News, travels, and upcoming events

• Young Researchers Workshop in Geometry, Dynamics and Field Theory, Universita di Verona, Italy, Januery 20-22 2025


• Short Course on Reinforcement Learning, RWTH, Aachen, Germany, Januery 2025


• Conference on Decision and Control, Milan, Italy, December 2024


• After a few fantastic years at UCLA, I have moved back to Queen's University as a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.


• International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Recent progress in ensemble control, Cambridge, UK, August 2024


• Seminar talk, Reinforcement Learning Symposium, Rafik B. Harri Institute, Boston University, May 2024


• Sample complexity of the linear quadratic regulator: a reinforcement learning lens, with Amirreza Neshaei and Alex Olshevsky, 2024


• A system-theoretic note on model-based ator-critic, with Simone Baroncini, Guido Carnevale, and Giuseppe Notarstefano, at the Conference on Decision and Control, Milan, Italy, December 2024


• Inferring global exponential stability properties using Lie-bracket approximations, with Marc Weber and Christian Ebenbauer, at the Conference on Decision and Control, Milan, Italy, December 2024


• Approximate controllability of continuity equation of transformers, with Daniel Adu, at the Conference on Decision and Control, Milan, Italy, December 2024


• I am organizing the, Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society Annual Meeting, Kingston, ON, Canada, June 2024 (Consider proposing a Minisymposium)


• Seminar talk, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington St. Louis, April 2024


• Flexible-step MPC for switched linear systems with No quadratic common Lyapunov function, with Annika Fürnsinn and Christian Ebenbauer, 2024


• A small-gain analysis of single timescale actor critic, with Alex Olshevsky, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2023, to appear


• Sparse linear ensemble systems and structural averaged controllability: single-input case, with Xudong Chen, 2023


• Minicourse on sample complexity of temporal difference learning and actor critic, Queen's Mathematics Summer School, Kingson, ON, June 2024


• Lecture series on optimal control and reinforcement learning, University of Bologna, December 2023


• International Workshop on Recent Developments in Applied Mathematics and its Applications, Caltech, November 2023


• Classification utility, fairness, and compactness via tunable information bottleneck and Rényi measures, with Adam Gronowski, William Paul, Fady Alajaji, and Philippe Burlina, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2023, to appear


• Robust matching for teams, with Daniel Adu, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2023, to appear


• A unified framework for continuous-time distributed optimization, with Behrouz Touri, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2023, to appear


• Flexible-step model predictive control based on generalized Lyapunov functions, with Annika Fürnsinn and Christian Ebenbauer, 2023


• International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan, August 2023


• Seminar talk, UC San Diego, June 2023


• Geometry, Topology and Control System Design, Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada, June 2023


• American Control Conference, San Diego, June 2023


• Scientific Committee member, Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society Annual Meeting, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, June 2023 (Consider proposing a Minisymposium)


• 40th Southern California Applied Mathematics Symposium, UC Irvine, April 2023


• Scientific Committee, 17th International Young Researchers Workshop on Geometry, Mechanics and Control, KU Leuven, Belgium, March 2023


• Information Theory and Applications (ITA) workshop, UC San Diego, Feb 2023


• Control and Decision Conference, Cancun, Mexico, December 2022


• Seminar talk, CU Boulder, December 2022


• Seminar talk, Coordinated Science Laboratory , UIUC, October 2022


• 40th Southern California Control Workshop, Caltech, October 2022


• Southern California Robotics Symposium, UCLA, September 2022


• Seminar talk, University of Bologna, September 2022


• Research visit, Chair of Intelligent Control Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, August 2022


• Anytime Proximity Moving Horizon Estimation: Stability and Regret, with Meriem Gharbi and Christian Ebenbauer, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022


• Provably accurate simple transformation alignment, with Matteo Marchi, Jonathan Bunton, Yskandar Gas, and Paulo Tabuada, 2022


• Renyi fair information bottleneck for image classification, with Adam Gronowski, William Paul, Fady Alajaji, and Philippe Burlina, Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Canadian Society of Information Theory Best Paper Award, 2022


• American Control Conference, Atlanta, June 2022


• Seminar talk, École des Mines de Paris, May 2022


• Seminar talk, UCLA Applied Math Colloquium, May 2022


• Seminar talk, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Riverside, April 2022


• Neural ODE control for trajectory approximation of continuity equation, with Karthik Elamvazhuti, Andrea Bertozzi, and Stanley Osher, IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2022


• Logarithmic regret in online linear quadratic control using Riccati updates, with Mohammad Akbari and Tamas Linder, Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems, 2022


• Submodular maximization with limited function access, with Andrew Downie and Stephen L. Smith, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022