Assistant Professor
Dr. Tanaka’s research focus is on control, autonomy and robotics. Recent research topics include control-communication co-design in networked control systems, real-time data compression for control, information-constrained control and Markov decision processes, bio-inspired perception and motion planning, machine learning applications, security and privacy in control systems.
Dr. Tanaka is a recipient of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control best student paper award (2011), DARPA Young Faculty Award (2019), AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award (2019), and NSF CAREER Award (2020).