Without Location Information
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi and Ali Jadbabaie
In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico. December 2008. (To Appear)

Distributed Topology Control of Dynamic Networks
Michael M. Zavlanos, Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Ali Jadbabaie and George J. Pappas
In Proceedings of 2008 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA. June 2008, pp. 2660-2665.

Small World phenomenon, rapidly mixing Markov chains, and average consensus algorithms
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi and Ali Jadbabaie
In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA. December 2007, pp. 276-281.

Necessary and sufficient conditions for consensus over random independent and identically distributed switching graphs
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi and Ali Jadbabaie
In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA. December 2007, pp. 4209-4214.

On recurrence of graph connectivity in Vicsek's model of motion coordination for mobile autonomous agents
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi and Ali Jadbabaie.
In Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, New York, NY, July 2007, pp. 699-704.

A one-parameter family of distributed consensus algorithms with boundary: from shortest paths to mean hitting times
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi and Ali Jadbabaie
In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, December 2006, pp. 4664-4669.

Invited Conference Papers:

Distributed Computation of a Sparse Cover in Sensor Networks Without Location Information
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi and Ali Jadbabaie
In Proceedings of 42nd annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 2008, (To Appear).

Coordinate-Free Distributed Coverage Verification and Intruder Detection in Dynamic Sensor Networks
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi and Ali Jadbabaie
In Proceedings of 45th annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 2007, pp. 417-422.

On consensus in random networks
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi and Ali Jadbabaie
In Proceedings of 44th annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 2006, pp. 1315-1321.