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Sylvia Herbert
Also published under: Sylvia L. Herbert
Affiliation
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the, University of California, San Diego
Biography
Sylvia L. Herbert received the B.S./M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, in 2020.,She is currently an Assistant Professor with the University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA, where she runs the Safe Autonomous Systems Laboratory. The laboratory uses tools from optimal control theory and dynamics games, machine learning, and cognitive science to develop new safety techniques that are able to quickly adapt to unexpected changes and new information in the system or the environment. Her research interests include efficiently guaranteeing safe con... Author's Published Works