Team – UW ARC LAB – UW

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (by courtesy)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Email: xiangru[DOT]xu[AT]wisc[DOT]edu

06/2025 – present, ME

B. Eng., Harbin Institute of Technology

M.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison

09/2022 – present, ME

B.Eng., Harbin Institute of Technology

M.S., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Yuhao Zhang, thesis: “Formal Reachability and Robust Stability Analysis of Neural Network Control Systems”, ME, 09/2020-01/2026. Next engineer at Halliburton Energy Services.
Yujie Wang, thesis: “Safety-Critical Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems via Control Barrier Functions”, ME, 09/2021-03/2026. Next engineer at Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment.

Victor Freire, thesis: “FlatVCP: Safe & Efficient Optimal Control of Flat Systems Based on B-Spline Optimization”, ME, 09/2020-05/2022. Next PhD at University of Colorado Boulder.
Sushen Kashyap, project: “Visual-Inertial Odometry Based Navigation for Ground Robots”, ECE, 09/2022-05/2023. Next engineer at Trane Technologies.
Sequoyah Walters, thesis: “Vision-based Autonomous Landing of a Quadcopter with Field-of-view Constraints”, ME, 09/2020-08/2023. Next engineer at Applied Research Associates.
Yanze Liu, thesis: “Contract-based Multi-rate Control Design”, ME, 09/2022-05/2024. Next PhD at Northeastern University.
Arslan Majal, thesis: “Quantifying Estimation Errors in Robust Vision-Based Control: An Extreme Value Theory Approach”, ME, 09/2023-05/2025.