Khashayar Niki Maleki

Khashayar Niki Maleki is a senior flight simulation engineer at Supernal since September 2023. Previously, Khashayar served as a PhD researcher at The University of Tulsa from January 2017 to May 2023, focusing on the development of reliable autopilots for fully autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in collaboration with NASA Armstrong Research Center. Khashayar was also a machine learning engineer at XWorks Corporation from January 2020 to February 2021, where an end-to-end ML system for real-time object detection in UAVs was designed and deployed. As the co-founder and CTO of PULSEWARE, LLC from July 2009 to August 2013, Khashayar led a team in processing and analyzing core banking data. Khashayar began his career as a researcher and software developer at PishRobot LLC, where a vision-based soccer-playing humanoid robot was developed. Khashayar holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from The University of Tulsa, along with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Shahid Rajaee University.