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2026

• Conger, Lauren Elaine — Analysis of Large-Scale Systems: Coupled Multispecies Gradient Flows and Distributed Control (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2025

• Csomay-Shanklin, Noel V. — Layered Control Architectures: Constructive Theory and Application to Legged Robots (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yu, Jing — Safe and Scalable Learning-Based Control: Theory and Application in Sustainable Energy Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2024

• Badithela, Apurva Srinivas — Test and Evaluation of Autonomous Systems: Reactive Test Synthesis and Task-Relevant Evaluation of Perception (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ho, Dimitar Mi — Control of Unknown Dynamical Systems: Robustness and Online Learning of Feedback Control (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Jing Shuang (Lisa) — Distributed Control Theory for Biological and Cyberphysical Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pandey, Ayush — Modeling Frameworks for Modular and Scalable Biological Circuit Design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wei, Skylar Xueyao — Data-Driven Safety-Critical Autonomy in Unknown, Unstructured, and Dynamic Environments (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2023

• Amo Alonso, Carmen — Distributed and Localized Model Predictive Control (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dixit, Anushri C. — Risk-Aware Planning and Control in Extreme Environments (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Han, SooJean — Control and State-Estimation of Jump Stochastic Systems by Learning Recurrent Spatiotemporal Patterns (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shi, Guanya — Reliable Learning and Control in Dynamic Environments: Towards Unified Theory and Learned Robotic Agility (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Taylor, Andrew James — Robust Safety-Critical Control: A Lyapunov and Barrier Approach (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2022

• Folkestad, Carl A. A. — Koopman-based Learning and Control of Agile Robotic Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2021

• Cai, Karena Xin — Safe and Interpretable Autonomous Systems Design: Behavioral Contracts and Semantic-Based Perception (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Novoseller, Ellen Rachel — Online Learning from Human Feedback with Applications to Exoskeleton Gait Optimization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ren, Xinying (Cindy) — Principles for Designing Robust and Stable Synthetic Microbial Consortia (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2019

• Filippidis, Ioannis — Decomposing Formal Specifications Into Assume-Guarantee Contracts for Hierarchical System Design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fu, Zhongzheng — Representations of Action Monitoring and Cognitive Control by Single Neurons in the Human Brain (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nakahira, Yorie — Connecting the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Offs in Sensorimotor Control and Neurophysiology Reveals Diversity Sweet Spots in Layered Control Architectures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Olsman, Noah Andrew — Architecture, Design, and Tradeoffs in Biomolecular Feedback Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shan, Kevin Qing — Sparse Deconvolution with Applications to Spike Sorting (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2018

• Baetica, Ania-Ariadna — Design, Analysis, And Computational Methods For Engineering Synthetic Biological Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leong, Yoke Peng — Optimal Controller Synthesis for Nonlinear Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maguire, Shaun Cohn — The Spectral Theory of Multiboundary Wormholes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Swaminathan, Anandh — Application, Computation, and Theory for Synthetic Gene Circuits (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2017

• Wang, Yuh-Shyang — A System Level Approach to Optimal Controller Design for Large-Scale Distributed Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2016

• Cruz, Gerardo — Economic Fluctuations and Capitalistic Production: A Case Study in Robustness Constraints (Master's thesis)
• Jonsson, Vanessa Danielle — Robust Control of Evolutionary Dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Livingston, Scott Carlton — Incremental Control Synthesis for Robotics in the Presence of Temporal Logic Specifications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Matni, Nikolai — Distributed Optimal Control of Cyber-Physical Systems: Controller Synthesis, Architecture Design and System Identification (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Papusha, Ivan Igorevych — Robustness, Adaptation, and Learning in Optimal Control (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yeung, Enoch Ho-Yee — Reverse Engineering and Quantifying Context Effects in Synthetic Gene Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• You, Seungil — A Direct Approach to Robustness Optimization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2014

• Horowitz, Matanya Benasher — Efficient Methods for Stochastic Optimal Control (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sharan, Rangoli — Formal Methods for Control Synthesis in Partially Observed Environments: Application to Autonomous Robotic Manipulation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• van Breugel, Floris — Complex Behavior and Perception in Drosophila Emerges from Iterative Feedback-Regulated Reflexes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wolff, Eric McKenzie — Control of Dynamical Systems with Temporal Logic Specifications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2013

