Dr Arash M. Dizqah is currently a senior lecturer in Intelligent Transport Systems at the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Automotive Engineering, which he joined after about 2 years of experience as a post-doctoral research fellow with University of Surrey. He is also a member of the Centre for Mobility and Transport (CMTR) at Coventry University.

He received BSc and MSc degrees in electrical engineering from Sharif and KN Toosi Universities of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1998 and 2001, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from Northumbria University, U.K., in 2014. Before starting his PhD, he used to work as an embedded systems (software and hardware) developer and architect for about 10 years.

His research interests lie in control and optimisation with applications in transportation and renewable energy systems. He is particularly interested in real-time implementation and experimental testing of nonlinear optimisation-based controllers for the applications like electric/hybrid vehicles and wind turbines. The optimisation-based strategies, such as model predictive controllers, handle nonlinearities, uncertainties and constraints in a systematic fashion.

Arash is a founding member of the Smart Vehicles Control Laboratory (SVeCLab), within CMTR, focusing on model-based optimal design and energy management of hybrid electric/electric vehicles and advanced control strategies for connected autonomous vehicles.

He is a member of institute of electrical and electronics engineering (IEEE) and institution of engineering and technologies (IET).

His Google Scholar is available here

Area of Expertise:

• Non-Linear Model Predictive Controllers (NMPC)
• Control Allocation for Over-Actuated Systems
• Non-Linear Optimisation – Theories, algorithms and applications
• Multi-parametric Non-Linear Optimisation (mp-NLP)
• Mathematical Modelling of Hybrid Dynamical Systems
• Modelling and Simulation of Multi-Disciplinary Systems using Modelica
• Intelligent Energy Management Systems for Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
• Embedded Software Development