News

2026-05-27: I served as a co-chair for the regular session on Modeling at American Control Conference 2026.

2026-05-14: I was nominated and selected as an Outstanding Reviewer of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), in recognition of my distinguished service to the journal.

2026-01-31: Our paper, "AirBender: Adaptive Transportation of Bendable Objects Using Dual UAVs," previously published in RA-L, is accpeted for presentation at ICRA 2026 in Vienna!

2026-01-21: Our submission to ACC2026, "From Ellipsoids to Midair Control of Dynamic Hitches," is accepted for presentation in New Orleans!

2026-01-13: I started to serve in IEEE RA-L editorial board as an Associate Editor!

2025-10-01: I joined Intelligent Robotics and Autonomy Lab (iRaL) as a postdoc fellow with Prof. Vasileios Tzoumas at UMich - Ann Arbor! Currently working on a morphable quadrotor (website) and the follow-up exploration with this platform on safe MPC in aerial manipulation.

2025-08-01: I have given 46 reviews in total! Why 46? Because it is the first time I report this number on this website XD. Next update will be for 100 reviews, which should be more eventful (Update: I lost count.)

2025-07-18: I defended my PhD dissertation! Thanks to my committee members: Dr. David Saldaña, Dr. Jeff Trinkle, Dr. Roberto Palmieri, Dr. Giuseppe Loianno, Dr. Rafael Fierro.

2025-07-18: Our paper publised in LARS 2024, "KT-Imitation: Efficient Visual Imitation for Autonomous Navigation Based on Keypoint Timeline," was selected as a top-10 best paper of the conference!

2025-07-08: Our Journal paper, "Modular Multi-Rotors: From Quadrotors to Fully-Actuated Aerial Vehicles," was accepted to publish in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, extending our 2021 publication in ICRA, "H-ModQuad: Modular Multi-Rotors with 4, 5, and 6 Controllable DOF."

2025-05-21: Suhbadeep, Diego, David, and I demonstrated the system presented in our publication "MochiSwarm: A testbed for robotic micro-blimps in realistic environments" at ICRA Expo 2025 in Atlanta.

2025-05-20: I presented our publication "MochiSwarm: A testbed for robotic micro-blimps in realistic environments" at ICRA 2025 in Atlanta.

2025-04-21: Team Lehigh Swarms competed at "Defend the Republic" blimp competition Spring 2025 at George Mason University! I was leading the Vision and Electronics development.

2025-03-01: I finished my 3-month visit at the University of New Mexico. 

2025-02-11: Our paper "AirBender: Adaptive Transportation of Bendable Objects Using Dual UAVs" was published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

2025-01-27: Our paper submission, "MochiSwarm: A testbed for robotic micro-blimps in realistic environments," to ICRA 2025 in Atlanta was accepted!

2024-11-28: I started a new position as a visiting scholar at the University of New Mexico with Prof. Rafael Fierro.

2024-11-25: Team Lehigh Swarms achieved the highest season score and earned first place in the "Defend thhe Republic" blimp competition at Indiana University! I was the team captain, and leading the Vision and Electronics development. Check out our featured interview!

2024-09-04: Two of our recent papers, "KT-Imitation: Efficient Visual Imitation for Autonomous Navigation Based on Keypoint Timeline" and "Rotor Fault Detection and Isolation in Aerial Vehicles with Dozens of Rotors" were accepted at Latin American Robotics Symposium (LARS)!

2024-04-10: I passed Ph.D. candidacy! Considering this the furthest news I list over here since this was the point of no return :V.