ECSE and RPI welcome a new ECSE faculty member, Dr. Esen Yel. Dr. Yel will be an Assistant Professor in ECSE starting on January 1, 2024.
Dr. Yel received her Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia, and MS and BS degrees from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. She has most recently been a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford working with Prof. Mykel Kochenderfer in the Stanford Intelligence Systems Lab.
Esen’s research focuses on safety guarantees and trustworthiness for autonomous systems under uncertainty. Her post-doctoral research addresses safety validation, probabilistic safe planning, and transfer learning for autonomous vehicles under uncertainty. Her doctoral work addresses runtime monitoring and replanning for autonomous systems with uncertainty or unforeseen faults.