Merge pull request #8 from vectr-ucla/master

merge from main

Author: yanlong95

_data/members.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
   type: grad
   photo: people/hlevy.jpg
   info: |
-    PhD Student, MAE
+    PhD Candidate, MAE
     MS, UCLA 2022
     BS, UC Santa Barbara 2020
     <b>Research</b>: Trajectory Planning
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@
   type: grad
   photo: people/dthorne.png
   info: |
-    PhD Student, MAE
+    PhD Candidate, MAE
     BS, UCLA 2021
-    <b>Research</b>: Optimization and SLAM
+    <b>Research</b>: Submodular Optimization and LiDAR SLAM
     <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-thorne2/">Website</a>
 
 - name: Yanlong Ma
@@ -51,29 +51,28 @@
   type: grad
   photo: people/bdee.jpg
   info: |
-    MS Student, MAE
+    PhD Student, MAE
     BS, UCLA 2022
     <b>Research</b>: Nonlinear Control and Trajectory Optimization
     <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-dee-uclaengineering/">Website</a>
 
-- name: Hieu Nguyen
+- name: Eden Zafran
   type: grad
-  photo: people/hnguyen.jpg
+  photo: people/ezafran.jpeg
   info: |
     MS Student, MAE
     BS, UCLA 2023
     <b>Research</b>: Trajectory Optimization
-    <a href="mailto:hieunguyen1602@ucla.edu" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/hieu-nguyen-tam/">Website</a>
+    <a href="mailto:edenzafran@ucla.edu" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/edenzafran/">Website</a>
 
-- name: James Tseng
+- name: Qiyuan Wu
   type: grad
-  photo: people/jtseng.jpg
+  photo: people/bwu.jpg
   info: |
     MS Student, MAE
-    BS, UCLA 2023
+    BS, UCLA 2025
     <b>Research</b>: Trajectory Optimization
-    <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://jtfa22.github.io/">Website</a>
-
+    <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://sites.google.com/d/1G31BD7WG3hxETU4i-FlgjvbPQr8Y8Izf/p/1lbVZSZsAYdWf5w0rIR6SF3ATBDS4hguu/edit">Website</a>
 
 ### Undergrads ###
 - name: Krithi Koodli
@@ -83,27 +82,44 @@
     BS Student, MAE
     <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/krithi-koodli/">Website</a>
 
-- name: Angela Yang
+- name: Nathan Chan
   type: undergrad
-  photo: people/ayang.png
+  photo: people/nchan.jpg
   info: |
-    BS Student, CS & Linguistics
-    <a href="mailto:angela.yang@ucla.edu" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://ayangelah.me">Website</a>
+    BS Student, CS 
+    <a href="mailto:nchan22@ucla.edu" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-chan-a27139253/">Website</a>
 
-- name: Grace Kwak
+- name: Stanley Wei
   type: undergrad
-  photo: people/gkwak.jpg
+  photo: people/swei.png
   info: |
-    BS Student, ECE
-    <a href="mailto:gracekwak@ucla.edu" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-j-kwak/">Website</a>
+    BS Student, CS & Applied Math 
+    <a href="mailto:stanleywei@ucla.edu" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanley-wei/">Website</a>
 
-- name: Samuel Chua
+- name: Nakul Joshi
   type: undergrad
-  photo: people/schua.jpg
+  photo: people/njoshi.jpg
   info: |
-    BS Student, CS & Engineering
-    <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelchuajiacong/">Website</a>
+    BS Student, CS 
+    <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nakul-joshi-b76a70238">Website</a>
+
+- name: Ryu Adams
+  type: undergrad
+  photo: people/radams.jpg
+  info: |
+    BS Student, CS 
+    <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryu-adams/">Website</a>
 
+- name: Alan Song
+  type: undergrad
+  photo: people/dummy.jpg
+  info: |
+    BS Student, CS 
+    <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-song-99123b260/">Website</a>
+
+#  adding students without photos
+# - name: First Last
+#   type: undergrad_list_only
 
 ### Alumni ###
 - name: Kenny Chen
@@ -143,17 +159,39 @@
   photo: people/ajohnsabu.jpg
   info: |
     MS, UCLA 2023
-    BTech, IIT Bombay 2021
     <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/aaronjs/">Website</a>
 
 - name: Sarah Enayati
   type: alumni
   photo: people/senayati.jpg
   info: |
+    General Atomics
     MS, UCLA 2023
-    BS, UCLA 2022
     <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="">Website</a>
 
