Mikael Yeghiazaryan

PhD Student @ UIUC

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Office 4113

201 N. Goodwin Avenue

Urbana, IL 61801-2302

I am a CS PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Lui Sha, Naira Hovakimyan, and Tarek Abdelzaher. Previously, I was a researcher at the Center for Scientific Innovation and Education (CSIE) in Yerevan, Armenia, a Research Assistant in the Advanced Controls Research Laboratory (ACRL) at UIUC, and a Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human Sensing Lab. I earned my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford.

My research focuses on developing robust and trustworthy multi-modal AI. I have mainly worked with vision and language, but I am open to exploring other modalities as well. Feel free to reach out for collaboration opportunities.

News

Aug 20, 2026 I started my CS PhD (and TA position) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Lui Sha, Naira Hovakimyan, and Tarek Abdelzaher!
Jul 11, 2026 Our paper “Synergistic Simplex: Cooperative Runtime Assurance for Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems” was accepted at ISSRE 2026!
Sep 01, 2025 I joined the Center for Scientific Innovation and Education (CSIE) in Yerevan, Armenia as a researcher!
Jul 15, 2024 I joined the Advanced Controls Research Laboratory at UIUC as a research assistant!
Nov 21, 2022 I joined the Human Sensing Lab at CMU as a research assistant!