Alexandre Amice

Alexandre Amice

Research In Applied Optimization

MIT

I am a fourth year PhD student in MIT’s EECS Department advised by Professor Pablo Parrilo and Professor Russ Tedrake. I am broadly interested in optimal and efficient decision making, especially for large scale or complex dynamical systems. I am particularly interested in exploiting polynomial and graph structure to obtain tractable algorithms for problems in control theory and certification. In addition to my research, I am an active contributor to Drake, an open-source simulator for model-based design and control of robots.

Research Projects

Certifying Trajectories in Seconds
Formally verifying the safety of complicated trajectories at scale.
Certifying Trajectories in Seconds
Certified Polyhedral Descriptions of Configuration Space
Provable correct descriptions of Configuration Space for collision-free motion planning
Certified Polyhedral Descriptions of Configuration Space
Structured Optimization
How do various structure effect the efficiency of solving optimization problems and structure the solution?
Structured Optimization
Resilient Behavior Through Optimization
Resiliency of control systems and learning algorithms via counter-factual optimization
Resilient Behavior Through Optimization
Scheduling with Constraints
Guaranteed performance of heuristic strategies for a known, hard problem.
Scheduling with Constraints

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
MIT
Doctoral Student
MIT
August 2020 – Present Cambridge, MA
Research in optimization methods for the control and verification of complex dynamical. systems.
 
 
 
 
 
Drake Robotics Toolbox
Open Source Developer
January 2022 – Present
Contributions to symbolic algebra and mathematical optimization packages.
 
 
 
 
 
Boston Dynamics AI Institute
Research Intern
Boston Dynamics AI Institute
May 2023 – September 2023
Research in model-based control of highly dynamical systems.
 
 
 
 
 
University of Pennsylvania
Masters and Undergraduate Researcher
University of Pennsylvania
January 2018 – August 2020 Philadelphia, PA
Research in discrete and convex optimization for resilient control systems.
 
 
 
 
 
Uber Advanced Technology Group
Robotic Perception Intern
Uber Advanced Technology Group
May 2019 – August 2019 Pittsburgh, PA
Research and development of radar perception systems.

Contact Me

amice@mit.edu