Ha Thi Thu Doan

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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Ha Thi Thu Doan is a researcher in formal verification and distributed mobile robotics, with a focus on model checking techniques for autonomous robot swarms. Her work centers on ensuring the correctness and reliability of algorithms that govern the collective behavior of mobile robots, particularly in tasks like perpetual exploration and gathering. Doan’s most cited paper, "Model Checking of a Mobile Robots Perpetual Exploration Algorithm" (2017, 20 citations), introduces formal methods to verify that robots can continuously explore an unknown environment without deadlock or failure. Her follow-up work, "Model Checking of Robot Gathering" (2018, 14 citations), addresses the critical problem of robot convergence—ensuring that autonomous agents can reliably meet at a common location. These contributions are significant because they bridge the gap between theoretical distributed algorithms and practical, provably correct implementations. Doan also developed "An Environment for Specifying and Model Checking Mobile Ring Robot Algorithms" (2019), a tool that enables researchers to formally specify and verify ring-based robot coordination. Her research is essential for advancing trustworthy autonomous systems, with applications in search-and-rescue, environmental monitoring, and industrial automation.