Making Control and Machine Learning Systems Safe and Interpretable

Calin Belta is the Brendan Iribe Endowed  Professor of  Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science  at the University of Maryland, College Park, where is also part of the Maryland Robotics Center (MRC) and the Institute for Systems Research (ISR). He is also a Research Professor in the College of Engineering at Boston University. His research focuses on dynamics and control theory, with particular emphasis on cyber-physical systems, formal methods, and applications to robotics, autonomous driving, and systems biology.

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05/8/25: Marius and Calin got the Test of Time Award at HSCC 2025 for their paper: “Marius Kloetzer and Calin Belta, A fully automated framework for control of linear systems from LTL specifications, HSCC 2006”

05/01/25: Wei Xiao will start a tenure-track faculty position at WPI in Fall 2025. Congratulations Wei!

04/17/25: Max Cohen accepted a tenure-track faculty position at North Carolina State University. Congratulations Max!

02/1/25: Calin is the general chair of the Maryland Robotics Center (MRC) symposium scheduled for May 1-2, 2025 (website)

09/1/24: New NSF EFRI grant in collaboration with MIT, U Chicago, and U Delaware: BEGIN OI  “Teaching non-brain organoids how to think: PRogrammable OrGanoid intElligence using neuronal Networks implemented by gene Circuits (PROGENIC)

03/15/24: Calin and Antoine Girard will teach an EECI course “Formal Methods in Control Design: Abstraction, Optimization, and Data-driven Approaches” in Leuven, Belgium, May 27-31, 2024 (see flier for more information, follow this link for registration – select M11)

03/01/24: Calin will be a keynote speaker at ICRA 2024, Yokohama, Japan link

02/26/24: Wenliang Liu defended his PhD thesis and moved on to a position at Amazon