Marco Pavone receives NSF CAREER Award

Marco Pavone has been chosen to receive a NSF Career Award for his research proposal on "Driving the Future: Models and Control Methods to Coordinate Fleets of Self-Driving Vehicles in Future Transportation Networks."  

The CAREER program is one of the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Researchers selected for the award demonstrate the potential to build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. 

The award will support Professor Pavone's research proposal to "advance knowledge in the field by leveraging recent algorithmic techniques from stochastic network optimization to generate provably-correct tools for the modeling, analysis, and control of spatial queuing systems of increasing complexity and realism."  

Professor Pavone, an ICME affiliated faculty member from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, previously received a NASA Early Career Faculty award, a Hellman Faculty Scholar Award, and was named a NASA NIAC Fellow.  Please join ICME in a hearty congratulations to Professor Pavone for this outstanding accomplishment!