Our People

Principal Investigator

Shaoshuai Mou

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)