Amy Nejati, Prof. Dr.-Ing.
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Amy Nejati |
Biography
Amy Nejati is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Prior to this, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany from July 2023 to May 2024. She also served as a Senior Researcher in the Computer Science Department at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) from November 2022 to June 2023. She received the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) under the supervision of Majid Zamani. She has received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees both in Electrical Engineering.
Her line of research mainly focuses on developing efficient (data-driven) techniques to design and control highly-reliable autonomous systems while providing mathematical guarantees. In her research, she brings together interdisciplinary concepts from control theory, formal methods in computer science, and data science. Application domain of her research spans a wide range of real-life safety-critical systems including automotive, robotics, transportation systems, energy, healthcare, and so on.