I am a tenure-track professor at the School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing. I am also jointly appointed at the International Institute of Beihang University, Hangzhou. Prior to this position, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at AMBER Lab, California Institute of Technology, USA. I obtained my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden in May 2023.

Research Interests

I have a broad interest in control, estimation, optimization and formal methods, and their applications in robotics. My research areas include

• Secure and risk-aware state estimation
• Learning for control and control for learning
• Safe control for nonlinear systems
• Formal methods in robotics
• Multi-agent systems

I am actively looking for prospective students to join my lab at Beihang Beijing or Beihang Hangzhou!

Getting in touch

E-mail: xiaotan at buaa dot edu dot cn

For a short bio in Chinese, please check my webpage.

News

[December 2025] Check out our latest L-CSS paper: From Vertices to Convex Hulls: Certifying Set-Wise Compatibility for CBF Constraints

[April 2025] Secure safety filter experiments on drone platforms together with TII. Check out our video

[October 2024] We submitted two papers to ACC 2025!

[July 2024] Our paper titled “Safety of Linear Systems under Severe Sensor Attacks” was accepted by IEEE CDC 2024! Check out here for more details.

[June 2024] My paper titled “A contract negotiation scheme for safety verification of interconnected systems” was accepted by the 2024 ECC Special Issue of the European Journal of Control! Check here for more details.

[June 2024] My paper titled “Enhancing Precision Agriculture Through Human-in-the-Loop Planning and Control” was accepted by 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)!

[March 2024] We submit a paper on security and safety for linear systems to IEEE CDC 2024!

[November 2023] I started my new postdoctoral researcher position at Caltech.