Chuchu Fan

Chuchu Fan is an associate professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, where she leads the Reliable Autonomous Systems Lab (REALM). Fan’s research focuses on using rigorous mathematics, including formal methods, machine learning, and control theory for the design, analysis, and verification of safe autonomous systems. Fan received her PhD in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and BE in automation from Tsinghua University, China.

Selected Publications

• Y. Chen, J. Arkin, Y. Zhang, N. Roy and C. Fan, “Scalable Multi-Robot Collaboration with Large Language Models: Centralized or Decentralized Systems?,” 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, 2024, pp. 4311-4317, doi: 10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610676.
• Y. Chen, J. Arkin, C. Dawson, Y. Zhang, N. Roy and C. Fan, “AutoTAMP: Autoregressive Task and Motion Planning with LLMs as Translators and Checkers,” 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, 2024, pp. 6695-6702, doi: 10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611163.
• M. Tong, C. Dawson and C. Fan, “Enforcing safety for vision-based controllers via Control Barrier Functions and Neural Radiance Fields,” 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, United Kingdom, 2023, pp. 10511-10517, doi: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161482.

Media

• June 21, 2022: MIT News, MIT engineers devise a recipe for improving any autonomous robotic system
• November 18, 2020: MIT News, Advancing artificial intelligence research.
• 2020: ACM, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate Receives ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award