| 07/25 | Two papers got accepted at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control: ‘Distributed Risk-Sensitive Safety Filters for Uncertain Discrete-Time Systems’ and ‘Learning High-Order CBFs using Gaussian Processes for Systems in Brunovsky Canonical Form’! |
| 06/25 | Our paper ‘Distributed Risk-Sensitive Safety Filters for Uncertain Discrete-Time Systems’ got accepted to the IEEE Control Systems Letters. Check out the paper here! |
| 05/25 | Our paper ‘Risk-Sensitive Safety Filters for Reinforcement Learning with Probabilistic Guarantees’ has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Check out the paper here! |
| 05/25 | I have started as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. |
| 04/25 | I visited Karl Worthmann’s group at TU Ilmenau. We had a lot of great discussions, so stay tuned for some exciting joint work to come out in the near future. |
| 04/25 | The ALeSCo project has been approved by the German Research Foundation (DFG). I feel honored to work as Mercator Fellow along with Matthias Müller (LUH), Victor Lopez (LUH), Moritz Diehl (Uni Freiburg), Karl Worthmann (TU Ilmenau), Timm Faulwasser (TUHH), and Sandra Hirche (TUM) on active learning for systems and control. |
| 03/25 | Our paper ‘Toward Near-Globally Optimal Nonlinear Model Predictive Control via Diffusion Models’ has been accepted to the Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control. It even got an oral! Check out the preprint here! |
| 01/24 | I am happy to share that our paper ‘Koopman-Equivariant Gaussian Processes’ has been accepted at AISTATS 2025. You can find a preprint of the paper here! |
| 12/24 | I have attended the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Milan. It was great catching up with so many friends. Looking forward to seeing you next year in Brazil! |
| 08/24 | Our paper “Stable Inverse Reinforcement Learning: Policies from Control Lyapunov Landscapes” has been accepted at the IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems. Check out the paper here! |
| 08/24 | We have submitted a new paper on “Safe Barrier-Constrained Control of Uncertain Systems via Event-triggered Learning” to the Transaction on Automatic Control. Check out the preprint of the paper here. |
| 07/24 | Our workshop on “Data-driven modelling, analysis, and control using the Koopman operator” has got accepted at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. We have great speakers with exciting talks. Check out the workshop website and please register for it here if you are interested. |
| 06/24 | Our paper “Data-driven Force Observer for Human-Robot Interaction with Series Elastic Actuators using Gaussian Processes” has been accepted to the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. You can find a preprint of the paper here. |
| 06/24 | We have two Workshop papers at International Conference on Machine Learning in Vienna: “Safe Online Nonstochastic Control from Data” and “Learning Representations through Latent Timeseries Symmetries: Koopman-Equivariant Gaussian Processes”. Extended versions will follow soon, but you can check out the workshop papers already here and here. |
| 06/24 | I have attended the European Control Conference in Stockholm. Even though I did not win the award, it was a great conference, and it was nice catching up with all of you! |
| 06/24 | I am honored that my PhD thesis has been chosen as finalist for the European Systems and Control PhD Thesis Award. The final decision is announced at the European Control Conference in Stockholm. |
| 05/24 | I have given a remote presentation on “Safe Autonomy through Uncertainty-Awareness in Learning Control” at TU Eindhoven. |
| 04/24 | I have given a presentation on “Safe Autonomy through Uncertainty-Awareness in Learning Control” at the National University of Singapore. |
| 03/24 | I have given a presentation on “Safe Online Learning Control using Gaussian Processes” in the Systems and Control Division at Uppsala University. |
| 02/24 | Our paper “Learning-Based Optimal Control with Performance Guarantees for Unknown Systems with Latent States” has been accepted to the European Control Conference. Check out the paper here! |
| 02/24 | I have given a remote seminar at the National University of Singapore. |
| 01/24 | I have given a virtual guest lecture at UC San Diego on Safe Model-Based Control with Gaussian Processes. You can watch the talk online here. |
| 01/24 | Our paper “Cooperative Learning with Gaussian Processes for Euler-Lagrange Systems Tracking Control under Switching Topologies” has been accepted to the American Control Conference! |
| 12/23 | I attended IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Singapore and presented our paper “Risk-Sensitive Inhibitory Control for Safe Reinforcement Learning”. Check out the paper here! |
| 12/23 | Petar and Max presented our work on Koopman kernel regression at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) in New Orleans. You can find the paper here. |
| 11/23 | I received a top reviewer award at NeurIPS 2023. |
| 11/23 | I gave a presentation at the University of Groningen entitled “Safe Intelligent Systems for the Physical World” |
| 10/23 | I gave an online seminar the University of Groningen with the topic “Safe and Computationally Efficient Online Learning Control using Gaussian Processes” |
| 10/23 | I have started my new positition as postdoctoral researcher at the Learning & Adaptive Systems Group of ETH Zurich supervised by Prof. Andreas Krause |
