people

Esen Yel

Esen Yel is an assistant professor and director of Reliable Intelligent Systems Lab. She has started at RPI in January, 2024. Before than, she was a postdoc at Stanford University. She earned her Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from University of Virginia, M.S. and B.S. degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from Bogazici University.

Email: yele@rpi.edu

Jainik Mehta

Jainik Mehta is a Ph.D. student in Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department at RPI. His research interests include aerial vehicles, safe and agile navigation. Jainik holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Shiqian Xu

Shiqian Xu is a Ph.D. student in Mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Her research focuses on neural network reachability analysis and formal verification under hardware faults. She received her M.S. in Computational and Applied Mathematics from the University of Chicago and her B.S. in Mathematics from RPI. Outside of research, she enjoys board games, hiking, painting, playing Go, and reading.

Math advisor: John Mitchell

Tristan Elkins

Tristan Elkins is a M.S. student in Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). His research focuses on neural network reachability analysis and he has background in autonomous control. Tristan holds a dual B.S. degree in Physics and Applied Mathematics from RPI.

Shriansh Chaabra - M.S. Fall 2025

Shriansh Chaabra was an M.S. student in Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department at RPI and graudated in December 2025. His M.S. thesis focuses on probabilistic safety verification. Shriansh holds a B.S. degree in electronics and instrumentation Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, India.