Luca Carlone

Luca Carlone is the Boeing Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and a Principal Investigator at the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS). He leads the SPARK Lab, focusing on developing certifiable perception algorithms for autonomous systems.

• PhD in Mechatronics (Polytechnic University of Turin, 2012)
• Research spans robotics, computer vision, and optimization

Research Interests:

• Certifiable Perception algorithms for high-integrity systems
• High-level Perception (geometric, semantic, physical understanding)
• Efficient Perception methods for resource-constrained robots

Scientific Contributions include:

• 2024 Outstanding Systems Paper Award (RSS)
• 2023 IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Award
• 2021 NSF CAREER Award
• 2020 AIAA Advising Award
• 2019 Amazon Research Award

Advising: Teaches graduate courses like Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics: Science and Systems. Collaborates with institutions including JPL, Caltech, and KAIST through the DARPA SubT Challenge.