Awards

Research Awards

• O. Hugo Schuck Best Application Paper Award for the paper A Physics-informed Deep Learning Approach for Minimum Effort Stochastic Control of Colloidal Self-Assembly
  American Automatic Control Council, 2024
  Press release from UC Santa Cruz
  Press release from Iowa State University

• Outstanding Doctoral Student Award
  Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2014

• Best Presentation in Session Award
  Session: Filtering, American Control Conference, Washington, D.C., 2013

• Best Thesis Award (Dual Degree)
  Development of an autonomous reconfigurable UAV
  Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India, 2008

Mentee Awards

• Alexis M.H. Teter
  Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Fellowship (2024-25)

• Iman Nodozi
  O. Hugo Schuck Best Application Paper Award (2024), American Automatic Control Council
  Baskin School of Engineering Dissertation Year Fellowship (2023-24)
  UC Santa Cruz Regent's Fellowship (2019-20)

• Georgiy A. Bondar
  Dean's Fellowship (2022-23)

• Shadi Haddad
  Applied Mathematics Research Award (2021-22)
  UC Santa Cruz Chancellor's Fellowship (2019-20)

Travel Awards

• Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) Travel Support Award
  Workshop on Control at Large Scales: Energy Markets and Responsive Grids, IMA Thematic Year on Control Theory and its Applications, Minneapolis, 2016

• IEEE Control Systems Society Student Travel Award
  American Control Conference, Portland, 2014

• IEEE Control Systems Society Student Travel Award
  American Control Conference, Washington, D.C., 2013

• IEEE Control Systems Society Student Travel Award
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, 2012