Alireza Rezazadeh

Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Research Assistant

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
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I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. I'm co-advised by Prof. Karthik Desingh and Prof. Changhyun Choi.

My research interests are broadly in Robotics, Deep Learning, and Computer Vision.

I'll be graduating soon and I'm actively seeking full-time positions starting in Fall 2024. Please feel free to email me (rezaz003@umn.edu) for inquiries.

Selected Publications

Alireza Rezazadeh, Athreyi Badithela, Karthik Desingh*, Changhyun Choi*

SlotGNN: Unsupervised Discovery of Multi-Object Representations and Visual Dynamics

ICRA 2024, [Project] [Paper] [Video]

Alireza Rezazadeh, Snehal Dikhale, Soshi Iba, Nawid Jamali

Hierarchical Graph Neural Networks for Proprioceptive 6D Pose Estimation of In-hand Objects

ICRA 2023, [Project] [Paper] [Video]

Alireza Rezazadeh, Changhyun Choi

KINet: Unsupervised Forward Models for Robotic Pushing Manipulation

RA-L 2023, ICRA 2024 [Project] [Paper] [Video]

Alireza Rezazadeh, Max Berniker

Force Field Generalization and the Internal Representation of Motor Learning

PLoS 2019, [Paper] [Data]

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota [2020-Present]
Thesis: "Learning Graph-based Representations for Robotic Manipulation"
M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota [2020-2022]
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago [2017-2019]
Thesis: "Force Field Generalization and the Internal Representation of Motor Learning"
B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology [2012-2016]