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.
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| 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! |
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| 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! |
| Jan 31, 2022 | Our paper titled “ Learning Contraction Policies from Offline Data” got accepted at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022! |
| Jan 31, 2022 | We will organize a workshop on Learning and Control for Safety-Critical Systems at American Control Conference (ACC) 2022! |