Who We Are

Hello! We are the Control, Optimization, and Networks Laboratory (CONLab) at UT Dallas. This blog is a place where we discuss our own work and the work of others.

Mission

We seek to understand the rich interplay of dynamics, control, optimization, information, and uncertainty in large-scale networks, such as the electric power grid and distributed multi-robot teams.

Check out our research overview, papers, GitHub, and YouTube channel for more details.

For the most up-to-date papers, check out Dr. Summers’ Google Scholar (sort by year).

Members

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tyler Summers

Current Graduate PhD Student Members:

• Shilin You
• Yuxiang Guan

Current Undergraduate Student Members:

• Aditya Sinha
• Mithun Balasubramanian

We love working with hard-working and motivated people! Please check out our Opportunities page for more details.

Former Team Members

PhD Alumni

• Sleiman Safaoui (PhD EE, 2023)
  PhD Thesis: Risk-Based Motion Planning and Control for Robotic Systems
  Associate, Exponent
• Karthik Ganapathy (PhD ME, 2023)
  PhD Thesis: Architecture Optimization for Complex Dynamical Networks
• Ben Gravell (PhD ME, 2022)
  PhD Thesis: Data-driven Control & Planning for Uncertain Complex Systems
  Software Engineer, Zoox
• Venkatraman Renganathan (PhD ME, 2021)
  PhD Thesis: Robust, Resilient, and Risk-Aware Optimization and Controls for Cyber-Physical Systems
  Post-doc, Lund University
• Yi Guo (PhD ME, 2020)
  PhD Thesis: Stochastic Optimization and Optimal Control for Complex Networked Infrastructures
  Postdoctoral Fellow, ETH Zürich

MS Alumni

• Joshua Lagria (MS ME, 2024)
  MS Thesis: Automomous Navigation using Active Visual-Semantic SLAM
  Systems Engineer, Jacobs Space Exploration Group
• Jackson Reed (MS ME, 2020)

Former Project Members

• Sai Bommisetty (UTD BS ME, 2024)
• Rohan Dave (UTD UG, 2024)
• Benaka Yatheesh (UTD MS, 2023)
• Hussein Jabak (External, 2023)
• Miles Yoshinobu (UTD UG, 2023)
• Brendan Smith, Ian Kintz (UTD UG, 2023)
• Saketh Ganji (UTD UG, 2023)
• Himansu Pathak (UTD BS ME, 2022)
• Aadi Kothari (UTD BS ME, 2021)
• Christopher Whitworth (UTD MS ME, 2020)
• ECE BS Senior Design Team: Sleiman Safaoui, Omar Abbas, Abhilash Bajracharya, Steven Reid, Jocelyn Linares, Ridwanallah Giwa (UTD UG, 2019)
• Angga Narendra (UTD BS ME, 2019)
• Kevin Daniel (UTD BS EE, 2018)
• Compute Science BS Senior Design Team: Illiana Reed, Miguel Salinas, Andrew Fellers and Che Ho Chan (UTD UG, 2018)
• Russell Martin, Christopher Simpson (UTD UG, 2018)
• Ryan Morton (UTD UG, 2017)