Research group

Sachin Shivakumar         

PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University

MS in Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University

B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Wenqing Wang         

PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas

BS in Automation, Beijing Technology and Business University

Alexis Teter         

  Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Fellowship (2024-25)

PhD in Applied Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz

BS in Applied Mathematics, UC Los Angeles

Georgiy Bondar         

  Dean's Fellowship (2022-23)

PhD in Applied Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz

BS in Computer Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tushar Sial    

MS in Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University

BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani

Dylan Brehm    

  NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) (2024)

BS in Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University

Iman Nodozi         

  O. Hugo Schuck Best Application Paper Award from American Automatic Control Council (2024)

  Baskin School of Engineering Dissertation Year Fellowship (2023-24)

  UC Santa Cruz Regent's Fellowship (2019-20)

PhD Dissertation: Measure-valued Proximal Recursions for Learning and Control

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

MS in Electrical Engineering (Control), Imam Khomeini International University, Iran

Shadi Haddad         

  Applied Mathematics Research Award (2021-22)

  UC Santa Cruz Chancellor's Fellowship (2019-20)

PhD Dissertation: A Geometric Approach for Learning Reach Sets

PhD in Applied Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz

MS in Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran

Kenneth Caluya         

PhD Dissertation: Generalized Gradient Flows for Density Prediction, Control and Learning

PhD in Applied Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz

BS in Mathematics, UC Riverside

Charlie Yan    

MS Thesis: Neural Schrödinger Bridge with Sinkhorn Losses

MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

Dual degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan

Qingyuan Cui     

MS Thesis: Graph Curvature for COVID-19 Network Risk Analytics

MS in Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz

BA in Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz

Lia Gianfortone     

MS Thesis: Ellipsoidal Algorithm for Fast Computation of Reachable Tubes

MS in Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz

BS in Physics, Computer Science, UC Santa Cruz

Adam Korycki

BS in Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

Karthik Sivaramakrishnan

Senior Thesis: Ollivier-Ricci Curvature for Directed Weighted Graphs

BA in Mathematics, Minor in Computer Science, UC Santa Cruz

Pranav Eranki     

Cupertino High School, Cupertino, CA