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      <h4 class="subheader" class="text-center" style="margin-bottom:20px;">A group researching complex networked control systems, biological and technological</h4>
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<center> <span style="color:#F00000; font-size:150%;"> [https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/Y014073/1 '''EEBio Programme Grant] </span>
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New postdoctoral research positions in Control, Biology and Robotics will be available soon. </span> <br> <br>
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* SOSTOOLS can be found [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/sostools here]. More examples will be added soon.
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== [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Research Research Areas] ==
  
* [http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/Rhodobacter_sphaeroides Control Theory Tools for Elucidating the Phosphotransfer Network in ''Rhodobacter sphaeroides'': A Feasibility Study]
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* Nonlinear system analysis, Sum of Squares optimization and Lyapunov techniques.  
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* Systems and Synthetic Biology.  
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* Robust analysis and design of (deep) neural network controllers.  
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* Safe decision making, safe Reinforcement Learning.  
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* Scaling Sum of Squares and Semidefinite Programming.
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* Large-scale Networked Systems analysis with communication and structural constraints.
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* Fluid mechanics and Heat transfer, from a control perspective.  
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[http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Research Click here] for a more detailed description of these research areas.
  
Members
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== Members ==
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* [https://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Antonis Professor Antonis Papachristodoulou] - Academic
  
* Antonis Papachristodoulou
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* [https://users.ox.ac.uk/~orie3935/ Mr Patrick Green] - DPhil candidate, July 2019-. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.
  
* Mark Roberts
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* [https://www.miroslavgasparek.com Mr Miroslav Gasparek] - DPhil Candidate, October 2019 -. Co-supervised with Professor Harrison Steel.
  
* Elias August
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* [https://hanchwang.github.io/ Mr Han Wang] - DPhil Candidate, October 2020 -. Co-supervised with Professor Kostas Margellos.
  
