KongYao Chee is pursuing his PhD in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, working with Dr. M. Ani Hsieh and Dr. George Pappas. KongYao is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, where he develops flight control algorithms. KongYao received his B.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in 2012 and his M.Sc. in Robotics from University of Pennsylvania in 2021. His research interests lie at the intersection of control theory and machine learning. Specifically, his work involves utilizing concepts from adaptive and model predictive control, together with tools in deep learning, to enhance the performance of model-based control and state estimation frameworks.