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:
- Karthik Ganapathy
- Sleiman Safaoui
- Shilin You
- Yuxiang Guan
Current Graduate MS Student Members:
- Joshua Lagria
Current Undergraduate Student Members:
- Sai Bommisetty
- Aditya Sinha
- Rohan Dave
We love working with hard-working and motivated people! Please check out our Opportunities page for more details.
Former Team Members
PhD Alumni
- Ben Gravell (PhD ME, 2022)
Software Engineer, Zoox
Topic: Data-driven Control & Planning for Uncertain Complex Systems - Venkatraman Renganathan (PhD ME, 2021)
Post-doc, Lund University
Topic: Robust, Resilient, and Risk-Aware Optimization and Controls for Cyber-Physical Systems - Yi Guo (PhD ME, 2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow, ETH Zürich
Topic: Stochastic Optimization and Optimal Control for Complex Networked Infrastructures
MS Alumni
- Jackson Reed (MS ME, 2020)
Former Project Members
- 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)