Awarded the NSF CAREER Award; Received a J.P. Morgan 2019 Faculty Research Award; Won an Amazon Research Award; Received a grant from Northrop Grumman Mission Systems; Student poster award at Northrop Grumman University Symposium 2019; IJCAI 2019 Early Career Spotlight; Ocelot-IDE went live.
Research Experience
Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at UT Austin, Director of the Autonomous Mobile Robotics Laboratory; Visiting Professor at NVIDIA Isaac Robotics; Affiliated with Texas Robotics, UT Machine Learning Laboratory, and UT Good Systems.
Background
Interests include Robot Perception, Motion Planning, Control Systems, AI, and Deployed Robot Systems. The ultimate goal is to have self-sufficient autonomous mobile robots working in human environments, performing tasks accurately and robustly.
Miscellany
Eager to work with self-motivated students from all levels (PhD, MS, and undergraduate) with overlapping interests, especially those interested in working on actual robots deployed in the real world.