Technical Program

Technical program in PDF format is available here.

8:30 - 8:55 Breakfast
8:55 - 9:00 Opening remarks
Session I Chair: Mihailo Jovanovic
9:00 - 9:25 Speaker: Dhruva Kartik, USC
Zero-sum stochastic games with asymmetric information
Advisor: Ashutosh Nayyar
9:25 - 9:50 Speaker: Tommaso Menara, UC Riverside
Cluster synchronization of Kuramoto oscillators for the analysis and control of functional connectivity in the human brain
Advisor: Fabio Pasqualetti
9:50 - 10:15 Speaker: Prasad Vilas Chanekar, UC San Diego
Edge modification in networks using novel edge centrality measures
Advisor: Jorge Cortes
10:15 - 10:45 Refreshment Break
Session II Chair: Ashutosh Nayyar
10:45 - 11:10 Speaker: Xiaobin Xiong, Caltech
Optimal control on a simple pendulum model: A perspective towards continuous gait generation and stabilization for 3D underactuated bipedal walking
Advisor: Aaron Ames
11:10 - 11:35 Speaker: Zhouyu Lu, UC Riverside
Planning and control for collision-enhanced robot navigation at small scales
Advisor: Konstantinos Karydis
11:35 - 12:00 Speaker: Ben Dunst, UC Los Angeles
Analysis of X-ray pulsars for navigation and clock blending
Advisor: Jason Speyer
12:00 - 12:25 Speaker: Yangyao Ding, UC Los Angeles
Microscopic modeling and optimal operation of thermal atomic layer deposition
Advisor: Panagiotis Christofides
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
Session III Chair: Ketan Savla
2:00 - 2:25 Speaker: Karena X. Cai, Caltech
Rules of the road: Towards assume-guarantee profiles for autonomous vehicles
Advisors: Soon-Jo Chung and Richard Murray
2:25 - 2:50 Speaker: Yanwen Mao, UC Los Angeles
When is the secure state-reconstruction problem hard?
Advisor: Paulo Tabuada
2:50 - 3:15 Speaker: Raphael Chinchilla, UC Santa Barbara
Optimization-based estimation of expected values with applications to optimal stochastic control
Advisor: Joao Hespanha
3:15 - 3:45 Refreshment Break
Session IV Chair: Nestor Perez-Arancibia
3:45 - 4:10 Speaker: Dimitris Boskos, UC San Diego
Characterization of ambiguity sets built from progressively collected dynamic data
Advisors: Sonia Martinez and Jorge Cortes
4:10 - 4:35 Speaker: Pratyush Kumar, UC Santa Barbara
Approximate model predictive control using neural networks
Advisor: James Rawlings
4:35 - 5:00 Speaker: Yu-Chen Sung, USC
Stability of switched nonlinear feedback systems with bounded average time-variation
Advisor: Michael Safonov