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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). My research is centered on Graphs of Convex Sets (GCS), a new framework for decision making that blends combinatorial and convex optimization. If you want to know more about GCS, you can watch my thesis defense or read this paper.

News

  • WIP lecture notes on optimization and learning for robotics and control.
  • Talk on GCS at the CVXPY workshop.
  • New paper that builds on my PhD thesis. I encourage you to check it out if you’re interested in GCS. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
  • Major cleanup to the Python library GCSOPT for solving GCS problems. It’s now pip-installable, thoroughly tested, and (hopefully) straightforward to use.
  • I’ll be co-organizing the 17th World Symposium on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), taking place June 15–17, 2026, in Oulu, Finland. I invite you to submit your work: the deadline for paper submissions is January 15, 2026. Looking forward to seeing you in Finland!