Mahmoud Efatmaneshnik
Postdoctoral Associate
Location: Altofer, Room 417
Phone: 201.216.3309
Fax: 201.216.5541
Email: Mahmoud.Efatmaneshnik@stevens.edu
Mahmoud Efatmaneshnik is a postdoctoral researcher with Stevens Institute of
Technology working on F6 satellite fragmentation DARPA project. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems,
University of New South Wales (UNSW), in Sydney, Australia from 2009 to 2011. At
UNSW his research focus was network positioning and navigation, cooperative positioning, GPS/INS integration and information fusion. He has a BE (1999) in
Aerospace Engineering from the Tehran Polytechnic University, and a ME (2005) in
Manufacturing Management and Industrial Engineering from UNSW. He accomplished his PhD in the Mechanical School of UNSW on complex system design.
Education
 PhD (2005- 2009) School of Mechanical and Manufacturing
Engineering University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Thesis title: Towards Immunization of Complex Engineered Systems:
Products, Processes, and Organizations
 Masters of Engineering Science in Manufacturing Engineering and
Industrial Management (2003-2004) School of Mechanical and
Manufacturing University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
 Bachelor of Engineering in Aerospace (1994-1999) Amir-Kabir
University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran
Research Interests
 Engineering of complex systems
 Network Dynamincs
 Complexity measures

 Statistical modeling of complex phenomena
 Uncertainty management
 Stochastic simulation
 Dynamics of complex systems
 Decomposition and modularity in design
 Design problem solving, modeling and optimization
 Nonlinearity and emergence
 Aerospace systems
Publicatoins
Book Chapter
Efatmaneshnik M, Reidsema CA. 2008. IMMUNE: A Collaborating Environment for
Complex System Design. In Collaborative Computational Intelligence, Mumford C. and
Jain L. (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg, pp. 275-320.
Efatmaneshnik M, Reidsema CA, et al. 2009. Immune Decomposition and
Decomposability Analysis of Complex Design Problems with a Graph Theoretic
Complexity Measure. In Smart Information and Knowledge Management, Nguyen N.T. and Szczerbicki E. (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg, pp. 27-52.
Efatmaneshnik M, Alam N, et al. 2012. Cooperative Positioning in Vehicular Networks.
In Wireless Technologies in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: Present and Future Challenges,
Santos R. A., Block A. E. and Licea V. R. (eds.), IGI Global Publication, Mexico City, Mexico.
”to be printed on January 2012”
Journal Article
Efatmaneshnik M, Reidsema CA. 2007. Immunity as a Design Decision Making
Paradigm for Complex Systems: a Robustness Approach. Cybernetics and Systems Vol. 38,
No. 8, pp. 759-780.
Efatmaneshnik M, Reidsema CA. 2007. Immunity and Information Sensitivity of
Complex Product Design Process in Overlap Decomposition. InterJournal Complex
Systems, Manuscript ID. 2035.
Hollisaaz M, Efatmaneshnik M, et al. 2007. Data-Entropy Analysis of Renal
Transplantation Data. Transplantation Proceedings, No. 4, pp. 930-931.
Efatmaneshnik M, Reidsema CA. 2009. Decomposition, Integration, and Emergence in
Complex System Design. Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems: An Interdisciplinary
Journal, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 211-231.
Efatmaneshnik M, Reidsema CA. 2010. A Complex Systems Engineering Design Model.
Cybernetics and Systems, Vol. 41, No. 8, pp. 554-576.

Li Y, Efatmaneshnik M, Dempster AG. 2010. Attitude Determination by Integration of
MEMS Inertial Sensors and GPS for Autonomous Agriculture Application. GPS Solutions.
Doi: 10.1007/s10291-011-0207-y
Efatmaneshnik M, Kealy A, Dempster AG. 2011. Information Fusion for Localization within Vehicular Networks. Journal of Navigation. Vol 64, No 3, pp. 401-416.
Efatmaneshnik M, Alam N, et al. 2011. A Fast Multidimensional Scaling based Filter for
Vehicular Cooperative Positioning. Journal of Navigation. "Accepted, to appear in
January2012 edition”
Magazine Article
Efatmaneshnik M, Li Y, Dempster AG. 2011. Comparing approaches to Smoothing
Attitude Solutions with GPS Source Variability. Coordinates Magazine. Vol 7, No 2.
Conference and Workshop Paper
Efatmaneshnik M, Reidsema CA. 2008. Integration Schemes and Decomposition Modes
in Complex Problem Solving. Paper presented in System Engineering, Test and
Evaluation Conference, Canberra, 22-24 September.
Efatmaneshnik M, Reidsema CA. 2008. Exploiting Non-Dominance in Multi Agent Systems:
An Artificial Immune Algorithm for Distributed and Complex Problem Solving Environments.
In proceedings of 12th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems
IES08. Melbourne, 8-9 December.
Efatmaneshnik M, Tabatabaei A, et al. 2009. A Channel Capacity Perspective on Cooperative
Positioning Algorithms for VANET. ION GNSS conference, Savannah, Georgia, 22-25
September.
Efatmaneshnik M, Tabatabaei A, et al. 2009. A Modified Multidimensional Scaling with
Embedded Particle Filter Algorithm for Cooperative Positioning of Vehicular Networks. In proceedings IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety, Nov 10-12,
Pune, India, pp 7-12.
Li Y, Efatmaneshnik M, et al. 2009. Performance Evaluation of AHRS Kalman Filter for
MojoRTK System. IGNSS Symposium, Queensland, Australia, 1-3 December.
Efatmaneshnik M, Li Y, Dempster AG. 2010. Application of Adaptive Kalman Filtering
Algorithms for Smoothing Attitude Solutions with GPS Source Variability. Paper presented at
European Navigation Conference on Global Navigation Systems ENC-GNSS 2010,
Braunschweig, Germany, 19 - 21 October 2010.
Efatmaneshnik M, Kealy A, Dempster AG. 2010. Analysis of Information Fusion for Low
Cost, Precise and Reliable Vehicular Cooperative Positioning with DSRC. In proceedings of
DSRC workshop and 7th ICST QShine, Houston, Texas, USA, November 17-19, 2010.
Yao J, Balaei AT, Alam N, Efatmaneshnik M, et al.2011. Characterizing Cooperative
Positioning in VANET. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2011,
Cancun, Quantana Roo, Mexico, 28-30 Mach, 2011.

Presentation
Efatmaneshnik M. 2007. An Investigation into Complex System Design. Presented to a group of reviewers at Mechanical school, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia.
Efatmaneshnik M. 2007. Immunity of Overlap Decompositions. Presented to a group of reviewers at Mechanical school, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia.
Efatmaneshnik M. 2008. Decomposition and Integration of Complex Systems. Presented to a group of reviewers at Mechanical school, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia.
Efatmaneshnik M. 2009. Exploiting Non-Dominance: Immunizing Fragile Multi Agent
Design Organization. Presented to a group of reviewers at the University of New South
Wales, Sydney Australia.
Efatmaneshnik M. 2010. GNSS/DSRC Cooperative Positioning, A Project Description.
Presented at the inauguration of DSRC project, school of Surveying, University of New
South Wales, Sydney Australia.
Efatmaneshnil M.
2011. DSRC and GPS Tight Integration, Presented at AutoCRC
Center, Melbourne on 31/3/2011.
Membership
System Engineering Society of Australia, SESA www.sesa.org.au
Complex Open Systems Research Network (COSNet) www.complexsystems.net.au
International Global Navigation Satellite Systems Society, IGNSS www.IGNSS.com