Simon Yu earned his BS, MS, and PhD 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, including AIAA, IROS, Springer Nature MLJ, UAI, TMLR, IEEE Transactions on Computers, and Communications of the ACM. Simon is also the co-founder of Multiped LLC, a startup developing embedded platforms for education and research in autonomy and robotics.