Team
Current members
Principal investigator
Ph.D. students
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Learning-Based Control & Optimization
Developing safe learning algorithms for layered autonomous systems and integrating large language models for intelligent robotic control applications.
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Machine Learning & Robotics
Investigating safe reinforcement learning algorithms for quadruped robot locomotion and dynamic environment navigation systems.
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Trustworthy Human-AI Collaboration
Building reliable and transparent AI systems for effective human-AI collaboration through trust mechanisms and explainable AI frameworks.
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Vieri Akustia
Efficient Embodied AI
Developing energy-efficient foundation models for embodied AI, enabling real-time perception and control on resource-constrained edge devices and robotic platforms.
Undergraduate students
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Undergraduate team project
AI-Powered Drone Project
LLM-based drone navigation and control
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Undergraduate team project
AI-Powered Race Car Project
Learning-based car racing
Alumni
Master's students
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Pooyan Ghodrati
Now: Data Scientist at Toyo Financial Group
- Jahanvi Hitesh Dave (2023, M.S. Computer Science, RA funded by NSF at UH, now at Goldman Sachs)
Undergraduate students
- Victor Le (2025, AI-Powered Drone Project at UH)
- Angel Gomez (2025, AI-Powered Drone Project at UH)
- Hieu Le (2025, AI-Powered Drone Project at UH)
- Nicolas Upshaw (2025, AI-Powered Drone Project at UH)
- Yosef Abushaaban (2025, AI-Powered Race Car Project at UH)
- Muhammad Ansari (2025, AI-Powered Race Car Project at UH)
- Damian Castillo (2025, AI-Powered Race Car Project at UH)
- Asaad Elsayed (2025, AI-Powered Race Car Project at UH)
- Alejandro Zamarron (2025, AI-Powered Race Car Project at UH)
- Javier Caudle (2024, Capstone project, Advanced Surveillance Drone, at UH)
- Steven Comayagua (2024, Capstone project, Advanced Surveillance Drone, at UH)
- Leandra Guzman (2024, Capstone project, Advanced Surveillance Drone, at UH)
- Weijie Huang (2024, Capstone project, Advanced Surveillance Drone, at UH)
- Edward Perez (2024, Capstone project, Advanced Surveillance Drone, at UH)
- Kristof Siska (2019–2022, RA funded by NSF, now a master's student at Old Dominion University)
- Jacob Michalick (2022, RA funded by DoD at ODU)
- Skye Taylor (2021, RA funded by NSF REU, now a master's student at the University of Virginia)
- Joshua Smith (2021, RA funded by NSF at ODU)
- Andrew Vecerkauskas (2020, RA funded by ONR at ODU)
- Jeremy Sklute (2020)
- Teresa Trinh (2019, RA funded by ONR at ODU)
- Zachariah Garvin (2019, RA funded by ONR at ODU)
- Thomas Sexton (2019, RA funded by ONR at ODU)
- Bryan Holland (2019, RA funded by ONR at ODU)
- Matthew Kersey (2019, RA funded by ONR at ODU)
- Victor Ortiz (2018)
Join us
We are always looking for talented and motivated people who are passionate about research in intelligent and networked autonomous systems. If you are interested, please contact Dr. Bin Hu about opportunities.
Acknowledgment
We gratefully acknowledge the support of our funding agencies, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), as well as the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program, for enabling our research in intelligent and networked autonomous systems.
