Yang Zheng, Antonis Papachristodoulou, Maryam Kamgarpour, Luca Furieri - 2022 recipient of IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Best Paper Award

Yang Zheng

University of California San Diego

United States

Yang Zheng

Biography

Yang Zheng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego. His research focuses on control theory, convex and nonconvex optimization, and their applications to autonomous vehicles and traffic systems. He received his DPhil (Ph.D.) in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford in 2019. His work has been recognized with several honors, including the 2019 European Ph.D. Award on Control for Complex and Heterogeneous Systems, the 2022 Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, the 2023 Best Graduate Teacher Award from UC San Diego’s ECE Department, the 2024 NSF CAREER Award, and the 2025 Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council.

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University of California San Diego

United States

Antonis Papachristodoulou

University of Oxford

United Kingdom

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Maryam Kamgarpour

EPFL

Switzerland

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Yang Zheng, Antonis Papachristodoulou, Maryam Kamgarpour, Luca Furieri - 2022 recipient of IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Best Paper Award

Yang Zheng

Antonis Papachristodoulou

Maryam Kamgarpour

Luca Furieri

"Sparsity Invariance for Convex Design of Distributed Controllers"