Anthony Corso

Anthony is a postdoctoral researcher in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at Stanford University where he is advised by Professor Mykel Kochenderfer in the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory (SISL). He is also the executive director of the Stanford Center for AI Safety. His current research is on developing verifiably robust autonomy for aviation applications as part of the NASA University Leadership Initiative. His dissertation work studied approaches for the validation of safety-critical autonomous systems with an emphasis on interpretability and scalability. His research interests also include reinforcement learning, optimization, transfer learning, fluid and plasma simulation. In 2014 he received a B.S. in physics from Harvey Mudd College with an emphasis on computational methods and in 2016 he received his Master’s in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford. He is a recipient of the Stanford Graduate Fellowship and the Nicholas J. Hoff award for outstanding performance as a Master’s Student.