Ehsan Taheri

Educational Background

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Michigan Technological University - 2014
M.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran - 2010
B.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, Azad University Science and Research Branch, Iran - 2007

- Astrodynamics/Orbital Mechanics
- Optimal control of nonlinear systems
- Numerical methods applied to astrodynamics
- Low-thrust/Impulsive trajectory optimization

Doctoral Finishing Fellowship , Michigan Tech, March 2014javascript:void(0)
Iran-ESF Award, the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA), May 2013
Colloquium Oral Presentation Award, Graduate Student Government, Michigan Tech, Spring 2012
Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award, Michigan Tech, Spring 2012
• M.Sc. Aerospace Engineering– Space Systems Engineering (Summa cum laude), 2010
• B.Sc., Aerospace Engineering (Summa cum laude), 2007

Ehsan Taheri, Ilya Kolmanovsky and Ella Atkins, Enhanced Smoothing Technique for Indirect Optimization of Minimum-Fuel Low-thrust Trajectories, Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 39, No. 11 (2016), pp. 2500-2511.
Ehsan Taheri, Ilya Kolmanovsky and Ella Atkins, Shaping Low-Thrust Trajectories with Thrust-Handling Feature, Advances in Space Research, Vol 61, Issue 3, pp. 879-890.
Ehsan Taheri and O. Abdelkhalik, Shape Based Approximation of Constrained Low-Thrust Space Trajectories using Fourier series, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 49, No. 3 (2012), pp. 535-545.
Reza Kamyar and Ehsan Taheri, Aircraft Optimal Terrain/Threat-Based Trajectory Planning and Control, Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2014), pp. 466-483.
Ehsan Taheri, Nan I. Li, and Ilya Kolmanovsky, Co-state Initialization for the minimum-time low-thrust trajectory optimization, Advances in Space Research, Volume 59, Issue 9, 1 May 2017, Pages 2360–2373.