Shi Group at TU Delft

Faculty

Shengling Shi

Assistant Professor

Contact: shengling.shi(at)tudelft.nl

I am an Assistant Professor at the Delft Center for Systems and Control (DCSC), Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). I was a postdoctoral associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and a postdoctoral researcher at DCSC, TU Delft. I received my PhD degree (advised by Prof. Paul M. J. van den Hof) in 2021 and the MSc degree (with distinction) in 2017, both from the Control Systems Group, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. During my master's studies, I spent 5 months on a research internship at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich. I obtained my bachelor degree from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. I was an associate editor for the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress, and I am a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing.

Members

Kelvin Toonen

PhD student, TU Delft

MSc: TU Eindhoven

BSc: TU Eindhoven

Topic: AI and control for human digital twin

Changrui Liu

PhD student, TU Delft

MSc: TU Delft

BSc: Harbin Institute of Technology

Co-advised with Prof. Bart De Schutter

Topic: Learning-based control with performance guarantees

Menno van Laarhoven

PhD student, TU Delft

MSc: TU Delft

BSc: TU Delft

Co-advised with Prof. Carlas Smith

Topic: Identification and control of biological systems

Freya van Apeldoorn

MSc student, TU Delft

BSc: TU Delft

I did my bachelors in Delft at the Aerospace Engineering faculty, with a minor in Computer Science. I've also taken a board year as treasurer at the youth association OJV de Koornbeurs, and continue to work there as bookkeeper.

Yannick ten Dam

MSc student, TU Delft

BSc: TU Delft

Alex Harris

MSc student, TU Delft

BSc: TU Delft

Qijun Feng

MSc student, TU Delft

BSc: Northwestern Polytechnical University

Co-advised with Kelvin Toonen

Bachelor students (25/26) - Group 1

Motion capture and reinforcement learning for human motion digital twin

Lars Priester
Annewieke van Beek
Sven van Schagen
Friso Kroes
Friso Holleman

Bachelor students (25/26) - Group 2

Teleoperation and vision-based control of tendon-driven robotic hand for manipulation

Louis Verbeke
Luuk van der Wiel
Baptiste Gallé
Martijn Boonen

Alumni

Kanghui He, TU Delft

PhD student, co-advised with Prof. Bart De Schutter and Prof. Ton van den boom

Thesis (2026): Learning-based control under constraints: Towards safety and computational efficiency

Links: PhD Thesis

Next position: Postdoc at University of Oxford

Marco Delgado Schwartz, TU Delft

Master student, co-advised with Dr. Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani and Dr. Steven Wilkins

Thesis (2024): Topology optimization for co-design

Next position: Engineer at Pon Power

Michiel Kockelkoren, TU Delft

Master student, co-advised with Dr. Manuel Mazo Jr. and Luyao Zhang

Thesis (2024): Model-based motion optimization for quadruped robots with an actuated articulated torso

Links: Thesis

Next position: Engineer at ASML

Archith Athrey, TU Delft

Master student

Thesis (2023): Regret analysis of learning-based LQG control with additive exploration

Publication: ArXiv IEEE

Next position: Engineer at VDL

Dana de Vreede, TU/e

Bachelor student

Thesis (2021): Online expectation-maximization algorithm for Bayesian system identification

Job Meijer, TU/e

Master student

Internship (2020): Topology identification of linear dynamic networks with singular noises

Rik van Esch, TU/e

Master student

Thesis (2019): Bayesian inference of effective connectivity in brain networks for detecting the Mozart effect

Publication: Journal Paper

Next position: PhD at TU/e