Postdoctoral Scholar @ Developing predictive simulation frameworks for design and adaptive control of robotic assistive devices, in particular for assisting human locomotion, in collaboration with Ekso Bionics company. From January 2015 to Present (10 months) San Francisco Bay AreaVisiting Postdoc. @ Worked on a control framework to synthesize optimal motion controllers for a humanoid and a human dynamics model, at the Neuromuscular Biomechanics Laboratory (NMBL). Collaborated with a team of mechanical engineers from Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory for design of robotic assistive devices, in particular, for providing haptic feedback to users. The Postdoc grant was awarded by the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research Robotics and Stanford Neuromuscular Biomechanics Laboratory. From April 2014 to December 2014 (9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaResearch Assistant / PhD Student @ Thesis title: "A Control and Optimization Framework for Robot Locomotion: from Model-free to Model-based Approaches", Biorobotics Laboratory, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering. Thesis advisor: Prof. Auke Ijspeert, Thesis jury: Profs. Kamiar Aminian, Hannes Bleuler, Art Kuo, and Luis Sentis. Applications: - Locomorph Project (Funded by the Seventh Framework Program of the European Union) - Roombots Project (Funded by Microsoft Research Cambridge and EPFL). From May 2009 to December 2013 (4 years 8 months) Lausanne Area, SwitzerlandExchange visitor @ Visited Computational Learning and Motor Control (CLMC) Lab, lead by Prof. Stefan Schaal. Implemented kinematic/dynamics modeling of Locomorph robot in Simulation software SL and worked on developing its real-time controllers on a Gumstix Overo board. From August 2012 to August 2012 (1 month) Greater Los Angeles AreaEngineer @ Worked on data collection for the WearCam project which used data mining techniques to study gaze attention in children with Autism, at the Laboratoire d'Algorithmes et Systemes d'Apprentissage (LASA). From August 2008 to April 2009 (9 months) Lausanne Area, Switzerland

Postdoc, Bioengineering @ Stanford University From 2014 to 2016 Doctor of Science (PhD), Robotics @ Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne From 2009 to 2013 Master of Science (M.Sc.), Dynamics and Control @ Sharif University of Technology From 2006 to 2008 Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Aerospace Engineering @ Sharif University of Technology From 2001 to 2006 Soha Pouya is skilled in: LaTeX, Matlab, Robotics, Machine Learning, Control Theory, Flight Dynamics, Stochastic Optimization, Linear Programming, Nonlinear Optimization, Dynamical Systems, C++, Mathematical Modeling, Simulink, Numerical Analysis, Aerodynamics, Programming, Modeling, Simulations, Numerical Simulation, Algorithms, Optimization, Research