Mac Schwager

Mac Schwager is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, where he directs the Multi-Robot Systems Lab (MSL). His research focuses on distributed algorithms for control, estimation, and learning in teams of autonomous robots, including quadrotor swarms, aerial camera networks, autonomous cars, and heterogeneous multi-robot systems. Schwager’s work explores how groups of robots can coordinate safely and efficiently in dynamic, uncertain environments, addressing topics such as cooperative manipulation, distributed task allocation, vision-based navigation, adversarial robustness, and human-swarm interfaces. His group integrates theory and experimentation to bridge scalable algorithms with real-world robotic platforms, and has produced advances in agile swarm control, environmental monitoring with aerial robots, autonomous drone racing, and trust and deception modeling in multi-agent interaction. Schwager received his PhD and MS from MIT and his BS from Stanford, and his research has appeared in top robotics and control venues. He remains a leading contributor to distributed autonomy and multi-robot coordination.