ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Symmetries Infused Safe & Scalable Multi-Robot Policies”
Multi-agent systems are increasingly deployed autonomously in complex, real-world environments. Yet the black-box nature of deep policy learning approaches — despite their universal approximation power enabling coordinated, emergent behaviors — […]
Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Machine Learning for Robot Motion Planning”
Robot motion planning is a field that encompasses many different problems and algorithms. From the traditional piano mover’s problem to more complicated kinodynamic planning problems, motion planning requires a broad […]
MEAM Seminar: “Recent Evolution of Climate Science: From Greenhouse Gases and Temperature to Aerosol Particles and Precipitation”
On the eve of the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, I will present a brief overview of how climate science has evolved since the publication of […]
MEAM Seminar: “A Multi-Scale Homogenization Model for the Viscoplastic Response of Polar and Sea Ice”
The rheology of polar ice evolves in response to weather and climate changes, by modifying its microstructure. While the experimental evidence for the dependence of rheological properties on the microstructure […]