About me
Hello! Thank you for visiting my website. I’m a postdoc at UIUC working with Prof. Naira Hovakimyan and I’m leading the ACRL Multirotor Team. I received my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, under the supervision of Prof. Derek A. Paley in 2021. My Curriculum Vitae can be found here.
Recent news
- 2024/12: I gave an invited talk at the REALM Lab at MIT.
- 2024/12: L1Quad has been accepted by IEEE TCST! The preprint can be accessed here. The video for experiments can be found here. Our open-source code can be accessed here.
- 2024/12: Our new paper on the control of omnidirectional multirotor vehicles for aggressive maneuvers has been accepted for publication by IEEE RA-L! The preprint is available on arxiv. The video can be found here.
- 2024/11: Our new paper on control parameter inference at run-time for unseen tasks has been submitted to 2025 L4DC.
- 2024/09: One paper submitted to 2025 ACC.
- 2024/09: Two papers submitted to 2025 ICRA.
- 2024/07: DiffTune has been accepted by IEEE T-RO! You can access the paper, demo, and code from the links attached.
- 2024/06: DiffTune-MPC has been accepted by IEEE RA-L. You can access the paper, arxiv, and code from the links attached.
- 2024/06: Our recent work on a new optimization-based planner, BSPOP, has been accepted for presentation at 2024 IROS. The arxiv version of the paper can be accessed here. Check out our demo on a Polaris Gem car here.
- 2024/03: Proto-MPC has been accepted by 6th L4DC. The paper can be accessed here.
- 2024/01: I served as the session chair for Control Techniques for AAM Autonomy (GNC-28) at AIAA SciTech 2024.
- 2023/07: I gave an invited talk at the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich.
Honors and awards
- Excellent Reviewer, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (2022)
- Graduate School Summer Fellowship, University of Maryland (2021)
- Student Travel Award, ACC, IFAC WC, CDC, SIAM DS
- Future Faculty Fellow, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland (2018)
- George Corcoran Award, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland (2016)
- Teaching Assistant Training and Development (TATD) Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland (2015-2016)
- International Teaching Fellow (ITF), Teaching & Learning Transformation Center, University of Maryland (2015-2016)
- Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland (2015)
- Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award, Department of Control Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (2014)
Service
- Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Automatica, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Control Systems Letters, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
- Conference Reviewer: CoRL, ICRA, IROS, IFAC WC, CDC, ACC, CASE, and DARS-SWARM
- Member of the IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Intelligent Control