Welcome to my blog! I am Sanjay Chandrasekaran, a PhD student at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich and a research assistant at the Institute of Electric Power Systems, FHNW, Brugg-Windisch. I am very fortunate to work under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Florian Dorfler and Prof. Dr. Silvia Mastellone. 

My research interests include optimization-based control, feedback optimization, algorithmic systems theory, adaptive control, system identification and the control of interconnected systems.

Brief Bio:

I completed my B. Tech. (Honours) in Instrumentation & Control Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, and my MSc. in Information Technology & Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich in 2021, 2023, respectively.

News:

• April 2024: New pre-print out: Reactive power flow optimization in AC drive systems, check it out! We try to optimize over the reactive power set-point while maintaining trade-offs between current and modulation limits in AC drive systems.

• December 2024: NEW PROJECT OPENING!(Taken) I have a project opening (semester/ master thesis) on "Identifying Influencers in Social Networks". Check it out and do not hesitate to contact me for further details

• November 2024: NEW PROJECT OPENING! I have a project opening (semester/ master thesis) on "Feedback Optimization for Freeway Ramp Metering" with my colleague Mattia. Check it out if interested and do not hesitate to get in touch for questions.

• November 2024: Our department hosted the annual open house to advertise our open bachelor/semester/master thesis. If you could not attend the open house, check out this link for all the projects offered by my colleagues.

• September 2024: New pre-print out: Network-Aware Recommender System via Online Feedback Optimization, check it out! This was an attempt towards designing recommender systems from the perspective of algorithmic systems theory.

• September 2024: I attended NCCR Automation's workshop on "Control & Computation Methods" and had very interesting discussions with folks from the industry. Check it out here for more information! 

• September 2024: I now start working as a research assistant at the FHNW (Brugg-Windisch) and as a doctoral student at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich. More details on my project to come soon!

• July 2024: I was at the ICML Foundations of Reinforcement Learning & Control workshop. A lot of fun listening to the talks by famous people, not to mention the sights in Vienna.

• June 2024: Our work "Recommender System Design via Online Feedback Optimization has been accepted to the ICML'24 workshop: Foundations of Reinforcement Learning & Control. More details on this research work to follow soon.

• May 2024: I have been accepted into the NCCR PhD position on the topic "System Identification & Adaptive Control of Interconnected Systems", under the co-supervision of Prof. Dr. Florian Dorfler and Prof. Dr. Silvia Mastellone. Exciting times ahead!

• February 2024: I will be working as a scientific assistant at the Automatic Control Laboratory for the next 3 months, preparing my master thesis for a potential publication.

• November 2023: I have finally graduated with an MSc. in Information Technology & Electrical Engineering at ETH!

• November 2023: The work from my first semester thesis "Sparse Gaussian Processes using Pseudo-Inputs: A Markov Chain Monte-Carlo-based approach" is now in press.