43rd Southern California Control Workshop

Workshop Schedule 

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8:00am Breakfast

Session 1

Chair: Panagiotis D. Christofides

8:30-8:50am

Integrating Dynamic Economic Optimization and Encrypted Control for Cyber-resilient Operation of Nonlinear Processes

Yash A. Kadakia (UCLA, Advisor: Panagiotis D. Christofides)

8:50-9:10am

Nonlinear Observers with Tighter Online Error Bounds

Joao Pedro Silvestre (UCLA, Advisor: Paulo Tabuada)

9:10-9:30am

 Failure Mitigation of Visual Navigation Systems via Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability

 Kaustav Chakraborty (USC, Advisor: Somil Bansal)

9:30-9:50am

Disturbance Attenuation for Linear Systems: Optimal Solutions and Nonlinear Control

Davide Mannini (UCSB, Advisor: Jim Rawlings)

9:50-10:10am

Neuron Growth Control and Estimation by PDE Backstepping

Cenk Demir (UCSD, Advisor: Miroslav Kristc)

10:10-10:30am Break

Session 2

Chair: Paulo Tabuada

10:30-10:50am

Contractivity of Distributed Optimization and Nash Seeking Dynamics

Anand Gokhale (UCSB, Advisor: Francesco Bullo)

10:50-11:10am

Conformal Predictive Programming for Chance Constrained Optimization

Yiqi Zhao and Xinyi Yu (USC, Advisors:  Lars Lindemann and Jyotirmoy Vinay Deshmukh)

11:10-11:30am

Prescribed-Time Extremum Seeking with Unbiased Convergence

Cemal Tugrul Yilmaz, (UCSD, Advisor: Miroslav Krstic)

11:30-11:50pm

SteinCoverage: A Distribution Matching Framework for Area Coverage

Donipolo Ghimire, (UCI, Advisor: Solmaz Kia)

11:50am-12:10pm

Strategic Distribution Shift of Interacting Agents via Coupled Gradient Flows

Lauren E. Conger, (Caltech, Advisors: John Doyle and Eric Mazumdar)

12:10-1:30 Lunch

Session 3

Chair: Jorge Cortes

1:30-1:50pm

Steering of Stopped Stochastic Flows Under Soft Spatio-temporal Conditioning

Asmaa Eldesoukey, (UCI, Advisor: Tryphon T. Georgiou)

1:50-2:10pm

Stochastic Safety Guarantees for Real-World Systems using Discrete-Time Control Barrier Functions

Ryan Cosner, (Caltech, Advisor: Aaron Ames)

2:10-2:30pm

Denoising Diffusion Models for Nonlinear Control

Darshan Gadginmath, (UCR, Advisor: Fabio Pasqualetti)

2:30-2:50pm

Reference Tracking in Linear-Threshold Brain Networks via Reservoir Computing

Michael McCreesh, (UCSD, Advisor: Jorge Cortes)

2:50-3:10pm

Perception-Driven Autonomy and Learning Control with Ground Interaction

Sorina Lupu, (Caltech, Advisor: Soon-Jo Chung)

3:10-3:30 Break

Session 4

Chair:  Tryphon Georgiou

3:30-3:50pm

Decreasing Delay at Signal Free Intersection Through High Order Reference Trajectories

Gary Rostomyan, (USC, Advisors: Petros Ioannou and Ketan Savla)

3:50-4:10pm

Smoothing Mixed Traffic with Robust Data-driven Predictive Control for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Xu Shang, (UCSD, Advisor: Yang Zheng)

4:10-4:30pm

Scalable, Pairwise Collaborations in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams

Alex Nguyen, (UCI, Advisors: Faryar Jabbari and  Magnus Egerstedt)

4:30-4:50pm

Heat Death of Generative Models in Closed-Loop Learning

Matteo Marchi, (UCLA, Advisor: Paulo Tabuada)

4:50-5:10pm

Frequency-Domain Analysis and Synthesis of Gradient-Based Distributed Optimization Algorithm

Wuwei Wu, (UCI, Advisors: Tryphon Georgiou and Jie Chen (City University of Hong Kong))

5:10-5:30pm

Scaling Learning Based Policy Optimization for Temporal Tasks via Dropout

Navid Hashemi, (USC, Advisor: Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh)

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