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* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottbstacey/ Mr Scott Stacey] - DPhil Candidate, July 2021  -. Co-supervised with Professor Harrison Steel.
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* [https://rhizosphere.org/people/bergthor-traustason/ Mr Bergthor Traustason] - DPhil Candidate, July 2021 -. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.
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* [https://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Liqun Mr Liqun Zhao] - DPhil Candidate, October 2021 -. Co-supervised with Dr Konstantinos Gatsis.
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* [https://kymiao.github.io/ Ms Keyan Miao] - DPhil Candidate, October 2021 -. Co-supervised with Dr Konstantinos Gatsis.
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* [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gM3MbY8AAAAJ&hl=en Mr Allan André do Nascimento] - DPhil Candidate, October 2022 -. Co-supervised with Professor Kostas Margellos.
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* [https://www.biology.ox.ac.uk/people/olivia-tjahjono Ms Olivia Tjahjono] - DPhil Candidate, July 2022 -. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.
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* [https://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Zuxun Mr Zuxun Xiong] - Probationary Research Student, October 2023 -.
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* [https://www.biology.ox.ac.uk/people/yuming-he Mr Yuming He] - Probationary Research Student, July 2023 -. Co-supervised with Professor Francesco Licausi.
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Here is a list of [https://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Previous_Members previous members].
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== News ==
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* Many congratulations to [https://furieriluca.github.io/ Dr Luca Furieri], [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/User:Yang Dr Yang Zheng] (see also [https://zhengy09.github.io/ updated website]), [https://people.epfl.ch/maryam.kamgarpour?lang=en Professor Maryam Kamgarpour] and [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/User:Antonis Professor Antonis Papachristodoulou] who won the 2022 IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems best paper award for their paper [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9117037 Sparsity Invariance for Convex Design of Distributed Controllers].
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* Huge congratulations to [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/User:Licio Dr Licio Romao] for winning the 2021 IET Control and Automation Doctoral Prize  for his thesis [https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:17c1e4dc-42fe-4771-a1a6-bda802dea968 "Scalable and data-driven approaches to convex programming"]! Licio will be giving a [https://events.theiet.org/events/scalable-and-data-driven-approaches-to-convex-programming/ Webinar] on his results - register now!
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* Many congratulations to [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/User:Yang Dr Yang Zheng] (see also [https://zhengy09.github.io/ updated website]) who won the 2019 European PhD Award on Control for Complex and Heterogeneous Systems for his thesis [https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dbf77067-15a0-446a-a909-f9d262e39821 "Chordal Sparsity in Control and Optimization of Large-scale Systems"]!
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* [https://chi.bio Chi.bio] is released!
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* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/User:Antonis Antonis Papachristodoulou] is elevated to IEEE Fellow for his fundamental contributions to theory and applications of Sum of Squares Programming and networked control systems. 
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* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/User:Prescott Thomas Prescott] is awarded the [http://www.eeci-institute.eu/index.php?p=PhD-Award 2015 European PhD Award] for the Control of Complex and Heterogeneous networks for his thesis [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/images/a/aa/TPP_Thesis.pdf Large-Scale Layered Systems and Synthetic Biology: Model Reduction and Decomposition].
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* Richard Mason and Antonis Papachristodoulou are awarded the [http://a2c2.org/awards/o-hugo-schuck-best-paper-award O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award] for their 2014 ACC paper on [[Media:ACCPaperFinalRM3.pdf|Chordal Sparsity, Decomposing SDPs and the Lyapunov Equation]].
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* Antonis Papachirstodoulou is awarded the 2015 [http://www.euca-control.org/eca.html European Control Award] and will be giving a plenary at the [http://www.ecc15.at/ 2015 European Control Conference].
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For more news, [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/News click here].
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== Joining SySOS ==
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* If you are an Oxford undergraduate interested in doing a summer internship on any of the above research directions (or anything else) [mailto:antonis@eng.ox.ac.uk get in touch].
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* If you are finishing your undergraduate/masters degree and you want to apply for a DPhil (PhD) or MSc by Research in our group, then please [mailto:antonis@eng.ox.ac.uk contact us] sooner than later to discuss possible projects. Note that there are several Centres of Doctoral Training that are relevant to our research, especially the [https://www.biodtp.ox.ac.uk/ Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP] as well as the [http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/aims EPSRC CDT in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems]. If you have a strong academic background, the chances of securing funding for your studies are higher the earlier you apply. Note that applications need to follow the [http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/admissions/postgraduate Postgraduate Admissions] guidelines.
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* Any PDRA openings will be advertised on the [http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/about-us/jobs departmental website]. None are available now.
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* There are several other routes for joining SySOS, mainly through fellowships. Please [mailto:antonis@eng.ox.ac.uk contact us] to discuss.
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== Current and Previous Externally Funded Projects ==
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* [https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/X017982/1 Single-cell control of microbial selection and evolution]
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* [http://www.synbio-cdt.ac.uk EPSRC & BBSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Synthetic Biology] [http://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/L016494/1]
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* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Designing_feedback_control_in_Synthetic_Biology EPSRC Fellowship for Growth in Synthetic Biology: Designing Feedback Control in Biology for Robustness and Scalability] [http://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/M002454/1]
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* [https://www.imperial.ac.uk/aeronautics/fluiddynamics/sumofsquares/index.php Sum-of-Squares Approach to Global Stability and Control of Fluid Flows] [http://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/J010537/1]
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* [http://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/J012041/1 Autonomous Behaviour and Learning in an Uncertain World] [http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~parg/aisp/doku.php]
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*[http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/Control_Engineering_Inspired_Design_Tools_for_Synthetic_Biology Control Engineering Inspired Design Tools for Synthetic Biology] [http://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/I031944/1]
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* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/Designing_Sustainable_Policies_for_Greenhouse_Gas_Emissions Using Control Theory to Design Sustainable Policies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Presence of Model Uncertainty] [http://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/H03062X/1]
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* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/RoSBNet RoSBNet: Network in Synthetic Biology.]
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* European Space Agency project with GMV (Spain), NGC (Canada) and the University of Leicester, "Worst-Case and Safety Analysis Tools for Autonomous Rendezvous Systems".
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* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/Chemotaxis_in_Rhodobacter_sphaeroides:_A_Feasibility_Study Control Theory Tools for Elucidating the Phosphotransfer Network in ''Rhodobacter sphaeroides'': A Feasibility Study]
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* Oxford-Princeton Collaboration on Network Science with [http://www.princeton.edu/~chiangm/ Professor Mung Chiang.]
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== Collaborations ==
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* [https://coe.northeastern.edu/people/sznaier-mario/ Scaling Semidefinite Programming - Northeastern, USA]
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* [https://www.l2s.centralesupelec.fr/en/u/valmorbida-giorgio/ Analysis of Partial Differential Equations Using Sum of Squares Programming - CentraleSupelec, France]
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* [https://me.jhu.edu/faculty/dennice-gayme/ A Control Engineering Approach for Modelling High-Shear Flows - Johns Hopkins]
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* [https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/k/ciaran-kelly/ Designing bio-feedback control circuits using small RNA - Northumbria]
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== Useful Links ==
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* [http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/control Engineering Science Control Group]
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* [http://www.dtc.ox.ac.uk/ Doctoral Training Centres]

