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Mohsen Moghaddam

Mohsen Moghaddam is an industrial engineering researcher who studies human-centered AI and extended reality for manufacturing work and learning. He earned engineering degrees at the University of Tehran and Purdue, worked in manufacturing research at Purdue and GE-Purdue, and joined Northeastern as an assistant professor in 2018. His work includes a 2021 NSF-funded XR training project, an augmented-reality assembly study, a 2022 design method that pairs natural-language processing with generative adversarial networks, and a 2024 intelligent XR framework. He is Georgia Tech's Gary C. Butler Family Associate Professor, a role he has held since January 2025; he directs SAIL and the Allen-Davidson–Coleman XR Makerspace and coauthored psiUnity, an open-source platform for multimodal XR data, in November 2025.

Now at
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Works
124
Citations
2,602
h-index
32
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2009–2018

    Tehran degrees and Purdue research

    He earns a BS in industrial and systems engineering at the University of Tehran in 2009 and an MS in industrial engineering there in 2012, then completes a PhD in industrial engineering at Purdue University in 2016. From 2012 to 2016, he works as a researcher at Purdue's Center for Production, Robotics, and Integration Software for Manufacturing and Management; from 2016 to 2018, he is a postdoctoral associate with the GE-Purdue Partnership in Research and Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing.

  2. August 2018

    Assistant professor at Northeastern

    He joins Northeastern University's Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department as an assistant professor in August 2018, with research interests in smart manufacturing, open systems theory and machine intelligence.

  3. 2021

    An NSF award for intelligent XR

    In 2021, he receives a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation's Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier program to study how extended reality and artificial intelligence can enhance manufacturing workers' learning and adaptability.

  4. 2021

    An augmented reality assembly study

    He coauthors “Exploring augmented reality for worker assistance versus training,” published in Advanced Engineering Informatics in 2021; its HoloLens 2 study with 20 participants performing an electro-mechanical assembly task finds that augmented reality decreases errors compared with traditional instruction.

  5. 2022

    Mavroidis award and Purdue seminar

    In 2022, he shares Northeastern's Constantinos Mavroidis Translational Research Faculty Award with Yiannis Levendis. In April 2022, he presents a Purdue seminar on design augmentation: its framework extracts user needs from online reviews with natural-language processing and maps them to visual concepts through generative adversarial networks; the talk also covers AI and extended reality for manufacturing workers.

  6. February 2024

    An intelligent XR framework

    At Harvard's Next Level Lab in February 2024, he presents an intelligent XR framework for industrial learning, built on online activity understanding, error detection and prevention, expertise modeling, and content generation.

  7. 2024

    Visiting roles and a team award

    He serves as a visiting scholar at Harvard's Next Level Lab and as a visiting professor with Politecnico di Milano's HumanTech project, while holding an affiliated faculty role in Northeastern's Khoury College and directing SAIL. He receives Northeastern's Faculty Research Team Award in 2024.

  8. Since January 2025

    Associate professor at Georgia Tech

    He joins Georgia Tech in January 2025 as the Gary C. Butler Family Associate Professor, with joint appointments in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. In November 2025, he coauthors psiUnity, an open-source C# integration that connects psi's .NET libraries with Unity 2022.3 and MRTK3 for HoloLens 2, enabling synchronized multimodal headset data. By August 2026, he directs SAIL, where his team develops human-centered models, algorithms and tools at the intersection of AI and spatial computing to enhance learning and creativity in industrial settings; he also directs the Allen-Davidson–Coleman XR Makerspace at Georgia Tech.

Career

  1. Since 2025Georgia Institute of TechnologyGary C. Butler Family Associate Professor
  2. Since 2025H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems EngineeringDirector
  3. 2024Harvard UniversityVisiting Scholar
  4. 2024Polytechnic University of MilanVisiting Professor
  5. 2018–2025Northeastern UniversityAssistant Professor
  6. 2016–2018GE-Purdue Partnership in Research and Innovation in Advanced ManufacturingPostdoctoral Associate
  7. 2012–2016Purdue UniversityResearcher

Education

  1. 2016Purdue UniversityPhD
  2. 2012University of TehranBS, MS

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. Reference architectures for smart manufacturing: A critical review2018 · Journal of Manufacturing Systems · 220 citations
  2. Interoperability in Smart Manufacturing: Research Challenges2019 · Machines · 187 citations
  3. Data science skills and domain knowledge requirements in the manufacturing industry: A gap analysis2021 · Journal of Manufacturing Systems · 106 citations
  4. A flexible neural network-fuzzy mathematical programming algorithm for improvement of oil price estimation and forecasting2011 · Computers & Industrial Engineering · 105 citations
  5. Exploring augmented reality for worker assistance versus training2021 · Advanced Engineering Informatics · 103 citations

From OpenAlex, as of 21 October 2026.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  3. People shaping AI work at a median of 3 organizations over a career: 3 for university starters and institute and lab starters, versus 2 for company startersIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. Across 6,853 people shaping AI with a dated work role, we estimate a median of 3 parent organizations over a career (mean 3.6), comparing role groups, starting sectors and starting decades from the 1950s to 2020–2026.
  4. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorateIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorate. Across 2,116 people with both an undergraduate degree and a doctorate recorded, we trace which undergraduate schools feed which doctoral programs, how often students stay at the same school, and how paths differ by birth-country region.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Mohsen Moghaddam | H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering isye.gatech.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. ICPR25 Organizing Committee: Mohsen Moghaddam | Missouri S&T icpr25-chicago.mst.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. New Faculty Spotlight: Mohsen Moghaddam - Northeastern University College of Engineering coe.northeastern.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. MIE’s Moghaddam Awarded $2M for Intelligent Extended Reality Research - Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering mie.northeastern.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Exploring augmented reality for worker assistance versus training eprints.gla.ac.uk. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Faculty and Staff Awards 2022 - Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering mie.northeastern.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. IE Spring Seminar: Methods for augmenting human-machine teaming in design and manufacturing - Purdue University engineering.purdue.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Dr. Mohsen Moghaddam – Next Level Lab nextlevellab.gse.harvard.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. The Human-Tech Duo: Augmenting Learning and Adaptability with AI and Extended Reality | HumanTech humantech.dig.polimi.it. Checked 21 October 2026.
  10. Faculty Spotlight: Gary C. Butler Family Associate Professor Mohsen Moghaddam | George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering me.gatech.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  11. psiUnity: A Platform for Multimodal Data-Driven XR arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  12. Georgia Tech, VRARA and AAIA Announce Techlanta 2026 | Research News Center news.research.gatech.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.