Faculty

Huy T. Tran Huy is an assistant professor in the Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. He is an affiliate of the University of Illinois’ Coordinated Science Laboratory, Center for Autonomy, Smart Transportation Infrastructure Initiative, and Applied Research Institute.

Graduate Students

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. Mikihisa (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.
Some group members at IROS 2023 in Detroit, MI.
2021 holiday party at Huy's house.