Speakers

Thomas Beckers

Thomas Beckers is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and the Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt University. Before joining Vanderbilt, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, where he was member of the GRASP Lab, PRECISE Center and ASSET Center. In 2020, he earned his doctorate in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2010 and 2013, respectively, from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. In 2018, he was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.

He is a DAAD AInet fellow and was awarded with the Rhode & Schwarz Outstanding Dissertation prize. His research interests include physics-enhanced learning, nonparametric models, and safe learning-based control. [Website]

Ján Drgoňa

Jan is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering and the Ralph S. O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Before joining JHU, Jan was a senior data scientist in the Physics and Computational Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and a postdoc at the mechanical engineering department at KU Leuven in Belgium. Jan has a PhD in Control Engineering from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia. His current research is focused on scientific machine learning with applications in sustainable energy systems. [Website]

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