I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the Department of Electrtical and Computer Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Bin Hu. I did my M.S. in Electrical Engineering at UIUC with Prof. Seth Hutchinson.
My research is focused on the interplay of Control and Machine Learning. The safety critical aspect of the real-world systems motivates us to theoretically understand the data driven and machine learning systems. The safety and performance guarantees for such systems can be studied using control theoretic frameworks. Specifically, I work on the theoretical understanding of data driven algorithms such as reinforcement learning and online optimization algorithms. Prior to this, I was working on bio inspired flight control for micro aerial vehicles.
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Ph.D Candidate in Electrical Engineering, 2019-2024
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2019
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering, 2011
National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
Teaching Assistant:
ECE 486 Control Systems
ECE 470 Intro to Robotics
ECE 330 Probability with Engineering Applications
Research Assistant:
Analysis of RL Algorithms and online optimization techniques under the supervision of Prof. Bin Hu
Project B2: Bat-inspired Flight Control under the supervision of Prof. Seth Hutchinson
Teaching Assistant:
EC-204 Data Structures & Object Oriented Programming
MTS-232 Electro-Mechanical Systems
MTS-336 Instrumentation & Measurements
MTS-315 Mechatronics System Design
Research Assistant:
Path planning algorithms in dynamic environments
Image segmentation using Neural Network for autonomous driving