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Academic background, research experience, and professional service.
Curriculum vitae
Chieh (Emery) Tsai
Ph.D. Researcher · Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems & Control
Research profile
Ph.D. researcher in Electrical and Computer Engineering specializing in closed-loop control, resilient cyber-physical systems, state estimation, and safety-critical autonomy. Experience in learning-based control, runtime assurance, sensor fusion, embedded mechatronic systems, and real-world UAV and autonomous-vehicle validation.
Education
University of Arizona
Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
M.S., Electronic & Computer Engineering
National Chi Nan University
B.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research & engineering experience
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Arizona · Autonomic Computing Lab
- Develop resilient state-estimation and closed-loop autonomy frameworks for safety-critical systems under sensor faults, cyber-physical disturbances, spoofing, and unreliable measurements.
- Investigate runtime assurance, fault-tolerant control, sensor fusion, and learning-based control for autonomous vehicles and UAVs; validate methods in simulation and physical experiments.
- Developed online reinforcement-learning methods for safe gain scheduling in nonlinear quadrotor control and safety-constrained learning and planning for multi-UAV systems.
- Industry UAV collaboration: integrate onboard perception, embedded computing (Raspberry Pi 5 + Hailo AI), sensing, guidance, trajectory planning, and ArduPilot flight control for real-time autonomous interception.
Additional engineering experience
NIWC Pacific 5G Forensics training environment; Quanser QCar/QDrone; Crazyflie; UAV hardware integration, Betaflight/ArduPilot configuration, and flight testing.
Technical expertise
Control & cyber-physical systems
Closed-loop control, nonlinear control, resilient control, state estimation, sensor fusion, runtime assurance, reinforcement learning, and trajectory planning.
Languages & tools
Honors, service & teaching
Honors & awards
- IEEE Best Thesis Award
- Meritorious Award, NCSIST Pickathon Robotic Arm Competition
- Best Presentation Award, ICSSE
- Outstanding Undergraduate Capstone Project
Professional service
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), 2026.
Teaching
ECE 274A Digital Logic Laboratory
University of Arizona · 2024–2025