Assistant Professor of Algorithmic Systems Theory @ETH_en. Interested in everything that moves autonomously! Previously @USC, @Penn, @KTHuniversity and @kielu.

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Thanks for the invitation @mahdisoltanol - it was great being back! Next time I'll make sure to follow the rules 😎
Great to have @LarsLindemann2 back this week. He kicked off the AIF4S seminar on Friday with a great talk on “safe control under distribution shifts with robust conformal prediction” more detail: sites.usc.edu/aif4s/cool_tim…
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@ult_flymachine just joined my new lab at ETH and directly dropped an absolute brick of a paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10586 🚀The paper addresses interaction-induced distribution shifts in interactive environments via iterative policy updates and adversarial conformal prediction.
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This adjustment is performed based on a policy-to-trajectory sensitivity analysis, resulting in a safe, episodic planner. We further conduct a contraction analysis of the system providing conditions under which both the CP results and the policy updates are guaranteed to converge
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While this work focuses on interaction-induced distribution shifts, we believe that it provides interesting ideas to address other control problems where distribution shifts arise and exchangeability assumptions are violated, prohibiting the use of vanilla statistical tools💡
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🚨 Reminder: 45 days left to submit to L4DC 2026! 🚨 We encourage all researchers to submit their work to the Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference (L4DC 2026) which will take place at USC in Los Angeles between June 17–19, 2026. 🗓️ Paper submission deadline: Nov. 8, 2025
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Lars Lindemann retweeted
Check out our approach to 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 , where we pretrain 2B models from scratch on filtered web data to be safe by construction 🚀
🚨Excited to introduce a major development in building safer language models: Safety Pretraining! Instead of post-hoc alignment, we take a step back and embed safety directly into pretraining. 🧵(1/n)
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Last Gold’s workout with @mahdisoltanol 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Last training session with coach @LarsLindemann2 before his ✈️ to Zurich. There is an opening for a USC colleague to serve as my coach. Any interest @Schwarzenegger?
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Last training session with coach @LarsLindemann2 before his ✈️ to Zurich. There is an opening for a USC colleague to serve as my coach. Any interest @Schwarzenegger?
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Don't forget to sign up for our CDC workshop on "Neurosymbolic Control for Verifiable Design of AI-Enabled Systems" before the early registration deadline on Sep. 3rd. You can find the program under sites.google.com/view/cdc4ne… and sign up directly via cdc2025.ieeecss.org/registra… 🚀
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We’re excited to host the 8th Learning for Dynamics & Control (L4DC) Conference at the University of Southern California from June 17–19, 2026 ☀️🌴 Consider submitting your latest research at the interface between learning, optimization, and control, see sites.google.com/usc.edu/l4d…
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We spent some time thinking about how to express and verify spatial and temporal properties for distributed systems and came up with STL-GO, a spatio-temporal logic with graph operators. Check out @ZhaoYiqi87035 work if you're curious 🙂
We are happy to share our recent work (appearing in EMSOFT '25) named "STL-GO: Spatio-Temporal Logic with Graph Operators for Distributed Systems with Multiple Network Topologies": arxiv.org/abs/2507.15147, focusing on distributed monitor of dynamic multigraphs across topologies.
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Today is the day: our RSS workshop on "Statistical Uncertainty Quantification in the Era of AI-Enabled Robots" is starting soon 😊 If you are attending RSS, drop by and say hi. Otherwise, join us online via zoom (details can be found here sites.google.com/view/rss202…). See you soon!
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Attending RSS at USC next week? We are organizing a workshop on "Statistical Uncertainty Quantification in the Era of AI-Enabled Robots" and have a fantastic lineup of speakers from academia and industry: sites.google.com/view/rss202…. Looking forward to seeing many of you 😎
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I gave an in-depth tutorial on "Formal Verification and Control with Conformal Prediction" at KTH today 🚀 Since I got positive feedback, I wanted to share the presentation, in the hope that others can also benefit from it 🙂 Find the recording here: youtu.be/kfPBjaMCXmM?si=0Y9O…
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