People

SOC Group members

Jiachen Qian Postdoc, ECE, UCSD (Fall 2024 - present) Ph.D, Peking University (2024) B.S., Peking University (2019) Email: jiq012@ucsd.edu Office: FAH 3301

Feng-Yi Liao Ph.D. Student, ECE, UCSD (Fall 2023 - present) M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSD (2023) B.S., National Chung Hsing University (2020) Email: fliao@ucsd.edu Office: FAH 3301

Xu Shang Ph.D. Student, ECE, UCSD (Fall 2023 - present) M.E., University of Michigan (2021) B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2019) Email: x3shang@ucsd.edu Office: FAH 3301

Chih-Fan (Rich) Pai Ph.D. Student, ECE, UCSD (Fall 2021 - present) M.S., National Taiwan University (2020) B.S., National Chiao Tung University (2018) Email: cpai@ucsd.edu Office: FAH 3301

Yuto Watanabe Ph.D. Student, ECE, UCSD (Fall 2024 - present) M.S., Kyoto University (2024) B.S., Kyoto University (2022) Email: y1watanabe@ucsd.edu Office: FAH 3301

Pranav Reddy B.S., Electrical Engineering, UCSD (UG; 2023 Summer - present) B.S., Mathematics, UCSD Email: p3reddy@ucsd.edu

Yue (Melody) Yin B.S., Mathematics and Computer Science, UCSD (UG; 2023 Summer - present) Email: yuyin@ucsd.edu

Chengkai Yao B.S., ECE, UCSD (UG; 2024 Spring- present) Email: c5yao@ucsd.edu

Nicole Li B.S., ECE, UCSD (UG; 2024 Spring- present) Email: hl002@ucsd.edu

Alumni

• Chendi Qu (Fall 2024, visiting PhD student)

• Meihui Liu (02/2023 - 12/2023, SRIP program 2023, UG → MS at CMU)

• Yunzhou Yan (02/2023 – 06/2024, MS)

• Guanbo Shao (06/2023 – 05/2024, MS → Ph.D. at Columbia University)

• Haoxing Du, MS (2023 Spring and Summer)

• Mingqing Xu, MS (2023 Spring)

• Elham Abolfazli, Ph.D. (Fall 2022, academic visitor)

• Laiwei Wei, MS (2022 Summer and Fall)

• Jonathan Mi (2022 Summer; UG → Ph.D. at UMich; 2023 NSF GRFP awardee)

• Yichen Yang (2022 Summer; UG → MS at UCLA)

• Chenhao Zhu, (2022 Summer;UG → MS at UC Berkeley)

• Xiao Ding, MS (2022 Summer)

• Yanzhi Yao, MS (SRIP program 2022)

• Anish Kulkarni, UG (SRIP program 2022)

• Haozhe Liu, MS (SRIP program 2021)

• Stuart Boynton, UG (SRIP program 2021)

Student mentoring prior to UC San Diego

at Imperial College London (co-supervision with Prof. Alessio R. Lomuscio)

• Zihan Guan (MS), 02/2021 - 07/2021
  Topic: Tight semidefinite optimization for neural network verification; see our code on Github

• Ben Batten (DPhil), 11/2020 - 07/2021
  Topic: Geometric robustness of neural networks.

at Harvard (co-supervision with Prof. Na Li)

• Aldis Elfarsdottir (UG) 02/2019 – 06/2019
  Topic: Model predictive building control using an extensive sensor network (Dean’s Award for her senior thesis)
  Current position: Research fellow at Netherlands Institute for Space Research
  

at Oxford (co-supervision with Prof. Antonis Papachristodoulou)

• Matthew Newton (AIMS CDT student) 05/2019 – 09/2019
  Topic: Distributed design for mixed traffic systems using ADMM
  

• Adrian Radu (UG) 05/2019 – 09/2019
  Topic: Dynamic controller design for stabilizing mixed traffic flow

• Jonathan Pease (UG) 10/2018 – 02/2019
  Topic: Fast computation for sum-of-squares optimization
  

at Tsinghua (co-supervision with Prof. Keqiang Li)

• Jiawei Wang (Ph.D.) 04/2018 – 07/2021
  Topic: Controllability and optimal control of mixed traffic systems (Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award)
  

• Yougang Bian (Ph.D.) 05/2017 – 07/2019
  Topic: Distributed motion control of multi-vehicle systems
  Current position: Assistant professor at Hunan University, China
  

• Zhitao Wang (MS) 10/2017 – 07/2019
  Topic: Parallel computation for optimal control of large-scale connected vehicles