Alëna Rodionova

Alëna Rodionova

Alëna Rodionova

PhD | TLM, Staff Software Engineer @ Waabi

- Motion Planning at Waabi - TLM, Staff SWE - Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. - 20+ papers in major conferences and journals in AI and control theory. - 2 patents on automated vehicles safety and NN optimization.

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2025 — NowWaabiStaff Software Engineer

2025 — Now

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

2025 — 2025WaabiTLM, Motion Planning

2025 — 2025

2023 — 2025WaabiSenior Software Engineer

2023 — 2025

San Francisco, California, United States

2017 — 2022University of PennsylvaniaResearch Assistant

2017 — 2022

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

1. Robust planning & control of Cyber-Physical Systems

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Theoretical foundations of temporal robustness

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Temporally-robust control using Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP)

2. Safe trajectory planning for autonomous drones

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Learning-based mission-aware collision avoidance for scalable urban mobility

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Autonomous drone safety using temporal logic-based trajectory planning

2019 — 2019Intel LabsResearch Scientist

2019 — 2019

Portland, Oregon Area

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Automated driving safety analysis and software integration with RSS Library.

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Automatic exploration of the performance limits of AV safety models using

robustness as a continuous metric of safety.

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

Technische Universität Wien

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

Siberian Federal University

Master of Science - MS

Siberian Federal University

Bachelor of Science - BS