I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, San Diego . I direct the Existential Robotics Laboratory (ERL) . I am affiliated with the Contextual Robotics Institute (CRI) at UCSD .
Before joining UCSD , I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics , University of Pennsylvania , working with Vijay Kumar . I defended my Ph.D. dissertation on Active Information Acquisition with Mobile Robots at the department of Electrical and Systems Engineering , University of Pennsylvania in July, 2015. My advisors were George J. Pappas and Kostas Daniilidis . I received an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania , Phil
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