Derya Aksaray

Assistant Professor,  Electrical and Computer Engineering

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  • EXP 710B

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Research Focus

Planning, learning, and control of autonomous robots with theoretical guarantees

Education

  • PhD, Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014
  • MS, Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011
  • BS, Aerospace Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2008

Professional Affiliations

  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Research Overview

Planning, learning, and control of autonomous robots with theoretical guarantees

Selected Research Projects

  • Continuous Contingency Planning in Off-Road Environments: Techniques for High-Speed and Multiagent Systems under Adversarial Attacks
    • co-PI, ARL, 2024
  • Context-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Complex Objectives and Constraints
    • PI, DARPA, 2021

Selected Publications

  • A.T. Buyukkocak and D. Aksaray, “Resilient Online Planning for Mobile Robots with Minimal Relaxation of Signal Temporal Logic Specifications”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters vol 10, no 6, 5935-5942, 2025.
  • R. Peterson, A. T. Buyukkocak, D. Aksaray, and Y. Yazicioglu, “Safe Reactive Motion Planning Using Time Window Temporal Logic Specifications”, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 142, pages 103801, 2021.
Derya Aksaray

Faculty

Aug 17, 2022

New Faculty Spotlight: Derya Aksaray

Derya Aksaray joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2022 as an Assistant Professor.

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