Imoleayo Abel

Ph.D. in Dynamical Systems and Control Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, San Diego

Advisor

Professor Miroslav Krstic

Research interests

• Safety-Critical Control

• Control of Time Delay Systems

• Autonomous Vehicle Planning and Control

• Computer Vision

• Software Development

Publications

1. I. Abel, D. Steeves, M. Krstić, M. Janković
   “Prescribed-Time Safety Design for Strict-Feedback Nonlinear Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. to appear

2. I. Abel, M. Janković, M. Krstić
   “Constrained Control of Multi-Input Systems with Distinct Input Delays”, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. to appear

1. I. Abel, D. Steeves, M. Krstić, M. Janković
   “Prescribed-Time Safety Design for a Chain of Integrators.”, American Control Conference (ACC), 2022.

2. I. Abel, M. Krstić, M. Janković
   “Safety-Critical Control of Systems with Time-Varying Input Delays.”, IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems (TDS), 2021.

3. I. Abel, M. Janković, M. Krstić
   “Constrained Control of Input Delayed Systems With Partially Compensated Input Delays”, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), 2020. (Best Student Paper Award Finalist)

4. I. Abel, M. Janković, M. Krstić
   “Constrained Stabilization of Multi-Input Linear Systems with Distinct Input Delays”, IFAC/IEEE Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations (CPDE), 2019.

5. A. Ghaffari, I. Abel, D. Ricketts, S. Lerner, M. Krstić
   “Safety Verification Using Barrier Certificates with Application to Double Integrator with Input Saturation and Zero-Order Hold”, American Control Conference (ACC), 2018.

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Industry experience

• Senior Engineer - Autonomous Vehicle Controls, NVIDIA Corporation (2022 - )

• Autonomous Vehicle Control Intern, NVIDIA Corporation (2021)

• Software Developer, Epic Systems Corporation (2014-2016)

Education

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, San Diego (2022)

• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, San Diego (2018)

• B.S. (High Honors) in Engineering, Swarthmore College (2014)

  Concentration: Mechanical Engineering & Robotics

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  • Tau Beta Pi - Engineering Honor Society, Pennsylvania Kappa (2012)

  • Sigma Xi - Scientific Research Society (2012)

• B.A. (High Honors) in Computer Science, Swarthmore College (2014)

Contact information

Office: EBU-I Room 2101
Email: iabel (at) ucsd (dot) edu