People


Mo Chen

Principal Investigator, MARS Lab
Assistant Professor, SFU CS
CIFAR AI Chair, Amii Fellow, NCRN Distal Fellow

Office: TASC 1 8225

Email: mochen [at] cs [dot] sfu [dot] ca

Dr. Mo Chen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, where he directs the Multi-Agent Robotic Systems Lab. He holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair position and is an Amii Fellow. Dr. Chen completed his PhD in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at the University of California, Berkeley in 2017, and received his BASc in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia in 2011. From 2017 to 2018, He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department in Stanford University. Dr. Chen’s research interests include multi-agent systems, safety-critical systems, human-robot interactions, control theory, reinforcement learning, and their intersections.


PhD Students

Mohammad Mahdavian
deep learning, human-robot interactions, autonomous driving
Personal website
Sahar Leisiazar
reinforcement learning, human-robot interactions
Personal website
Zhitian Zhang
deep learning, human-robot interactions
also part of Rosie Lab
Pedram Agand
deep learning, transportation systems, autonomous driving
Payam J. Yazdian
generative models, affective computing
also part of Rosie Lab
Minh Bui
robotic safety, numerical methods, multi-agent systems
also part of Computer Architecture Lab
Michael Lu
reinforcement learning, safe learning, control theory
Personal website
Hanyang Hu
multi-agent systems, robotic safety, reinforcement learning
Roozbeh Razavi
reinforcement learning
Chong He
robotic safety, control theory
Personal website

Research Assistants

Ekansh Chawla, undergrad
robotics
Jashanraj Gosain, undergrad
robotics
Jiin Kim, undergrad
robotics

Alumni

PhD

Xubo Lyu
reinforcement learning, optimal control
Salar Asayesh
reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems
Next: Sanctuary AI
Payam Nikdel
reinforcement learning, human-robot interactions
Next: Waymo

MSc

Tara Toufighi
robotic safety, computer vision
Sriraj Meenavilli
representation learning, optimal control
Next: NTWIST
Dorsa Dadjoo
computer vision, 3D reconstruction
Next: S&P Global
Taher Ahmadi
human-robot interactions, computer vision
also part of Rosie Lab
Xinyu Zhao
reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems
Atefeh Sahraee
optimal control, reinforcement learning
Next: Kindred AI
Juan C. Leon
optimal control, multi-agent systems
Next: Teck
Anjian Li
optimal control, computer vision
Next: PhD at Princeton

Research Assistants

Yimeng Fan, MPCS
Abby Wang, MPCS
Aadil Akhtar, undergrad
Tyler D’Silva, MPCS
Yunlong Li, USRA
Joe Zhang, USRA
Next: MSc at Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Chang, undergrad
Jun Yang, USRA
Francis Li, undergrad
Khizr A. Pardhan, undergrad
George Giovanis, USRA