Professor Rahul Mangharam designs safe autonomous systems and works at the intersection of formal methods, control systems and machine learning. He is the Penn Director for the US DoT $20MM Safety21 National University Transportation Center on technologies for safe and efficient movement of people and goods. He was the Penn Director of the $14MM Mobility21 DoT UTC (2017-2023). He is a Member of the Board of The Autoware Foundation and Director of the Autoware Center of Excellence for Autonomous Driving. Rahul leads the F1Tenth Autonomous Racing Community [https://f1tenth.org] to develop machine learning for perception, planning and control of autonomous systems. Rahul received the 2016 US Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE) from President Obama for work on Life-Critical Systems. He received the DoE’s CleanTech Prize (Regional, 2016), IEEE Benjamin Franklin Key Award (2014), NSF CAREER Award (2013), and Intel Early Faculty Career Award (2012). He is a Carnegie Mellon University alum.Specialties: Cyber-Physical Systems, safe autonomous systems, automotive control systems, medical devices, energy-efficient building automation, wireless industrial control