Huy T. Tran

Huy is an Assistant Professor in the Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. He received a B.S. degree from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC in 2008, and an M.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, in 2010, both in Mechanical Engineering. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in 2014 and 2015. Subsequently, he was a Senior Multi-disciplinary Systems Engineer at the MITRE Corporation before joining the University of Illinois. He is an affiliate of the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Illinois Robotics Group, Center for Autonomy, and Smart Transportation Infrastructure Initiative.

Jacob Heglund

Jacob is a Ph.D. student in the Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. He researches algorithms for decision-making under uncertainty, specifically in cooperative, distributed team settings. One of his primary goals is to develop safe and verifiable autonomous systems to control complex, interconnected infrastructure, such as transportation networks and power grids.

Rupal Nigam

Rupal is a Ph.D. student in the Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL and received her BSE in computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests include human-machine teaming and bio-inspired learning for adaptive autonomy. She is a recepient of the GAANN fellowship (2020-22) and the ISGC fellowship (2022-23). Overall, she aspires to help improve and sustain society through collaborative autonomy.

Miki Yuasa

Miki is a graduate research assistant currently pursuing a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His chief interests lie in the development of automated intelligent transportation systems (ITS). His current research is on inference of the behaviors of deep reinforcement learning agents using formal logics.

Niket Parikh

Niket is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at UIUC. His research interests lie at the intersection of reinforcement learning, machine learning, and optimal control for safe and autonomous transportation systems. Previously, he graduated from IIT Bombay with a dual degree. During his undergraduate, he worked in the area of robust model predictive control.

MJ (Minjae) Cho

MJ (Minjae) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics from Mississippi State University. His research focuses on deploying robust, autonomous AI in complex robotic systems at the intersection of reinforcement learning and control theory.

Hamid Osooli

Hamid is a PhD student in the Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He holds a master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, specializing in flight dynamics and control, from Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology (KNTU) in Iran, and a second MSc in Computer Science, focusing on AI and Robotics, from the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML). As a full-stack roboticist, his research has covered a wide range of topics, including multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), optimization and planning, machine learning, sensor fusion, and robot design. Currently, his work focuses on multi-robot systems, with an emphasis on multi-agent reinforcement learning.

Karl Thompson

M.S., 2017-2019

Placement at Spark Insights

Keshav Chandramouleeswaran

M.S., 2017-2018

Placement at Front End Analytics

Neale Van Stralen

Research Engineer, 2020-2022

M.S., 2018-2020

Placement at the Naval Nuclear Laboratories

Walker Dimon

M.S., 2020-2022

Placement at the MITRE Corporation