Assistant Professor | Virginia Tech
Shirish S. Sathaye Jr. Faculty Fellow
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Affiliations
- Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics
- Power and Energy Center
- Autonomy and Robotics @ VT
Research
I lead the SAGE Lab, where my group develops safe, adaptive, and antifragile AI for open-world engineering systems. Our research integrates reinforcement learning, control theory, and optimization to advance three core areas: safe autonomous agents for dynamic environments, alignment in frontier models, and resilient AI for critical infrastructure. These threads converge toward engineering antifragile AI systems that thrive in complexity rather than merely surviving it.
Agentic AI Frontier Seminar — Its mission is to create a platform for industry and academia leaders for sharing advances research and practice on agentic AI, including safety, alignment, evaluation, tool augmentation, memory, long-horizon reasoning, and multi-agent collaboration. Learn more →
Recent News
Service & Outreach
Editorial & Organization
- Associate Editor, IEEE Systems Journal
- AC/SPC: ICML (2024, 2025), AAAI 2025, ICLR 2026
- Workshop Organizer: Trustworthy Interactive Decision-Making @ IJCAI 2024