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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at KTH with a passion for Game Theory & Control Theory, and the fascinating intersection between the two. Automation is no longer contained to the factory floor; it is making decisions on who gets to work on time (traffic control), when to charge who's EV (energy control), or who gets to see what posts (recommender systems). I am working towards embedding the societal aspect into the next generation of control systems. How can we design these systems in a manner that respect individuals' private and heterogeneous needs, in a fair and efficient manner? On this quest, I have been working to bridge the gap between engineering and economics and incorporate lessons from Welfare Economics & Social Choice Theory into control design.

Short bio

Since February 2026, I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at KTH DCS, where I have the pleasure to work with Angela Fontan and Kalle Johansson. Prior to this post, I received a PhD in Information Technology & Electrical Engineering at IfA and IDSC, ETH Zurich (2025), a M.Sc. in Robotics, Systems & Control at ETH Zurich (2020), and a B.ASc. in Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo (2014). From 2014-2018, I held various industrial control positions. I was honoured to receive the IFAC CPHS Young Author Award (2024) and the ETH Medal for my master’s thesis (2021).

See my full CV here (updated Feb 2026).

ALL ABOUT KARMA

News

2026.02.02: Started my Postdoc at KTH DCS!! Excited to work with Angela Fontan and Kalle Johansson in the coming years!
2026.01.12: Control Welfarism is published in IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems! Tons of discussion went into this, thanks to Ilia Shilov for leading the effort!
2025.11.16: Presented Karma to KAUST ECE! Thanks to Shinkyu Park for the kind hosting! See slides.
2025.10.27: Karma Vision is published in Annual Reviews in Control! Thanks to Yildiray Yildiz and Tamer Başar for the invitation to the Recent Advances in CPHS section!
2025.10.15: Presented Karma to MIT IDSS! Thanks to Munther Dahleh and Gioele Zardini for the kind hosting! See slides.
2025.09.18: Presented Karma to DTU PES! Thanks to Jalal Kazempour for the kind hosting! See slides and video.
2025.09.15: Presented Karma to KTH DCS! Thanks to Umar Niazi and Kalle Johannsson for the kind hosting! See slides.
2025.01.01: Successfully defended my PhD!!! Many thanks to my examiners Florian Dörfler, Emilio Frazzoli, Jeff Shamma, Marek Pycia! See slides and thesis.
2025.06.25: Hosted a tutorial session in this year's ECC in Thessaloniki on Dynamic Incentive Design! See slides.
2025.06.24: Presented Karma in the ECC workshop on Control and Resilience Mechanisms for CPHS! It was a pleasure to be invited to this excellent workshop! See slides.
2025.04.29: Gave a group tutorial on survey design! See slides.
2025.03.06: Gave a tutorial series on Karma! See Part 1 - Modelling; Part 2 - Coding; Jupyter notebook.
2024.12.19: Presented Dynamic Population Games in this year's CDC in Milan! See slides.
2024.12.12: Presented Multi-Karma Economies in this year's CPHS in Antalya; awarded IFAC Young Author Award! See slides.
2024.12.06: Presented Karma Experimental Study in this year's Hurwicz Workshop on Mechanism Design Theory! See slides.
2024.12.02: Had the honor of giving the Game Theory & Control lecture on Stochastic Games! See slides and video.
2024.11.20: Presented Karma in a site visit of Syngenta CH! It was exciting to see how karma can manage internal competition for greenhouse and growth chamber space!
2024.10.29: Presented Karma in the UZH Department of Sociology CSR Colloquium! What a great opportunity for interdisciplinary dialogue! See slides.
2024.10.05: CARMA made it to the Swiss news! Check out all the heated comments! See article 1, article 2, article 3.
2024.10.03: Presented CARMA in this year's AI+X Summit! What a pleasure to present to such diverse and broad audience! See slides.
2024.09.11: CARMA is finally published in Transportation Science!
2024.03.19: Presented Karma Experimental Study in this year's Matching in Practice Workshop! See slides.
2024.03.14: Gave the IfA Coffee Talk on Karma! See slides.
2024.02.23: Held a tutorial on Social Choice Theory in Engineering Systems! See slides.
2023.12.13: Presented CARMA with elastic demand in this year's CDC in Singapore! See slides.
2023.11.28: Co-organized this year's IfA Open House and fed ~200 passionate students pizza!
2023.11.14: Co-presented CARMA in this year's NCCR site visit, together with Carlo Cenedese! See slides.
2023.11.12: Co-wrote NCCR blogpost on how to use karma for traffic congestion control!
2023.10.26: Gave a demo on real quad-copter control to high school students as part of the Technik- und Informatikwochen!
2023.09.05: Attended UZH workshop on bias in teaching and learning!
2023.06.27: Presented CARMA in this year's MED in Cyprus! See slides.
2023.04.06: Presented Dynamic Population Games in NUS Workshop on Games on Networks! What an honour to be among such distinguished speakers! See slides and video.

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