| Blake Edwards PhD Candidate I am a graduate researcher at MIT AeroAstro dedicated to pushing the boundaries of learning-enabled, autonomous cyber-physical systems while ensuring their safe, trustworthy deployment. Although this revolutionary confluence of technologies promises transformative impact in aerospace and beyond, many breakthroughs remain unrealized due to a persistent—and often warranted—trust gap. My work focuses on bridging this gap by developing robust, scalable verification and validation methods. Building on my undergraduate AI research and experience at Boeing Research & Technology, Boeing AI, and DARPA’s Assured Autonomy program, I aim to unify groundbreaking advances in autonomy with the rigorous assurance needed for high-risk, mission-critical domains. LinkedIn  /  GitHub  /  Google Scholar  /  Website blakete [at] mit [dot] edu
31-248B | | - M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 2026
- B.S. in Computer Science, University of South Carolina, Honors College, 2021
| - Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous Systems
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Formal Verification
| - Outstanding Technical Contributor Award Boeing, 2023
- Outstanding Senior Award, UofSC, 2021
- President’s Award, UofSC, 2021
- Magellan Scholar Research Grant, 2020
- Magellan Scholar Research Grant, 2019
- STEM Undergraduate Research Fellowship Grant, 2018
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