Maybe it is time to revise the three little pigs story…

How breaking my wrist and being in a long arm cast for an extended period of time made me appreciate certain robotics problems?

Second (and last) day of L4DC also featured three great keynotes: “You Trained with Offline RL---But How to Tune It?” by Nan Jiang (University of Illinois)

We had three wonderful keynotes today at L4DC’25: "If Gen AI is the answer, what is the question? Some thoughts on the theory of generation" by Ambuj Tewari (University of Michigan)

Official start of L4DC’25

L4DC kicked off with the morning tutorials "Higher-Order Learning Dynamics in Games" by Panayotis Mertikopoulos, Lacra Pavel, Jeff S. Shamma "Neural Networks in the Loop: a Tutorial on Robust Machine Learning for Control" by Ian Manchester, Peter Seiler, Bin Hu

i am happy to announce that, effective august 25, the number of women full professors in my department will increase by 50%. i am afraid some of the external letter writers will still be calling me a "rising star" in my retirement memoir. jokes aside, thanks everyone for the support.

L4DC’25 early bird registration deadline is on May 2!

L4DC’25 (7th Annual Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference) program is shaping up nicely. Check out the program, including exciting papers, keynotes, and tutorials: sites.google.com/umich.edu/l4... Registration is now open! Come join us in Ann Arbor on June 4-6!

BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime. Keep sharing everywhere.

A little bit of interesting history: in late 60s, early 70s, two PhD programs were established at the University of Michigan: computing and communication sciences (CCS) in LSA and computer, information, and control engineering (CICE) in CoE.

I was taking uber from campus to home the other day and it was overly expensive. If instead I put the grocery store almost across my place as the destination, the price dropped to a half. Was it a discount for the grocery store or overcharging me since it learned my commute patterns?

A great workshop for senior PhD students and postdocs interested in pursuing academic positions: nextprof.engin.umich.edu/nextprof-nex...

Willems’ behavioral system theory is an amazing way to think about systems in an abstract and unified manner. I have found myself thinking about it in very different contexts, from model reduction, to learning, to abstractions.