I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and an Amazon Scholar. My research is centered on Graphs of Convex Sets (GCS), a new framework for decision making that blends combinatorial and convex optimization. If you want to know more about GCS, you can watch my thesis defense or read this paper.

News

• WIP lecture notes on optimization and learning for robotics and control.
• Talk on GCS at the CVXPY workshop.
• New paper that builds on my PhD thesis. I encourage you to check it out if you’re interested in GCS. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
• Major cleanup to the Python library GCSOPT for solving GCS problems. It’s now pip-installable, thoroughly tested, and (hopefully) straightforward to use.
• I’ll be co-organizing the 17th World Symposium on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), taking place June 15–17, 2026, in Oulu, Finland. I invite you to submit your work: the deadline for paper submissions is January 15, 2026. Looking forward to seeing you in Finland!