News

• 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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