I am a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis on Robotics & Control at the University of Delaware, DE, USA and a visiting (non-degree) graduate student in System Engineering at Cornell University, NY, USA. I work under the supervision of Dr. Andreas Malikopoulos in the Information and Decision Science (IDS) Lab. I received the MSc degree in Informatics from Northern Arizona University, AZ, USA and the BSc degree in Automation and Control Engineering (Talented program) from Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam in 2021 and 2019, respectively. From June to August 2023, I was a research intern at Honda Research Institute USA. My current research interest includes Learning-based Control, Model Predictive Control, Distributed Optimization, and Multi-agent Systems, with a typical application in Connected and Automated Vehicles.

I will be joining the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral researcher starting from Fall 2025.

Recent News

• July 2025: Our article, “Combining Graph Attention Networks and Distributed Optimization for Multi-Robot Mixed-Integer Convex Programming” [preprint], has been accepted to the 2025 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2025).

• July 2025: Our paper, “Distributed Optimization for Traffic Light Control and Connected Automated Vehicle Coordination in Mixed-Traffic Intersections” [paper], was selected as the best paper finalist (2nd place) in the ASME Automotive and Transportation Systems Technical Committee (ATS-TC) Invited Session for ACC 2025.

• June 2025: I have defended my Ph.D. dissertation on “Mixed-Traffic Control and Coordination: Optimization and Learning-Based Approaches”. I will be joining the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral researcher in my next endeavor.

• June 2025: My joint article with Dr. Andreas Malikopoulos, “Controller Adaptation via Learning Solutions of Contextual Bayesian Optimization” [paper], has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

• November 2024: My joint article with Dr. Andreas Malikopoulos, “Distributed Optimization for Traffic Light Control and Connected Automated Vehicle Coordination in Mixed-Traffic Intersections” [paper], has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Control Systems Letters.

• June 2024: My joint article with Behdad Chalaki, Filippos Tzortzoglou, and Dr. Andreas Malikopoulos, “Stochastic Time-Optimal Trajectory Planning for Connected and Automated Vehicles in Mixed-Traffic Merging Scenarios” [paper], has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Special Issue on Intelligent Decision Making, Planning and Control of Automated Vehicles.

• June 2024: My joint work with Honda Research Institute USA team, “Social Navigation in Crowded Environments with Model Predictive Control and Deep Learning-Based Human Trajectory Prediction”, has been accepted to the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2024) [paper].

• January 2024: My joint work with Honda Research Institute USA team, “Multi-Robot Cooperative Navigation in Crowds: A Game-Theoretic Learning-Based Model Predictive Control Approach” [paper], has been accepted to the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024).

• August 2023: I have joined Cornell University as a visiting (non-degree) graduate student in System Engineering, and still work with Dr. Andreas Malikopoulos.

• July 2023: My joint article with Hao M. Wang, Dr. Gabor Orosz, and Dr. Andreas Malikopoulos, “Coordination for Connected Automated Vehicles at Merging Roadways in Mixed Traffic Environment” [paper], and my joint article with Nishanth Venkatesh, Aditya Dave, and Dr. Andreas Malikopoulos, “Connected and Automated Vehicles in Mixed-Traffic: Learning Human Driver Behavior for Effective On-Ramp Merging” [paper], have been accepted to the 2023 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2023).

• June 2023: I have joined Honda Research Institute USA as a research intern this summer.

• March 2023: My joint article with Ishtiaque Mahbub and Dr. Andreas Malikopoulos, “Safety-Prioritized Receding Horizon Control Framework for Platoon Formation in a Mixed Traffic Environment” [paper], has been accepted for publication in Automatica.

• January 2023: My joint article with Dr. Andreas Malikopoulos, “Optimal Weight Adaptation of Model Predictive Control for Connected and Automated Vehicles in Mixed Traffic with Bayesian Optimization” [paper], has been accepted to the 2023 American Control Conference (ACC 2023).