Kiril a Postdoctoral Scholar at the CRL. Before joining the Computational Robotics Lab he was a postdoc at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, working with Marco Pavone. He obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, where he was advised by Dan Halperin.
Kiril is a roboticist specializing in multi-robot systems and their applications to smart mobility. His research focuses on the design of effective control and decision-making mechanisms to allow multi-robot systems to tackle complex problems for the benefit of the society. His work draws upon ideas that span across the disciplines of engineering, computer science, and transportation science, to develop scalable optimization approaches with substantial guarantees regarding quality and robustness of the solution. For his work Kiril received multiple awards, including the Clore Scholars and Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowships, best paper awards and nominations and teaching awards.
