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Hung La

Computer Science and Engineering

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Research interests

Hung (Jim) La is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nevada Reno. He was previously research faculty with the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) at Rutgers University from 2012 to 2014. He also worked as a postdoctoral researcher in robotics and control systems at Rutgers University from 2011 to 2012. Prior to working at CAIT he was a lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Thai Nguyen University of Technology, Vietnam from 2001 to 2007. La received the doctoral degree in electrical and computer engineering from Oklahoma State University in 2011. La was the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and some best conference paper awards. He was a key member of the CAIT team that developed the Robotics Assisted Bridge Inspection Tool (RABITTM) for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Dr. La and his team received the prestigious Charles Pankow Award for Innovation for the RABITTM, from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 2014. Dr. La is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Dr. La is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, and Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Automation and Control, and Guest Editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.

Recent publications

The ten most recent from their Google Scholar profile, newest first.

  1. LEAP-O: Learning to Predict Dynamic Obstacles for Safe Trajectory Planning

    B Nguyen, TX Nghiem, L Nguyen, HM La, T Nguyen. 2026 American Control Conference (ACC), 4416-4421 , 2026. 2026

  2. Robotic system for civil infrastructure inspection

    HM La, ST Nguyen. US Patent 12,583,630 , 2026. 2026

  3. GLEAM: Automated Structural HealthMonitoring from Mobile Platforms viaLiDAR-Gated Deep Motion Magnification

    AD Nguyen, CP Le, M Tazarv, MA Moustafa, A Netchaev, HM La. 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) , 2026. 2026

  4. Exploiting Gaussian noise variance for dynamic differential poisoning in federated learning

    MT Hossain, S Badsha, H La, S Islam, I Khalil. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence 6 (11), 2922-2939 , 2025. 2025

    20 citations

  5. A class of hierarchical sliding mode control based on extended Kalman filter for quadrotor UAVs

    VC Nguyen, HM La. arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.02851 , 2025. 2025

    7 citations

  6. Spatially temporally distributed informative path planning for multi-robot systems

    B Nguyen, L Nguyen, TX Nghiem, H La, J Baca, P Rangel, MC Montoya, .... 2025 American Control Conference (ACC), 3429-3434 , 2025. 2025

    7 citations

  7. SM-NMPC: Sliding Mode-Based Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for UAVs under Degraded Motor on Microcontrollers

    VC Nguyen, AD Nguyen, P Walunj, C Le, HM La. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3606701 , 2025. 2025

    6 citations

  8. Registration of 3D point sets using exponential-based similarity matrix

    A Singandhupe, S Lokhande, HM La. arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.04540 , 2025. 2025

    4 citations

  9. NMPCM: Nonlinear Model Predictive Control on Resource-Constrained Microcontrollers

    VC Nguyen, P Walunj, C Le, AD Nguyen, HM La. arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.21259 , 2025. 2025

    2 citations

  10. Compliance Control with Dynamic and Self-Sensing Hydraulic Artificial Muscles for Wearable Assistive Devices

    B Sharma, E Nicotra, J Davies, CC Nguyen, PT Phan, A Ji, K Zhu, J Wan, .... 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 3393-3399 , 2025. 2025

    1 citation

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