I am a masters student at UCSD pursuing an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, where I work with Sylvia Herbert. I am also co-advised by Jason Choi at UCLA. I plan to pursue a Ph.D. beginning in Fall 2027, with research interests at the intersection of control theory and machine learning for safe and robust robotics.
My long-term goal is to develop learning-based decision making algorithms with an emphasis on safety and performance guarantees that can be deployed on real-world systems.
Machine learning  /  Autonomous systems  /  Safe and robust control  /  Foundational models
Publications
MADR: MPC-Guided Adversarial DeepReach
Ryan Teoh*, Sander Tonkens*, William Sharpless, Anija Yang, Zeyuan Feng, Somil Bansal, Sylvia Herbert
Presented at the Internation Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026 Vienna).
Master of Science (M.S.) in Mechanical Engineering University of California, San Diego
Advisor: Sylvia Herbert
September 2026 — Present
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Aerospace Engineering, Minor in Data Science Engineering University of California, Los Angeles
September 2022 — March 2026
Contact
Feel free to contact me regarding my research—I am always happy to brainstorm and share my ideas. I can be contacted directly at ryanteoh001 [at] gmail [dot] com.