Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology · Co-Founder of AZON-AI
Autonomous System Safety Verification & Validation (V&V) · Safety-critical control · Formal methods · Risk-aware control
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I am co-founder and technical lead of AZON-AI, a technical initiative focused on testing and safety validation of AI-driven autonomous systems. My research centers around risk-aware control and safety validation of safety-critical systems, focusing on understanding and formalizing their safety and performance boundaries under uncertainty.
Starting from classical control theory on dynamical systems, my work gradually expanded to learning-based approaches for adaptive agents in complex environments and more recently to formal methods for reasoning about decision-making processes in autonomous systems. Throughout this progression, my research has been driven by a consistent and persistent thread: how to reason about safety in systems that operate beyond idealized assumptions, such as under disturbance, partial observability, imperfect policies, and complex interaction environments.
I am interested in making safety validation interpretable, structural, and transparent, thus enabling rigorous analysis of edge cases, long-tail risks and rare events in AI-driven decision systems.
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