Abraham Vinod Email & Phone Number

My research interests lie in broad areas of constrained control and learning under uncertainty.At MERL, I am working on topics from multi-agent systems, constrained control, and learning with applications in space and environmental monitoring. I am the author of the python package, https://github.com/merlresearch/pycvxset.As a postdoctoral research fellow at University of Texas at Austin, I explored interconnections between learning and control. My work was motivated by the problems arising from human-autonomy interactions as well as exploiting structures in learning problems.During my PhD, I studied the problem of safe optimal control of dynamical systems under uncertainty and constraints. My research produced an open-source MATLAB toolbox, SReachTools, that provides probabilistic guarantees of safety and design of safe controllers to achieve these guarantees. My work produced significant improvements over existing state-of-the-art approaches by exploiting convex optimization, Fourier transforms, and computational geometry. While most of my work can be applied to a large class of real-world problems, few applications I have explored include motion planning under uncertainty and safe controller synthesis for automated anesthesia delivery systems. My research has produced a best student paper award as well as a finalist for best paper award.For more details about my publications and research, please visit my website: http://abyvinod.github.io.

Listed skills include Matlab, C, C++, Robotics, and 20 others.