Selected as an ASME DSCD Rising Star in 2023 and gave a talk at MECC 2023
Served in editorial and program committee roles for top venues: Area Chair for ICLR 2025, Senior Program Committee for AAMAS 2025, Associate Editor for ICRA 2025, IROS 2024, and IEEE RA-L
Organized multiple academic events including the Southern California Robotics Symposium (SCR 2024), ML4AD 2023 workshop, and three IEEE IV 2023 workshops
Published multiple papers in top-tier venues including IEEE T-RO, ICRA, IROS, IEEE IV, ITSC, WACV, and IEEE RA-L
Background
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of California, Riverside (UCR)
Director of the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Laboratory (TASL)
Core faculty member of the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CRIS), UC Riverside Artificial Intelligence Research and Education Institute (RAISE), and the Center for Environmental Research and Technology
Research interests lie at the intersection of robotics, trustworthy AI & ML, reinforcement learning, control, and computer vision, with applications to intelligent autonomous systems such as autonomous vehicles, mobile robots, drones, and cyber-physical systems
Particularly interested in human-robot interaction and multi-agent systems