Bio – Haimin Hu

I am an incoming Assistant Professor at JHU CS. I obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Princeton University, where I was advised by Jaime Fernández Fisac, and worked closely with Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Bartolomeo Stellato, and Andrea Bajcsy. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, working with Rahul Mangharam and Antonio Loquercio.

My research aims at enabling safe human-centered robotic systems that can be deployed, verified, and trusted. Towards this goal I work on new algorithms and theorems centered around dynamic game theory, integrating insights from robust optimal control, machine learning, and numerical optimization. I ground my work in real-world robotic and cyber-physical systems such as miniature autonomous vehicles, quadrupedal robots, AI-assisted race cars, and quadrotors. I am a 2026 Penn AI Fellow, 2025 RSS Pioneer, 2025 NSF CPS Rising Star, and 2024 HRI Pioneer.

Previously, I worked at Toyota Research Institute and Honda Research Institute. I did my masters in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. I was fortunate to work with George Pappas, Manfred Morari and Nikolai Matni in the GRASP Lab. I am a recipient of the 2020 SEAS Outstanding Research Award.

I received my bachelor’s degree from ShanghaiTech University, proudly among its first cohort of bachelor students since the university was founded in 2013. My bachelor thesis was supervised by Boris Houska. I spent my senior year at UC Berkeley working with Claire Tomlin.