Yeiry Melendez

email: yymelendez <a> tucsd.edu

Yeiry is a second year majoring in Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego. Her current research involves creating a framework using the Hamilton Jacobi reachability analysis to ensure both safety and liveness in the navigation of autonomous vehicles. Yeiry is working on the offline computation of Control Lyapunov-Value Functions and their integration for real-world AV motion planning.

Yeiry spends her free time practicing guitar, going climbing with friends, and trying chai from different cafes.