I am an assistant professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford, where I lead the Safe and Intelligent Autonomy Lab. Before that, I was an assistant professor in the ECE department at the University of Southern California. Before joining USC, I spent a year as a Research Scientist at Waymo (formerly known as Google’s Self-Driving Car project).
I am broadly interested in robotics and autonomous systems. Specifically, my research focuses on understanding how machine learning methods can be combined with classical, model-based planning and control methods with the goal of enabling intelligent and safe decision making in complex and uncertain environments, especially when the robot relies on high-dimensional sensory inputs and data for decision making and control. For more information about our ongoing research, please check out our lab website.
