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* Nonlinear system analysis, Sum of Squares optimization and Lyapunov techniques. | * Nonlinear system analysis, Sum of Squares optimization and Lyapunov techniques. | ||
| − | * Systems and Synthetic Biology. | + | * Systems, Engineering and Synthetic Biology. |
* Robust analysis and design of (deep) neural network controllers. | * Robust analysis and design of (deep) neural network controllers. | ||
* Safe decision making, safe Reinforcement Learning. | * Safe decision making, safe Reinforcement Learning. | ||
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* [https://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Antonis Professor Antonis Papachristodoulou] - Academic | * [https://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Antonis Professor Antonis Papachristodoulou] - Academic | ||
| − | * [https://users.ox.ac.uk/~ | + | * [https://users.ox.ac.uk/~lady5906/ Dr Idris Kempf] - Post-doctoral Research Associate |
* [https://www.miroslavgasparek.com Mr Miroslav Gasparek] - DPhil Candidate, October 2019 -. Co-supervised with Professor Harrison Steel. | * [https://www.miroslavgasparek.com Mr Miroslav Gasparek] - DPhil Candidate, October 2019 -. Co-supervised with Professor Harrison Steel. | ||
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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. | * [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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| + | * [https://uk.linkedin.com/in/travis-prescod-a4a84b1ba Mr Travis Prescod] - Probationary Research Student, July 2024 -. Co-supervised with Professor Omer Dushek. | ||
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| + | * [https://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/User:Jichen Mr Jichen Zhang] - Probationary Research Student, October 2024 -. Co-supervised with Dr Jack Umenberger. | ||
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| + | * Antonis appointed [https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-antonis-papachristodoulou-is-new-chair-of-control-engineering/ Statutory Chair in Control Engineering] at the University of Oxford. | ||
| + | * Antonis delivers a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nBK5Au3Xq4 presentation] as part of the 2024 Lubbock Lecture, on feedback control and biology. | ||
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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]. | * 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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* 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 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. | + | * 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://engbio.ox.ac.uk/engineering-biology-cdt-0 EPSRC and BBSRC CDT in Engineering Biology], 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. | ||
Latest revision as of 14:18, 4 October 2024
Welcome to SySOS
A group researching complex networked control systems, biological and technological
Visit our Website for more information
Research Areas
- Nonlinear system analysis, Sum of Squares optimization and Lyapunov techniques.
- Systems, Engineering 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
- Professor Antonis Papachristodoulou - Academic
- Dr Idris Kempf - Post-doctoral Research Associate
- 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 Bergthor Traustason - DPhil Candidate, July 2021 -. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.
- 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.
- Mr Allan André do Nascimento - DPhil Candidate, October 2022 -. Co-supervised with Professor Kostas Margellos.
- Ms Olivia Tjahjono - DPhil Candidate, July 2022 -. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.
- Mr Zuxun Xiong - Probationary Research Student, October 2023 -.
- Mr Yuming He - Probationary Research Student, July 2023 -. Co-supervised with Professor Francesco Licausi.
- Mr Travis Prescod - Probationary Research Student, July 2024 -. Co-supervised with Professor Omer Dushek.
- Mr Jichen Zhang - Probationary Research Student, October 2024 -. Co-supervised with Dr Jack Umenberger.
Here is a list of previous members.
News
- Antonis appointed Statutory Chair in Control Engineering at the University of Oxford.
- Antonis delivers a presentation as part of the 2024 Lubbock Lecture, on feedback control and biology.
- Many congratulations to Dr Luca Furieri, Dr Yang Zheng (see also updated website), Professor Maryam Kamgarpour and Professor Antonis Papachristodoulou who won the 2022 IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems best paper award for their paper Sparsity Invariance for Convex Design of Distributed Controllers.
- Huge congratulations to Dr Licio Romao for winning the 2021 IET Control and Automation Doctoral Prize for his thesis "Scalable and data-driven approaches to convex programming"! Licio will be giving a Webinar on his results - register now!
- Many congratulations to Dr Yang Zheng (see also updated website) who won the 2019 European PhD Award on Control for Complex and Heterogeneous Systems for his thesis "Chordal Sparsity in Control and Optimization of Large-scale Systems"!
- Chi.bio is released!
- Antonis Papachristodoulou is elevated to IEEE Fellow for his fundamental contributions to theory and applications of Sum of Squares Programming and networked control systems.
- Thomas Prescott is awarded the 2015 European PhD Award for the Control of Complex and Heterogeneous networks for his thesis Large-Scale Layered Systems and Synthetic Biology: Model Reduction and Decomposition.
- Richard Mason and Antonis Papachristodoulou are awarded the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award for their 2014 ACC paper on Chordal Sparsity, Decomposing SDPs and the Lyapunov Equation.
- Antonis Papachirstodoulou is awarded the 2015 European Control Award and will be giving a plenary at the 2015 European Control Conference.
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 EPSRC and BBSRC CDT in Engineering Biology, 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.
Current and Previous Externally Funded Projects
- EPSRC Fellowship for Growth in Synthetic Biology: Designing Feedback Control in Biology for Robustness and Scalability [2]
- Using Control Theory to Design Sustainable Policies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Presence of Model Uncertainty [6]
- European Space Agency project with GMV (Spain), NGC (Canada) and the University of Leicester, "Worst-Case and Safety Analysis Tools for Autonomous Rendezvous Systems".
- 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