Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, 2026
Joined Summer 2021
- Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Iowa State University, 2026
- M.S., Industrial Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2015
- B.S., Industrial Engineering, Semnan University of Science and Technology, Semnan, Iran, 2013
Mahsa Khosravi completed her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at Iowa State University, defending in Fall 2026. She joined the Self-aware Complex Systems Laboratory in Summer 2021, where her research centered on reinforcement learning, machine learning, deep learning, and robotics. Her M.S. research focused on cancer diagnosis and recurrence prediction using machine learning. She also enjoys playing the piano, reading books, and rock climbing.
Research interests: Reinforcement learning, machine learning, deep learning, robotics
Publications with the lab (4)
- Enhancing PPO With Trajectory-Aware Hybrid Policies — IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2026)
- Optimizing navigation and chemical application in precision agriculture with deep reinforcement learning and conditional action tree — Smart Agricultural Technology (2025)
- Zero-shot Sim-to-Real Transfer for Reinforcement Learning-based Visual Servoing of Soft Continuum Arms — Proceedings of the 7th Annual Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference (L4DC 2025), PMLR 283 (2025)
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- AgGym: An agricultural biotic stress simulation environment for ultra-precision management planning — Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (2026)
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