+- name: Hieu Nguyen
+  type: alumni
+  photo: people/hnguyen.jpg
+  info: |
+    Wisk
+    MS, UCLA 2025
+    <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/hieu-nguyen-tam/">Website</a>
+
+- name: McKay McFadden
+  type: alumni
+  photo: people/mmcfadden.jpg
+  info: |
+    Vector 
+    MS, UCLA 2025
+    <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mckay-mcfadden/">Website</a>
+
+- name: James Tseng
+  type: alumni
+  photo: people/jtseng.jpg
+  info: |
+    MS, UCLA 2025
+    <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://jtfa22.github.io/">Website</a>
+
 - name: Matthew Guemmer
   type: alumni
   photo: people/mguemmer.jpg
@@ -178,8 +216,28 @@
     BS, UCLA 2023
     <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandraannadudek">Website</a>
 
+- name: Grace Kwak
+  type: alumni
+  photo: people/gkwak.jpg
+  info: |
+    BS, UCLA 2024
+    <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-j-kwak/">Website</a>
 
+- name: Angela Yang
+  type: alumni
+  photo: people/ayang.png
+  info: |
+    Meta
+    BS, UCLA 2025
+    <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://ayangelah.me">Website</a>
 
+- name: Samuel Chua
+  type: alumni
+  photo: people/schua.jpg
+  info: |
+    University of Pennsylvania (MSE)
+    BS, UCLA 2025
+    <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="white-space: nowrap">Email</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelchuajiacong/">Website</a>
 
 
 

_data/publist.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,18 @@
 # Examples:
+- title: "Submodular Optimization for Keyframe Selection & Usage in SLAM"
+  authors: D. Thorne, N. Chan, Y. Ma, C. Robinson, P. Osteen, and B.T. Lopez
+  year: 2025
+  link:
+    url: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05576
+    display: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
+
+- title: "LiDAR Inertial Odometry and Mapping Using Learned Registration-Relevant Features"
+  authors: Z. Dong, J. Pflueger, L. Jung, C. Robinson, P. Osteen, B.T. Lopez, M.F. Everett
+  year: 2025
+  link:
+    url: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.02961
+    display: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
+
 - title: "STITCHER: Real-Time Trajectory Planning with Motion Primitive Search"
   authors: H.J. Levy and B.T. Lopez
   year: 2024
@@ -20,20 +34,6 @@
     url: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.16999
     display: IEEE Control Systems Letters
 
-- title: "Submodular Optimization for Keyframe Selection & Usage in SLAM"
-  authors: D. Thorne, N. Chan, Y. Ma, C. Robinson, P. Osteen, and B.T. Lopez
-  year: 2024
-  link:
-    url: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05576
-    display: arXiv
-
-- title: "LiDAR Inertial Odometry and Mapping Using Learned Registration-Relevant Features"
-  authors: Z. Dong, J. Pflueger, L. Jung, C. Robinson, P. Osteen, B.T. Lopez, M.F. Everett
-  year: 2024
-  link:
-    url: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.02961
-    display: arXiv
-
 - title: "An Addendum to NeBula: Towards Extending TEAM CoSTAR’s Solution to Larger Scale Environments"
   authors: B. Morrell et al.
   year: 2024

_data/research.yml

@@ -1,30 +1,30 @@
-- title: "Fast and Robust Geometric Robot Perception"
-  image: research/dlio.png
-  description: "Research and development of real-time algorithms for fast and reliable localization and mapping for computationally-limited robotic platforms using LiDAR and IMU sensors."
-  researchers: K. Chen, R. Nemiroff
+# - title: "Fast and Robust Geometric Robot Perception"
+#   image: research/dlio.png
+#   description: "Research and development of real-time algorithms for fast and reliable localization and mapping for computationally-limited robotic platforms using LiDAR and IMU sensors."
+#   researchers: K. Chen, R. Nemiroff
 
-- title: "Efficient Motion Primitive Search Path Planning"
+- title: "Real-time Trajectory Planning with Motion Primitive Search"
   image: research/time_optimal_plan.gif
-  description: "This research project focuses on expanding path planning capabilities for UAVs to more expansive ranges made possible by LiDAR technology. Research involves effective methods to smoothly connect motion primitives while preserving path optimality and retaining computational efficiency."
+  description: "This research project expands trajectory planning for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicles to long-range distances with real-time calculation. Research involves effective methods to smoothly connect motion primitives while preserving path optimality and retaining fast computation."
   researchers: H. Levy
 
-- title: "Traversability-aware Multi-Robot Task Assignment"
-  image: research/TSOTAN.png
-  description: "This research project improves on state-of-the-art task assignment algorithms by using robot specific path planning instead of distance or application specific heuristics. In addition to creating more representative cost functions, this method also considers heterogeneity amongst robot teams by leveraging existing traversability assessment and path planning modules."
+- title: "Submodular Optimization in LiDAR Perception for Mobile Robots"
+  image: research/David_Research_Image.png
+  description: "This research uses submodular optimization to solve NP-hard problems in LiDAR perception with provably near-optimal performance. A key line of work involves development of a novel streaming submodular algorithm which can generate summaries for large mapping sessions and submaps for planning applications in under one second."
   researchers: D. Thorne
 
