Erkan Kayacan is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang technological University. He received the Ph.D. degree from University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium in 2014. Prior to NTU, he has worked at some of the world’s top institutions, including MIT and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Kayacan is a recipient of the Best Systems Paper Award at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) in 2018.
MSc, University of California, Davis, 2023
Topic: Her research is centered on data-driven Model Predictive Control (MPC). A significant part of Yasaman's research involves developing control systems that function effectively using only data, without relying on models derived from the first principles.