Alireza Fath

Graduate Research Assistant

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering

University of Vermont

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About

• Forward-thinking R&D engineer with a strong background in dynamics, robotics, augmented reality, cyber-physical systems and control, resulting in the successful design and prototyping of complex systems to solve engineering challenges.

• Excellent team player and pioneer in applied research resulting in 9 peer-reviewed scientific publications, a patent, and numerous certificates from top world universities.

• Self-motivated individual with an adaptable attitude, strong project management, analytical skills, and the ability to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment, resulting in the successful development of novel robotic and wireless sensors in augmented reality overlayed networks.

Research and Outreach Interests

Robotic, Augmented Reality, Structural Health Monitoring, Wind Turbines, Control, Dynamics, Vibrations

• Development of mobile robots and sensor nodes in an overlayed augmented reality wireless network, with a specific focus on infrastructure health monitoring, ensuring successful implementation of the system while adhering to project goals and objectives in collaboration with three universities on a $4 million NSF project

• Designing and dynamic modeling of novel morphing antennas using intelligent mechanisms for space deployments in the NASA project

• Problem-solving efforts to improve mobility and rehabilitation robots, to meet the unique needs of paraplegic patients while collaborating closely to prototype a new model that can support customers with any level of paralysis

• Designing and evaluating a semi-active control system for vibration suppression of a semi-submersible offshore wind turbine with a tuned liquid multi-column damper.