Hi! I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where I direct the Autonomous Control & Exploration Lab. My research focuses on developing safe and computationally efficient decision making algorithms for robotic systems. In particular, I focus on studying how machine learning can be combined with model-based planning and optimal control techniques for applications in spacecraft and mobile robotic decision making.

Prior to this, I was a Robotics Technologist with the Robotic Surface Mobility Group (347F) at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and received my PhD. in Aeronautics & Astronautics at Stanford University as a member of the Autonomous Systems Lab.