Kaleb Ben Naveed

PhD Student in Robotics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

I am a third-year Robotics Ph.D. student in The DASC Lab at the Department of Robotics, advised by Professor Dimitra Panagou. My goal is to develop principled planning algorithms that enable safe long-term autonomy in robotic systems. My research is at the intersection of informative path planning, multi-agent coordination, and safe trajectory planning under uncertainty and disturbances, and is motivated by challenges in persistent exploration, reconstruction, and mapping in dynamic spatiotemporal environments.

In the past, I have worked with Professor John Dolan at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, on learning-based trajectory planning using reinforcement learning, and with Professor Sebastian Scherer on autonomy algorithms for reconnaissance missions. I have previously studied at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Cambridge. I was also a Robotics Institute Summer Scholar (RISS) in 2020 and 2021.