Clinton Enwerem

Contact

• enwerem [at] umd [dot] edu
• clintonenwerem.com
• linkedin.com/in/clinton-enwerem-191ab133a
• github.com/coenwerem

Summary

Doctoral candidate in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland specializing in safety-critical control, robust motion planning, and risk-sensitive reinforcement learning. Seeking research engineering, applied ML, or robotics roles.

Education

• 2021-Date PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Advisors: Prof. John S. Baras and Prof. Calin Belta.
• 2014-2018 B.Eng., Electrical Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. GPA: 3.84/4 (First-Class Honors).

Skills

• Languages: Python, C++, MATLAB, Bash, LaTeX, R
• Frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, Safety Gymnasium, OpenAI Gym
• Robotics: ROS2, Gazebo, RViz2, Crazyflie 2.X, Turtlebot2
• Optimization: Gurobi, Pyomo, Mosek
• Other: Jupyter, Simulink, CAD, git/GitHub

Selected Publications

• 2024 Clinton Enwerem and John S. Baras. Safe Collective Control under Noisy Inputs and Competing Constraints via Non-Smooth Barrier Functions. ECC 2024.
• 2024 Clinton Enwerem and John S. Baras. Formation Tracking for a Class of Uncertain Multiagent Systems: A Distributed Kalman Filtering Approach. IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 8, 2024.

Research Experience

Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland

8/2021-Date Graduate Research Assistant

• Safety-critical control, robust motion planning, and risk-sensitive reinforcement learning.

Professional Experience

Institute for Systems Research, College Park, MD

6-8/2023 Research Assistant

• Formulated a multi-agent safety-critical control problem, built validation software, and authored a research paper. Supervisor: Prof. John S. Baras.

ISR & University System of Maryland at Southern Maryland, California, MD

6-8/2022 Research Intern

• Multiagent cooperative control, formation control, and target tracking under sensor uncertainty. Supervisor: Dr. Danilo Romero.

Honors & Awards

• 2022 Microsoft Diversity in Robotics & Autonomy PhD Fellowship.
• 2021 Dean’s Fellowship, University of Maryland, College Park.
• 2020 Scholar, Stanford Exposure to Research & Graduate Education, Stanford University.
• 2016-2018 Agbami Science & Technology Scholarship (Chevron) and MTN Foundation Scholarship.