Control Systems and Dynamics - SPONSORED AWARDS

CCSD Sponsored Awards

Robert Skelton Systems and Control Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award:

Given annually through the Center for Control Systems and Dynamics (CCSD) in honor of Prof. Robert Skelton, the founder of our world-renowned Systems and Control program. For eligibility, the student’s thesis must be focused on controls-related research (in core control topics, robotics, and optimization), with a dissertation advisor in MAE and ECE Departments who is an active member of CCSD. The award is contingent upon a successful defense within the time period of eligibility. A faculty member may submit more than one nomination.

Past Award Recipients:

2015: Seung Hak Han (advisor McEneaney): "Techniques for solving nonlinear optimal control problems"

2015: Dean Richert (advisor Cortes): "Robust Distributed Control of Networked Systems with Linear Programming Objectives"

2016: Daniele Cavaglieri (advisor Bewley): "New numerical methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Forecast and Control"

2017: Ashish Cherukuri (advisor Cortes): "Coordination and competition in optimal dispatch: distributed algorithms, saddle-point dynamics, and iterative bidding"

2017: Martin Sehr (advisor Bitmead): "Healthcare Decision Making and Stochastic Model Predictive Control: Output-Feedback, Optimality, and Duality"

2019: Erfan Nozari (advisor Cortes): "Networked Dynamical Systems: Privacy, Control, and Cognition"

2020: Cody Allen (advisor De Oliveira): "Control-Oriented Modeling and Model-Based Control of Gas Processing Facilities"

2020: Shumon Koga (advisor Krstic): "Control and State Estimation for Materials Phase Change: Design, Analysis, Applications, and Experiments"

2023: Masih Haseli (advisor Cortes): "Data-Driven System Analysis Using the Koopman Operator: Eigenfunctions, Invariant Subspaces, and Accuracy Bounds"

2025: Bhathiya Rathnayake (advisor Diagne): "Sampled-Data and Event-Triggered Boundary Control of PDEs: Toward Digital Implementation of Backstepping Designs"

2025: Daniel Ochoa (advisor Poveda): "Robust Feedback Mechanisms for Fast and Global Decision-Making and Control”"

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