Victor Qin

Victor Qin

  • PhD Candidate, AeroAstro, MIT
  • SM AeroAstro, MIT 2023
  • SB Electrical Engineering (Government secondary), Harvard 2021

I'm a PhD Candidate in AeroAstro at MIT, advised by Prof. Hamsa Balakrishnan in the DINaMo Lab, where I study air traffic control methods for future aviation systems. That question has pulled me into game theory, optimization, and reinforcement learning.

I'm an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and previously an NCCR Automation Fellow at ETH Zurich and a MathWorks Fellow.

Outside of my research, I have been a technical consultant on patents at Curated Innovation and supported venture capital startups at The Engine.

Always happy to talk about science fiction, take a trip, and play ultimate Frisbee!

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Victor Qin

Publications

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Journal articles and preprints

  1. JATS 2025 pdf

    Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms for Coordinating Airspace Usage in Advanced Air Mobility

    C. Maheshwari,M. G. Mendoza,V. Tuck,P. Y. Su,V. Qin,S. Seshia,H. Balakrishnan,S. Sastry

    ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 1-34

  2. JAT 2024 pdf

    Market Structures for Service Providers in Advanced Air Mobility

    V. Qin*,G. Ding,H. Balakrishnan

    Journal of Air Transportation, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 169-183

  3. Frontiers 2023

    Traffic Management Protocols for Advanced Air Mobility

    C. Chin,V. Qin*,K. Gopalakrishnan,H. Balakrishnan

    Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering, vol. 2, pp. 1176969

Peer-reviewed conference papers

  1. CDC 2026 (to appear)

    Strategically Robust Game-Theoretic Multi-Agent Trajectory Optimization

    V. Qin*,N. Lanzetti,S. Bolognani,H. Balakrishnan

    65th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Honolulu HI

  2. ICRAT 2024 pdf

    Modeling Competition Between Service Providers in Advanced Air Mobility

    V. Qin*,H. Balakrishnan

    11th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation, Singapore

    Best Paper in Economics, Environment and Information Track

  3. AAS/AIAA 2023 pdf

    Satellite Collision Avoidance Using Repeated Games

    S. Dolan,V. Qin,G. Ding,H. Balakrishnan

    AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Big Sky MT

  4. ATM 2023 pdf

    Market Structures for Service Providers in Advanced Air Mobility

    V. Qin*,G. Ding,H. Balakrishnan

    15th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar, Savannah GA

  5. ICRAT 2022

    Cost-Aware Congestion Management Protocols for Advanced Air Mobility

    V. Qin*,H. Balakrishnan

    10th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation, Tampa FL

  6. IROS 2021

    Source Seeking by Dynamic Source Location Estimation

    T. Zhang,V. Qin,Y. Tang,N. Li

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2598-2605, Prague

Patents

  1. DE Patent App.

    Interrogation of Temperature-Sensitive Coatings on the Outside of Fuel Tanks and Wireless Communication Through the Tank Walls with an Internally Mounted Temperature Sensor

    P. Bryant,A. Chatterjee,A. Dalal,V. Qin

    German Patent Application DE 10 2025 115 266 A1, ZeroAvia Inc., published Oct. 2025 (pending)

* denotes (co-)first author.