Xu, Huan
Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
The Institute for Systems Research
Maryland Robotics Center
The Institute for Systems Research
Maryland Robotics Center
3180 Glenn L. Martin Hall
Huan Xu is jointly appointed in the Institute for Systems Research and the Department of Aerospace Engineering. She received her S.B. degree in mechanical engineering and material science from Harvard University in 2007, M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2008 and 2013, respectively. Her doctoral work focused on the use of formal methods and timed specification languages in the design and analysis of large-scale, complex, distributed control systems.
Education
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, June 2013
- M.S., Mechanical and Civil Engineering, June 2008
- S.B., Mechanical and Materials Sciences and Engineering, Harvard University, June 2007
Control and dynamical systems, formal methods with applications in autonomy, planning, and system identification. Specification, design, and synthesis of networked control systems
- UMD Grand Challenges Impact Award: Values-Centered Artificial Intelligence
- MIPS: UAS Airborne Intelligent Flight Management System for Operations in Adversarial Environments
- MIPS: Certifiable safety critical flight control system for UAVs
- MIPS: Safe flight control system for UAV autonomy
- ARTIAMAS Cooperative Agreement
- DARPA: Robust Semi-Autonomous Swarm Tactics for Situational Awareness in Uncertain Environments