- 2025, IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award for 2024
- 2025, Selected to give Keynote Presentation at ICUAS’25
- 2024, Best Paper Award, Robotics: Science and Systems Workshop on Navigation and Mobile Manipulation in Challenging and Cluttered Natural Environments
- 2024, Vickie Kerrebrock Faculty Award
Research Experience
- July 2025 - present, Ford Professor of Engineering, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- July 2009 - June 2025, Richard C. Maclaurin Professor, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- July 2007 - June 2009, Professor, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- April 2000 - July 2007, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (tenured 2003)
- April 2000 - December 2002, Consulting Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University
- September 1994 - March 2000, Assistant Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, in the Aerospace Robotics Laboratory
- January 1993 - September 1994, Postdoctoral Associate, Space Engineering Research Center, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
Education
- Ph.D., February 1993 - January 1994, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, Thesis: Robust Control Design with Real Parameter Uncertainty using Absolute Stability Theory
- S.M., September 1987 - February 1990, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, Thesis: Local Control Design Methodologies for a Hierarchic Control Architecture
- B.A.Sc., September 1983 - June 1987, Engineering Science (Aerospace), University of Toronto
Background
Research interests include aerospace control, robust control design, and autonomous navigation. Currently, the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT.