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Recent News

ACL Work on Robustness to Adversarial Inputs in Reinforcement Learning Featured in MIT News and IEEE Spectrum

Link to MIT News article.

Link to IEEE Spectrum article.

Professor Jon How is Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2021

In recognition for “contributions to decision-making and control of intelligent autonomous aerospace vehicles,” Professor Jon How was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 2021, along with 105 others. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature” and to “the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.”

ACL Students' Advice on Graduate School

YouTube playlist

These videos highlight graduate school as a parallel option to industry jobs after graduation. Current students answer some common questions about graduate school.

We especially hope this is beneficial for those without many peers in graduate school, and it could be an avenue toward increasing diversity in our community.

Professor Jon How Receives the IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award in 2020

In recognition for “outstanding contributions to systems and control,” Professor Jon How received the IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award in 2020, to be formally presented at the Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) in December 2020.

Michael passed his PhD Thesis Defense!

Video of the talk

Stewart Jamieson wins Best Paper Award in Service Robotics at ICRA 2020