Dr Peng Mei currently holds a joint postdoctoral position at the Politecnico di Milano and the University of Genoa. He earned his PhD in New Energy Vehicle Engineering from Beihang University in January 2024. From 2019 to 2021, he served as a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy. He has published around 20 papers in refereed international journals. His research focuses on various aspects of vehicle control strategies, reinforcement learning, and battery modelling

Dr. Karimi received the B.Sc. (First Hons.) degree in power systems from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1998, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. (First Hons.) degrees in control systems engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. His research interests are in the areas of control systems/theory, mechatronics, networked control systems, intelligent control systems, signal processing, vibration control, ground vehicles, structural control, wind turbine control and cutting processes. He is an Editorial Board Member for some international journals and several Technical Committee. Prof. Karimi has been presented a number of national and international awards, including Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellowship Award (in Germany), JSPS Research Award (in Japan), DAAD Research Award (in Germany), August-Wilhelm-Scheer Award (in Germany) and been invited as visiting professor at a number of universities in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Spain, China, Korea, Japan, India.