• Censi, Andrea — Bootstrapping Vehicles: A Formal Approach to Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning Based on Invariance (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Na (Lina) — Distributed Optimization in Power Networks and General Multi-agent Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Farrell, Clara — A Dynamical Systems Analysis of Vortex Pinch-Off (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sojoudi, Somayeh — Mathematical Study of Complex Networks: Brain, Internet, and Power Grid (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trautman, Peter — Robot Navigation in Dense Crowds: Statistical Models and Experimental Studies of Human Robot Cooperation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2012

• Franco, Elisa — Analysis, Design, and in vitro Implementation of Robust Biochemical Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jacobs, Henry Ochi — Geometric Descriptions of Couplings in Fluids and Circuits (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2011

• Lamperski, Andrew G. — Hierarchies, Spikes, and Hybrid Systems: Physiologically Inspired Control Problems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lavaei, Javad — Large-Scale Complex Systems: From Antenna Circuits to Power Grids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moore, Ashley — Discrete Mechanics and Optimal Control for Space Trajectory Design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nahmad Bensusan, Marcos — Interpretation and Scaling of Positional Information During Development (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sen, Shaunak — Regulatory Consequences of Bandpass Feedback in a Bacterial Phosphorelay (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tao, Molei — Multiscale Geometric Integration of Deterministic and Stochastic Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2010

• Buzi, Gentian — Control Theoretic Analysis of Autocatalytic Networks in Biology with Applications to Glycolysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Du Toit, Philip Christopher — Transport and Separatrices in Time-Dependent Flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gayme, Dennice F. Maynard — A Robust Control Approach to Understanding Nonlinear Mechanisms in Shear Flow Turbulence (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2009

• Shi, Ling — Resource Optimization for Networked Estimator with Guaranteed Estimation Quality (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2008

• Flores Contreras, Melvin Estuardo — Real-Time Trajectory Generation for Constrained Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Using Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline Basis Functions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grubits, Katalin Anna — Low-Dimensional Representations of Transitions in Molecular Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2007

• Chen, Lijun — Wireless Network Design and Control (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Xin — Robustness, Complexity, Validation and Risk (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Martinez Estrada, Alfredo — A Treatise on Econometric Forecasting (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mysore, Shreesh Pranesh — Structural Plasticity in Neuronal Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2006

• Shadden, Shawn Christopher — A Dynamical Systems Approach to Unsteady Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spanos, Demetri Polychronis — Distributed Gradient Systems and Dynamic Coordination (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Jiantao — A Theoretical Study of Internet Congestion Control: Equilibrium and Dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2005

• Bhat, Harish Subrahmanya — Lagrangian Averaging, Nonlinear Waves, and Shock Regularization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Del Vecchio, Domitilla — State Estimation in Multi-Agent Decision and Control Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gregory, Irene Michelle — Design and Stability Analysis of an Integrated Controller for Highly Flexible Advanced Aircraft Utilizing the Novel Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Papachristodoulou, Antonis — Scalable Analysis of Nonlinear Systems Using Convex Optimization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Prajna, Stephen — Optimization-Based Methods for Nonlinear and Hybrid Systems Verification (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2004

• Dunbar, William Bruce — Distributed Receding Horizon Control of Multiagent Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leok, Melvin — Foundations of Computational Geometric Mechanics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ross, Shane David — Cylindrical Manifolds and Tube Dynamics in the Restricted Three-Body Problem (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• West, Matthew — Variational Integrators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2003

• Lekien, Francois Paul — Time-Dependent Dynamical Systems and Geophysical Flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Milam, Mark Bradley — Real-Time Optimal Trajectory Generation for Constrained Dynamical Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vela, Patricio Antonio — Averaging and Control of Nonlinear Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2002

• Chang, Dong Eui — Controlled Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fax, Joseph Alexander — Optimal and Cooperative Control of Vehicle Formations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Murphey, Todd David — Control of Multiple Model Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vela-Arevalo, Luz Vianey — Time-Frequency Analysis Based on Wavelets for Hamiltonian Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2001

• Jadbabaie, Ali — Receding horizon control of nonlinear systems: a control Lyapunov function approach (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2000

• Parrilo, Pablo A. — Structured semidefinite programs and semialgebraic geometry methods in robustness and optimization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pekarsky, Sergey — Discrete reduction of mechanical systems and multisymplectic geometry of continuum mechanics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Yong — Effects of actuator limits in bifurcation control with applications to active control of fluid instabilities in turbomachinery (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1999

• Bullo, Francesco — Nonlinear control of mechanical systems : a Riemannian geometry approach (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Primbs, James A. — Nonlinear optimal control: a receding horizon appoach (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shapiro, Benjamin — Passive control of flutter and forced response in bladed disks via mistuning (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1996

• Soatto, Stefano — A geometric framework for dynamic vision (Dissertation (Ph.D.))