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Safe Control and Learning for Embodied Autonomy

We develop safe and trustworthy autonomous systems—from perception to planning, control, and coordination.

How can robots learn and adapt to an uncertain world while remaining safe?

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Nov. 2026 NeurIPS SRL-MPC: Shape-Aware Reinforcement Learned Model Predictive Control accepted to NeurIPS 2026.
Nov. 2026 CDC I will give an invited talk at the CDC 2026 workshop, Safe and Resilient Learning-Based Control for Robotic Systems, on December 14, 2026.
Sep. 2026 Automatica Kalman-Bucy Filtering with Randomized Sensing: Fundamental Limits and Sensor Network Design for Field Estimation accepted to Automatica.
Sep. 2026 RA-L DiffCVaR: Reinforcement Learning for Risk Adaptation via Differentiable CVaR Barrier Functions accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
Aug. 2026 OU I joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Oakland University as an Assistant Professor.