FACULTY NAME

EMAIL

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Nikolay Atanasov

Electrical Engineering


natanasov@ucsd.edu



Robotics, Machine Learning, Control Theory, Optimization, and Computer Vision

Thomas Bewley

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