Expertise

Prabhakar’s main research interest is in formal analysis of cyber-physical systems with emphasis on both foundational and practical aspects related to automated and scalable techniques for verification and synthesis of hybrid control systems. Her research borrows ideas from automata theory, control and dynamical systems theory, formal methods and logics.

She is currently pursuing projects on robust analysis and design of autonomous and cyber-physical systems with applications in automotive, aerospace and robotics systems.

Her main research interest is in the Formal Analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems, with emphasis on both theoretical and practical methods for verification and synthesis of hybrid control systems.

Research Interests:

  • Formal verification and synthesis of autonomous and cyber-physical systems; Formal analysis of AI-based controllers; Applications in robotics, aerospace systems, autonomous vehicles and agricultural automation.
Communities
Management Information Systems, Information Science/Systems, Computer Science
Degrees
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science, 2011
MS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Applied Mathematics, 2010
MS, Indian Institute of Science, Computer Science and Automation, 2006
BTech, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India, Computer Science and Engineering, 2004