Assistant Professor
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Esen Yel is an assistant professor at the department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and the director of Reliable Intelligent Systems Lab (RISL) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Her research focuses on planning, monitoring, and online adaptation to improve safety and generalizability of autonomous robots under uncertainty. Before joining RPI, she was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University in the department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, affiliated with Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab and Stanford Center for AI Safety. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University in Turkey.