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Omkar Patil Omkar received his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in production and industrial engineerin
g from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in 2018, where he was honored with the BOSS award for his outstanding bachelor's thesis project. Following his graduation, Omkar worked as a Project
Associate at the Control & Automation Lab of IIT Delhi on a sponsored project entitled "Aerial Manipulation - Modeling, Planning and Control". In August 2019, he joined the Nonlinear Controls and
Robotics (NCR) Laboratory at the University of Florida under the guidance of Dr. Warren Dixon to pursue his doctoral studies. Omkar received his Master of Science (M.S.) degree in mechanical
engineering in August 2022 and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in May 2023 from the University of Florida. Currently, he is working as a postdoctoral research associate at the NCR lab. His research
focuses on the development and application of innovative Lyapunov-based nonlinear, robust, and adaptive control techniques.
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Adeel Akhtar Adeel Akhtar received a B.E. degree in mechatronics from the National University of Science
and Technology, Pakistan. He received his MASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering from the
University of Waterloo, in the area of controls and mobile robotics under the supervision of Prof. Steve Waslander. In Fall 2018, he taught Autonomous Mobile Robotics (MTE-544)
at the University of Waterloo, Canada. In 2019 and 2020, he was a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed at the department of Mathematics at Queens Univerisity,
Canada, where he was fortunate to be supervised by Professor Andrew Lewis. After that, he held a short Post-Doctoral position at York University, Canada. He is currently a Post-Doctoral
Researcher with the Hybrid Systems Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA. His research interests include nonlinear controls, set stabilization, geometric controls,
and hybrid systems, with applications in mobile robotics.
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Kunal Garg Kunal Garg received his B. Tech in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute
of Technology, Bombay in 2012, MS and Ph.D. from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan in 2019 and 2021, respectively. His research interests include robust
multi-agent path planning using optimization methods, switched and hybrid system-based analysis and control synthesis, finite- and fixed-time stability of dynamical systems with
applications to control synthesis for spatiotemporal specifications, and continuous-time optimization..
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Dan Guralnik Dan Guralnik received his Ph.D. from the Technion-IIT Mathematics department in 2005, specializing
in Geometric Group Theory. After post-doctoral appointments at Vanderbilt University and University
of Oklahoma, where he worked on asymptotic geometry and boundary dynamics of discrete groups, he moved
in 2011 to a post-doctoral appointment at KodLab, the legged locomotion laboratory at the University
of Pennsylvania, to start work on applications of topology and category theory to problems of knowledge
representation in the context of navigation and control. In fall 2019 he has joined NCR as a research scientist to work on
developing formal and category-theoretical methods in hybrid control, as part of the AFOSR Center of
Excellence in Assured Autonomy in Contested Environments.
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