CV
Short academic CV.
Contact Information
| Name | Adeel Akhtar |
| Professional Title | Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NJIT |
| adeel.akhtar@njit.edu | |
| Phone | |
| Location | 323 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Newark, New Jersey 07103 |
| Website | https://adeelakhtar.com/ |
Professional Summary
Adeel Akhtar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His research focuses on nonlinear control, geometric control, hybrid systems, cyber-physical systems, and mobile and aerial robotics.
Experience
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2024 - Newark, New Jersey, USA
Assistant Professor
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.
- Tenure-track faculty appointment
- Research in nonlinear control, geometric control, hybrid systems, and robotics
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2023 - 2023 Saudi Arabia
Postdoctoral Researcher
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
RISC Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- Advisor: Prof. Eric Feron
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2021 - 2022 Santa Cruz, California, USA
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of California, Santa Cruz
Hybrid Systems Lab, Baskin School of Engineering.
- Advisor: Prof. Ricardo G. Sanfelice
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2019 - 2021 Canada
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies / Queen's University / York University
Postdoctoral research in geometric control and control of mechanical systems on Lie groups.
- Advisor: Prof. Andrew Lewis
Education
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- 2018 Waterloo, Canada
Ph.D.
University of Waterloo
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
- Thesis: Nonlinear and geometric control of rigid body vehicles
- Supervisor: Prof. Steven L. Waslander
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- 2012 Waterloo, Canada
M.A.Sc.
University of Waterloo
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Thesis: Dynamic path following controllers for planar mobile robots
- Supervisor: Prof. Christopher Nielsen
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- 2006 Islamabad, Pakistan
B.E.
National University of Sciences and Technology
Mechatronics Engineering
- Thesis: Design, implementation, and real-time digital control of a cart-mounted inverted pendulum
Awards
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2025 Digital Future SEC Early Research Fellow
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Funded research visit fellowship.
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2019 Postdoctoral Research Award
University of Toronto
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2016 Outstanding Reviewer Award
Asian Journal of Control
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2013 Multiple Best Teaching Assistant Awards
University of Waterloo
Publications
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2026 Learning Neural Maximal Lyapunov Functions on SO(n)
IEEE Control Systems Letters
A. Akhtar and M. Barreau. Accepted.
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2026 Schrödinger Bridge Over a Compact Connected Lie Group
IEEE Control Systems Letters
H. Mahmood, A. Halder, and A. Akhtar. Accepted.
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2022 Path Following of a Quadrotor With a Cable-Suspended Point Mass
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
A. Akhtar, S. Saleem, and J. Shan.
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2021 Path Invariant Controllers for a UAV With a Cable-Suspended Payload Using a Global Parameterization
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
A. Akhtar, S. Saleem, and J. Shan.
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2020 Controller Class for Rigid Body Tracking on SO(3)
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
A. Akhtar and S. L. Waslander.
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2020 Path Following for a Class of Underactuated Systems Using Global Parameterization
IEEE Access
A. Akhtar, S. Saleem, and S. L. Waslander.
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2015 Dynamic Path Following Controllers for Planar Vehicles
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
A. Akhtar, S. L. Waslander, and C. Nielsen.
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References
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References
Available upon request.