Chieh (Emery) Tsai

Ph.D. Researcher | Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems & Control

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Electrical & Computer Engineering

University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ

Hi, thanks for stopping by. I am a Ph.D. researcher in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, advised by Prof. Salim Hariri and Prof. Hossein Rastgoftar. I began my doctoral studies in September 2024. I am also a Graduate Research Assistant in the Autonomic Computing Lab. Before joining Arizona, I earned my M.S. in Electronic & Computer Engineering from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, where I studied from 2020 to 2023.

My research focuses on safe and resilient autonomy: helping autonomous systems operate reliably under sensor faults, disturbances, and changing conditions. I work on resilient sensing and control, safe reinforcement learning, and runtime assurance, connecting these methods to physical experiments with autonomous vehicles and UAVs, including Quanser QCar/QDrone and Crazyflie formations. Our research projects also include collaborations with industry partners, including Vector and LOCH. I am honored to serve as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) in 2026. Feel free to contact me at vegetableclean [at] arizona.edu.