Publications

Mohammad Afshari and Aditya Mahajan, "Decentralized linear quadratic systems with major and minor agents and non-Gaussian noise", Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020. (pdf)
Mohammad Afshari and Aditya Mahajan, "Multi-agent estimation and filtering for minimizing team mean-squared error", Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2020.(pdf)
Mohammad Afshari and Aditya Mahajan, ``Optimal local and remote controllers with unreliable uplink channels: An elementary proof'', Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019. (pdf)

Mohammad Afshari and Aditya Mahajan, "Team optimal decentralized state estimation", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Miami, Florida, Dec 17–19, 2018. (pdf)
Mohammad Afshari and Aditya Mahajan, "Optimal decentralized control of two agent linear system with partial output feedback: certainty equivalence and optimality of linear strategies", Proceedings of the IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Groningen, Netherlands, Aug 27–28, 2018. (pdf)
Mohammad Afshari and Aditya Mahajan, "Static Teams with Common Information", Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress, Volume 50, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 11926-11931. (pdf)
Mohammad Afshari, Ahmadreza Tavassoli, and Jafar Ghaisari, "A PCA-based Kalman Estimation Approach for System with Colored Measurement Noise", Proceedings of the 20th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2012, pp.969-973. (pdf)

"Team optimal decentralized control of major-minor agents with partial observations", Informal Systems Seminar, McGill University, Montreal, 2019.
Mohammad Afshari and Aditya Mahajan, "Sufficient statistics and separation of estimation and control", Meeting on systems and control, University of Toronto, Toronto, May 2018.
Mohammad Afshari and Aditya Mahajan, "Decentralized Kalman Filtering", Off-site Fields Institute Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, Carleton University, Ottawa, August 2017.
Mohammad Afshari and Aditya Mahajan, "Team optimal decentralized filtering with coupled cost", Ninth Workshop on Dynamic Games in Management Science, HEC, Montreal, October 2017.
"Static Teams with Common Information", IFAC world congress, Toulouse, France, 2017.
Mohammad Afshari and Aditya Mahajan, "Value of Common Information in Static Teams", Eighth Workshop on Dynamic Games in Management Science, HEC, Montreal, October 2016.

Team Optimal Decentralized State Estimation, Biennial Meeting on Systems and Control Theory, University of Toronto, Toronto, 2018.
Optimal Decentralized Control of Two Agent Systems with Partial Observation, McGill Engineering Research Showcase (MERS), McGill University, Montreal, 2018.
Optimal Decentralized Control of Linear Systems: optimality of linear strategies, 4th Annual CIM-REPARTI Student Research Showcase, McGill University, Montreal, 2018.