| Sep 15, 2026 | Completed physical quadrotor hardware experiments for L-MultiHyRL: Latent Multi-Policy Hysteresis-Based RL for Robust 3D Obstacle Avoidance in $\text{SE}(3)$ and $\text{SO}(3)$ on a ModalAI Sentinel UAV! Read our interactive research article. |
| May 07, 2026 | Our collaborative paper An Experimentally Validated Hybrid Control Strategy for Robust Contact Detection and Force Regulation has been accepted to CCTA 2026! This work demonstrates a hysteresis-based framework to eliminate end-effector chattering in physical 6-link manipulators. |
| May 05, 2026 | Our paper Intrinsic Closed-Loop Practical Asymptotic Stability in Discrete-Time Reinforcement Learning has been accepted to RLC 2026! We prove that the unmodified discounted RL objective intrinsically guarantees practical asymptotic stability for continuous control tasks. Read the deep-dive article or PDF. |
| Dec 08, 2025 | Officially advanced to Ph.D. Candidacy in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Santa Cruz! |
| May 09, 2025 | A new paper titled A Timer-Based Hybrid Supervisor for Robust, Chatter-Free Policy Switching has been accepted to RLC 2025! This work introduces a hybrid supervisor to guarantee robust, chatter-free policy switching in RL. |
| May 14, 2024 | A new paper titled MultiHyRL: Robust Hybrid RL for Obstacle Avoidance against Adversarial Attacks on the Observation Space has been accepted to RLC 2024! We present a novel hybrid RL algorithm featuring hysteresis-based switching for robust obstacle avoidance |
| Sep 01, 2022 | Honored to be selected as a recipient of the Chancellor’s Fellowship at the University of California, Santa Cruz. |