NEWS    Dr. Abraham P. Vinod joins the Research Staff of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Date released: August 19, 2020


  •  NEWS    Dr. Abraham P. Vinod joins the Research Staff of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
  • Date:

    August 3, 2020

  • Where:

    Cambridge, MA

  • Description:

    Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories is excited to welcome Abraham P. Vinod as the newest member of its research staff, in the Control for Autonomy Team. Abraham joins MERL from the University of Texas, Austin, where he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. His PhD research produced scalable algorithms for providing safety guarantees for stochastic, control-constrained, dynamical systems, with applications to motion planning. In his postdoctoral research, Abraham studied theory and algorithms for on-the-fly, data-driven control of unknown systems under severely limited data. His current research interests lie in the intersection of optimization, control, and learning. Abraham won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2017 ACM Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control Conference, was a finalist for the Best Paper Award in the 2018 ACM Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control Conference, and won the best undergraduate student research project award at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

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  • Research Areas:

    Artificial Intelligence, Control, Optimization, Robotics