Sander Tonkens

I am a second year Ph.D. student at UC San Diego advised by Prof. Sylvia Herbert, where I am part of the Contextual Robotics Institute.

Before moving to San Diego, I did my M.S. at Stanford University, where I was advised by Prof. Marco Pavone. Before that, I was an undergrad at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. I've received the Netherlands America Foundation Graduate Fellowship and am a Fulbright Graduate Scholar.

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My interests lies at the intersection of robotics, control theory, and machine learning. Specifically, I am interested in two areas (i) leveraging ideas from robustness in modular autonomy stacks to enable robots to generalize to novel environments and (ii) providing probabilistic safety assurances for autonomous systems in cluttered environments leveraging uncertainty quantification methods.

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