Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Electrical and Systems Engineering

Computer and Information Science

Office: Towne 276

Research Areas

  • Dynamical Systems and Control
  • Machine Learning
  • AI and Autonomous Systems

Awards

2023: RSS Early Career Spotlight Award

2023: NSF CAREER Award

2013: Best Paper Award, Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control

2013: Rolf Locher Graduate Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2011: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention

2007: Frederick E. Terman Award for Scholastic Achievement in Engineering, Stanford University

Projects/Papers

Consensus Complementarity Control for Multicontact MPC
Dynamic On-Palm Manipulation via Controlled Sliding
Adaptive Contact-Implicit Model Predictive Control with Online Residual Learning

Students

Postdocs:

Ethan Gordon

Minghan Zhu

PhDs:

Brian Acosta

Elizabeth Bianchini

Xuan Hien Bui

Leon Kim

Grey Sarmiento