44th Southern California Control Workshop
The objective of the Southern California Control Workshop is to provide a forum for graduate students and postdocs in the broad area of systems and control to present their work, interact and establish connections with fellow students, postdocs, and faculty.
The 44th Southern California Control Workshop is hosted at USC on November 1, 2024. It is sponsored by the Ming Hsieh Institute and organized by
Lars Lindemman, Ketan Savla, Stephen Tu and Mihailo Jovanovic.
Technical Program
| 8:15 - 8:45 | Breakfast |
| 8:45 - 9:00 | Opening remarks |
| Richard Leahy, ECE Department Chair | |
| Session I | Chair: Mihailo Jovanovic |
| 9:00 - 9:20 | Speaker: Kristina Stuckey, USC Nonlinear control theory for co-evolutionary game dynamics of tumor cell populations Advisor: Paul Newton |
| 9:20 - 9:40 | Speaker: Xiong Ye Xiao, USC Decoding coupled system complexities with data-driven coupled multiwavelet neural operators Advisor: Paul Bogdan |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Speaker: Dominic Peters, UC Los Angeles Feedback control of a watt-scale electrified steam methane reformer Advisor: Panagiotis Christofides |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Speaker: Zeki Duman, UC Santa Barbara Improved voltammogram fitting to increase the accuracy of electrochemical aptamer-based sensors Advisor: Joao Hespanha |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Refreshment break |
| Session II | Chair: Ketan Savla |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Speaker: Chih-Fan Pai, UC San Diego Policy optimization for mixed H2/Hinf control: Benign nonconvexity and global optimality Advisor: Yang Zheng |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Speaker: Amirreza Neshaei Moghaddam, UC Los Angeles Gradient flow approximations in temporal difference learning Advisor: Bahman Gharesifard |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Speaker: Yohan John, UC Santa Barbara Co-optimizing patrol strategies and defense placement for stochastic surveillance Advisor: Francesco Bullo |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Speaker: Spencer Hutchinson, UC Santa Barbara An optimistic approach to online optimization with unknown linear constraints Advisor: Mahnoosh Alizadeh |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Speaker: Zhexian Li, USC A complex spatial frequency approach to optimal control of bounded spatially distributed systems Advisor: Ketan Savla |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch |
| Session III | Chair: Stephen Tu |
| 2:00 - 2:20 | Speaker: Max Emerick, UC Santa Barbara Tracking control in the Wasserstein space Advisors: Bassam Bamieh |
| 2:20 - 2:40 | Speaker: Mahmoud Abdelgalil, UC San Diego (formerly UC Irvine) Optimal transport of distinguishable particle ensembles Advisor: Tryphon Georgiou |
| 2:40 - 3:00 | Speaker: Laixi Shi, Caltech Robustness in decision-making: Requirement? An opportunity Advisor: Adam Wierman |
| 3:00 - 3:20 | Speaker: Taylan Kargin, Caltech Non-rational infinite-horizon control for distributional robustness Advisor: Babak Hassibi |
| 3:20 - 3:50 | Refreshment break |
| Session IV | Chair: Lars Lindemann |
| 3:50 - 4:10 | Speaker: Kehan Long, UC San Diego Sensor-based distributionally robust control for safe robot navigation in dynamic environments Advisor: Nikolay Atanasov |
| 4:10 - 4:30 | Speaker: Pol Mestres, UC San Diego Dynamical properties of control barrier function based safety filters Advisor: Jorge Cortes |
| 4:30 - 4:50 | Speaker: Brooks Butler, UC Irvine Collaborative safety for networked dynamic systems Advisor: Magnus Egerstedt |
| 4:50 - 5:10 | Speaker: Noel Csomay-Shanklin, Caltech Hierarchical robotic control: Constructive theory and application to legged systems Advisor: Aaron Ames |
| 5:10 - 5:30 | Speaker: Jesse Zhang, USC Scalable robot adaptation with large pre-trained models Advisors: Erdem Biyik |
| 5:30 - 6:30 | Closing reception |