Hamza Tariq

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), where I am a member of the Geometry Robotics and Dynamical Systems lab (GRaDS) Lab advised by Prof. Adeel Akhtar.

My research focuses on nonlinear control, optimization-based control, and safety-critical autonomous systems. I am particularly interested in feedback linearization, control barrier functions, trajectory tracking, path following, and decentralized coordination of robotic systems.

Before joining NJIT, I received my B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering and M.S. in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Control Systems from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan. During my master’s research, I worked on the development and control of a seven-degree-of-freedom robotic manipulator.

My current work includes singularity-free feedback linearization for nonholonomic mobile robots, decentralized safe path following for multi-quadrotor systems, and adaptive model predictive control for reservoir operation under uncertainty.