what about me
I’m Kurtis
> I want to make embodied, reset-limited robots adapt their safety structure over time without losing (too much) safety and liveness guarantees.
- CS student
- robotics research assistant in the MARS (Multi-Agent Robotic Systems) Lab with Prof. Mo Chen
- worked on formal safety for multi-agent system
- model predictive control and Hamilton–Jacobi reachability, on-paper (theory) and hardware
- tool(s) built:
- a JAX-accelerated MPPI controller (e.g. multi-agent-mppi)
Also dabbled on the biomedical computing; I am grateful to have worked with Prof. Ghassan Hamarneh his MAI (Medical Image Analysis) Lab, with his former postdoc student, Dr. Ben Cardoen (a super cool guy!), building physics-aware 3D SMLM simulators and workflows for protein structure recovery, as well as tooling for Federated Learning on bimodal data and HPC.
Publications & Works
\(\triangleright\) K. K. Yang, G. Lee, N. Jahanshahi, and M. Chen. “Buffered Time-to-Reach for Dynamics-Aware Multi-Agent Collision Avoidance using Hamilton–Jacobi Reachability.” Preprint, to be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2026.
- 2026-01: Teaching Assistant for graduate-level course: CMPT-720 Robotic Autonomy-Algorithms and Computation.