Benjamin (Ben) Riviere is an Assistant Professor at NYU with a dual appointment in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Ben was previously a postdoctoral researcher with Joel Burdick and Yisong Yue at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He received his M.S. and Ph.D. at Caltech in Aeronautics advised by Soon-Jo Chung and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He has received multiple awards including the Balhaus Prize (best department thesis), Honorable Mention for Best Paper IEEE RA-L 2020, and best Graduate Student Paper in Guidance, Navigation, and Control at AIAA Scitech. His work has been featured as the cover of Science Robotics was covered by diverse and international media outlets.
Dr. Riviere leads the Riviere Robot Lab, where his research focuses on integrating machine learning models and real-time optimization, with a special application focus on space robotics. He is broadly interested in discrete search, continuous optimization, dynamical systems, and machine learning and their application to physical systems.