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== [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Research Research Areas] ==
 
== [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Research Research Areas] ==
  
== [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Current_Members Current Members] ==
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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.
  
== Current and Previous Externally Funded Projects ==
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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
  
* [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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* [https://users.ox.ac.uk/~orie3935/ Mr Patrick Green] - DPhil candidate, July 2019-. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.
  
* [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.miroslavgasparek.com Mr Miroslav Gasparek] - DPhil Candidate, October 2019 -. Co-supervised with Professor Harrison Steel.
  
* [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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* [https://hanchwang.github.io/ Mr Han Wang] - DPhil Candidate, October 2020 -. Co-supervised with Professor Kostas Margellos.
  
* [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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* [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.
  
*[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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* [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.
  
* [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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* [https://kymiao.github.io/ Ms Keyan Miao] - DPhil Candidate, October 2021 -. Co-supervised with Dr Konstantinos Gatsis.
  
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/RoSBNet RoSBNet: Network in Synthetic Biology.]
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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.
  
* 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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* [https://www.biology.ox.ac.uk/people/olivia-tjahjono Ms Olivia Tjahjono] - DPhil Candidate, July 2022 -. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.
  
* [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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* [https://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Zuxun Mr Zuxun Xiong] - Probationary Research Student, October 2023 -.  
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* Oxford-Princeton Collaboration on Network Science with [http://www.princeton.edu/~chiangm/ Professor Mung Chiang.]
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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.
  
== Collaborations ==
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* [https://coe.northeastern.edu/people/sznaier-mario/ Scaling Semidefinite Programming - Northeastern, USA]
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Here is a list of [https://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Previous_Members previous members].
* [https://www.l2s.centralesupelec.fr/en/u/valmorbida-giorgio/ Analysis of Partial Differential Equations Using Sum of Squares Programming - CentraleSupelec, France]
 
* [https://me.jhu.edu/faculty/dennice-gayme/ A Control Engineering Approach for Modelling High-Shear Flows - Johns Hopkins]
 
* [https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/k/ciaran-kelly/ Designing bio-feedback control circuits using small RNA - Northumbria]
 
  
== [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/News News] ==
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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].
  
 
== Joining SySOS ==
 
== 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].  
 
* 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].  
  
* 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 [http://www.cdt.ox.ac.uk 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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* 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.
  
 
* Any PDRA openings will be advertised on the [http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/about-us/jobs departmental website]. None are available now.  
 
* 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.
 
* There are several other routes for joining SySOS, mainly through fellowships. Please [mailto:antonis@eng.ox.ac.uk contact us] to discuss.
  
== Previous Members ==
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== Current and Previous Externally Funded Projects ==
  
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Carolin Ms Carolin Schulte] - DPhil student, July 2018- November 2021. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.
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* [https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/X017982/1 Single-cell control of microbial selection and evolution]
  
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Boon Mr Boon Lim] - DPhil student, October 2018- November 2021. Co-supervised with Professor Wei Huang.
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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]
  
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Licio Mr Licio Romao] - DPhil student, October 2017 - September 2021. Co-supervised with Professor Kostas Margellos.
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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]
  
* [https://www.plants.ox.ac.uk/people/hayley-knights Ms Hayley Knights] - Research Associate, Apr - Sep 2021
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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/sysos/index.php/User:Harry Dr Harrison Steel] - DPhil student, October 2016-June 2019. PDRA, June 2019- September 2020.
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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]
  
* [https://michaelschaub.github.io/ Dr Michael Schaub] - Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, July 2017 - June 2020
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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://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Rob Dr Robert Habgood] - PDRA, October 2019 - July 2020
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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]
  
* [https://sites.google.com/site/aivarsootla/ Dr Aivar Sootla] - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, September 2016-June 2019.
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* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/RoSBNet RoSBNet: Network in Synthetic Biology.]  
  
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:JSB Mr James Scott-Brown] ([http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/tebio/ project page], [http://www.jamesscottbrown.com personal site])- DPhil Candidate, October 2014-October 2018. Co-supervised with Dr Jonathan David (dstl).
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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://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Yang Mr Yang Zheng] - DPhil Student, October 2015 - March 2019
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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://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Nick Dr Nicolas Delalez] - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, January 2016 - January 2019.
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* Oxford-Princeton Collaboration on Network Science with [http://www.princeton.edu/~chiangm/ Professor Mung Chiang.]
  
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Axel Dr Axel Nystr&ouml;m] - DPhil Student, October 2013-2018. Co-supervised with Dr Andrew Angel.
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== Collaborations ==
  
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Ciaran Dr Ciar&aacute;n Kelly] - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, December 2017-April 2018
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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]
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Folliard Dr Thomas Folliard] - DPhil student, 2013-2017. Co-supervised with Professor Judith Armitage.
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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]
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Andreas Dr Andreas Harris] - DPhil student, 2013-2017.
 
 
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Dhruva Dr Dhruva Raman] - DPhil student, 2013-2017. Co-supervised with Dr James Anderson
 
 
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:mohamadreza Dr Mohamadreza Ahmadi] - DPhil student, 2013-2016. Co-supervised with Dr Giorgio Valmorbida.
 
 
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:James_Anderson Dr James Anderson] DPhil student, 2008 - 2011, Post-Doctoral Research Associate 2011-2012, Junior Research Fellow, 2012-2016.
 
 
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Prescott Dr Thomas P. Prescott] - DPhil student, 2011 - 2015, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2015-2016
 
 
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Richard Dr Richard P. Mason] - DPhil student, 2011-2016
 
 
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Xuan Dr Xuan Zhang] - DPhil student, October 2011-2015
 
 
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Giorgio Dr Giorgio Valmorbida] - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2013-2015
 
 
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Edward Dr Edward Hancock] - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2013 - 2015
 
 
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Bing.Chu Dr Bing Chu] - Postdoctoral Research Assistant, June 2010-March 2012
 
 
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/RoSBNet/index.php/User:MarkChang Dr Yo-Cheng (Mark) Chang] DPhil, co-supervised with Professor Judith Armitage, Department of Biochemistry, January 2007-January 2011.
 
 
 
* [http://melykuti.web.elte.hu/official.htm Dr Bence Mélykúti], DPhil, co-supervised with Professor Alison Etheridge, Department of Statistics, January 2008-February 2011.
 
 
 
* [http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~ahamadeh/ Dr Abdullah Hamadeh], March 2009 - October 2009
 
 
 
* Miss Nassia Inglessis, September 2009 - October 2009
 
 
 
* Mr Christoph Maier, April 2009 - July 2009
 
 
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Mark Dr Mark Roberts], October 2007 - December 2008
 
 
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:August Dr Elias August], October 2007 - December 2008
 
  
 
== Useful Links ==
 
== Useful Links ==

Latest revision as of 02:51, 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