Bio: Negar is 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). She received her PhD in the Mechanical Engineering department at UC Berkeley in 2019 and received her B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2013. Her research interests lie at the intersection of control theory, robotics, and game theory. Specifically, she is interested in developing control algorithms that enable robots to safely and intelligently interact with each other and humans. Negar was the recipient of the IEEE ITSS best PhD dissertation award in 2020. She won the best student paper award at the International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2016.

Bio: Melkior is an assistant professor with the Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2017. His research focuses on developing theory and algorithms for learning and planning for autonomous systems in uncertain, complex, and changing environments, as well as in scenarios where only limited knowledge of the system is available. His work on safety-critical control and planning has been recently funded by NASA, DARPA, and the United States Air Force.

Bio: Yagiz is a PhD candidate in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bogazici University, Turkey in 2017. His research focuses on developing socially intelligent autonomous systems that co-exist, cooperate, and compete with each other, as well as with humans, by drawing novel connections between controls, formal methods, and information theory.