Research

Publications

Papers, code, and current manuscripts.

First-authored

Selected work
3D animation of the controlled soft-robot manipulator

2026 · Conference paper

Continuous-time optimal control of neural ODEs via Bayesian inference

Neural ODEs: neural ordinary differential equations.

Ali Vaziri, Huazhen Fang · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

Accepted
Air-source heat-pump system diagram

2026 · Journal article

Modular deep learning framework for vapor-compression HVAC systems: scalable, efficient, and physically consistent modeling

HVAC: heating, ventilation, and air conditioning.

Ali Vaziri, Hongtao Qiao, Christopher R. Laughman, Huazhen Fang · Applied Thermal Engineering

PublishedPaper ↗
Optimal inferential control of a convolutional neural networks

2025 · Conference paper

Optimal inferential control of convolutional Neural networks

Ali Vaziri, Huazhen Fang · American Control Conference (ACC) · Best student paper nominee

Autonomous-vehicle overtaking scenario used for heavy-tailed Bayesian motion planning

2025 · Conference paper

Bayesian inferential motion planning using heavy-tailed distributions

Ali Vaziri, Iman Askari, Huazhen Fang · American Control Conference (ACC)

Co-authored

Peer reviewed
Predicted and reference trajectories from the ML-based vehicle dynamics model

2025 · Journal article

Model predictive inferential control of neural state-space models for autonomous vehicle motion planning

Iman Askari, Ali Vaziri, Xuemin Tu, Shen Zeng, Huazhen Fang · IEEE Transactions on Robotics

PublishedPaper ↗

Current manuscripts

In preparation
Optimal inferential control framework for machine-learning models

Manuscript

Optimal inferential control of machine learning models

Ali Vaziri, et al.

In preparation
Controlled Burgers equation field

Manuscript

Robust GPU-enabled framework for optimal boundary and distributed control of PDEs

GPU: graphics processing unit. PDEs: partial differential equations.

Ali Vaziri, et al.

In preparation