Lamia Iftekhar is an Associate Professor at the\u00a0 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University (NSU), Dhaka, Bangladesh, where she has been serving since September 2012. She teaches Control Engineering, Electronics and related courses. Her research interests includes Multi-Agent Systems, Learning-based Control, Embedded Systems and Robotics, as well as, Transportation Networks. She is currently serving as the faculty advisor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Student Branch Chapter at NSU. Lamia has just returned from a year-long Sabbatical from NSU, during which she worked as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at New York University<\/strong><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamia earned her Ph.D. in Engineering from Dartmouth College New Hampshire, USA in June 2012 under the supervision of Dr. Reza Olfati-Saber.\u00a0 Her\u00a0 work was on designing\u00a0 driving algorithms for network of autonomous vehicles.\u00a0 Prior to this,\u00a0 Lamia completed her undergraduate studies and Masters in Electrical Engineering simultaneously in 2009\u00a0under a four-years Honors BS\/MS program\u00a0 from Polytechnic Institute of New York University, NY, USA.\u00a0 Her undergrad major was in Electrical Engineering and she had minors in Mathematics and Psychology. Lamia went back to her alma mater for 10 months again in 2021, this time as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar, to work at the C2SMART Transportation Center at Tandon School of Engineering at New York University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strongly believing in giving back to the community through volunteering work, Lamia has been an active IEEE member since 2008, while as an undergrad herself. She has been\u00a0involved in IEEE activities and responsibilities throughout the years, serving in positions that includes being the Vice Chair of \u00a0 Women In Engineering Affinity Group of IEEE Bangladesh Section as well as the Humanitarian Activities Coordinator of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, Bangladesh Chapter. She also advises the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Student Branch Chapter at NSU, the first of its kind in Bangladesh \u2013 formed in 2017. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamia\u2019s current research interests is two-fold: transportation and robotics.\u00a0 She has been fiercely passionate about transportation issues for a long time since her beloved home city Dhaka\u2019s urban transportation is unique in nature and full of challenges.\u00a0 Her research interests in this category includes vehicle safety, intelligent transportation systems, networked vehicles, driver behaviour modelling, traffic model and congestion control. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamia\u2019s other field of interest includes multi-agent systems, hybrid systems, nonlinear control and cooperative systems, all mostly applied to robotics. She is particularly intrigued by the idea of using\u00a0 multi-robot systems\u00a0\u00a0 for disaster management and humanitarian purposes \u00a0in the context of Bangladesh.\u00a0 She also believes that there\u2019s a huge potential\u00a0 in using robotics to promote\u00a0 sincere interest in STEM amongst the school students of her country, specially\u00a0 the female students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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