Congratulations to Fall 2025 PhD graduate Kehan Long, who has been awarded the Dean's Dissertation Award for his thesis "Certifiable Robot Control under Uncertainty: Towards Safety, Stability, and Robustness."  Kehan's thesis advisors were Professors Melvin Leok (Mathematics), Nikolay Atanasov (ECE) and Jorge Cortés (MAE).  Kehan's research interest lies at the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, and control theory, with a focus on enabling reliable robot autonomy.  He is currently working on general-purpose robotic learning with SceniX AI.