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prf1Assistant Professor
United Technologies Center &
Mechanical Engineering &
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University Of Connecticut

Education:
  • Postdoc., Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016
  • Ph.D., Electromechanical Engineering, Ghent University, 2014.
  • MSc., Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 2007.
  • MSc., Informatics, University of Trento, 2007.
Research Interests:
Control system, Optimization, Mechatronics, Cyber-physical systems security, Systems engineering.
 
Academic Experience:
  • Junior Member, Wolfson College Cambridge, 2014.
  • Research Assistant, Technical University Munich, 2009.
  • Research Scholar, Nanyang Technological University, 2008.
Teaching:
  • System Flows for Robust Design, Fall 2016, UConn.
  • MPC Lectures in Optimal Aerospace Systems, Fall 2014, UIUC.
  • Lab. Assistant for Advanced Control Engineering, Spring 2012, UGent.
Supervision:
  • Co-axial Helicopter Control, IAESTE Intern UGent, Summer 2011.
  • Sophisticated Humanoid Robot Control, Erasmus Thesis UGent, Fall 2010.
  • Control of Micro-Flyers, Project at TU Munich, Fall 2008.
Memberships:
  • Erasmus Mundus Association.
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
  • Trinity Mathematical Society.
Awards:
Informatics Prize for Outstanding Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2007.