Yue Yu

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. I obtained my PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington.
news
2024
August
- Our paper titled Noise-aware and equitable urban air traffic management: An optimization approach has been published in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies!
July
- Three papers that I authored/co-authored have been accepted to the 2024 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control!
May
- I am excited to join the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities as an assistant professor, starting in Aug 2024!
February
- I will give a seminar presentation at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota on Feb 27th, 2024!
2023
November
- NASA is using our algorithm! When compared with the previous state-of-the-art, our optimization algorithm helps NASA achieve five times faster computation using only one-tenth of the lines of code! Read about it in NASA’s annual project review and learn more about it in our paper!
- Our paper on powered descent guidance won the 2023 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Best Paper! Congrats to my co-authors!
October
- I presented my recent work on inverse games in the REALM group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology!
- I presented my recent work on inverse games in the Control Systems & Dynamics Seminar at University of California San Diego!
- I presented my recent work on inverse games in the FALCON seminar at the California Institute of Technology!
- I presented my recent work on inverse games in the DSCD Rising Stars invited talk session at the Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference 2023.
September
- Our paper “Active Inverse Learning in Stackelberg Trajectory Games” has been accepted for publication in 1st Workshop on MAD-Games: Multi-Agent Dynamic Games, as part of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023.
- I presented my recent work on netro routing in urban air mobility at the Young Researcher’s Session at NASA’s Workshop on Clean Slate Approaches to Crewed and Uncrewed Air Traffic Operations, and my recent work on inverse games at the Semiautonomous Seminars at University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
- Invited by Meeko Oishi, I gave a Zoom presentation at the NSF CPS Frontier weekly meeting at The University of New Mexico, NM, USA.
July
- Invited by Gioele Zardini, I gave a Zoom presentation to the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Our paper “Soft-Bellman Equilibrium in Affine Markov Games: Forward Solutions and Inverse Learning” has been accepted to the 2023 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
June
- Our paper Coordination in Noncooperative Multiplayer Matrix Games via Reduced Rank Correlated Equilibria has been accepted for publication in IEEE Control Systems Letters!
- Invited by Matt Harris, I gave a Zoom presentation at the MAE/ECE Colloquium at Utah State University, Logan, UT.
- We presented our paper “Inverse Matrix Games With Unique Quantal Response Equilibrium”, “Online Poisoning Attacks Against Data-Driven Predictive Control”, and “Cost Design in Atomic Routing Games” at 2023 American Control Conference, San Diego, CA.
April
- We submitted our paper “Soft-Bellman Equilibrium in Affine Markov Games: Forward Solutions and Inverse Learning” to 2023 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. This paper extends our previous results on inverse games from static games to Markov dynamic games.
March
- Our paper “Vertiport Selection in Hybrid Air-Ground Transportation Networks via Mathematical Programs with Equilibrium Constraints” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.
- Invited by Michael Amitay, I gave a presentatuion to the Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
- Our paper “Real-Time Sequential Conic Optimization for Multi-Phase Rocket Landing Guidance” and “Dynamic Routing in Stochastic Urban Air Mobility Networks: A Markov Decision Process Approach” has been accepted for publication in 2023 IFAC World Congress.
February
- Invited by Farshad Khorrami, I gave a presentatuion to the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at New York University, New York, NY.
- Invited by Jeff Scruggs, I gave a presentation to the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
- Our paper “Real-Time Quadrotor Trajectory Optimization with Time-Triggered Corridor Constraints” has been published in the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.
January
- Our paper “Adaptive constraint satisfaction for Markov decision process congestion games: Application to transportation networks” has been published in Automatica.
2022
December
- Our paper “Cost Design in Atomic Routing Games” and “Online Poisoning Attacks Against Data-Driven Predictive Control” has been accepted for publication in 2023 American Control Conference. Our paper “Inverse Matrix Games With Unique Quantal Response Equilibrium”, which was published in IEEE Control Systems Letters earlier, has been accepted for presentation in the same Conference.
September
- Our paper “Inverse Matrix Games With Unique Quantal Response Equilibrium” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Control Systems Letters.