The Control, Intelligent Autonomy/Robots and Optimization Research Lab consists of both undergraduate and graduate students in electrical engineering and robotics under the supervision of Dr. Ningshi Yao in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, affiliated with Bio-engineering Department, at the George Mason University.
The research areas our group is actively engaged with are control theory, real-time scheduling, human-robot interaction/teaming, mixed integer optimization for resource allocation, bio-inspired robotics and autonomy, machine learning, and cyber-physical human systems.
You can also visit our youtube channel, GMU’s internal CIAOLab website, and LinkedIn page. Here are some highlight videos from our youtube channel.
Dr. Ningshi Yao is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, affiliated with Bio-engineering Department, at George Mason University. She received her PhD from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2020, and the BS in Automatic Control from Zhejiang University, China, in 2014. Prior to joining Mason, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology from November 2020 to July 2021. Her research interests include real-time scheduling, control theory, cyber-physical systems, machine learning and human-robot interaction.
I am looking for motivated students interested in control theory, AI and robotics research. Ciao lab will have 2 new PhD openings in Spring and Fall 2024. If you are interested, please feel free to email me at nyao4 at gmu dot edu.
Our paper entitled “Robust Model Predictive Control for Networked Control Systems with Timing Perturbations” by Renke Wang and Dr. Ningshi Yao has been accepted by rhe 2024 American Control Conference (ACC2024). Dr. Yao will attend Read more…
Our late breaking report entitled “Unveiling the Dynamics of Human Decision-Making: From Strategies to False Beliefs in Collaborative Human-Robot Co-Learning Tasks” by Rajul Kumar, Yidi Huang, and Dr. Ningshi Yao has been accepted by the Read more…
Ciao Lab faculty and PhD students went out for dinner last night to celebrate Thanksgiving. Thanks for a fun and productive semester. And let’s keep creating and discovering more.
The GMU Blimp Square team, led by me and Dr. Daigo Shishika from the ME department, just won the Defend the Republic (DTR) robotic blimp competition hosted at Lehigh University from November 13-17, 2023. The Read more…
Dr. Yao attended the Creative Convergence Workshop (https://lnkd.in/gh9dFpyA) hosted at Princeton University and presented our work on human and robot co-learning. It was such a pleasure and honor to join this workshop and celebrate Dr. Read more…
Our paper entitled “Two Exact Algorithms for the Packet Scheduling Problem” by Dr. Fei Li and Dr. Ningshi Yao has been accepted by the 16th Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA’23). Dr. Read more…
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