Darshan Gadginmath

Phone: 617-621-7583
Email:

Position:
Research / Technical Staff

Research Scientist
Education:
Ph.D., UC Riverside, 2026
Research Area:
- Control
External Links:
- Google Scholar

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Biography
Other Publications

Biography

Prior to joining MERL, Darshan conducted research at the Indian Institute of Science and Honda Research Institute USA on autonomous navigation and safe decision-making for dynamical systems. His doctoral research was regarding learning-enabled methods for motion planning and control with provable safety guarantees, including diffusion-based control and data-driven feedback linearization techniques. He received the Dean's Distinguished Fellowship and the Dissertation Completion Fellowship at UC Riverside. His research interests are at the intersection of reasoning and planning for autonomous systems, and data-driven nonlinear control.
Other Publications
- C. De Persis, D. Gadginmath, F. Pasqualetti and P. Tesi, "Feedback Linearization through the Lens of Data", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 71, No. 3, pp. 1630-1643, 2026.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{CDP-DG-FP-PT:2026,
  - author = {De Persis, C. and Gadginmath, D. and Pasqualetti, F. and Tesi, P.},
  - title = {Feedback Linearization through the Lens of Data},
  - journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control},
  - year = 2026,
  - volume = 71,
  - number = 3,
  - pages = {1630--1643}
  - }
- D. Gadginmath, A. Allibhoy and F. Pasqualetti, "Provably Safe Generative Sampling with Constricting Barrier Functions", arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.21429, 2026.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{DG-AA-FP:2026,
  - author = {Gadginmath, D. and Allibhoy, A. and Pasqualetti, F.},
  - title = {Provably Safe Generative Sampling with Constricting Barrier Functions},
  - journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.21429},
  - year = 2026
  - }
- D. Gadginmath, A. Allibhoy and F. Pasqualetti, "Constricting tubes for prescribed-time safe control", arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17003, 2026.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{DG-AA-FP:2026_presc-time,
  - author = {Gadginmath, D. and Allibhoy, A. and Pasqualetti, F.},
  - title = {Constricting tubes for prescribed-time safe control},
  - journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17003},
  - year = 2026
  - }
- D. Gadginmath and F. Pasqualetti, "Dynamics-aware Diffusion Models for Planning and Control", Conference on Decision and Control, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 2025.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{DG-FP:2025_dynamicsdiffusion,
  - author = {Gadginmath, D. and Pasqualetti, F.},
  - title = {Dynamics-aware Diffusion Models for Planning and Control},
  - journal = {Conference on Decision and Control, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil},
  - year = 2025
  - }
- D. Gadginmath, F. Nawaz, M. Sung, F. M. Tariq, S. Bae, D. Isele, F. Pasqualetti and J. D'sa, "Active probing with multimodal predictors for motion planning", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hangzhou, China, 2025.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{DG-JD-etal:2025,
  - author = {Gadginmath, D. and Nawaz, F. and Sung, M. and Tariq, F. M. and Bae, S. and Isele, D. and Pasqualetti, F. and D'sa, J.},
  - title = {Active probing with multimodal predictors for motion planning},
  - journal = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hangzhou, China},
  - year = 2025
  - }
- D. Gadginmath, S. Tripathi and F. Pasqualetti, "Fusing Multiple Algorithms for Heterogeneous Online Learning", American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, CO, 2025.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{DG-ST-FP:2023,
  - author = {Gadginmath, D. and Tripathi, S. and Pasqualetti, F.},
  - title = {Fusing Multiple Algorithms for Heterogeneous Online Learning},
  - journal = {American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, CO},
  - year = 2025
  - }
- F. Nawaz, M. Sung, D. Gadginmath, J. D`sa, D. Isele, S. Bae and others, "Graph-based Path Planning with Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance for Autonomous Parking", Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2025.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{FN-MJ-DG-etal:2025,
  - author = {Nawaz, F. and Sung, M. and Gadginmath, D. and D`sa, J. and Isele, D. and Bae, S. and others},
  - title = {Graph-based Path Planning with Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance for Autonomous Parking},
  - journal = {Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Cluj-Napoca, Romania},
  - year = 2025
  - }
- K. Elamvazhuthi, D. Gadginmath and F. Pasqualetti, "Score Matching Diffusion Based Feedback Control and Planning of Nonlinear Systems", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (under review), 2025.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{KE-DG-FP:2025,
  - author = {Elamvazhuthi, K. and Gadginmath, D. and Pasqualetti, F.},
  - title = {Score Matching Diffusion Based Feedback Control and Planning of Nonlinear Systems},
  - journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (under review)},
  - year = 2025
  - }
- D. Gadginmath, V. Krishnan and F. Pasqualetti, "Data-driven feedback linearization using the Koopman generator", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 69, No. 12, pp. 8844-8851, 2024.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{DG-VK-FP:2024,
  - author = {Gadginmath, D. and Krishnan, V. and Pasqualetti, F.},
  - title = {Data-driven feedback linearization using the Koopman generator},
  - journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control},
  - year = 2024,
  - volume = 69,
  - number = 12,
  - pages = {8844--8851}
  - }
- K. Elamvazhuthi, D. Gadginmath and F. Pasqualetti, "Denoising Diffusion-Based Control of Nonlinear Systems", 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Milan Italy, 2024.
  BibTeX
  - @Article{KE-DG-FP:2024,
  - author = {Elamvazhuthi, K. and Gadginmath, D. and Pasqualetti, F.},
  - title = {Denoising Diffusion-Based Control of Nonlinear Systems},
  - journal = {63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Milan Italy},
  - year = 2024
  - }
- C. De Persis, D. Gadginmath, F. Pasqualetti and P. Tesi, "Data-Driven Feedback Linearization with Complete Dictionaries", 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore , 2023.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{CDP-DG-FP-PT:2023,
  - author = {De Persis, C. and Gadginmath, D. and Pasqualetti, F. and Tesi, P.},
  - title = {Data-Driven Feedback Linearization with Complete Dictionaries},
  - booktitle = {62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore},
  - year = 2023,
  - organization = {IEEE}
  - }
- D. Gadginmath and P. Tallapragada, "Data-guided distributed intersection management for connected and automated vehicles", 2022 American Control Conference (ACC), 2022, pp. 767-774.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{DG-PT:2022,
  - author = {Gadginmath, D. and Tallapragada, P.},
  - title = {Data-guided distributed intersection management for connected and automated vehicles},
  - booktitle = {2022 American Control Conference (ACC)},
  - year = 2022,
  - pages = {767--774},
  - organization = {IEEE}
  - }
- D. Gadginmath, V. Krishnan and F. Pasqualetti, "Direct vs indirect methods for behavior-based attack detection", 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancun, Mexico, 2022, pp. 7090-7096.
  BibTeX
  - @Inproceedings{DG-VK-FP:2022,
  - author = {Gadginmath, D. and Krishnan, V. and Pasqualetti, F.},
  - title = {Direct vs indirect methods for behavior-based attack detection},
  - booktitle = {2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancun, Mexico},
  - year = 2022,
  - pages = {7090--7096},
  - organization = {IEEE}
  - }