Adaptive and Learning-Based Control of Safety-Critical Systems

Max Cohen is a Ph.D. Candidate and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University. Outside of academia he has worked as a Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin and held research internships at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. His research interests include nonlinear control theory, learning-based control, and hybrid systems, with applications in robotics and autonomous systems.​
Calin Belta, Ph.D, is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University, where he holds the Tegan family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship. He is also the Director of the BU Robotics Lab. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Technical University of Iasi and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include dynamics and control theory, with particular emphasis on hybrid and cyber-physical systems, formal synthesis and verification, and applications in robotics and systems biology. He has received the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He is a Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE.

Max Cohen是波士頓大學機械工程系的博士候選人和國家科學基金會研究生研究員。他在佛羅里達大學獲得機械工程學士學位，並在波士頓大學獲得機械工程碩士學位。在學術界之外，他曾在洛克希德·馬丁公司擔任系統工程師，並在麻省理工學院林肯實驗室擔任研究實習生。他的研究興趣包括非線性控制理論、基於學習的控制和混合系統，並應用於機器人和自主系統。

Calin Belta是波士頓大學機械工程系的教授，擔任Tegan家族傑出教職獎。他還是波士頓大學機器人實驗室的主任。他在雅西技術大學獲得學士和碩士學位，並在賓夕法尼亞大學獲得碩士和博士學位。他的研究興趣包括動力學和控制理論，特別強調混合和物理系統、形式合成和驗證，以及在機器人和系統生物學中的應用。他曾獲得空軍科學研究辦公室青年研究員獎和國家科學基金會職業生涯獎。他是IEEE的會士和傑出演講者。