Rate My Professor Farshad Khorrami

Farshad Khorrami is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and serves as Affiliated Faculty in the Engineering Division at New York University, Abu Dhabi. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1988, Master of Science in Mathematics in 1984, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1984, and Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1982, all from The Ohio State University. Joining New York University in September 1988 as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, he progressed to full professor. Khorrami is an IEEE Fellow, recognized for contributions to adaptive nonlinear control and large-scale systems. He directs the Control/Robotics Research Laboratory (CRRL) at NYU Tandon and is co-founder and co-director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) at NYU Abu Dhabi since 2021, alongside principal investigators Anthony Tzes and Yann LeCun. CAIR focuses on AI and robotics research in areas such as multi-agent systems, planning and navigation, deep learning for safety and resiliency, and human-machine interfaces.