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Nikolai Matni
Google Scholar ID: ZDPCh_EAAAAJ
Associate Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Control Theory
Machine Learning
Optimization
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Learning-Based Fault Detection for Legged Robots in Remote Dynamic Environments
2026
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Beyond Binary Success: Sample-Efficient and Statistically Rigorous Robot Policy Comparison
2026
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Distributionally Robust Imitation Learning: Layered Control Architecture for Certifiable Autonomy
2025
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Safe Planning in Interactive Environments via Iterative Policy Updates and Adversarially Robust Conformal Prediction
2025
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Nearly Instance-Optimal Parameter Recovery from Many Trajectories via Hellinger Localization
2025
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Occupancy-aware Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Valet Parking in Uncertain Dynamic Environments
2025
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Imitation Learning in Continuous Action Spaces: Mitigating Compounding Error without Interaction
2025
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Quad-LCD: Layered Control Decomposition Enables Actuator-Feasible Quadrotor Trajectory Planning
2025
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Background
Associate Professor and Graduate Chair, Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Secondary appointment in Computer and Information Science
Member of the Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences graduate group
Member of the GRASP Lab and PRECISE Center
Research Interests: Machine and Reinforcement Learning, Robust and Distributed Optimal Control, Robotics, Convex Optimization, Cyber-Physical Systems
Focused on developing learning-based control strategies for safe and robust autonomous networked systems
Co-authors
92 total
Co-author 1
Stephen Tu
University of Southern California
George Pappas
UPS Foundation Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
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James Anderson
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
Benjamin Recht
Professor of EECS, University of California, Berkeley
Sarah Dean
Cornell
Bruce D. Lee
ETH Zurich
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