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
- 2024/08: Our new paper on the control of omnidirectional multirotor vehicles for aggressive maneuvers has been submitted! The preprint is available on arxiv. The video can be found here.
- 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 was the session chair for Control Techniques for AAM Autonomy (GNC-28) at AIAA SciTech 2024.
- 2023/09: Our research and student team have been featured on MechSE news. Check for more details here.
- 2023/08: Our new preprint on DiffTune is available on arxiv. The video can be found here. Feel free to try DiffTune using our open-sourced toolset.
- 2023/08: I gave an invited talk at the Long Feng Science Forum at CUHK-Shenzhen.
- 2023/07: I gave an invited talk at the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich.
- 2023/04: Our new paper on hyperparameter-free auto-tuning using DiffTune has been accepted by L4DC for oral presentation (9.5% acceptance rate)! The preprint is available here. The presentation is available here.
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