Welcome to SYSOS

Welcome to SySOS

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A group researching complex networked control systems, biological and technological

Members

• Professor Antonis Papachristodoulou - Academic

• Mr Patrick Green - DPhil candidate, July 2019-. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.

• Mr Matthew Newton - DPhil Candidate, October 2019 -.

• Mr Emmanouil Alexis - DPhil Candidate, October 2019 -. Co-supervised with Professor Luca Cardelli.

• 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 - Probationary Research Student, July 2021 -. Co-supervised with Professor Harrison Steel.

• Mr Bergthor Traustason - Probationary Research Student, July 2021 -. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.

• Mr Liqun Zhao - Probationary Research Student, October 2021 -. Co-supervised with Dr Konstantinos Gatsis.

• Ms Olivia Tjahjono - Probationary Research Student, July 2022 -. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.

• 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.

Useful Links

• Engineering Science Control Group

• Doctoral Training Centres