Welcome to SYSOS

Welcome to SySOS

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A group researching complex networked control systems, biological and technological

Members

• Current Members
• Previous Members

Current and Previous Externally Funded Projects

• EPSRC & BBSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Synthetic Biology [1]

• EPSRC Fellowship for Growth in Synthetic Biology: Designing Feedback Control in Biology for Robustness and Scalability [2]

• Sum-of-Squares Approach to Global Stability and Control of Fluid Flows [3]

• Autonomous Behaviour and Learning in an Uncertain World [4]

• Control Engineering Inspired Design Tools for Synthetic Biology [5]

• Using Control Theory to Design Sustainable Policies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Presence of Model Uncertainty [6]

• RoSBNet: Network in Synthetic Biology.

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

• Control Theory Tools for Elucidating the Phosphotransfer Network in Rhodobacter sphaeroides: A Feasibility Study

• Oxford-Princeton Collaboration on Network Science with Professor Mung Chiang.

Collaborations

• Scaling Semidefinite Programming - Northeastern, USA
• Analysis of Partial Differential Equations Using Sum of Squares Programming - CentraleSupelec, France
• A Control Engineering Approach for Modelling High-Shear Flows - Johns Hopkins
• Designing bio-feedback control circuits using small RNA - Northumbria

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.

• Any PDRA openings will be advertised on the departmental website. None are available now.

• There are several other routes for joining SySOS, mainly through fellowships. Please contact us to discuss.

Previous Members

• Ms Carolin Schulte - DPhil student, July 2018- November 2021. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.

• Mr Boon Lim - DPhil student, October 2018- November 2021. Co-supervised with Professor Wei Huang.

• Mr Licio Romao - DPhil student, October 2017 - September 2021. Co-supervised with Professor Kostas Margellos.

• Ms Hayley Knights - Research Associate, Apr - Sep 2021

• Dr Harrison Steel - DPhil student, October 2016-June 2019. PDRA, June 2019- September 2020.

• Dr Michael Schaub - Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, July 2017 - June 2020

• Dr Robert Habgood - PDRA, October 2019 - July 2020

• Dr Aivar Sootla - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, September 2016-June 2019.

• Mr James Scott-Brown (project page, personal site)- DPhil Candidate, October 2014-October 2018. Co-supervised with Dr Jonathan David (dstl).

• Mr Yang Zheng - DPhil Student, October 2015 - March 2019

• Dr Nicolas Delalez - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, January 2016 - January 2019.

• Dr Axel Nyström - DPhil Student, October 2013-2018. Co-supervised with Dr Andrew Angel.

• Dr Ciarán Kelly - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, December 2017-April 2018

• Dr Thomas Folliard - DPhil student, 2013-2017. Co-supervised with Professor Judith Armitage.

• Dr Andreas Harris - DPhil student, 2013-2017.

• Dr Dhruva Raman - DPhil student, 2013-2017. Co-supervised with Dr James Anderson

• Dr Mohamadreza Ahmadi - DPhil student, 2013-2016. Co-supervised with Dr Giorgio Valmorbida.

• Dr James Anderson DPhil student, 2008 - 2011, Post-Doctoral Research Associate 2011-2012, Junior Research Fellow, 2012-2016.

• Dr Thomas P. Prescott - DPhil student, 2011 - 2015, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2015-2016

• Dr Richard P. Mason - DPhil student, 2011-2016

• Dr Xuan Zhang - DPhil student, October 2011-2015

• Dr Giorgio Valmorbida - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2013-2015

• Dr Edward Hancock - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2013 - 2015

• Dr Bing Chu - Postdoctoral Research Assistant, June 2010-March 2012

• Dr Yo-Cheng (Mark) Chang DPhil, co-supervised with Professor Judith Armitage, Department of Biochemistry, January 2007-January 2011.

• Dr Bence Mélykúti, DPhil, co-supervised with Professor Alison Etheridge, Department of Statistics, January 2008-February 2011.

• Dr Abdullah Hamadeh, March 2009 - October 2009

• Miss Nassia Inglessis, September 2009 - October 2009

• Mr Christoph Maier, April 2009 - July 2009

• Dr Mark Roberts, October 2007 - December 2008

• Dr Elias August, October 2007 - December 2008

Useful Links

• Engineering Science Control Group

• Doctoral Training Centres