Scholar
Sertac Karaman
Google Scholar ID: Vu-Zb7EAAAAJ
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citations & Impact
Citations
17,238
H-index
58
i10-index
153
Publications
20
Co-authors
105
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers on high-precision control of VTOL tail-sitter aircraft, fast and agile online motion generation for quadrotors, and other topics. His work includes planning algorithms enabling high-performance flight for tail-sitter aircraft and a new 'traffic cop' algorithm to help drone swarms stay on task.
Research Experience
- Director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT, faculty co-director of Mission Innovation Experimental (MIx), and faculty director of the Amazon MIT Science Hub. Co-founder of Optimus Ride, a Boston-based MIT spinoff startup that develops self-driving vehicle technologies, acquired by Magna in 2021.
Education
- B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering and computer engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in 2007; S.M. degree in mechanical engineering from MIT in 2009; Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 2012.
Background
- Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests lie in mobile robotics, autonomous vehicles, and embedded systems, focusing on aerospace applications. His research areas include probability theory, stochastic processes, stochastic geometry, formal methods and optimization, machine learning, computer vision, computer graphics, computer architecture, and integrated circuits.
Miscellany
- Delivered a TEDx talk on super-human autonomous vehicles.
