News
Milestones, awards, and announcements from the lab.
2026
- The Autonomous Controls Lab is moving to the University of California, Berkeley. The lab is recruiting PhD students for the upcoming admissions cycle. Learn how to join.
- Skye received the 2025 AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Best Paper Award for AutoSCvx.
- Sam won the Best Paper Award in the Guidance, Navigation and Control Graduate Student Paper Competition at SciTech 2026.
- Chris passed his PhD candidacy exam. Congratulations!
2025
- Abhi successfully defended his dissertation.
- Natalia passed her PhD candidacy exam.
- Taewan successfully defended his dissertation.
- Dayou successfully defended his dissertation.
- An article was published featuring Skye's research.
- Skye was awarded Best GNC Paper at SciTech 2025.
2024
- Kazu successfully defended his dissertation.
- Fabio passed his PhD qualifying exam, and Dylan successfully defended his dissertation.
- Purna successfully defended his dissertation.
- Abhi, Samet, Kazu, and Skye passed their candidacy exams; Oliver received a Teaching Excellence Award.
- An article was published on the lab's onboard rocket landing guidance work.