Bio

Mykel Kochenderfer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. Prior to joining the faculty, he was a member of the technical staff at Lincoln Laboratory for seven years where he worked on aircraft collision avoidance for manned and unmanned aircraft. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh and B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford. He has worked for Microsoft Research, the Honda Research Institute, and Rockwell Scientific. He is a third generation pilot.

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Computer Science

Professional Education

  • Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, Informatics (2006)
  • M.S., Stanford University, Computer Science (2003)
  • B.S., Stanford University, Computer Science (2003)

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2015-16 Courses

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All Publications

  • Collision Avoidance System Optimization for Closely Spaced Parallel Operations through Surrogate Modeling AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference Smith, K., Kochenderfer, M. J., Olson, W., Vela, A. 2013
  • Decentralized Control of Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Amato, C., Chowdhary, G., Geramifard, A., Ure, N. K., Kochenderfer, M. J. 2013
  • Fielding a Sense and Avoid Capability for Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Policy, Standards, Technology, and Safety Modeling Air Traffic Control Quarterly Cole, R., Kochenderfer, M. J., Weibel, R., Edwards, M., Griffith, J. D. 2013; 21 (1): 5-27
  • Traffic Alert Optimization for Airborne Collision Avoidance Systems AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference Puntin, B., Kochenderfer, M. J. 2013
  • Compression of Optimal Value Functions for Markov Decision Processes Data Compression Conference Kochenderfer, M. J., Monath, N. 2013
  • Optimizing the Next Generation Collision Avoidance System for Safe, Suitable, and Acceptable Operational Performance Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar Holland, J. E., Kochenderfer, M. J., Olson, W. A. 2013
  • Vertical State Estimation for Aircraft Collision Avoidance with Quantized Measurements Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics Asmar, D. M., Kochenderfer, M. J., Chryssanthacopoulos, J. P. 2013; 35 (6): 1797-1802
  • Decomposition Methods for Optimized Collision Avoidance with Multiple Threats Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics Chryssanthacopoulos, J. P., Kochenderfer, M. J. 2012; 35 (2): 398-405
  • Next Generation Airborne Collision Avoidance System Lincoln Laboratory Journal Kochenderfer, M. J., Holland, J. E., Chryssanthacopoulos, J. P. 2012; 19 (1): 17-33
  • Collision Avoidance for General Aviation IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine Billingsley, T. B., Kochenderfer, M. J., Chryssanthacopoulos, J. P. 2012; 27 (7): 4-12
  • A New Approach for Designing Safer Collision Avoidance Systems Air Traffic Control Quarterly Kochenderfer, M. J., Chryssanthacopoulos, J. P., Weibel, R. E. 2012; 20 (1): 27-45
  • Predicting the Behavior of Interacting Humans by Fusing Data from Multiple Sources Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Schlicht, E. J., Lee, R., Wolpert, D. H., Kochenderfer, M. J., Tracey, B. 2012
  • Hazard Alerting Based on Probabilistic Models Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics Chryssanthacopoulos, J. P., Kochenderfer, M. J. 2012; 35 (2): 442-450
  • Partially-Controlled Markov Decision Processes for Collision Avoidance Systems International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence Kochenderfer, M. J., Chryssanthacopoulos, J. P. 2011
  • Position Validation Strategies using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes IEEE/AIAA Digital Avionics Systems Conference Kochenderfer, M. J., Shih, K. J., Chryssanthacopoulos, J. P., Rose, C. E., Elder, T. R. 2011
  • Unmanned Aircraft Collision Avoidance using Continuous-State POMDPs Robotics: Science and Systems Bai, H., Hsu, D., Kochenderfer, M. J., Lee, W. S. 2011
  • Analysis of Open-loop and Closed-loop Planning for Aircraft Collision Avoidance IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Chryssanthacopoulos, J. P., Kochenderfer, M. J. 2011
  • Accounting for State Uncertainty in Collision Avoidance Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics Chryssanthacopoulos, J. P., Kochenderfer, M. J. 2011; 34 (4): 951-960

    View details for DOI 10.2514/1.53172

  • Collision Avoidance System Optimization with Probabilistic Pilot Response Models American Control Conference Chryssanthacopoulos, J. P., Kochenderfer, M. J. 2011
  • Aircraft Collision Avoidance using Monte Carlo Real-Time Belief Space Search Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems Wolf, T. B., Kochenderfer, M. J. 2011; 64 (2): 277-298
  • Efficiently Estimating Ambient Near Mid-Air Collision Risk for Unmanned Aircraft AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference Maki, E., Weinert, A., Kochenderfer, M. J. 2010
  • On Estimating Mid-Air Collision Risk AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference Kochenderfer, M. J., Griffith, J. D., Olszta, J. E. 2010
  • A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Developing Robust Collision Avoidance Logic IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Kochenderfer, M. J., Chryssanthacopoulos, J. P. 2010
  • Collision Avoidance for Unmanned Aircraft using Markov Decision Processes AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference Temizer, S., Kochenderfer, M. J., Kaelbling, L. P., Lozano-Perez, T. 2010
  • Improved Monte Carlo Sampling for Conflict Probability Estimation AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Conference Chryssanthacopoulos, J. P., Kochenderfer, M. J., Williams, R. E. 2010
  • Robustness of Optimized Collision Avoidance Logic to Modeling Errors IEEE/AIAA Digital Avionics Systems Conference Kochenderfer, M. J., Chryssanthacopoulos, J. P., Radecki, P. 2010
  • Airspace Encounter Models for Estimating Collision Risk Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics Kochenderfer, M. J., Edwards, M., Espindle, L. P., Kuchar, J. K., Griffith, J. D. 2010; 33 (2): 487-499

    View details for DOI 10.2514/1.44867

  • Classification of Primary Radar Tracks using Gaussian Mixture Models IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation Espindle, L. P., Kochenderfer, M. J. 2009; 3 (6): 559-568

    View details for DOI 10.1049/iet-rsn.2008.0182

  • Hazard Alerting using Line-of-Sight Rate AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference Kochenderfer, M. J., Griffith, J. D., Kuchar, J. K. 2008
  • A Comprehensive Aircraft Encounter Model of the National Airspace System Lincoln Laboratory Journal Kochenderfer, M. J., Espindle, L. P., Kuchar, J. K., Griffith, J. D. 2008; 17 (2): 41-53
  • Electro-Optical System Analysis for Sense and Avoid AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference Griffith, J. D., Kochenderfer, M. J., Kuchar, J. K. 2008
  • Adaptive Modeling and Planning for Reactive Agents AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence Kochenderfer, M. J. 2005
  • Common Sense Data Acquisition for Indoor Mobile Robots AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence Gupta, R., Kochenderfer, M. J. 2004
  • Evolving Hierarchical and Recursive Teleo-Reactive Programs through Genetic Programming European Conference on Genetic Programming Kochenderfer, M. J. Springer. 2003