36th Southern California Control Workshop
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 |