Thinh T. Doan
Assistant Professor Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics
Research Interests
Machine Learning Reinforcement Learning Game Theory OptimizationBiography
Dr. Thinh T. Doan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at UT Austin. He got his undergraduate at Hanoi University of Science and Technology, M.S. at the University of Oklahoma, and Ph.D. at UIUC, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering. At Illinois, he was the recipient of the Harriett and Robert Perry Fellowship Award in two years, 2016 and 2017. From 2018-2020, he was a TRIAD postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Before joining UT, he was an Assistant Professor in the ECE Department at Virginia Tech. He received the AFOSR YIP and NSF CAREER Awards in 2024. He is the recipient of the 2025 IEEE CSS Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Award.
Dr. Doan is the director of the Control, Optimization, and Online Learning (COOL) for Autonomy lab at UT. The lab focuses on developing advanced real-time decision-making strategies for autonomy with the main applications on multi-robot systems. Our main research areas include reinforcement learning, optimization, control theory, machine learning, and multi-agent systems.