Complex Systems Control Group

Department of Electrical Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
224 Electrical Engineering West
University Park, PA 16802

Phone: (814) 865-6513

CSCG News:

  • Sanam Mirzazad-Barijough published her very first journal paper in the April 2012 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. The paper is available online. Congratulations!

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    Current Research Topics:

  • Feedback control of hybrid dynamical systems
  • Hybrid systems approaches to neurological diseases
  • Algebraic and statistical learning of biological networks
  • Decentralized control algorithms for multi-agent systems

    • Publication List | Presentations

    Faculty Member:

    Ji-Woong Lee

    Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
    Research interests: Analysis and synthesis of hybrid, stochastic, and decentralized systems

    Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering: Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002
    M.S. in Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002
    M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, 1996
    B.S. in Electronic Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, 1990.

    Student Members:

    Supratim Ghosh

    Graduate student in Electrical Engineering, Fall 2008 - present
    Research topic: Decentralized control algorithms for multi-agent systems (MS Paper    )

    Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 2009.
    M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 2010.
    B.Tech. in Instrumentation & Control Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, 2006.


    Sanam Mirzazad-Barijough

    Graduate student in Electrical Engineering, Fall 2008 - present
    Research topic: Hybrid control of power systems and power electronic circuits

    Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 2009.
    M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 2008.
    B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 2006.

    Former Members

    Summer 2012 CSCG Talk Schedule:

    All meetings are at time TBD in room TBD unless otherwise noted.

     June 15  Supratim  An optimization and control theoretic approach to noncooperative game design by Alpcan, Pavel, and Stefanovic  
     June 22  Sanam  Linear time logic control of discrete-time linear systems by Tabuada and Pappas  
     July 6  Supratim  Simultaneous contractibility by Ando and Shih  
     July 13  Sanam  Bisimulation relations for dynamical, control, and hybrid systems by Haghverdi, Tabuada, and Pappas (Part 1)  
     July 20  Supratim  Approximation of the joint spectral radius using sum of squares by Parrilo and Jadbabaie  
     July 27  Sanam  Bisimulation relations for dynamical, control, and hybrid systems by Haghverdi, Tabuada, and Pappas (Part 2)  
     Aug. 10  Supratim  A scheme for robust distributed sensor fusion based on average consensus by Xiao, Boyd, and Lall   
     Aug. 17  Sanam  Open maps, alternating simulations and control synthesis by Tabuada  

    Past CSCG Talks