Anushri Dixit, Ph.D.

Anushri Dixit, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on autonomy, robotics, safety-critical decision-making, stochastic control, model predictive control, and risk-aware planning. Dr. Dixit holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and a Doctor of Philosophy in Control and Dynamical Systems from Caltech. She can be contacted at anushridixit@ucla.edu or via her website at https://samueli.ucla.edu/people/anushri-dixit/.

Anushri Dixit is an Assistant Professor at UCLA specializing in Robotics, Dynamics and Control, and Motion Planning. Her research focuses on developing robust and risk-aware navigation systems for robots operating in complex and uncertain environments. Dixit's work includes advancing motion planning algorithms that incorporate risk-sensitive measures, such as entropic value-at-risk and coherent risk measures, to enhance decision-making under uncertainty. She has contributed to projects like the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, where her team developed autonomous robotic solutions for challenging terrains. Her research emphasizes the integration of learning-based perception and predictive models to ensure safe and reliable robot behavior.