
Derya Aksaray
Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and MechanicsContact
Akerman Hall Room 226 110 Union Street SEMinneapolis, MN 55455
Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014
M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011
B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2008
2018 - present: Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, University of Minnesota
2016 - 2017: Postdoctoral Associate, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2014 - 2016: Postdoctoral Researcher, Boston University
2008 - 2014: Graduate Research Assistant, Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology
Professor Aksaray's research mainly focuses on design and control of verifiable autonomous systems for resilient operation in partially known and unstructured environments. In particular, she is interested in developing reactive planning strategies for resilient operation of robots in the face of disturbances, synthesizing provably-correct controllers to guarantee desired behaviors, and designing models and algorithms that enable autonomous systems to effectively team with humans and other robots. Overall, her research interests primarily lie in the areas of control theory, formal methods, and machine learning, with applications to aerospace systems and robotics.
2013: AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference, Travel Grant awarded by poster competition
2013: American Control Conference, Best Presentation in Session award
2008: AHA Helicopter Design Competition, Member/Coordinator of Best New Entrant Team
2007: EUROAVIA Design Workshop (1 of 25 participants across Europe)
C.I Vasile, D. Aksaray, and C. Belta, 2017, "Time Window Temporal Logic", Theoretical Computer Science, 691, 27-54, (Journal Article)
R. Paul, J. Arkin, D. Aksaray, N. Roy, and T.M Howard, 2017, "Efficient Grounding of Abstract Spatial Concepts for Natural Language Interaction with Robot Platforms", International Journal of Robotics Research, 4929-4933, (Journal Article)
K.E. Schaefer, J.Y.C. Chen, J. Wright, D. Aksaray, N. Roy, 2017, "Challenges with Incorporation Context into Human-Robot Teaming", (Journal Article)
K. Leahy, D. Aksaray, and C. Belta, 2017, "Informative Path Planning under Temporal Logic Constraints with Performance Guarantees", (Journal Article)
M. Tucker, D. Aksaray, R. Paul, G.J. Stein and N. Roy, 2017, "Learning Unknown Groundings for Natural Language Interaction with Mobile Robots", International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR), 16 pages, (Journal Article)