Christian Llanes
Aerospace Engineer & Roboticist — GN&C, Machine Learning, and Aerial Robotics
Aerospace Engineer & Roboticist — GN&C, Machine Learning, and Aerial Robotics
Aerospace engineer and aerial roboticist with interest in machine learning and guidance, navigation, and controls for aerospace and robotics applications. I have 7+ years of experience working on custom academic drone platforms with hardware and software development tools for aerial robotics research.
Currently a Ph.D. candidate in Robotics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, working in the Formal Methods and Autonomous Control of Transportation Systems (FACTS) Lab. My research spans run-time assurance, reachability, motion planning, optimal control, and reinforcement learning for aerial robotics. I've also interned at Sandia National Laboratories and NASA Glenn Research Center.
Georgia Institute of Technology — GPA: 3.86
Concentration: Mechanics, Controls, Artificial Intelligence
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University — GPA: 3.95
Graduated summa cum laude and top of Fall 2019 B.S. in Aerospace Engineering class.
Sandia National Laboratories — Autonomy for Hypersonics
Developed CrazySim simulator platform. Implemented multi-agent reinforcement learning for pursuit-evasion. Applied time series analysis tools for anomaly detection in mechanical devices.
FACTS Lab — Georgia Institute of Technology
Research on NASA urban air mobility verification and validation. Topics include run-time assurance, reachability, motion planning, optimal controls, multi-agent reinforcement learning, and reinforcement learning for aerial robotics.
Georgia Institute of Technology
Hosted office hours, graded assignments, and answered course topic questions.
NASA Glenn Research Center — Cryogenic and Fluid Systems Branch
Conducted experiments on MgB2 superconductor samples. Performed literature survey on pool boiling of cryogenic liquids for improving heat transfer models.
2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026
2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
2024 American Control Conference (ACC), 2024
Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference, Oct. 2023
2023 AIAA SciTech GN&C Architectures for Autonomous Systems II, Jan. 2023
2022 ACM/IEEE 13th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), pp. 127–136, 2022
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computation-Aware Algorithmic Design for Cyber-Physical Systems (CAADCPS '21), ACM, 2021
2019 IEEE International Workshop on Sensing, Communication, and Control for Unmanned Aerial Systems (SCC-UAS), 2019