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Our group develops tools and algorithms for the scalable analysis of '''nonlinear networked systems''' and the design of control laws using computational tools based on the '''Sum of Squares decomposition and Semidefinite Programming'''. In particular, our group concentrates on:
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== [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Research Research Areas] ==
  
* Nonlinear systems analysis, Sum of Squares optimization and Lyapunov techniques. In this spirit, we have developed methods for stability analysis of systems described by Ordinary, Delay and Partial Differential Equations, with applications in Systems Biology, Population Dynamics and Engineering.  
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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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* Software Development (SOSTOOLS). This can be found [http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sostools here]. A new version is currently under development with many more examples.
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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.
  
* Large-scale Networked Systems analysis with communication and structural constraints. Examples in this field come from synchronization phenomena in oscillator Networks with applications to Kuramoto couplings and synchronization of cardiac cells and Network Congestion Control for the Internet. We are looking at multi-agent systems consensus under communication and structural constraints such as the effect of time delays and switching topologies.
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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
  
* Fluid mechanics and Heat transfer, from a control perspective. We are taking a control engineering approach to understand questions in Hydrodynamic Stability and mechanisms for background noise energy amplification and subsequent reduction.  
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* [https://users.ox.ac.uk/~orie3935/ Mr Patrick Green] - DPhil candidate, July 2019-. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.
  
==News==
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* [https://www.miroslavgasparek.com Mr Miroslav Gasparek] - DPhil Candidate, October 2019 -. Co-supervised with Professor Harrison Steel.
  
'''Upcoming Events:'''
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* [https://hanchwang.github.io/ Mr Han Wang] - DPhil Candidate, October 2020 -. Co-supervised with Professor Kostas Margellos.
* [http://www.aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/convexalggeom.html ARCC Workshop on Convex Algebraic Geometry, Optimization and Applications]: 21-25 September, 2009, Palo Alto, California, USA.
 
* [http://www.ist.uni-stuttgart.de/nestcoc/ NE{S|T}COC]: Symposium on Recent Trends in Networked Systems and Cooperative Control & Workshop on Network Induced Constraints in Control, 28-29 September, 2009, University of Stuttgart, Germany
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/RoSBNet/index.php/CDCPreconferenceWorkshop CDC 2009 Preconference Workshop]: Full-day CDC 2009 Pre-conference Workshop on Biomolecular Circuit Analysis and Design, 15th December 2009.
 
* [http://www.lccc.lth.se/index.php?page=multi-agent-coordination-and-estimation Lund Center for Control of Complex Engineering Systems]: Multi-agent coordination and estimation, Jan 18 - Feb 19: Workshop Feb 3-5, 2010.
 
* [http://www.icm2010.org.in/ ICM 2010]: International Congress of Matematicians 19-27 August, 2010, Hyderabad, India.
 
* [http://www.ccmb.res.in/ICM2010/icm2010.htm Application of Control Theory and Optimization in Biochemical Pathways]: A Satellite Meeting of the 2010 ICM, 16-18 August, 2010, Hyderabad, India.
 
  
'''Previous Events:'''
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* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottbstacey/ Mr Scott Stacey] - DPhil Candidate, July 2021 -. Co-supervised with Professor Harrison Steel.
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/RoSBNet/index.php/Current_events RoSBNet First Year Workshop]: 14-16 September 2009, St. Annes' College, University of Oxford, U.K.
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* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/RoSBNet/index.php/RoSBNet_Launch_Meeting RoSBNet Launch Meeting]: A Network in Synthetic Biology, 6 July 2009, University of Oxford, U.K.
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* [https://rhizosphere.org/people/bergthor-traustason/ Mr Bergthor Traustason] - DPhil Candidate, July 2021 -. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.
* [http://www.ima.umn.edu/2007-2008 IMA Thematic Year on Mathematics of Molecular and Cellular Biology]
 
** [http://www.ima.umn.edu/2007-2008/W3.3-7.08/ Organization of Biological Networks, 3-7 March, 2008]
 
** [http://www.ima.umn.edu/2007-2008/W4.21-25.08/ Design Principles in Biological Systems, 21-25 April, 2008]
 
* [http://www.ima.umn.edu/2006-2007 IMA Thematic Year on Applications of Algebraic Geometry]
 
** [http://www.ima.umn.edu/2006-2007/W10.23-27.06/ Software for Algebraic Geometry, 23-27 October, 2006]  
 
** [http://www.ima.umn.edu/2006-2007/W1.16-20.07/ Optimization and Control, 16-20 January, 2007]
 
* [http://www.math.tamu.edu/~sottile/conferences/Banff06/06w5060.html Banff Workshop]: Positive Polynomials and Optimization, 7-12 October, 2006, Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada
 
* [http://www.aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/matrixineq.html ARCC Workshop]: Theory and Algorithms of Linear Matrix Inequalities, 1-5 August 2005, American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, California.
 
 
== Projects ==
 
  
* [http://www.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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* [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 ==
  
* [http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/RoSBNet RoSBNet: Network in Synthetic Biology.]
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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].  
  
* Oxford-Princeton Collaboration on Network Science with [http://www.princeton.edu/~chiangm/ Professor Mung Chiang.]
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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.
  
* 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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* Any PDRA openings will be advertised on the [http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/about-us/jobs departmental website]. None are available now.  
  
== Current Collaborations ==
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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.
  
* [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~dennice/fluids/index.php?title=Main_Page A Control Engineering approach for modelling high-shear flows - Caltech]
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== Current and Previous Externally Funded Projects ==
  
== Current Members ==
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* [https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/X017982/1 Single-cell control of microbial selection and evolution]
  
* [http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Antonis Dr Antonis Papachristodoulou]  
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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]
  
* Mr Abdullah Hamadeh, March 2009-
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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]
  
* Miss Nassia Inglessis, September 2009-
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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]
  
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/RoSBNet/index.php/User:MarkChang Mr Yo-Cheng (Mark) Chang] - DPhil candidate co-supervised with Professor Judith Armitage, Department of Biochemistry, January 2007-
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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]
  
* [http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~melykuti/ Mr Bence Melykuti], DPhil candidate co-supervised with Professor Alison Etheridge, Department of Statistics, January 2008-
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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]
  
* [http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/peopleJA.shtml Mr James Anderson] - Probationary Research Student, October 2008-
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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]
  
== Previous Members ==
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* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/RoSBNet RoSBNet: Network in Synthetic Biology.]
  
* Mr Christoph Maier, April 2009 - July 2009
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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".
  
* [http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Mark Dr Mark Roberts], October 2007 - December 2008
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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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* [http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:August Dr Elias August], October 2007 - December 2008
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* Oxford-Princeton Collaboration on Network Science with [http://www.princeton.edu/~chiangm/ Professor Mung Chiang.]
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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]
  
 
== Useful Links ==
 
== Useful Links ==
  
 
* [http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/control Engineering Science Control Group]
 
* [http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/control Engineering Science Control Group]
 
* [http://www.sysbio.ox.ac.uk/ Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology]
 
  
 
* [http://www.dtc.ox.ac.uk/ Doctoral Training Centres]
 
* [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


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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