Simon Yu

Introduction

Simon Yu earned his B.S. (2019), M.S. (2025), and Ph.D. (2026) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on safety-critical cyber-physical and autonomous systems, robust and interpretable machine learning, real-time embedded systems, and unmanned aerial vehicles. His work appears in leading venues across aerospace, robotics, machine learning, and real-time systems, including AIAA, IROS, Springer Nature MLJ, UAI, TMLR, RTSS, IEEE Transactions on Computers, and Communications of the ACM. Simon is also the co-founder of Multiped LLC, a startup developing embedded platforms for autonomy and robotics education and research.

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