Congratulations! Three students had successful preliminary exams for their Ph.D.!

Congratulations to Kasey, Andrew, and Arun for the successful preliminary exams for their Ph.D.! Kasey Ackerman The preliminary proposal title: L1 Adaptive Control for Nonlinear Reference Systems with Unmatched Uncertainties Arun Lakshmanan The preliminary proposal title: Safe Planning and Control for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems via L1-Adaptive Control and Contraction Analysis Andrew Patterson The preliminary proposal […]

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We presented our papers at CDC 2020!

Please check the following three papers presented at CDC 2020. A Safety Constrained Control Framework for UAVs in GPS Denied Environment Wenbin Wan, Hunmin Kim, Naira Hovakimyan, Lui Sha, and Petros G. Voulgaris Presentation Slides  |  Presentation Video  |  Paper Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) suffer from sensor drifts in GPS denied environments, which can lead to potentially […]

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Our paper “f-Divergence Variational Inference” got accepted by NeurIPS 2020!

Congratulations! Our paper “f-Divergence Variational Inference” got accepted by NeurIPS 2020! Link: Paper (Arxiv) |  Video f-Divergence Variational Inference Neng Wan*, Dapeng Li*, and Naira Hovakimyan Abstract: This paper introduces the f-divergence variational inference (f-VI) that generalizes variational inference to all f-divergences. Initiated from minimizing a crafty surrogate f-divergence that shares the statistical consistency with […]

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