Hamza Mahmood

In Downtown Manhattan, New York

Hi, I am a PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), located in NJ, USA. My PhD advisor is Dr. Adeel Akhtar.

I did my MSc in Mathematics from the Department of Mathematics in the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering (SBASSE) at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan. Prior to that, I completed my Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering (BEE) from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan.

I enjoy studying control theory through the language of differential geometry. My current research focuses on geometric control of stochastic dynamical systems.

Selected Publications

arXiv

Schrödinger Bridge Over A Compact Connected Lie Group

Hamza Mahmood, Abhishek Halder, and Adeel Akhtar

arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.14049, 2026

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@article{mahmood2026schr,
  title = {Schr{\"o}dinger Bridge Over A Compact Connected Lie Group},
  author = {Mahmood, Hamza and Halder, Abhishek and Akhtar, Adeel},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.14049},
  year = {2026}
}

IEEE ACC

Path Invariance of a Quadrotor System under Cyber Attacks with Theoretical Guarantees

Hamza Mahmood, Usman Ali, and Adeel Akhtar

In 2025 American Control Conference (ACC), 2025

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@inproceedings{mahmood2025path,
  title = {Path Invariance of a Quadrotor System under Cyber Attacks with Theoretical Guarantees},
  author = {Mahmood, Hamza and Ali, Usman and Akhtar, Adeel},
  booktitle = {2025 American Control Conference (ACC)},
  pages = {972--977},
  year = {2025},
  organization = {IEEE}
}

IEEE CDC

Identification of Supporting Hyperplanes in Scenario Optimisation Problems with Random Linear Constraints

Hamza Mahmood, Hasan Arshad Nasir, and Usman Ali

In 2020 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2020

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@inproceedings{mahmood2020identification,
  title = {Identification of Supporting Hyperplanes in Scenario Optimisation Problems with Random Linear Constraints},
  author = {Mahmood, Hamza and Nasir, Hasan Arshad and Ali, Usman},
  booktitle = {2020 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
  pages = {2234--2239},
  year = {2020},
  organization = {IEEE}
}