Academic background

Engineering foundations. Research shaped by measurement.

My education traces a path from robotic engineering and mechatronics to doctoral research in information technology for engineering. Across each stage, my focus has moved toward making computational systems useful in the physical world: grounded in geometry, sensing, and evidence.

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Arman Neyestani in a suit holding a bouquet in front of a stone archway.

A connected progression

Robotics established the systems perspective; mechatronics added an intelligent human-machine dimension; doctoral work brought those interests into measurement, computer vision, and digital twins.

Degrees & research

Three stages of technical study.

Degrees and selected research topics.

01

2022–2025

Ph.D. in Information Technology for Engineering

University of SannioBenevento, Italy

Measurement and sensor information processing for digital twins, connecting computer vision, geometric measurement, and sensor data to engineering applications.

Doctoral dissertation

Measurement and Sensor Information Processing for Digital Twins

  • Vision-based structural monitoring
  • Monocular visual and visual-inertial odometry
  • UAV and UUV visual localization
  • Measurement uncertainty and sensitivity
  • Marker-based 6-DoF tracking
  • Crack detection and verification
  • Underwater vision and marine digital twins
02

2018

M.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering

Specialization · Human-Machine Interaction

Islamic Azad University

Graduate study specializing in Human-Machine Interaction, with thesis work applying deep learning and transfer learning to facial expression identification.

Master’s thesis

Facial expression identification using deep convolutional neural networks and transfer learning (GoogleNet-based work)

  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Deep learning
  • Facial expression identification
  • Transfer learning
03

2014

B.Sc. in Robotic Engineering

Islamic Azad University

Undergraduate foundation in robotic engineering, providing the starting point for later work across perception, visual localization, sensing, and engineering measurement.

  • Robotic engineering
  • Perception and sensing
  • Engineering systems

International research period · 2024

Underwater vision system research at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).

Arman Neyestani with research colleagues beside underwater vision equipment.
Research collaboration at UPC in OBSEA Lab, Spain.

During my doctoral research period abroad at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), with the Expandable Seafloor Observatory Lab (OBSEA) in Spain, I focused on underwater visual systems and monocular visual odometry.

The work included controlled underwater image acquisition and development of the SUBVO dataset with calibrated camera information and measured positional ground truth, alongside evaluation of feature extraction and visual-odometry methods in challenging underwater imagery.

Visiting researcher · April–November 2024

Education in practice

From academic training to dependable visual measurement.

This academic path informs my current work in computer vision and structural health monitoring: combining learned perception with camera geometry, sensor information, physical references, and careful treatment of uncertainty.