| Mar 09, 2025 | - November 2025: Mehran started serving as the Interim Department Chair
- July 2025: Mehran will deliver a plenary talk at the 2026 American Control Conference; Plenary Speakers ACC2026
- September 2025: Mehran is a plenary talk at the International Conference on Cognitive InfoCommunications; Plenary Speakers CogInfoCom 2025
- September 2025: Mehran is plenary talk at AI Transformation Conference
- May 2025: Rain Lab Alum Shahriar Talebi will join UCLA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in July … Congrats Shahriar! see Shahriar’s website
- May 2025: Aditya will be defending his dissertation in June! see announcement
- March 2025: Josh’s paper on “Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning for Sequential Satellite Assignment Problems” has been recognized for oral presentation (out of 3000 accepted papers!) at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- January 2025: Graduate level spacecraft dynamics and control is offered: AA 528 (Winter 2025); current version of my lecture notes
- December 2024: Spencer’s wins the 2024 CDC Best Student Paper Award!
- June 2024: Spencer’s paper on quotient geometry of policy optimization for LQG is accepted for both 2024 CDC and L-CSS. Congrats!
- May 2024: Aditya passed his Ph.D. general exam. Congrats!
- May 2024: Newsha passed her Ph.D. final defense. Congrats!
- May 2024: Joseph and Joalda join the RAIN Lab. Welcome!
- May 2024: Seth, Berit, and Josh pass their M.S. thesis exams with flying colors. Congrats!
- January 2024: Abhi’s paper ‘‘Customized Real-Time First-Order Methods for Onboard Dual Quaternion-based 6-DoF Powered-Descent Guidance’’ wins the AIAA 2023 best paper award!
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