Negar Mehr
I am an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of California at Berkeley. I run the ICON Lab. The focus of my research is to develop control algorithms that allow autonomous systems to safely and intelligently interact with each other and with humans. I draw from the fields of control theory, robotics, game theory, and machine learning. I was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford from 2019 to 2020. I received my PhD in Mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley in 2019 and received my bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in 2013.
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Mar 28, 2024 | Our paper titled “Adaptive Learning from Demonstration in Heterogeneous Agents: Concurrent Minimization and Maximization of Surprise in Sparse Reward Environments” got accepted at the Learning for Dynamics & Control (L4DC) Conference 2024! |
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Jan 29, 2024 | Our paper titled “Weathering ongoing uncertainty: learning and planning in a time-varying partially observable environment” got accepted at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024! |
Jan 29, 2024 | Our paper titled “Integrating Predictive Motion Uncertainties with Distributionally Robust Risk-Aware Control for Safe Robot Navigation in Crowds” got accepted at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024! |
Jan 08, 2024 | I was selected as an “Excellent Teacher” by UIUC students for teaching the class AE598: Learning and Control for Multi-Agent Systems! |
Jun 21, 2023 | Our paper titled “Efficient Constrained Multi-Agent Trajectory Optimization using Dynamic Potential Games” got accepted at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023! |