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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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AVIATE SEMINAR “Robust and Resilient Autonomy for Advanced Air Mobility
The seminar is presented by Dr. Christopher Elliott. The video and slides can be found here.
Congratulations! Naira named NAI Senior Member!
MechSE Professor Naira Hovakimyan’s success in patents, licensing, and commercialization has earned entry into the 2023 class of Senior Members of…
Return to Onsite: In-Person Group Meeting in 2023 Spring Semester
We have returned to onsite for an in-person group meeting starting this week! Dr. Tigran Bakaryan presented his research in…
Congratulations! Wenbin Wan defended his thesis successfully!
Congratulations to Wenbin! He defended his Ph.D. final exam successfully!
TEDx Talks: The hidden cost of resistance to innovation in science
Professor Naira Hovakimyan was recently hosted by TEDxYerevan that was using the hashtag #OnceUponAScience, where she spoke about the hidden…
We are selected as one of the four winners of NASA’s 5th round of the University Leadership Initiative competition!
We are excited to learn that NASA selected our proposal, “Robust Resilient Autonomy for Advanced Air Mobility” for their 5th…
Congratulations! Kasey Ackerman defended his thesis successfully!
Congratulations to Kasey! He defended his Ph.D. final exam successfully!
Congratulations! Andrew Patterson defended his thesis successfully!
Congratulations to Andrew! He defended his Ph.D. final exam successfully! Here is the final defense recording. The link to…
NSF-AoF Award Granted: Safe Reinforcement Learning in Non-Stationary Environments With Fast Adaptation and Disturbance Prediction
Congratulations! We start a new NSF-AoF collaborative research project: Safe Reinforcement Learning in Non-Stationary Environments With Fast Adaptation and Disturbance…
![[Slides] Aerial Co-robots of Future: Certificates of Modeling, Learning and Control – IEEE CCTA workshop](http://naira.mechse.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-08-at-4.37.29-PM.png)
[Slides] Aerial Co-robots of Future: Certificates of Modeling, Learning and Control – IEEE CCTA workshop
Our presentation at the IEEE CCTA workshop on Multi-Vehicle and Assured Autonomous Control for Aerospace Applications can be downloaded here.…