Group

People in the lab.

Current postdocs and Ph.D. students, and alumni since 2013.

01 / Current

In the lab

Postdocs
Dr. Ahmed Allibhoy
Dr. Ahmed Allibhoy
Optimization algorithms and control of complex networks
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Ph.D. Students
Taosha Guo
Taosha Guo
Data-driven control and oscillator networks
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Ruoyu Lin
Ruoyu Lin
Multi-agent systems and mobile robotics
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Diana Morales
Diana Morales
Reinforcement learning and heterogeneous systems
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Harishankar M
Harishankar M
Learning, control, and dynamical systems
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02 / Alumni

Out in the world

Postdocs
  1. Shiqi Zhang Postdoc, ME, UCR, 2024 – 2025
  2. Karthik Elamvazhuthi Postdoc, ME, UCR, 2022 – 2024
    Currently Postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory
  3. Abed AlRahman Al Makdah Postdoc, ME, UCR, 2024
    Currently Postdoc at Arizona State University (ECE)
  4. Zhe Du Postdoc, ME, UCR, 2023 – 2025
  5. Sarbendu Rakshit Postdoc, ME, UCR, 2022 – 2023
    Currently Assistant Professor at IIITDM Kancheepuram
  6. Yuzhen Qin Postdoc, ME, UCR, 2020 – 2023
    Currently Assistant Professor at Radboud University, the Netherlands
  7. Vishaal Krishnan Postdoc, ME, UCR, 2020 – 2022
    Currently Postdoc in Applied Mathematics at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
  8. Giacomo Baggio Postdoc, ME, UCR, 2018 – 2019
    Currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova
  9. Vaibhav Katewa Postdoc, ME, UCR, 2017 – 2019
    Currently Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
  10. Shiyu Zhao Postdoc, ME, UCR, 2016
    Currently Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China
Ph.D. Students
  1. Darshan Gadginmath Ph.D., ME, UCR, Mar 2026
    Currently Research Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
    "Unifying Generative Sampling and Data-Driven Control for Safe Autonomy"
  2. Federico Celi Ph.D., ME, UCR, 2024
    Currently Research Scientist at NATO-CMRE
    "Closed-Form and Robust Expressions for the Data-Driven Control of Centralized and Distributed Systems"
  3. Abed AlRahman Al Makdah Ph.D., ECE, UCR, 2023
    Currently Postdoc at Arizona State University (ECE)
    "Learning Robust Models for Control: Fundamental Insights and Benchmarking Control Design"
  4. Tommaso Menara Ph.D., ME, UCR, 2021
    Currently VC Fellow at ARTIS Ventures
    "Reverse Engineering Synchronization of Brain Network Dynamics: Controllability Properties and Functional Patterns"
  5. Gianluca Bianchin Ph.D., ME, UCR, 2020
    Currently Assistant Professor in the ICTEAM Institute at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
    "Control-Theoretic Methods for the Robustness of Network Systems: Application to Traffic Control and Cyber-Physical Security"
  6. Rajasekhar Anguluri Ph.D., ME, UCR, 2019
    Currently Assistant Professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    "Security of Interconnected Stochastic Dynamical Systems"
M.S. Students
  1. Akila Ganlath M.S., ME, UCR, 2019
    Currently at Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA
  2. Yin-Chen Liu M.S., ME, UCR, 2017
    Currently at Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA
    "RSSI-Aided Secure Trajectory Planning in the Presence of Spoofing"
  3. Mikalie Lai M.S., BIEN, UCR, 2015
    "Estimation and Control in Brain Networks"
  4. John Tran M.S., ME, UCR, 2014
    "Optimal Task Allocation in Crowdsourcing for Human Robot Interaction"