Dr. Jake Welde is an Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, working at the intersection of robotics, control theory, applied mathematics, and design. His research explores the role of differential geometry and dynamical systems theory in control synthesis and design for robotic systems, exploiting structural properties to explainably synthesize efficient controllers, accelerate learning algorithms, and develop more capable robot morphologies. His group explores both abstract questions in control theory as well as concrete implications in the design of autonomous aerial robots, with the goal of synergy between these dual aspects of autonomous systems.