About me

I’m Khalil, a researcher specializing in Swarm Intelligence and Autonomous Robotics. I received my B.Eng. in Software Engineering from the University of Birjand in 2018 and my M.Eng. in Artificial Intelligence from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 2020. I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. in Information cand Communication Engineering at Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt, where my work focuses on coverage exploration for robot swarms in complex unknown environments.

At Lakeside Labs GmbH, I work on swarm robotics, distributed multi agent systems, and optimization approaches for industrial applications. I have also been part of the Institute for Networked and Embedded Systems at Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt since 2021, contributing to research on swarm robotic systems.

My research interests span swarm robotics, distributed multi agent systems and optimization for autonomous and networked systems. I am particularly interested in how intelligent collective behaviors can enhance the resilience and adaptability of future cyber physical systems and Industry 4.0, and how these systems can be optimized to operate efficiently and at scale. I also work with deep learning, deep reinforcement learning, image processing and digital signal processing.

Email: youssefi@lakeside-labs.com

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khalil-youssefi/

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Selected Research Projects

Shared Charging

An FFG funded project that develops shared EV charging infrastructure integrating renewable energy for sustainable mobility. It focuses on scalable, cost efficient and accessible charging solutions for public and semi public areas.

EmbeddedAI

An Erasmus+ funded project that is creating an international Master of Science program in Embedded Artificial Intelligence aimed at embedding AI into real world systems.

BugWright2

A European-funded research project under Horizon 2020 that develops autonomous robotic inspection and maintenance systems for ship hulls.

SwarmIn

An FFG funded project that developed swarm-intelligence based optimization methods for cyber physical manufacturing. It focused on self organizing multi agent systems for Industry 4.0.

Publications

2026

Youssefi, K. A. R., Gojkovic, M., Stefanutti, W., Auer, M., & Schranz, M. (2026). A grid-aware agent-based model for analyzing electric vehicle charging systems. arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.27849. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.27849

2025

Youssefi Darmian, K. A., & Elmenreich, W. (2025). Coverage exploration of unknown obstacle-cluttered environments using a swarm of ground robots. Applied Soft Computing, 185, 113964. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2025.113964
Youssefi Darmian, K. A., Abbaszadeh Darban, R., Kastner, G., & Elmenreich, W. (2025). A criterion for assessing obstacle-induced environmental complexity in multi-robot coverage exploration. PLoS One, 20(5), e0323112. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323112
Youssefi, K.A., Gojković, M., Schranz, M. (2026). Enhancing Job-Shop Scheduling Performance with a Refined Bottom-Up Variant of the Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm. In: Wagner, G., Werner, F., De Rango, F. (eds) Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications. SIMULTECH 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1620. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-04777-9_6

2024

Youssefi, K. A., Gojković, M., & Schranz, M. (2024). Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm: Bottom-Up Variants for the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem. In SIMULTECH 2024, 103–111. https://doi.org/10.5220/0012765900003758
Youssefi, K. A.-R., Lindner, H., & Elmenreich, W. (2024). RoboTunes: A Multi-Player Learning Framework with Musical Programmable Robots. In 2024 10th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA), Athens, Greece, 334–338. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARA60736.2024.10553175

2022

Valavi, M. H., Jaberipur, G., & Youssefi, K. A.-R. (2022). Impact of different types of input wire on defect-tolerance of QCA majority voter. European Physical Journal Plus, 137(8), 977. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-022-03134-3
Youssefi, K. A.-R., Rouhani, M., Mashhadi, H. R., & Elmenreich, W. (2022). A swarm intelligence-based robotic search algorithm integrated with game theory. Applied Soft Computing, 122, 108873. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2022.108873

2021

Youssefi, K. A.-R., & Rouhani, M. (2021). Swarm intelligence based robotic search in unknown maze-like environments. Expert Systems with Applications, 178, 114907. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.114907