- 2025, Paper “Language-Grounded Hierarchical Planning and Execution with Multi-Robot 3D Scene Graphs” accepted to ISER 2025
- 2025, Paper “Belief Roadmaps with Uncertain Landmark Evanescence” accepted to ICRA 2025
- 2024, Paper “Aggressive Aerial Grasping using a Soft Drone with Onboard Perception” accepted to npj Robotics
- 2024, Paper “Indoor and Outdoor 3D Scene Graph Generation via Language-Enabled Spatial Ontologies” accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
- 2024, Paper “Foundations of Spatial Perception for Robotics: Hierarchical Representations and Real-time Systems” accepted to International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
- 2023, Paper “A Survey on Active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: State of the Art and New Frontiers” accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)
Research Experience
- 2023-2025, Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- 2021-2023, Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- 2014-2016, Led software development for perception and navigation for the WVU team in NASA’s Centennial Sample Return Robot Challenge (SRRC), winning first place
Education
- Ph.D., 2021, West Virginia University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Advisor: Prof. Yu Gu
- Research Scientist, 2023-2025, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Collaborator: Prof. Luca Carlone
- Postdoctoral Associate, 2021-2023, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Collaborator: Prof. Luca Carlone
- Visiting Researcher, 2018-2019, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Collaborators: Dr. Kyohei Otsu, Dr. Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi
Background
Research interests include passive/active perception, scene understanding, planning under uncertainty, and neuro-symbolic reasoning. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oakland University.