| Jul 24, 2024 | Our paper titled “Learning to Provably Satisfy High Relative Degree Constraints for Black-Box Systems” got accepted at the Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2024! |
| Jul 24, 2024 | Our paper titled “Learning Differentiable and Safe Multi-Robot Control for Generalization to Novel Environments using Control Barrier Functions” got accepted at the Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2024! |
| Jun 30, 2024 | Our paper titled “Optimal Robotic Assembly Sequence Planning (ORASP): A Sequential Decision-Making Approach” got accepted at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2024! |
| May 13, 2024 | Our paper titled “POLICEd RL: Learning Closed-Loop Robot Control Policies with Provable Satisfaction of Hard Constraints” got accepted at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2024! |
| Mar 28, 2024 | Our paper titled “Adaptive Learning from Demonstration in Heterogeneous Agents: Concurrent Minimization and Maximization of Surprise in Sparse Reward Environments” got accepted at the Learning for Dynamics & Control (L4DC) Conference 2024! |
| Jan 29, 2024 | Our paper titled “Weathering ongoing uncertainty: learning and planning in a time-varying partially observable environment” got accepted at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024! |
| Jan 29, 2024 | Our paper titled “Integrating Predictive Motion Uncertainties with Distributionally Robust Risk-Aware Control for Safe Robot Navigation in Crowds” got accepted at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024! |
| Jan 08, 2024 | I was selected as an “Excellent Teacher” by UIUC students for teaching the class AE598: Learning and Control for Multi-Agent Systems! |
| Jun 21, 2023 | Our paper titled “Efficient Constrained Multi-Agent Trajectory Optimization using Dynamic Potential Games” got accepted at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023! |
| Mar 21, 2023 | We will organize a workshop on Multi-Agent Planning and Navigation in Challenging Environments at the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2023! |
| Mar 10, 2023 | Our paper titled “ RAPID: Autonomous Multi-agent Racing using Constrained Potential Dynamic Games” got accepted at the European Control Conference (ECC) 2023! |
| Jan 16, 2023 | Our paper titled “ Distributed Potential iLQR: Scalable Game-Theoretic Trajectory Planning for Multi-Agent Interactions” got accepted at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023! |
| Jan 16, 2023 | Our paper titled “ Learning to Influence Vehicles’ Routing in Mixed-Autonomy Networks by Dynamically Controlling the Headway of Autonomous Cars” got accepted at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023! |
| Nov 24, 2022 | Our paper titled “ Maximum-Entropy Multi-Agent Dynamic Games: Forward and Inverse Solutions” got accepted at the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)! |
| Aug 15, 2022 | We will organize a workshop on Strategic Multi-Agent Interactions: Game Theory for Robot Learning and Decision Making” at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2022! |
| Apr 22, 2022 | We will organize a workshop on Behavior-driven Autonomous Driving in Unstructured Environments at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022! |
| Feb 28, 2022 | Our paper titled “ Congestion-aware Bi-modal Delivery Systems Utilizing Drones” got accepted at the European Control Conference (ECC) 2022! |
| Feb 11, 2022 | I won the NSF CAREER Award to develop a mathematical framework for socially-aware control of autonomy! |
| Jan 31, 2022 | Our paper titled “ Learning Contraction Policies from Offline Data” got accepted at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022! |
| Jan 31, 2022 | We will organize a workshop on Learning and Control for Safety-Critical Systems at American Control Conference (ACC) 2022! |
| Jan 31, 2022 | Our paper titled “ Stackelberg Routing of Autonomous Cars in Mixed-Autonomy Traffic Networks” got accepted at the American Control Conference (ACC) 2022! |
| Jan 03, 2022 | Our paper titled “ Learning Contraction Policies from Offline Data” got accepted at the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)! |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Our paper titled “ Learning Contraction Policies from Offline Data” was selected as the best paper award finalist at NeurIPS 2021 workshop Safe and Robust Control of Uncertain Systems! |
| Oct 21, 2021 | Our paper titled “ Learning Contraction Policies from Offline Data” was accepted as an Oral at NeurIPS 2021 workshop Safe and Robust Control of Uncertain Systems! |
| May 10, 2021 | Our paper titled “Potential iLQR: A Potential Minimizing Controller for Panning Multi-Agent Interactive Trajectories” was accepted at Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2021! |
| Apr 13, 2021 | We will organize a workshop on “Perception and Control for Autonomous Navigation in Crowded, Dynamic Environments” at RSS 2021. |
| Apr 01, 2021 | I am honored to be selected for the UIUC COVID-19 Wall of Recognition in Engineering which recognizes the people who had gone “above and beyond” in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Dec 13, 2020 | Our paper titled “ RAT iLQR: A Risk Auto-Tuning Controller to Optimally Account for Stochastic Model Mismatch“ got accepted at the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). |
| Nov 10, 2020 | Our paper titled “A Game Theoretic Macroscopic Model of Lane Choices at Traffic Diverges with Applications to Mixed-Autonomy Networks“ got accepted at the Transportation Research Part B journal. |
| Oct 15, 2020 | I gave a talk on “Team Teaching in the Time of Covid-19” at the UIUC Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education (AE3). |
| Sep 21, 2020 | I am honored to be awarded the First Place 2020 IEEE ITSS Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, for my thesis “Smart Traffic Operation: from Human-Driven Cars to Mixed Vehicle Autonomy”. |
| Aug 16, 2020 | I joined UIUC Aerospace Engineering department as an assistant professor. |
| Jul 12, 2020 | I gave a talk on “Safe Robotic Interactions under Uncertainty through Risk-Sensitive Control” at RSS 2020 workshop on Emergent Behaviors in Human-Robot Systems |