Nader Motee 
Email: nam211@lehigh.edu
Phone: (610) 758-4547
Fax: (610) 758-6224
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Appointed to Lehigh Faculty: 2011
Webpage: www.lehigh.edu/~nam211
Education:
Ph.D. Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2007
M.Sc. Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2006
Related experience - teaching, industrial, etc.:
Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 2008 - 2011
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, 2009 - 2011
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2008
Research activities, consulting, patents, etc.:
Research interests include design, control, and optimization of spatially distributed systems with applications to energy systems; design and complexity analysis of large biochemical reaction networks; task planning and architecture design for networked multiple autonomous vehicles.
Scientific and professional societies of which a member:
Member of IEEE
Honors and awards:
Certificate of Achievement, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA, 2010
O Hugo Schuck Award for Theory, American Automatic Control Council, 2008
Joseph, D'16, and Rosaline Wolf Award for Best Dissertation, Penn Engineering, UPenn, 2008
Certificate of Achievement, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA, 2008
Best Student Paper Award, American Control Conference, 2007
Best Student Paper Award, Finalist, American Control Conference, 2006
Best Poster Award, Research Forum at Penn Engineering, 2006
IEEE Best Student Paper Contest, Finalist, IEEE Region 8 (Europe, Africa, and Middle East), 2000