Edward

Funding

• Clarendon Scholarship, Oxford University, 2009-2012
• Overseas Research Student Award Scheme (ORSAS), UK Government, 2009-2011

Background

I am currently a D.Phil student in the Oxford Control Group in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, where I have been since 2009. I have a Degree in Mathematics (BSc-Adv) and a Degree in Electrical Engineering (BE) from the University of Sydney, finishing as an undergraduate at the end of 2006. I worked for 2 years at Esso Australia (ExxonMobil) in process control, instrumentation and optimisation, which was predominantly on natural gas processing plants. In 2009, I was a research associate at Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University (ANU). In 2011, I was a visiting student at the Dynamical Systems and Control Group, California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Research Interests

Theory:

• Nonlinear dynamical systems; Lyapunov theory, Invariance, Time Varying Systems, Partial Stability, Synchronisation
• Feedback and control theory
• Networked systems
• Computational methods: Sum Of Squares Programming and Semi Definite Programming

Applications

• Systems and Synthetic Biology
• Energy