Recent News
[08/2024] Officially started as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette! 
[03/2024] Invited to give a Plenary Talk at the 7th TX-LA Undergraduate Mathematics Conference. 
[02/2024] Invited talk at Baylor University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 
[01/2024] Invited talk at Rice University’s Department of Computer Science. 
[10/2023] Won the first place at the inaugural Duke DEFINE Academy, where 26 PhD candidates and postdocs were selected from 82 applicants nationwide. 
[09/2023] Graduated from Duke University with a Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and an M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering! 
[05/2023] Presented my paper “Computationally Efficient Tracking Control of Differential Drive Wheeled Mobile Robots” at the 2023 American Control Conference (ACC). 
[05/2023] My IEEE/CAA JAS paper won the Senol Utku Annual Award! 
[03/2023] Won the 2022–2023 Duke Graduate/Professional Academic Exemplar of the Year! 
[02/2023] Won the only Best Presentation Award at the 2023 Southeast Control Conference (SECC)! 
[12/2022] Presented my paper “Decentralized Unified Position-Attitude Control of Nonlinear UAVs” at the 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). 
[09/2022] Won the only IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Student Travel and Workshop Award ($825) from eight Duke student authors! 
[09/2022] Created my personal website!