FACULTY NAME
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Nikolay Atanasov
Electrical Engineering
natanasov@ucsd.edu
Robotics, Machine Learning, Control Theory, Optimization, and Computer Vision
Mechanical Engineering
tbewley@ucsd.edu
Optimization, Estimation, Forecasting, and Control of Fluid Dynamics. Low-cost Robotic Vehicles
Robert Bitmead
Mechanical Engineering
rbitmead@ucsd.edu
Modeling for control, System Identification, and State Estimation. Stochastic Systems and the Interface between Control and Communications
Jorge Cortes
Mechanical Engineering
cortes@ucsd.edu
Systems and control, sensor networks, game theory, adversarial networks, cooperative robotics, and geometric mechanics
Raymond De Callafon
Mechanical Engineering
callafon@ucsd.edu
Simulation, prediction and control of dynamic systems, theory of modeling using system identification techniques, and the interaction between modeling and control
Mamadou Diagne
Mechanical Engineering
mdiagne@ucsd.edu
Controls and differential equations
Massimo Franceschetti
Electrical Engineering
massimo@ece.ucsd.edu
Information science of complex networks and systems: applications to control, computation, communication, and sensing
Sicun Gao
Computer Science and Engineering
sicung@ucsd.edu
Practical algorithms for NP-hard search and optimization problems in the decision, control, and design aspects of computational systems
Nicholas Gravish
Mechanical Engineering
ngravish@eng.ucsd.edu
Robotics, robotic and biological systems, biomechanics, locomotion, manufacturing
William Helton
Mathematics
helton@math.ucsd.edu
Operator theory, Hilbert space Operators, Control Theory, Algebraic Geometry, and Noncommutative Computer Algebra
Sylvia Herbert
Mechanical Engineering
sherbert@ucsd.edu
New techniques for safety and efficiency in autonomous systems
Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez
Mechanical Engineering
phidalgogonzalez@ucsd.edu
Renewable energy, optimization, climate change, control theory, machine learning
John Hwang
Mechanical Engineering
jhwang@ucsd.edu
Multidisciplinary design optimization, aircraft design, satellite design, aerodynamic shape optimization, structural optimization, trajectory optimization
Tara Javidi
Electrical Engineering
tjavidi@ucsd.edu
Wireless systems: stochastic and optimal resource allocation, network design and control, multi-access control, and topology design
Boris Kramer
Mechanical Engineering
bmkramer@ucsd.edu
Multifidelity and data-driven modeling, optimization, and control, uncertainty quantification, reliability-based design, and design under uncertainty in fluid flows
Miroslav Krstic
Mechanical Engineering
krstic@ucsd.edu
Nonlinear Control, Adaptive Systems, Delay Systems, Extremum Seeking
Melvin Leok
Mathematics
mleok@ucsd.edu
Computational Geometric Mechanics, Computational Geometric Control Theory, Numerical Analysis
Sonia Martinez
Mechanical Engineering
soniamd@ucsd.edu
Distributed motion coordination, distributed estimation, optimal control for robotic locomotion, motion planning for underactuated systems
William Mceneaney
Mechanical Engineering
wmceneaney@ucsd.edu
Nonlinear Control, Relations between Stochastic and Deterministic Control, Max-Plus and Idempotent Analysis, Fundamental Solutions for Action Functional Formulations, Numerical Methods.
Tania Morimoto
Mechanical Engineering
tkmorimoto@eng.ucsd.edu
Design and control of flexible continuum robots for increased dexterity and accessibility in uncertain environments, particularly for minimally invasive surgical interventions.
Parinaz Naghizadeh
Electrical Engineering
naghizadeh.1@osu.edu
Network economics, game theory, ethics and economics of AI, optimization, reinforcement learning, economics of cyber security.
Jorge I. Poveda
Electrical Engineering
poveda@ucsd.edu
Hybrid control, nonlinear control, optimization, adaptive systems, learning-based control
Yuanyuan Shi
Electrical Engineering
yus047@ucsd.edu
Energy systems, cyber-physical systems, machine learning for energy management
Michael Tolley
Mechanical Engineering
tolley@ucsd.edu
Bioinspired and soft robotic systems, printable and origami-inspired robotics, self-assembly and self-folding, microfabrication, microassembly, microfluidics, simulation and assembly planning.
Behrouz Touri
Electrical Engineering
btouri@ucsd.edu
Network control systems, stochastic control, optimization, distributed computation, distributed optimization, game theory, multi-agent systems, dynamics of biological networks, population games, learning theory
Ruth Williams
Mathematics
rjwilliams@ucsd.edu
Probability theory, stochastic processes and their applications
Michael Yip
Electrical Engineering
yip@ucsd.edu
Reinforcement Learning for Robots; Computationally Efficient Robot Planning; Robot Manipulation in Dynamic Environments; Autonomous Robotic Surgery; Mechanical Design of Surgical Robots; Continuum and Snake-like Robots; Artificial Muscles
Jun-Kun Wang
Electrical Engineering
yip@ucsd.edu
Theory and Applications of Optimization, Sampling, Online Learning, Game Theory, Trustworthy Machine Learning
Yang Zheng
Electrical Engineering
zhengy@ucsd.edu
Learning, Optimization, and Control of Network Systems, and their Applications to Autonomous Vehicles and Traffic Systems