Negar Mehr

161 Coordinated Science Laboratory

1308 West Main St

Urbana Illinois 61801

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a cross appointment at the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department. I run the ICON Lab. The focus of my research is to develop control algorithms that allow autonomous systems to safely and intelligently interact with each other and with humans. To this end, I draw from the fields of control theory, robotics, game theory, and machine learning. I was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford from 2019 to 2020. I received my PhD in Mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley in 2019 and received my bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in 2013.

I will join the UC Berkeley Mechanical Engineering Department as an Assistant Professor starting from January 2024.

news

Jun 21, 2023 Our paper titled “Efficient Constrained Multi-Agent Trajectory Optimization using Dynamic Potential Games” got accepted at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023!
Mar 21, 2023 We will organize a workshop on Multi-Agent Planning and Navigation in Challenging Environments at the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2023!
Mar 10, 2023 Our paper titled RAPID: Autonomous Multi-agent Racing using Constrained Potential Dynamic Games got accepted at the European Control Conference (ECC) 2023!
Jan 16, 2023 Our paper titled Distributed Potential iLQR: Scalable Game-Theoretic Trajectory Planning for Multi-Agent Interactions” got accepted at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023!
Jan 16, 2023 Our paper titled Learning to Influence Vehicles’ Routing in Mixed-Autonomy Networks by Dynamically Controlling the Headway of Autonomous Cars got accepted at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023!
Nov 24, 2022 Our paper titled Maximum-Entropy Multi-Agent Dynamic Games: Forward and Inverse Solutions got accepted at the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)!
Aug 15, 2022 We will organize a workshop on Strategic Multi-Agent Interactions: Game Theory for Robot Learning and Decision Making” at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2022!
Apr 22, 2022 We will organize a workshop on Behavior-driven Autonomous Driving in Unstructured Environments at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022!
Feb 28, 2022 Our paper titled Congestion-aware Bi-modal Delivery Systems Utilizing Drones got accepted at the European Control Conference (ECC) 2022!
Feb 11, 2022 I won the NSF CAREER Award to develop a mathematical framework for socially-aware control of autonomy!