About Me
I am a Ph.D. Student in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
📍 Research Lab
Lab for Intelligent Robots and Agents (LIRA)
Privileged to be advised by Prof. Huy T. Tran
🤝 Collaborators:
Hiroyasu Tsukamoto (UIUC) Chuangchuang Sun (Villanova Univ.) Jonathan P. How (MIT) Seongjai Kim (Mississippi State Univ.) Joonsik Hwang (KAIST) Seongkwang Mun (Mississippi State Univ.)
🗓️ Career Timeline
2024.07 – Present
Ph.D. Student
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering (Control and Dynamical Systems)
2019.08 – 2024.06
Student
Mississippi State University
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Minor in Applied Mathematics
🚀 Research Interests
My research aims at enabling the power of AI in complex robotic systems at the intersection of reinforcement learning (RL) and control theory.
Research Topics
Intrinsic Reward Policy Optimization (IRPO)
Algorithm for Sparse-Reward Navigations.
Topics: Hierarchical RL
Hierarchical meta-reinforcement learning (HiMeta)
Adapting to Out-Of-Distributional Tasks
Topics: Hierarchical RL Meta-RL
Sparsity-based Safety Conservatism
Data Sparsity for Safety Overestimation
Topics: Safe RL
Contraction Actor-Critic (CAC)
Certifiable and Robust RL for Path-Tracking
Topics: Safe RL
Constrained Meta-RL (Meta-CPO)
Adaptable Safety Guarantees for Unseen Tasks
Topics: Safe RL Meta-RL
OOD Adaptation in Offline RL
Using Causal Normalizing Flows for Offline RL
Topics: Offline RL
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📢 Recent News
- AIAA AVIATION 2026: Presenting "Sparsity-based safety conservatism..." in June 2026.
- Mathematics 2025: "Out of Distribution Adaptation..." published in Mathematics: Stats & OR.
- AAAI 2024: "Constrained meta-reinforcement learning..." published in Proceedings of AAAI.