Armon Shariati is currently an Applied Research Scientist in Machine Learning at Amazon Robotics.

In 2020 he defended his PhD thesis, “Online Synthesis of Speculative Building Information Models for Robot Motion Planning” under the advisement of Prof. Camillo Jose Taylor. In 2015 he was the recipient of the NSF IGERT Fellowship in Complex Scene Perception.

He earned his M.S. degree in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018, and his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Lehigh University in 2015 where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.

He previously worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the VADER Laboratory under the advisement of Prof. John Spletzer — another GRASP alumni.