Who am I?

I am a PhD candidate in Aeroastro Engineering, and also a SM candidate in Technology and Policy, at MIT.

I work as a Research Assistant at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), in the Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems group under Professor Brian Williams.

Research

My research is optimal planning and control under uncertainty. Its applications include path planning for airplanes, autonomous control of building A/C systems, and optimization of stock portfolio. These systems are subject to uncertainties - turbulence makes the location of airplane uncertain, unpredictable weather makes room temperature uncertain, and changing market condition makes your stock value uncertain.

We want to maximize the performance in such uncertain environment; we want to minimize the flight time, we want to minimize the energy consumption of A/C system, and we want to maximize the profit from your stock portfolio. However, uncertain systems involve risk. Airplane may crash, room temperature may go out of the comfortable range, and stocks may lose the value.

My research goal is to develop efficient planning algorithms that maximize the performance of uncertain systems while limiting the risk.