About

Email: kphawkins@gmail.com

Research Interests:

• Robust collision avoidance/contingency planning for autonomous vehicles in the presence of uncertain human actors
• Novel algorithms for trajectory planning informed by stochastic control theory
• Techniques for the application of reachability theory to real-world problems

Education:

• Ph.D. Robotics – Georgia Tech – 2021
• • Dissertation: Feynman-Kac Numerical Techniques For Stochastic Optimal Control
  • Advisor: Panagiotis Tsiotras
• M.S. Computer Science – Georgia Tech – 2012
• B.S. Applied Mathematics & B.S. Computer Science – N.C. State – 2010