Thomas Beckers

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Computer Science

Intellectual Neighborhoods

• Big Data Science and Engineering
• Cyber-physical Systems

Research Focus

Closing the gap between machine learning and control theory to develop new algorithms towards safe, robust, and intelligent control of complex systems

Biography

Thomas Beckers is an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University since January 2023. Before, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, where he was member of the GRASP Lab, PRECISE Center and ASSET Center. In 2020, he earned his doctorate in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2010 and 2013, respectively, from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. In 2018, he was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a DAAD AInet fellow and was awarded with the Rhode & Schwarz Outstanding Dissertation price. His research interests include physics-enhanced learning, nonparametric models, and safe learning-based control.