Selected Invited Lectures
2023
- University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
- Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
- Keynote speaker, International Conference on Advanced Control, Automation and Robotics, Beijing, China
- Keynote Speaker, 4th Asia Conference on Automation Engineering, Hangzhou, China
2022
- Keynote speaker, 13th Asia Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Chengdu, China
- SAE G-34 / EUROCAE WG-114 Artificial Intelligence in Aviation
- Association of Women in Mathematics (AWM) Research Symposium, Minneapolis, MN
- C3.ai Research Symposium, Miami, FL
- Keynote Speaker, 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Machine Learning
- Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
- Keynote Speaker, 4th Asia Conference on Automation Engineering, Hangzhou, China
- Invited Speaker, KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
2021
- Keynote Speaker, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence
- TEDxYerevan speaker, Yerevan, Armenia
- Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
- University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
- University of Nevada, Reno, NV
- Keynote Speaker, 3rd International Conference on Computing and Data Science, Stanford, CA
- NSF PIRE workshop: Assured CPS Autonomy for 3d Urban Transportation: Drones, Flying Cars and Beyond, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
- Professional Development Conference “Shifting Gears Thriving through Transitions” of the Coalition of Minority Professional Engineering Societies
- San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
- ACGSC meeting #126
- Google Machine Learning and Robot Safety Workshop, Mountain View, CA
- Decision and Control Laboratory, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
- KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
2020
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
- MIT Robotics Today Online Seminar Series in the time of Pandemics, Boston, MA
- ISR, IST, Lisbon, Portugal
- DoD Human-Machine Interactive Control Workshop, JHU, Baltimore, MD
- University of Nevada, Reno
- Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies, Berkeley, CA
- Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology, Yerevan, Armenia
2019
- Global Innovation Forum, Yerevan, Armenia
- Science and Technology Convergence Conference, Yerevan, Armenia
- Kent Distinguished Lecture, Illinois Center for Transportation, Rantoul, IL
- ACGSC meeting #123, Santa Fe, NM
- Armenian Engineers and Scientists of America Conference and Expo, Glendale Tech Week, CA
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
- Invited speaker and panelist at Senior Leadership Robotics Forum, led by US Army’s National Robotics Engineering Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2018
- Global Innovation Forum, Yerevan, Armenia
- Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- Aviation Safety Council, Taipei, Taiwan
- NTU-UIUC Forum, Taipei, Taiwan
- National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Zhejiang University, Xihu Qu, Hangzhou Shi, Zhejiang Sheng, China
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2017
- Technical University of Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany
- INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France
- 1st Marine UAS Summer School, IST, Lisbon, Portugal
- Chittenden Symposium on Health Care Technologies, UIUC, Urbana-Champaign, IL
2016
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
- Keynote speaker, Aging2.0 Optimize, San Francisco, CA
- Plenary speaker, ICNPAA World Congress: Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Sciences and Aerospace, La Rochelle, France
- NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- Armenian Engineers and Scientists of America, Pasadena, CA
2015
- University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX
- Invited speaker in 1st Sino-German Flight Dynamics and Autonomous Control Workshop, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
- Invited speaker in DARPA workshop “Future Directions in Control”, Arlington, VA
- Plenary speaker, 55th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- Invited speaker, KAUST-NSF Conference on Electronic Materials, Devices and Systems for a Sustainable Future, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
2014
- Illinois Terrorism Task Force, Springfield, IL
- Caterpillar Distinguished Lectures in Controls, Peoria, IL
- Narvik University College, Narvik, Norway
- Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, IA
- Keynote speaker, ICUAS Conference, Orlando, FL
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA
- IMSE ‘Hot TIME’ Symposium, UIUC, IL
- University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
2013
- Denmark Technological University, Denmark, Copenhagen
- California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
- Draper Labs, MIT, Boston, MA
- Boston University, Boston, MA
2012
- United Technologies Research Center, Hartford, CT
- IV Annual World Wide Congress on Clinical Robotics and Surgical Innovation, Chicago, IL
- Keynote speaker, ICNPAA World Congress: Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Sciences and Aerospace, Vienna, Austria
- Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- University of California, Riverside, CA
- North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China
- National Aerospace Labs, Bangalore, India
- Army Research Labs, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Aberdeen, MD
- Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
2011
- Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
- Seagate, Minneapolis, MN
- ACGSC meeting #108, Gettysburg, PA
- GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania, PA
- Boeing Rotorcraft, Philadelphia, PA
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN
- Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Schlumberger, United Kingdom
- Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- DLR, Munich, Germany
- EADS (MBDA and Eurocopter), Munich, Germany
- Stuttgart University, Stuttgart, Germany
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Semi-Plenary talk, Chinese Control and Decision Conference, Mianyang, China
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
- School of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
- ETSEIB, Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
- School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Boston, MA
- Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2010
- Keynote speaker, ICNPAA World Congress: Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Sciences and Aerospace, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
- Plenary talk, 3rd International Symposium on Systems and Control in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Harbin, China
- Invited speaker, Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Autonomous Systems, Lund University, Sweden
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Distinguished Lecturer, Space Control and Inertial Technology Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
2009
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University, NY, NY
- Plenary talk, IASTED Conference on Identification and Control, Honolulu, HI
- Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, MN
- Excellence Lectures, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Turin, Italy
2008
- Integrated Defense Systems, Boeing, St. Louis, MO
- Eglin AFB, Shalimar, FL
- United Technologies Research Center, Hartford, CT
- LIDS seminar, MIT, Boston, MA
- ARRI Distinguished Lecture, University of Texas at Arlington, TX
- School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
- Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
2007
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University California at Berkeley, CA
- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University California at Los Angeles
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
- Ben Gurion University of Negev, Ber Sheva, Israel
- International Symposium on Guidance and Differential Games
- Plenary talk at SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications (CT07), San Francisco
- Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Army Research Labs, Picatinny, NJ
- Workshop at NASA LaRC, Hampton, VA
- Army Research Labs, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD
- Barrons Associates, Charlottesville, VA
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA
- Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, USC, Los Angeles, CA
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Labs, Dayton, OH
2006
- Department of Astronautical and Mechanical Engineering, NPS, Monterey, CA
- Raytheon, Tuscon, AZ
- Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, CA
- Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR), Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal
- Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, USC, Los Angeles, CA
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University California at Los Angeles
- Boeing Co., Huntington Beach, CA
- Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology, Los Angeles, CA
2005
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Labs, Dayton, OH
- Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
- Ellis B. Stouffer Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2004
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
- NASA/National Institute of Aerospace AuRA Invited Lecture, Hampton, VA
2003
- Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
- Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, Washington, DC, MD
- Workshop on Vision and Control, Eglin Air Force Base, Fort Walton Beach, FL
2002
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2000
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Linz, Austria
1998
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel
- Department of Aerospace Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel
1995
- INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France