Our People

Principal Investigator

Elmer Bruhn Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Co-Director for Institute for Control, Optimization and Networks (ICON)

Ph.D., Yale University, 2014.

Postdocs

Changheon Han

Post Doc Research Associate

Research: Space Autonomy and Space Manufacturing

Graduate Students

Wenxi Chen

Graduate Research Assistant

Research: Control and Learning for Robotics

Wenjian Hao

Ph.D. Student

Research: Data-driven learning and control

Jose Daniel Hoyos Giraldo

Ph.D. Student

Research: Cooperative SLAM; Aerial Swarms

S M Nahid Mahmud

Ph.D. Student (Ross Fellowship)

Research: Safe Reinforcement Learning

Nicolas Miguel

Ph.D. Student

Research: Trusted Autonomy; Human-Autonomy Teaming

Kaichang Shi

M.S. Student

Research: Game Theories for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Sidhdharth Sikka

Ph.D. Student

Research: Robotics for Space Logistics.

Shunan Yin

Ph.D. Student

Research: Data-Driven Methods; Learning and Control

Tianyu Zhou

Ph.D. Student

Research: Intent Prediction of Unmanned Vehicles; Multi-Agent Formation Control

Previous Students

Postdoc:

Wenjing Li (2026), Robotics System Engineer at Johnson & Johnson Med Tech
Mengxue Hou (2023), Faculty at University of Notre Dame
Yijing Xie (2021), Faculty at University of Texas at Arlington

Ph.D.

Ayush Rai (2025), Postdoc at Harvard University
Zehui Lu (2024), Staff Motion Planning & Control Engineering, Lucid Motors
Zihao Liang (2024), Engineer in autoomous driving development at Aptiv.
Paulo Heredia (2022), Quantitative Researcher at J.P. Morgan Chase, New Jersey.
Wanxin Jin (2021), Faculty at Arizona State University.
Xuan Wang (2020), Faculty at George Mason University.

M.S. : Haonan Zhang (2017); Hyeung Ko (2017); Jiazhi Song (2018); Nickolas Schultz (2020); Mark Duntz (2020); Jason Lo (2021); Gautham Vinod (2021); Taashi Kapoor (2022).

Visiting Scholars

Shasha Fu (Aug., 2016 - Jan., 2018); Haoran Gong ( Oct. 2016 - Jan. 2017); Jianbin Qiu (Dec., 2017 - Jan. , 2018)