Amir received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Before joining UM, Amir was a postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of technology, Atlanta, GA. Amir collaborated with NASA JPL on enabling technologies for spacecraft formation flying. Amir has designed a number of algorithms for operation of teams of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Boeing Phantom-Works, Rockwell Collins Inc., and others. Amir’s current research interests encompass control of networked dynamic system, including teams of autonomous land, air and space vehicles.