Yorie Nakahira

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Bio

Yorie Nakahira received a B.E. in Control and Systems Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from California Institute of Technology. Her research goal is to develop control and learning techniques that enhance the capabilities of autonomous systems. On the algorithm side, her group studies robust and safe control, uncertainty and risk quantification, adaptation algorithms, and language-guided control. On the application side, her group explores diverse topics, ranging from autonomous control systems to human sensorimotor control to poverty alleviation policy design.

Education

Ph.D., 2019
Control and Dynamical Systems
California Institute of Technology

B.S., 2012
Engineering
Tokyo Institute of Technology