Javier Borquez
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC).
Completed my PhD as the first doctoral graduate from the Safe and Intelligent Autonomy Lab, now based at Stanford University.
Currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering
2021 - 2025
University of Southern California
Visiting Scholar
2025
Stanford University
Master of Electrical Engineering
2017 - 2018
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Professional Degree on Electrical Engineering
2010 - 2015
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Awards
Scholarship to Elite Robotics Summer School
Southern Denmark University, Denmark, 2023.
Best Engineer of the Promotion
School of Engineering, U. de Santiago, Chile 2015.
Best Electrical Engineer of the Promotion
Electrical Engineering Department, U. de Santiago, Chile 2015.
Best Admission Score to Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering Department, U. de Santiago, Chile 2010.
Research
- J. Borquez, L. Raus, Y. Ciftci, S. Bansal. DualGuard MPPI - Safe Optimal Control via Sampling MPC and HJ Reachability.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025. [IEEE][arXiv] - J. Borquez, K. Chakraborty, H. Wang, S. Bansal. On safety and liveness filtering using hamilton-jacobi reachability analysis.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024. [IEEE][arXiv] - J. Borquez, S. Peng, Y. Chen, Q. Nguyen, S. Bansal. Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis for Hybrid Systems with Controlled and Forced Transitions.
Robotics: Science and Systems XX, 2024. [RSS Proceedings] - H. Wang, J. Borquez and S. Bansal. Providing Safety Assurances for Systems With Unknown Dynamics.
IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2024. [IEEE][arXiv] - J. Borquez, K. Nakamura and S. Bansal. Parameter-Conditioned Reachable Sets for Updating Safety Assurances Online.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023. [IEEE][arXiv]
Contact
Contact me at: javier.borquez@usach.cl