On May 22, He Hao successfully defended the thesis Hybrid Optimization-Based Control Frameworks for Autonomous Surveillance with Drone Swarms, supervised by Professors Carlos Jorge Ferreira Silvestre and Daniel de Matos Silvestre. The defense took place in room V0.15 of Técnico’s central building.

The jury was chaired by Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima, Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, and included António Pedro Aguiar, Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto; Bruno João Nogueira Guerreiro, Assistant Professor at the NOVA School of Science and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa; Rita Maria Mendes de Almeida Correia da Cunha, Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa; João Pedro Castilho Pereira Santos Gomes, Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa; and Carlos Jorge Ferreira Silvestre, Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa.