Making Control and Machine Learning Systems Safe and Interpretable

Safe, Interpretable, and Composable Reinforcement Learning for Robotic ManipulationSafe, Interpretable, and Composable Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation
Formal Methods to Comply with Rules of the Road in Autonomous Driving
Machine Learning and Control for Synthetic Biology
Provably-correct motion planning and control for heterogeneous robotic teams

WELCOME

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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NEWS

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)
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
10/11/23: Erfan Aasi defended his PhD thesis and moved to a postdoctoral position at MIT
05/24/23: Max Cohen got the best ME PhD dissertation award!
05/20/23: New book: Safe Autonomy with Control Barrier Functions
05/20/23: New book: Adaptive and Learning-Based Control of Safety-Critical Systems