-- title: "Multi-Agent Interaction with Tumbling Objects in Orbit"
-  image: research/mas_space.jpg
-  description: "This research explores the interaction of multiple chaser spacecraft with uncontrollable (and, often, limitedly observable) tumbling objects in orbit. This includes the implementation of model predictive control for trajectory tracking and planning, and the application of distributed techniques including improvized task allocation algorithms in a target-centered reference frame."
-  researchers: A. John Sabu
+# - title: "Multi-Agent Interaction with Tumbling Objects in Orbit"
+#   image: research/mas_space.jpg
+#   description: "This research explores the interaction of multiple chaser spacecraft with uncontrollable (and, often, limitedly observable) tumbling objects in orbit. This includes the implementation of model predictive control for trajectory tracking and planning, and the application of distributed techniques including improvized task allocation algorithms in a target-centered reference frame."
+#   researchers: A. John Sabu
 
-- title: "Adaptive Robust Model Predictive Control"
-  image: research/armpc.png
-  description: "This research is on developing new adaptive controllers for non-linear systems. It is focused on controllers suitable for adaptive MPC for general systems with unmatched uncertainty. Possible applications for this work include aerial systems as well as underactuated systems."
+- title: "Geometric Methods for Planning and Control"
+  image: research/geometric.png
+  description: "This research focuses on applying geometric methods to problems in planning and control. It includes work on contraction theory for adaptive control, information control barrier functions for integrating perception and control, and novel geometric methods for trajectory planning."
   researchers: S. Gessow
 
-- title: "LiDAR-Based Place recognition"
-  image: research/lpr_ym.gif
+- title: "LiDAR-Based Place Recognition"
+  image: research/lpr_ym_2.gif
   description: "Abstracting geometrical information from a point cloud is important in the study of SLAM and planning. This research focuses on LiDAR-based place recognition (LPR). The potential research topics include learning-based LPR, map merging, and multi-agent map sharing. "
   researchers: Y. Ma
 

_pages/home.md

@@ -6,19 +6,19 @@ permalink: /
 ---
 
 <p class="lead">
-  High-performance and field-hardened autonomy for aerospace systems.
+  High-performance and field-hardened autonomy for mobile robotic systems.
 </p>
 
-We are a research group in the [Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering](https://www.mae.ucla.edu) at UCLA that specializes in designing autonomy algorithms with formal performance guarantees for robotic aerospace systems. We utilize dynamical systems and control theory, optimization, and machine learning to design and verify algorithms that maintain consistent performance across diverse operating domains. Our work is improving the reliability and trustworthiness of autonomous systems that someday will be utilized in space, planetary exploration, emergency response, firefighting, and urban air transport. In addition to rigorous theoretical analysis, our work undergoes extensive field testing on our custom aerial robotic platforms.
+We are a research group in the [Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering](https://www.mae.ucla.edu) at UCLA that specializes in designing autonomy algorithms with formal performance guarantees for mobile robotic systems. We utilize dynamical systems and control theory, optimization, and machine learning to design and verify algorithms that maintain consistent performance across diverse operating domains. Our work is improving the reliability and trustworthiness of autonomous systems that someday will be utilized in space, planetary exploration, emergency response, firefighting, and urban air transport. In addition to rigorous theoretical analysis, our work undergoes extensive field testing on our custom aerial robotic platforms.
 
 Specific research areas of interests are:
 <ul>
-  <li>Nonlinear and optimal control</li>  
-  <li>Localization and mapping</li>
-  <li>Trajectory planning and optimization</li>
-  <li>Multi-agent systems</li>
-  <li>Advanced GNC for aerospace systems</li>
-  <li>Decision making under uncertainty</li>
+  <li>Localization and Mapping</li>
+  <li>Trajectory Planning and Optimization</li>
+  <li>Nonlinear and Optimal Control</li>  
+  <li>Robot Perception</li>
+  <li>Multi-Agent Systems</li>
+  <li>Field Robotics</li>
 </ul>
 
 If you are interested in joining the lab send an email to [Prof. Lopez](https://btlopez.github.io)  at btlopez at ucla dot edu with your CV and research interests.

_pages/members.md

@@ -55,7 +55,20 @@ sitemap: false
   {% if even_odd == 1 %}
     </div>
   {% endif %}
-</div>
+
+  <!-- Adds list of undergrads after pictures -->
+  {% if member_type == "undergrad" %}
+    {% assign list_only = site.data.members | where: "type", "undergrad_list_only" %}
+    {% if list_only.size > 0 %}
+    <!-- <h4 class="mt-2">Additional Undergraduate Students</h4> -->
+    <ul class=" mb-2 fs-5 ps-0">
+      {% for member in list_only %}
+        <li>{{ member.name }}</li>
+      {% endfor %}
+    </ul>
+    {% endif %}
+  {% endif %}
+  </div>
 
 {% endfor %}