Roberto Tron, Associate Professor, Boston University
Roberto Tron is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. Professor Roberto Tron previously served as a post-doctoral researcher with the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests lie at the intersection of automatic control, robotics and computer vision, with a particular emphasis on applications of Riemannian geometry and on distributed problems involving teams of multiple agents. Tron received his Ph.D. from The John Hopkins University.
Gustavo Cardona, Lehigh University
Gustavo A. Cardona received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and the M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, in 2018 and 2023, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, in 2025. His Ph.D. thesis focused on developing formal methods for scalable and robust planning in multi-robot systems, leveraging temporal logic and optimization to handle partial satisfaction of complex tasks under uncertainty. His work was recognized with the 2025 Outstanding Dissertation-Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics and the 2025 Elizabeth V. Stout Dissertation Award from the Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. He has also held a research internship at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), where he worked on multi-truck coordination in warehouse environments. In 2025, he will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, as a Postdoctoral Researcher. His research interests include formal methods, multi-agent systems, motion planning, and optimization-based control for autonomous robotic teams.