Mahdi is a Ph.D student at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning in Adelaide, supervised by Prof. Javen Shi, Dr. Qi Wu and Dr. Eshan Abbasnejad. Previously, he finished his Honours Degree of Bachelor of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide, with First class Honours, where he was awarded the faculty’s Valedictorian (among eight schools) and the Dean’s Academic Excellence Award for his outstanding achievements. His research interests include visual navigation and reinforcement learning in general.