I am a second-year PhD student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego (UCSD), where I am advised by Prof. Miroslav Krstić. I work on model-free optimization and safe stabilization for dynamical systems, with applications ranging from mobile robot navigation in GPS-denied environments to seeking Nash equilibria. More recently, I have been developing novel control feedback designs for parking of nonholonomic vehicles that are simultaneously safe, optimal, adaptive, and guarantee convergence in user-defined finite time.
I also spent a year as a Research Assistant at the Chair of Information-Oriented Control at Technical University of Munich under the supervision of Prof. Sandra Hirche. I hold an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, where I specialized in Automation and Robotics. Before that, I completed my B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where my bachelor’s thesis on fault-diagnosis algorithms was supervised by Prof. Joachim Deutscher.