44th Southern California Control Workshop
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 |