Outreach

2006 NASA LaRC Workshop “Robust Adaptive Control”, conducted by K. Wise, N. Hovakimyan, E. Lavretsky (September 12-14)

2007 American Control Conference, Workshop “Robust Adaptive Control”, conducted by K. Wise, N. Hovakimyan, E. Lavretsky (June 9-10)

2008 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, “Robust Adaptive Control”, conducted by K. Wise, N. Hovakimyan, E. Lavretsky (August 16-17)

2008 StatOilHydro, Porsgrunn, Norway, “Robust Adaptive Control”, conducted by K. Wise, N. Hovakimyan, E. Lavretsky (June 24-26)

2008 SAAB, Sweden, “Robust Adaptive Control”, conducted by K. Wise, N. Hovakimyan, E. Lavretsky (September 2-4)

2009 Excellence Lectures on L₁ adaptive control, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy

2008 NASA Marshall Workshop “Robust Adaptive Control”, conducted by K. Wise, N. Hovakimyan, E. Lavretsky (February 23-25)

2009 Short course on L₁ adaptive control, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

2010 Short course on L₁ adaptive control, Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Sweden

2010 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, “Robust Adaptive Control”, conducted by K. Wise, N. Hovakimyan, E. Lavretsky (August 2-5)

2011 Short course on L₁ adaptive control, Department of Automatic Control, Politechnic of Catalan, Barcelona, Spain

2011 Short course on L₁ adaptive control, Department of Automatic Control, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

2011 Short course on L₁ adaptive control, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Munich Institute of Technology, Germany

2011 Invited speaker in IFAC workshop “Multiple Vehicle Coordination, Navigation and Control: Theory and Practice”, organized by A. Pascoal, P. Aguiar, I. Kaminer, J. Hespanha, Milan, Italy

2012 Short course on L₁ Adaptive Control, National aerospace Labs, Bangalore, India

2012 Short course on L₁ Adaptive Control, StatOil, Porsgrunn, Norway

2012 Short course on L₁ Adaptive Control, Munich, Germany

2012 Invited speaker in workshop “Guidance, Navigation and Control Applications in the Aerospace Industry”, conducted with Technical Committee on Aerospace Controls of IEEE CSS (December 10-14)

2013 Short course on L₁ Adaptive Control, ACGSC meeting #111, Reno, NV

2014 Invited speaker in workshop “Adaptive Control”, CIAS, Toulouse, France

2014 Invited speaker in workshop “Emerging Frontiers in Adaptive Systems and Learning”, American Control Conference, Portland, OR

2014 Short course at NASA LaRC AISCS “A General Framework for Multiple UAVs Autonomous Cooperative Missions”

2014 Short course at Technical University of Munich “L₁ Adaptive Control and Autonomy”

2015 Short course on L₁ Adaptive Control, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

2015 Invited speaker in “Workshop for Middle and High School Teachers and Students”, American Control Conference, Chicago, IL

2016 Champaign-Urbana Sunrise Rotary Club presentation

2016 Outreach event “Girls go for it” in Westview Elementary School of Champaign

2016 Short course “L₁ Adaptive Control”, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu, China

2016 Panelist for “Versatility of drones and robotics” in Pygmalion festival

2017 Panelist in Academic Alliance Workshop on Autonomy and Complex Systems, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM

2017 UAS Panelist in Promat, Chicago, IL

2017 Panelist Entrepreneurship Forum: The Future of Where Innovation is Headed, UIUC

2017 Invited speaker in workshop “Guidance, Navigation and Control Applications in the Aerospace Industry – Current Problems and Modern Solutions”, co-organized with Technical Committee on Aerospace Controls of IEEE CSS (August 27-30), Kohala Coast, HI

2017 Leader for agricultural panel on iDSI Data Science Day at UIUC, October 10

2017 Open discussion with students of United World Colleges, Dilijan, Armenia

2017 Co-chair of NSF workshop “Machine Learning for Discovery Sciences”, Yerevan, Armenia (with Aram Galstyan, USC), co-sponsored by Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology

2018 Invited speaker in “UAS Safety and Risk Management” Symposium at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA

2019 Invited participant at Google’s International Women’s Day Leadership Roundtable, Chicago, IL

2019 Invited panelist at “Learn, Launch, Lead: Women and Entrepreneurship Conference”, Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Chicago

2019 Invited speaker in workshop “Aerospace Controls: Current Topics in Theory and Practice”, co-organized with Technical Committee on Aerospace Controls of IEEE CSS, In American Control Conference, Philadelphia, PA

2020 Invited speaker in DoD Human-Machine Interactive Controls Workshop, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

2020 Invited panelist in NSF NRI workshop breakout session “Urban Aerial mobility”, Arlington, VA

2020 Invited speaker in workshop “Current Topics in Aerospace Control”, co-organized with Technical Committee on Aerospace Controls of IEEE CSS, In American Control Conference, Denver, CO

2021 NSF workshop series “Making the Leap to Large”

2021 Invited panelist in NSF PIRE workshop “Assured CPS Autonomy for 3D Urban Transportation: Drones, Flying Cars and Beyond”, Berkeley, CA