Bio Snippet

• Research Focus:
  •      Core: Control Theory – Robotics – Game Theory – Radiation Oncology.
  •      Reluctantly added buzzwords: Big Data, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence.
  •      Old buzzword, now in vogue: Machine Learning.
  •      Recent buzzwords, no longer so cool: System Identification, Data Mining.
• University Affiliations:
  •      University of Sheffield, School of Engineering (Ended 2013).
  •      UT Southwestern Medical Center, Medical Physics and Engineering (Current).
  •      University of Texas at Dallas, School of Engineering (Current).
  •      University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine (Starting 2019).
• Previous Company Affiliations:
  •      Amazon Robotics (Advanced Robotics Lab), Greater Boston Area, MA (Ended 2016).
  •      Preferred Networks, Tokyo, Japan (Ended 2018).
  •      Coca-Cola, Lagos/Athens (Ended 2011).
• Research Peer Reviewing Activities
  •      IEEE Access Journal – Journal of Neural Computing and Applications (NCAA) – IOP: Measurement Science and Technology – International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) – International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) – International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) – American Control Conference (ACC) – International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).

News

December 28, 2018	I will be presenting the sequel to Deep BOO! at Berkeley in 2019. Watch this space.
October 07, 2018	Thanks to the generous support of Google AI, I will be attending the full tutorials, workshops, and program sessions at NIPS 2018. Bonjour Montréal!
September 06, 2018	Deep BOO gets accepted to the Workshop on the Algorithm Foundations of Robotics (WAFR). WAFR has an "established reputation as one, if not the most, important venue for presenting algorithmic work related to robotics". Archival version would appear in the Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics (SPAR) series.
Aug. 29, 2018	At the Department of Brain Robot Interface (BRI) of Japan's ATR Computational Neuroscience (CNS) Labs., I presented our minimax iterative dynamic game work.
Aug. 3, 2018	Presented our work on neural networks and adaptive control at the Tech. Info. Session of Preferred Networks Inc., Tokyo this afternoon.
July 05, 2018	I had the pleasure of presenting my research outlook on stably learning the dynamics of nonlinear robot trajectories to the management team of Preferred Networks, Tokyo earlier this afternoon.
July 2018	I will be attending ROSCon 2018. Nos vemos en Madrid!
June 2018	Our IROS2018 submission is a definite accept. Codes here. Videos on my home page. Hola Madrid!
April 24, 2018	Our Minimax iDG paper gets accepted to the Machine Learning for Planning and Control Workshop at ICRA 2018. Codes here. Videos on my home page. Hallo Brisbane!
April 2018	Our AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) submission got accepted as an oral. See you in the music city, in July.
August 2017	I will be pitching my start-up idea to VCs in Vancouver in October. Yeah, sure. Come in and argue!
August 2017	Awarded the NSF Doctoral Consortium Award.
August 2017	The camera-ready version of Soft-NeuroAdapt, is now on arxiv. Codes are on github.
July 2017	Our submission got accepted to IROS abstract only track. Video here.
July 2017	Awarded the Open Software for Robotics Foundation (OSRF) scholarship.
June 2017	Brandon Amos' OptNet paper was accepted to ICML. I am mentioned in the acknowledgement section alongside Ian Goodfellow.

Recent Blog Posts

Optimality vs. Stability of Feedback Control Systems	August 22, 2018
Control Commons	August 4, 2018
What Good Research is Not	August 2, 2018

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Side Projects

+ awesome neuro-control: A curated list of papers that apply neural dynamics to control systems.
+ awesome screw theory: A curated list of papers that apply screw theory for soft and rigid robots control.
+ advice for fellowships, internships, conference grants applications
+ summer'18 reading list: Bellman and Optimal Control
+ summer'17 reading list: RAS Papers
+ bash-scripts: Short and fun bash scripts.
+ control/robotics/ai conference tracker
+ research group resources: Borrowed from Jean Yang.

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Last updated on 2018-12-28