Kaleb Ben Naveed

PhD Student in Robotics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Office: 3010 Ford Robotics Building

I am a fifth 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.

I recently finished a Research Internship at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), where I worked with Dr. Stefano Di Cairano and Dr. Abraham Vinod. In the past, I have worked with Professor John Dolan at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University on trajectory planning for autonomous vehicles using model-free 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.