Amir is an Associate Professor in Robotics and AI at the University of Sheffield, where he leads the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Theme within the Centre for Machine Intelligence (joint between Computer Science and Electrical & Electronic Engineering). Before joining Sheffield, he was Associate Professor and Robotics Theme Lead at the University of Surrey (2023–2025). Prior to this, he was Associate Professor at the University of Lincoln, where he led the Selective Harvesting Robotics research theme within the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology (2021–2023), and Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science (2018–2021). From 2015 to 2018, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Amir earned his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Fluid Mechanics) from the University of Urmia (2004), an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Systems, Vibration, and Control) from Iran University of Science and Technology (2008), an M.Sc. in Automatic Control Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (2010), and a Ph.D. in Information Technology (Robot Learning) from Politecnico di Milano (2015). His research focuses on robotic manipulation, learning, and predictive control, with strong application to real-world challenges. Past projects include robotic and autonomous systems for nuclear sorting and segregation, selective harvesting of strawberries, and early breast cancer detection. A selection of past research works can be viewed on the Intelligent Manipulation Lab YouTube channel.
