Faculty
Qin Lin, Ph.D.
Lab Director
Assistant Professor
Dr. Qin Lin is the Director of AIR Lab. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in 2019. He is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed by the Department of Engineering Technology and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests span robotics, machine learning, control, and formal verification. He also serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
Staff
Dr. Jinfeng Chen, Postdoc (formerly a Ph.D. student co-advised by me and Prof. Zhiqiang Gao at CSU)
Research interests: Disturbance Rejection Control, Unknown Input Observer, Safe Control, and Multi-target Tracking
Publication: [L-CSS24], [CDC23]
Student
Fan Zhang, Ph.D. student (ECE Program)
Research interests: Robotics and Control
Publication: [CASE24]
Wenhua Liu, Ph.D. student (ECE Program)
Research interests: AI and Robotics
Alumni
Colman McGuan
Supervising Institution: CSU, MSc.
First Position: Pressco Technolgy Inc., Engineer
Publication: [ISI23]
Xiaoran Liu
Supervising Institution: TU Delft, MSc.
First Position: Rabobank, Engineer
Kaixin Ding
Supervising Institution: TU Delft, MSc.
First Position: NXP, Engineer
Jialun Li
Supervising Institution: CMU, Research Intern
First Position: DJI, Engineer
Publication: [IROS22]
Shivesh Khaitan
Supervising Institution: CMU, MSc., RISS Intern
First Position: InstaDeep, Engineer
Publication: [T-VT21]
Award: [CommonRoad Motion planning Competition, First Place]
Srujan Deolasee
Supervising Institution: CMU, RISS Intern
First Position: CMU MSR
Publication: [ACC23]
Emanuel Munoz
Supervising Institution: CMU, RISS Intern
First Position: CMU MSR
Publication: [IROS22]
Research Intern
Hantao Fu (2025 Summer)
Rice University, ECE Master Student
Nischay Hegde (2025 Summer)
University of Texas at Austin, ECE Bachelor Student