Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Career Development Assistant Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS)
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS)
I am the Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Career Development Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I am a PI in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), and an affiliate faculty with the Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS).
From January to June 2024 I was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, working with Marco Pavone, sponsored by NASA.
I obtained my Ph.D. in Prof. Emilio Frazzoli's group, at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich.
I received my BSc. and MSc. in Mechanical Engineering with focus in Robotics, Systems and Control from ETH Zurich in 2017 and 2019, respectively.
I spent time in Singapore at nuTonomy (then Aptiv, now Motional), at Stanford University, in Marco Pavone's Autonomous Systems Lab, and at MIT.
Driven by societal challenges, the goal of my research is to develop efficient computational tools and algorithmic approaches to formulate and solve complex, interconnected system design and autonomous decision making problems.
My interests include the co-design complex systems (all the way from future mobility systems to autonomous systems), compositionality in engineering, planning and control, and game theory.
I am the recipient of an award (keynote talk) for our paper at the 2021 Applied Category Theory Conference, and of the Best Paper Award (1st Place) at the 2021 24th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC).
I created the Autonomy Talks. Check out our webpage, have a look at the (over 180) recorded talks and contact me if you want to be the next speaker!
If you want to know more about compositional engineering, check out our activities, and our papers.
News
2024
04/02/2024 - As of April 2024, the magic is reported on my group's official webpage
03/25/2024 - I gave talks at UT Austin, TAMU, and IOS'24, in Texas! 03/01/2024 - Our Tutorial on Co-design for Autonomy has been accepted to the 2024 Design Automation Conference in SF! 02/29/2024 - Our paper on Reliability-aware Control of Power Converters in Mobility Applications has been accepted to ECC'24! 02/29/2024 - Our workshop on Challenges in Control for the Future of Mobility has been accepted to ACC'24 02/02/2024 - I gave a talk at the UIUC's Human-Centered Autonomy Lab 01/08/2024 - I'm at Stanford! So excited to be back!
2023
12/12/2023 - I gave an invited talk at the CDC 2023 workshop on Learning Enabled Control and Coordination for Societally-aware Transportation Systems, in Singapore. 07/12/2023 - I gave an invited seminar at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, hosted by Domenico Campolo 06/12/2023 - I gave an invited seminar at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, hosted by Greg Chirikjian 21/11/2023 - I gave an invited talk at the MERL Seminar Series 14/11/2023 - I successfully defensed my doctoral thesis at ETH Zurich! :) 31/10/2023 - I gave an invited talk at the Apple Special Projects Seminar 01/10/2023 - I gave an invited talk at the IROS workshop on Multi-Agent Dynamic Games, titled "Strategic Interactions Across Scales: From Autonomy to Mobility". 13/07/2023 - Two papers accepted at ITSC 2023! Bilbao here we come. 05/24/2023 - I gave an invited talk at MIT Media Lab's Computational Social Science Seminar, hosted by Dr. Takahiro Yabe! 05/08/2023 - Our tutorial on Computational Co-Design for Robotics has been accepted to IROS 2023, in Detroit! 04/27/2023 - I gave an invited talk at MIT's JTL and Transit Groups, hosted by Prof. Jinhua Zhao. 03/31/2023 - I gave an invited talk at Boston University at the Robotics Lab Meeting, hosted by Prof. Belta. April'23 - I accepted a faculty position at MIT LIDS, CEE, and IDSS! Very excited! 03/27/2023 - I gave an invited talk at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, hosted by Prof. Shorter and Prof. Barton. 03/20/2023 - I gave an invited talk at Cornell, hosted by Prof. Samaranayake and Prof. Albertson. 03/15/2023 - Both our workshop and special session on Co-Design and Coordination of Future Mobility Systems have been accepted at ITSC'23. Bilbao, here we come! 03/13/2023 - I gave an invited talk at UC Irvine, hosted by Prof. Shoukry. 03/08/2023 - I gave an invited talk at KTH. 03/01/2023 - I gave an invited talk at Imperial College London. 02/27/2023 - I gave an invited talk at UIUC, hosted by Prof. Shamma and Prof. Wang. 02/22/2023 - I gave an invited talk at MIT, hosted by Prof. Jadbabaie and Prof. Amin. 02/15/2023 - I gave an invited talk at University of Washington, hosted by Prof. Mesbahi and Prof. Morgansen. 02/01/2023 - I'm in Boston until the end of May! I'm visiting Munther Dahleh's group at MIT.
2022
12/22/2022 - The third edition of our workshop on Compositional Robotics: Mathematics and Tools has been accepted at ICRA 2023. London here we come! 12/01/2022 - I will be at CDC in Cancun, presenting our work on Task-Driven Modular Co-Design of Vehicle Control Systems, and participating to the poster session Meet the Faculty Candidates! 11/19/2022 - Our paper Co-Design to Enable User-Friendly Tools to Assess the Impact of Future Mobility Systems has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. 10/08/2022 - Check out the recordings of our ITSC 2022 Workshop on Co-Design and Coordination of Future Mobility Systems, where I gabe a talk. 08/26/2022 - I will give a talk on September 8 at the Seminaire d'Automatique du Plateau de Saclay, in Paris. 08/25/2022 - Andrea Censi presented our recent paper on Categorification of Negative Information using Enrichment at a Topos Colloquium. 07/15/2022 - Our paper Task-driven Modular Co-design of Vehicle Control Systems has been accepted to the 61th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) and will be presented within the special session on Modular Design and Verification of Control Systems! 06/30/2022 - Our paper Categorification of Negative Information using Enrichment has been accepted to the 5th Annual International Applied Category Theory Conference. 06/07/2022 - We are the third winners in the Commonroad Motion Planning Competition for Autonomous Vehicles (at IV 2022)! Congratulations to our student Leon Zueger, who used a motion planner which lerverages posetal games! 04/25/2022 - Happy to be in the program committee for the 5th International Applied Category Theory Conference. Hurry up and submit your paper by May 9 here ! 02/25/2022 - Our workshop on Co-Design and Coordination of Future Mobility Systems has been accepted at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 02/01/2022 - Our paper on Posetal Games (in the meanwhile published in IEEE RA-L) has been additionally selected for presentation at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
11/21/2019 - My experience at Stanford University has been included in this ETH Ambassadors Article 10/16/2019 - This week I'll be in Rome with Duckietown for the MakerFaire 10/15/2019 - Today I officially start my PhD at ETH Zurich, at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, Prof. Emilio Frazzoli's group!
Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Career Development Assistant Professor