Bardia Ardakanian

Hi! I’m Bardia Ardakanian, a Computer Engineering graduate from Amirkabir University of Technology in Iran. I completed my degree in September 2024 under the supervision of Dr. Mahdi Javanmardi. Over the past year and a half, I have contributed to both the Autonomous and Intelligent Systems Lab, supervised by Dr. Javanmardi, and the Hardware Design Lab under Dr. Hamed Farbeh, where I focused on advancing projects in robotics, robot perception, computer vision, and hardware optimization.

You can download my CV here.

Since then, I have been actively exploring my passion in:

Alongside my academic pursuits, I bring three years of industry experience, working as a Machine Learning Engineer since September 2022 on robotic control systems for packaging and sorting in food chain automation. Previously, I spent a year and a half as a software developer in top Iranian industries.

Selected Publications

1. Reinforcement Learning-Based Model Matching to Reduce the Sim-Real Gap in COBRA, under review at the American Control Conference (ACC), 2025 [link] [pdf] Adarsh Salagame, Harin Kumar Nallaguntla, Bardia Ardakanian, Eric Sihite, Gunar Schirner, Alireza Ramezani

2. Unsupervised Camera-LiDAR Fusion for Fast Region Proposal, BSc thesis, 2024, (Written in Farsi) [link] [pdf] [slides] Supervisor: Mahdi Javanmardi, committee: Mohammad Rahmati

3. Development of Natural and Artificial Intelligence - Post-Selection Dialogue: Challenges to Post-Selection, IEEE Cognitive Development Systems Newsletter, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 6-11, 2024 [link] [pdf] Bardia Ardakanian