Chuchu Fan

Specialization and Research Interests

Formal methods, control, and machine learning for the design and analysis of safe autonomous systems, cyber-physical systems, and robotic systems

Teaching Interests

Formal methods, control, decision making, autonomous systems

Academic Degrees

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019; B.E., Tsinghua University, 2013

Positions Held at MIT

Wilson Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Positions Held outside MIT

Postdoc Scholar, California Institute of Technology, 2019-2020

Biography

Chuchu Fan is an Associate Professor (pre-tenure) in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro) and Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT. Before that, she was a postdoc researcher at Caltech and got her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University. Her research group, Realm at MIT, works on using rigorous mathematics, including formal methods, machine learning, and control theory, for the design, analysis, and verification of safe autonomous systems. Chuchu is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, an AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, an ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, and the 2020 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.