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Naira Hovakimyan
Armenian control theoristborn 1966
Supervised 25 doctoral students and 19 master's students at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign between 2010 and 2025; Wikidata names Arik Melikyan as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Students44
- cited by a thesis record
Yikun Cheng“Safe and adaptive reinforcement learning for robotics applications”
2025 · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Youwei Ke“Implementation of model predictive control in simulations and real-world vehicle tests”
2025 · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Minjun Sung“Addressing Behavior Model Inaccuracies for Safe Motion Control in Uncertain Dynamic Environments”
2025 · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Chuyuan Tao“Motion planning algorithms and implementations for obstacle-cluttered environments”
2025 · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Charles Ray“L1 Crazyflie: An open-source testbed for robust adaptive control”
2024 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Lin Song“Certifiable control and verification for safety assurance in cyber-physical systems”
2024 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Neng Wan“An information-theoretic analysis of control and filtering limitations by the I-MMSE relationships”
2024 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yite Wang“An exploration of advancing efficiency in learning-based systems”
2024 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jing Wu“An exploratory journey of representation learning’s enhancement, adaptation and related intelligent methods”
2024 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yang Zhao“Synergistic perception and control simplex for verifiable safe vertical landing”
2024 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Sambhu Harimanas Karumanchi“Robust model-based reinforcement learning using L1 adaptive control”
2023 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Ran Tao“Optimizing crop management with reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and crop simulations”
2022 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Sitao Zhang“Distributionally robust L1 adaptive control for nonlinear ITˆO diffusion processes”
2022 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Kasey Alan Ackerman“L1 adaptive control flight testing and extension to nonlinear reference systems with unmatched uncertainty”
2021 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Arun Lakshmanan“Safe planning and control via L1-adaptation and contraction theory”
2021 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Andrew Patterson“Modeling and trajectory planning for acoustically aware aircraft with propeller phase control”
2021 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Javier Puig Navarro“Distributed time-critical coordination strategies for unmanned aerial systems in cluttered environments”
2021 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Alexandre Ormiga Galvao Barbosa“Learning-based crop management optimization using multi-stream convolutional neural networks”
2020 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Wenbin Wan“Unknown input and state estimation for linear discrete-time stochastic systems in the presence of constraints”
2020 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Thiago Marinho“Bio-inspired vision-based evasion control: collision avoidance without distance measurement”
2019 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2019 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Donglei Sun“Aircraft loss-of-control prevention via backup flight control law design and flight envelope protection”
2019 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Hyung Jin Yoon“Path planning and control of flying robots with account of human’s safety perception”
2019 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Venanzio Cichella“Cooperative autonomous systems: Motion planning and coordinated tracking control for multi-vehicle missions”
2018 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Hamidreza Jafarnejadsani“Robust adaptive sampled-data control design for MIMO systems: Applications in cyber-physical security”
2018 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Gabriel Barsi Haberfeld“Design and control of a compact aerial manipulation system with a Delta-type parallel robot”
2017 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Ronald Choe“Distributed cooperative trajectory generation for multiple autonomous vehicles using Pythagorean Hodograph Bézier curves”
2017 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Robert Mitchell Jones“Aerial manipulation for indoor applications”
2017 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Hanmin Lee“L1 adaptive control for nonlinear and non-square multivariable systems”
2017 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Syed Bilal Mehdi“Collision avoidance for multi-vehicle cooperative missions”
2017 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Andrew Paul Patterson“System identification for development of distributed electric propulsion vertical take-off vehicles”
2017 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Jan Willem Vervoorst“A modular simulation environment for the improved dynamic simulation of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles”
2016 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Kasey Ackerman“Development of a pilot-in-the-loop flight simulator using NASA's transport class model”
2014 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Thidarat Chongvisal“Pilot-in-the-loop simulated flight tests of a loss-of-control prediction and prevention system for NASA's Transport Class Model”
2014 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Evgeny Kharisov“L1 adaptive output-feedback control architectures”
2014 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Zhiyuan Li“Guidance, control and estimation of autonomous vehicle systems”
2014 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2014 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record2013 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's
- cited by a thesis record
Steven Pelech“Integration of the GTM T2 model into a full sized simulator for human-in-the-loop testing”
2013 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Enric Xargay Mata“Time-critical cooperative path-following control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles”
2013 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Justin Vanness“Two new extensions to L1 adaptive control theory”
2012 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Dapeng Li“Closed-loop analysis and feedback design in the presence of limited information”
2011 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Alan B. Gostin“A matlab-based toolbox for the simulation and design of L1 adaptive controllers”
2010 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Tyler J. Leman“L1 adaptive control augmentation system for the X-48B Aircraft”
2010 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's
Advisors on Wikidata1
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidata
Students on Wikidata2
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidata
- stated by Wikidata
The line above and below4 steps
The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.
