Hiroyasu Tsukamoto, Ph.D. (CV)
INCOMING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF AEROSPACE, UIUC; AFFILIATE, NASA JPL
Dr. Hiroyasu Tsukamoto is an incoming Assistant Professor of Aerospace at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), a Postdoctoral Research Affiliate at the Robotics Section of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the director of the ACXIS (Autonomous Control, Exploration, Intelligence, and Systems) Laboratory at UIUC. He is the recipient of the Vougut Fellowship and the William F. Ballhaus Prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Space Engineering, GALCIT, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and completed his Ph.D. in Autonomous Control and Robotics in 2023, advised by Prof. Soon-Jo Chung. He has participated in the Science-Infused Spacecraft Autonomy for Interstellar Object Exploration, the Multi-Spacecraft Technology Demonstration Project, and the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) Project at NASA JPL.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Space Engineering (Autonomous Control and Robotics) with Best Dissertation Award, Caltech, 2023
M.S. in Space Engineering, (Autonomous Control and Robotics), Caltech, 2018
B.S. in Engineering (Aerospace Engineering), Kyoto University, 2017
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nonlinear Control Theory
Nonlinear Systems
Aerospace & Robotic Autonomy
Data-driven & Learning-based Control Theory
Autonomous Systems
FUTURE TOPICS
Robust Decision-Making in Systems with Various Sources of Uncertainties
Integrated Autonomous Design and Operation of Sub-Autonomous Systems
Reliable Autonomy in Dynamically Hybrid Robotic Systems
Formal Guarantees in Data-Driven, Model-Free Control
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