Michael Hajostek

I am advised by Dr. Tingjun Lei. My dissertation focuses on autonomous ice resurfacers: how they can sense surface conditions, plan coverage and service, and operate reliably under uncertainty and attack.

My CARS 2026 paper is the first step in this work. It studies how corrupted surface-demand maps affect water allocation on a fixed route, establishing a foundation for later work on adaptive resurfacing and resilient autonomy.