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July 2025: Mehran will deliver a plenary talk at the upcoming American Control Conference; Plenary Speakers ACC2026

July 2025: Mehran will deliver a plenary talk at the International Conference on Cognitive InfoCommunications; Plenary Speakers CogInfoCom 2025

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!