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• 02/01/2023: Paper on Online Submodular Coordination with Bounded Tracking Regret: Theory, Algorithm, and Application to Multi-Robot Coordination has been accepted to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). With Zirui Xu and Hongyu Zhou.
• 01/30/2023: Invited talk on Safe Online Learning and Control at the 57th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 22-24, 2023.
• 01/03/2023: Paper on Efficient Online Learning with Memory via Frank-Wolfe Optimization: Algorithms with Bounded Dynamic Regret and Applications to Control. With Hongyu Zhou and Zirui Xu.
• 12/09/2022: Zirui Xu presents the paper Resource-Aware Distributed Submodular Maximization: A Paradigm for Multi-Robot Decision-Making at IEEE CDC (slides | video).
• 08/31/2022: Online Submodular Coordination with Bounded Tracking Regret: Theory, Algorithm, and Application to Multi-Robot Coordination. With Zirui Xu and Hongyu Zhou.
• 08/31/2022: Received DEI Faculty Grant for organizing more than 60 DEI events during the 2022 academic year within the Aerospace Department and beyond for our students, staff, and faculty.
• 08/18/2022: Paper on Safe Perception-Based Control with Minimal Worst-Case Dynamic Regret. With Hongyu Zhou.
• 07/15/2022: Zirui Xu and I will be organizing the invited session “Resource-Aware Learning and Optimization in Complex Networks” at the IEEE CDC 2022. We look forward to seeing you there.
• 07/15/2022: Paper on Resource-Aware Distributed Submodular Maximization: A Paradigm for Multi-Robot Decision-Making has been accepted to IEEE CDC 2022. With Zirui Xu.
• 04/15/2022: Paper Distributed Attack-Robust Submodular Maximization for Multi-Robot Planning has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO). With L. Zhou, P. Tokekar, and G. J. Pappas.
• 03/31/2022: Paper on Resource-Aware Distributed Submodular Maximization: A Paradigm for Multi-Robot Decision-Making. With Zirui Xu.
• 03/13/2022: Paper Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles: An Open-source Hands-on Robotics Course at MIT is accepted to IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC). With Luca Carlone, Kasra Khosoussi, Golnaz Habibi, Markus Ryll, Rajat Talak, Jingnan Shi, and Pasquale Antonante.
• 01/22/2021: Paper Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles: An Open-source Hands-on Robotics Course at MIT submitted to IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC). With Luca Carlone, Kasra Khosoussi, Golnaz Habibi, Markus Ryll, Rajat Talak, Jingnan Shi, and Pasquale Antonante.
• 12/28/2021: I will be an Associate Editor for IEEE/RSJ IROS 2022.
• 10/01/2021: I proudly welcome 13 students to the Intelligent Robotics and Autonomy Lab (iRAL): 2 Ph.D, 5 M.Sc, and 6 B.Sc. students (including 4 UROPs); see our team here.
• 06/07/2021: Paper Outlier-Robust Estimation: Hardness, Minimally-Tuned Algorithms, and Applications accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO). With Pasquale Antonante, Heng (Hank) Yang, and Luca Carlone.
• 05/18/21: 2020 Honorable Mention from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters for the paper Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception: From Non-Minimal Solvers to Global Outlier Rejection. With Heng (Hank) Yang, Pasquale Antonante, and Luca Carlone.
• 05/14/21: Seminar at the University of Michigan, Sigma Gamma Tau Series.
• 05/02/21: Seminar at ETH, Autonomy Talk Series.
• 04/18/21: Paper on Resilient Active Information Acquisition with Teams of Robots accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO). With Brent Schlotfeldt and George J. Pappas.
• 04/02/21: Seminar at the University of Michigan, Controls Seminars Series.
• 02/19/21: I am an Associate Editor for IEEE/RSJ IROS 2021.
• 02/01/21: MathWorks news article on paper Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception.
• 01/01/21: MathWorks SLAM implementation of GNC algorithm proposed in paper Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception.
• 12/13/20: Paper on Robust and Adaptive Sequential Submodular Optimization accepted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC). With Ali Jadbabaie and George J. Pappas.
• 12/01/20: Paper on Resilient Active Information Acquisition with Teams of Robots conditionally accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO). With Brent Schlotfeldt and George J. Pappas.
• 12/01/20: MATLAB integration of algorithm proposed in Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception: From Non-Minimal Solvers to Global Outlier Rejection.
• 11/27/20: Paper Outlier-Robust Estimation: Hardness, Minimally-Tuned Algorithms, and Applications conditionally accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO). With Pasquale Antonante, Heng (Hank) Yang, and Luca Carlone.
• 08/18/20: Recent algorithmic results on outlier-robust estimation (cf. Best Paper Award in Robot Vision, ICRA 2020) will become an official function in MATLAB 2020b. Interview article to appear.
• 07/31/20: New paper on Outlier-Robust Estimation: Hardness, Minimally-Tuned Algorithms, and Applications. With Pasquale Antonante, Heng (Hank) Yang, and Luca Carlone.
• 07/16/20: Program committee member, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2020.
• 07/16/20: Paper on Robust and Adaptive Sequential Submodular Optimization conditionally accepted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC). With Ali Jadbabaie and George J. Pappas.
• 06/05/20: Best Paper Award in Robot Vision, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2020, for the paper Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception: From Non-Minimal Solvers to Global Outlier Rejection (video). With Heng Yang, Pasquale Antonante, and Luca Carlone.
• 05/14/20: Paper LQG Control and Sensing Co-Design accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC). With Luca Carlone, George J. Pappas, and Ali Jadbabaie.
• 05/11/20: MIT LIDS|ALL Magazine interview featuring my research on robust autonomy, Algorithms that protect, Vol. 15.
• 04/14/20: I will join the Aerospace Engineering team at the University of Michigan as an assistant professor on January 2021.
• 03/16/20: Invited seminar, Northeastern University. Seminar title: Foundations of Resilient Collaborative Autonomy: From Robust Combinatorial Optimization to Control and Learning.
• 03/04/20: Invited seminar, Mechanical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Seminar title: Foundations of Resilient Collaborative Autonomy: From Robust Combinatorial Optimization to Control and Learning.
• 02/28/20: Invited seminar, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. Seminar title: Foundations of Resilient Collaborative Autonomy: From Robust Combinatorial Optimization to Perception and Control.
• 02/07/20: Invited seminar at the Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Michigan. Seminar title: Foundations of Resilient Collaborative Autonomy: From Robust Combinatorial Optimization to Perception and Control.
• 10/16/19: Promoted to research scientist at MIT.

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