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Oct 2026 SANDO featured in MIT News: Planning system ensures a robot’s flight path will remain collision-free.
Oct 2026 SANDO accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO). Paper / Code / Video
Oct 2026 Started a postdoc at the Stanford Multi-Robot Systems Lab (MSL) with Prof. Mac Schwager, working on VLMs, VLAs, and world models for manipulation and humanoid robots.
Sep 2026 Presented Multi MIGHTY at the IROS 2026 Workshop on Tightly Coupled Physical Interaction and Collaboration in Multi-Robot Systems.
Sep 2026 Gave an invited talk at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jul 2026 STORM accepted to IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2026. Paper / Video
Jul 2026 Successfully defended my PhD thesis Safe and Fast Trajectory Planning in Unknown Dynamic Environments. Video
Jul 2026 SANDO conditionally accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO). Paper / Code / Video
May 2026 MIGHTY featured in MIT News: New research enables a robot to chart a better course.
Apr 2026 Submitted SANDO: Safe Autonomous Trajectory Planning for Dynamic Unknown Environments to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO). Paper / Code / Video
Apr 2026 MIGHTY accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Paper / Code
Nov 2025 Submitted MIGHTY: Hermite Spline-based Efficient Trajectory Planning to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Paper / Code
Sep 2025 Paper on Efficient Navigation in Unknown Indoor Environments with Vision-Language Models accepted to IROS 2025 OWN Workshop.
Apr 2025 Submitted DYNUS: Uncertainty-aware Trajectory Planner in Dynamic Unknown Environments to IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Paper / Code
Sep 2024 Submitted PRIMER: Perception-Aware Robust Learning-based Multiagent Trajectory Planner to IEEE ICRA 2024. Paper
Aug 2024 Selected as MathWorks Fellow. MathWorks fellowship provides support to graduate students within the School of Science with a preference for students who are active users of MATLAB and/or Simulink.
Jul 2024 REAL accepted to IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2024.
Jun 2024 SOS-Match accepted to IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2024.
Jan 2024 PUMA accepted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024.
Dec 2023 Robust MADER published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL).
Jun 2023 Won Best Poster Award at ICRA 2023 CAMRS Workshop for Robust MADER.
Mar 2023 Robust MADER featured in MIT News: New algorithm keeps drones from colliding in midair. Also covered by MIT AeroAstro and TechCrunch.
Jan 2023 Robust MADER accepted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023.
Jun 2021 Paper on Nonlinear Model Predictive Detumbling of Small Satellites published in Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (JGCD).