Dr. Franck Djeumou earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2023 and his M.S. and B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from ISAE-SUPAERO, France, in 2018. Before joining RPI, he spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at Toyota Research Institute, California. His research focuses on modeling and control approaches to enable autonomy in extreme, rare, and safety-critical scenarios. He is particularly interested in decision-making under uncertainty and limited data, as well as structured and safe learning on the fly with scarce information. One of the goals being to expand the safety envelope of today’s autonomous systems by enabling operation at the limits of what the (physical) systems can achieve. Examples of applications we are exploring include flight control under failure conditions, acrobatic flight maneuvers, agile robotics, or autonomous driving at the limits of vehicle handling capabilities.