- 1 step up
stated by WikidataArik Melikyan
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataFeliks Chernousko
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataNikita Moiseyev
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataDmitrii Menshovstated by WikidataDmitry Aleksandrovich Wenzelstated by WikidataIgor Tamm
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 27 people: 25 cited by thesis records, 2 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career3
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Sat beside the lineage53
committee chair or committee member, not advisor
- cited by a thesis record
Yikun Cheng“Safe and adaptive reinforcement learning for robotics applications”
committee chair · 2025 · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Chuyuan Tao“Motion planning algorithms and implementations for obstacle-cluttered environments”
committee chair · 2025 · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Weihao Cheng“Perception and mapping for unmanned ground vehicles in unstructured environments”
committee member · 2024 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's - cited by a thesis record
Lin Song“Certifiable control and verification for safety assurance in cyber-physical systems”
committee chair · 2024 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Neng Wan“An information-theoretic analysis of control and filtering limitations by the I-MMSE relationships”
committee chair · 2024 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yite Wang“An exploration of advancing efficiency in learning-based systems”
committee chair · 2024 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Christopher J Widdowson“Human performance in virtual reality”
committee member · 2024 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jing Wu“An exploratory journey of representation learning’s enhancement, adaptation and related intelligent methods”
committee chair · 2024 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Fanxin Wang“Development of a robotic biopsy system compatible with label-free digital pathology and methods for needle-tissue classification”
committee member · 2023 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yichuan Li“Communication efficient large scale distributed optimization with curvature acceleration”
committee chair · 2022 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Wenbin Wan“Resilient estimation and safe control for cyber-physical systems”
committee chair · 2022 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kasey Alan Ackerman“L1 adaptive control flight testing and extension to nonlinear reference systems with unmatched uncertainty”
committee chair · 2021 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Massinissa Amrouche“Vision-based dynamical systems and learning”
committee member · 2021 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Gabriel Barsi Haberfeld“Efficient algorithms for risk-averse air-ground rendezvous missions”
committee chair · 2021 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yijie Cheng“A control approach to non-monetary and non-coercive influencing strategies of dynamic human decision making”
committee chair · 2021 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Arun Lakshmanan“Safe planning and control via L1-adaptation and contraction theory”
committee chair · 2021 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Andrew Patterson“Modeling and trajectory planning for acoustically aware aircraft with propeller phase control”
committee chair · 2021 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Javier Puig Navarro“Distributed time-critical coordination strategies for unmanned aerial systems in cluttered environments”
committee chair · 2021 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ram Sai Gorugantu“Design and implementation of high-bandwidth, high-resolution imaging in atomic force microscopy”
committee member · 2020 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Girish Joshi“Adapt-to-learn policy transfer in reinforcement learning and deep model reference adaptive control”
committee member · 2020 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Alexandre Ormiga Galvao Barbosa“Learning-based crop management optimization using multi-stream convolutional neural networks”
committee chair · 2020 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Shankar A. Deka“Reliable control of surgical robots and stabilization of long short-term memory neural networks”
committee chair · 2019 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Xiao Li“Enhancing safety in telerobotic surgery via haptic feedback”
committee member · 2019 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Thiago Marinho“Bio-inspired vision-based evasion control: collision avoidance without distance measurement”
committee chair · 2019 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Sheikh Tamjid Mashrafi“High-bandwidth high-precision robust x-ray microscopy - a control systems approach”
committee member · 2019 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee chair · 2019 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Donglei Sun“Aircraft loss-of-control prevention via backup flight control law design and flight envelope protection”
committee chair · 2019 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Hyung Jin Yoon“Path planning and control of flying robots with account of human’s safety perception”
committee chair · 2019 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Cheng Chen“Control and collective intelligence of multi-agent system”
committee chair · 2018 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Venanzio Cichella“Cooperative autonomous systems: Motion planning and coordinated tracking control for multi-vehicle missions”
committee chair · 2018 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Nabil H. K. Hirzallah“Security of cyber-physical systems: A control-theoretic perspective”
committee member · 2018 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Hamidreza Jafarnejadsani“Robust adaptive sampled-data control design for MIMO systems: Applications in cyber-physical security”
committee chair · 2018 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ronald Choe“Distributed cooperative trajectory generation for multiple autonomous vehicles using Pythagorean Hodograph Bézier curves”
committee chair · 2017 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Hanmin Lee“L1 adaptive control for nonlinear and non-square multivariable systems”
committee chair · 2017 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Syed Bilal Mehdi“Collision avoidance for multi-vehicle cooperative missions”
committee chair · 2017 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Mark D. Ginsberg“Marginal oscillator sensitivity enhancement using full-state nonlinear feedback”
committee member · 2016 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Mohammad Naghnaeian“On l∞ performance optimization: linear switched systems and systems with cone constraints”
committee chair · 2016 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Gokhan Atinc“Safe and reliable dynamic coverage control for multi-agent systems”
committee member · 2014 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Evgeny Kharisov“L1 adaptive output-feedback control architectures”
committee chair · 2014 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Zhiyuan Li“Guidance, control and estimation of autonomous vehicle systems”
committee chair · 2014 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Bryan Petrus“Distributed parameter control of heat diffusion with solidification”
committee member · 2014 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee chair · 2014 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Shu Zhang“Wavelet adaptive and predictive control with applications to chemical looping system”
committee member · 2014 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Gayathri Mohan“A new dynamic mode for fast imaging in atomic force microscopes”
committee member · 2013 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Vivek Natarajan“Rejection of periodic disturbances in uncertain nonlinearly perturbed stable infinite dimensional systems”
committee member · 2013 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Enric Xargay Mata“Time-critical cooperative path-following control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles”
committee chair · 2013 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Quanyan Zhu“Game-theoretic methods for security and resilience in cyber-physical systems”
committee member · 2013 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Heather Arneson“Control design techniques for constrained positive compartmental systems with applications to air traffic flow management”
committee member · 2012 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Chad R. Burns“Human and automatic control interaction with a remotely piloted vehicle”
committee member · 2011 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Dapeng Li“Closed-loop analysis and feedback design in the presence of limited information”
committee chair · 2011 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yoav Sharon“Estimation and control with limited information and unreliable feedback”
committee member · 2011 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Sourabh Bhattacharya“Pursuit-evasion games in mobile networks”
committee member · 2010 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Tyler J. Leman“L1 adaptive control augmentation system for the X-48B Aircraft”
committee chair · 2010 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · master's