Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, where I direct the Robust Control Lab (RCL).

At RCL, our research focuses on robust and adaptive safe control, state estimation, and system identification for robotic and autonomous systems. We develop experimentally validated, optimization-based control methods that integrate control theory and machine learning for real-world feedback control implementations.

Prior to joining Illinois Tech, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Burdick group at Caltech and a member of the Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST). At Caltech, I had the privilege of working closely with Professors Joel W. Burdick, Aaron D. Ames, and Richard M. Murray. I also collaborated with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Robotics team.

News

[March 17, 2026] We submitted four papers to IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) and the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2026. arXiv, arXiv, arXiv, arXiv

[March 3, 2026] We submitted two papers to the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2026.

[December 11, 2025] We submitted a paper to the IFAC World Congress 2026. (Accepted), arXiv, code

[November 4, 2025] We submitted a paper to Automatica. arXiv

[September 30, 2025] We submitted a paper to the American Control Conference (ACC) 2026. (Accepted), arXiv, code

[September 14, 2025] We submitted a paper to the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2026. (Accepted), arXiv

[August 25, 2025] We submitted a paper, entitled “Safe Navigation under State Uncertainty: Online Adaptation for Robust Control Barrier Functions”, to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. (Accepted), IEEE, arXiv, code, video

[July 9, 2025] Our paper, “AI Space Cortex: An Experimental System for Future Era Space Exploration”, was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics (TFR). arXiv, IEEE

[July 8, 2025] We presented our paper at the American Control Conference (ACC) 2025 in Denver, Colorado. arXiv

[May 20, 2025] I presented our paper, “Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design for Robot Kinematic Calibration”, at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025 in Atlanta, USA. arXiv

[April 18, 2025] I presented our research on Robust Control Barrier Functions at the 45th Southern California Control Workshop, held at the University of California, San Diego, on Friday, April 18th. Link

[April 16, 2025] I gave a seminar on Uncertainty-Aware Safe Autonomy for Real-World Systems to the Dynamics & Control Research Group of the University of Bristol, UK.

[February 2025] We submitted a paper to IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics. (Accepted), arXiv

[January 2025] Our paper, “Robust Control Barrier Functions using Uncertainty Estimation with Application to Mobile Robots”, was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC). arXiv, IEEE

[December 2024] I am pleased to share that I have joined the Early Career Advisory Board of Control Engineering Practice (CEP), a distinguished journal for advancing the practical applications of control theory. I look forward to your outstanding submissions.

[November 2024] We submitted a paper to the European Control Conference (ECC) 2025. (Accepted) arXiv

[October 2024] We submitted a paper to the American Control Conference (ACC) 2025. (Accepted) arXiv, code

[September 2024] We submitted a paper to the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025. (Accepted) arXiv

[July 2024] Our paper, “Rollover Prevention for Mobile Robots With Control Barrier Functions: Differentiator-Based Adaptation and Projection-to-State Safety”, was accepted by IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) and IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2024. arXiv

[May 2024] I visited Hatanaka Lab at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

[May 2024] We presented our paper at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024 in Yokohama, Japan. arXiv, video

[January 2024] We submitted a paper to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC). (Accepted) arXiv

[May 2023] I presented our paper at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023 in London, United Kingdom. arXiv

[December 2022] I presented our paper at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2022 in Cancun, Mexico. arXiv