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Recent News

• Jun 2026
  Congratulations to Dr. Gilberto Diaz-Garcia on successfully defending his PhD dissertation.
• Jun 2026
  Congratulations to Vade Shah on passing his PhD qualifying exam.
• Jun 2026
  Congratulations to Dr. Bryce Ferguson on receiving the 2025 CCDC Best PhD Thesis Award.
• Jun 2026
  ACC tutorial. Co-ran a tutorial session with Prof. Keith Paarporn at the American Control Conference on Colonel Blotto Games. Speakers included Prof. Dan Kovenock, Dr. Gilberto Diaz-Garcia, and Prof. Daigo Shishika. A forthcoming magazine article with Prof. Paarporn covers the foundations — see publications.
• Apr 2026
  New students joining the group. Cayetana Salinas Rodriguez (from Georgia Tech, co-advised with Tobia Marcucci) and Wu Zheyu (from ETH Zurich, co-advised with Mahnoosh Alizadeh) will be joining the group. Welcome!
• Aug 2025
  New NASA project: Joined a NASA University Leadership Initiative led by Eric Frew (CU Boulder) on Communication-Aware Dispersed Autonomy and Safety. Four-year effort developing safe coordination for autonomous systems under realistic communication constraints.
• Sep 2024
  New project: Our $2.4M California Energy Commission project, Harnessing the Potential of AI in Industrial Refrigeration Systems, officially began — joint with Mahnoosh Alizadeh, CrossnoKaye, and Lineage Solutions.
• May 2024
  Congratulations to Dr. Bryce Ferguson on a successful PhD defense — joining Dartmouth College as an Assistant Professor.
• Apr 2024
  Vade Shah has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
• 2023
  Elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions to game-theoretic methods for control of distributed multiagent systems.
• 2022
  Plenary speaker at the European Control Conference: "Game Theory and Multiagent Coordination."

Selected Awards & Honors

• 2023Fellow, IEEE
• 2023Fellow, AIIA Industry Academy
• 2023Fellow, Asia-Pacific AI Association (AAIA)
• 2022Plenary Speaker, European Control Conference
• 2021Plenary Speaker, NETGCOOP
• 2015SIAG/CST Best SICON Paper Prize
• 2015ONR Young Investigator Award
• 2014NSF CAREER Award
• 2013Semi-Plenary Speaker, American Control Conference
• 2012Donald P. Eckman Award (AACC)
• 2012AFOSR Young Investigator Award
• 2007Outstanding Graduating PhD Student, UCLA Mechanical Engineering

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