Latest revision as of 01:51, 27 February 2024


Welcome to SySOS


A group researching complex networked control systems, biological and technological


EEBio Programme Grant


New postdoctoral research positions in Control, Biology and Robotics will be available soon.

Visit our Website for more information


Group 2024 f.jpg

Research Areas

  • Nonlinear system analysis, Sum of Squares optimization and Lyapunov techniques.
  • Systems and Synthetic Biology.
  • Robust analysis and design of (deep) neural network controllers.
  • Safe decision making, safe Reinforcement Learning.
  • Scaling Sum of Squares and Semidefinite Programming.
  • Large-scale Networked Systems analysis with communication and structural constraints.
  • Fluid mechanics and Heat transfer, from a control perspective.


Click here for a more detailed description of these research areas.

Members

  • Mr Patrick Green - DPhil candidate, July 2019-. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.
  • Mr Miroslav Gasparek - DPhil Candidate, October 2019 -. Co-supervised with Professor Harrison Steel.
  • Mr Han Wang - DPhil Candidate, October 2020 -. Co-supervised with Professor Kostas Margellos.
  • Mr Scott Stacey - DPhil Candidate, July 2021 -. Co-supervised with Professor Harrison Steel.
  • Mr Liqun Zhao - DPhil Candidate, October 2021 -. Co-supervised with Dr Konstantinos Gatsis.
  • Ms Keyan Miao - DPhil Candidate, October 2021 -. Co-supervised with Dr Konstantinos Gatsis.
  • Ms Olivia Tjahjono - DPhil Candidate, July 2022 -. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.
  • Mr Yuming He - Probationary Research Student, July 2023 -. Co-supervised with Professor Francesco Licausi.


Here is a list of previous members.

News

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  • Antonis Papachristodoulou is elevated to IEEE Fellow for his fundamental contributions to theory and applications of Sum of Squares Programming and networked control systems.

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For more news, click here.

Joining SySOS

  • If you are an Oxford undergraduate interested in doing a summer internship on any of the above research directions (or anything else) get in touch.
  • If you are finishing your undergraduate/masters degree and you want to apply for a DPhil (PhD) or MSc by Research in our group, then please contact us sooner than later to discuss possible projects. Note that there are several Centres of Doctoral Training that are relevant to our research, especially the Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP as well as the EPSRC CDT in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems. If you have a strong academic background, the chances of securing funding for your studies are higher the earlier you apply. Note that applications need to follow the Postgraduate Admissions guidelines.
  • There are several other routes for joining SySOS, mainly through fellowships. Please contact us to discuss.

Current and Previous Externally Funded Projects

  • European Space Agency project with GMV (Spain), NGC (Canada) and the University of Leicester, "Worst-Case and Safety Analysis Tools for Autonomous Rendezvous Systems".

Collaborations

Useful Links