Negar Mehr

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.