People

Faculty


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Steven H. Low

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F. J. Gilloon Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering.


Graduate Students


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Nico Christianson

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PhD Candidate in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
I am a PhD student in CMS at Caltech, where I am advised by Steven Low and Adam Wierman, and supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. In my research, I am broadly interested in designing algorithms for online optimization, control, and learning, with an emphasis toward applications in energy and sustainability.


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Yiheng Xie

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PhD Student in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
I am a PhD student at Caltech CMS, focusing on the modeling, analysis and optimization of energy systems. I am intersted in research questions with rigor and relevance. I am currently building a large-scale cyber-physical testbed at Caltech, including high-resolution synchrophasors (PMUs) metering and controllable inverter-based resources.


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Thuy-Linh Le

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Schmidt Academy for Software Engineering
I am a at Schmidt Scholar at Caltech. I am interested in the intersection of environmental sustainability and technology, increasing accessibility of computer science education, and female empowerment. I am currently building and maintaining a large-scale cyber-physical infrastructure at Netlab.


Visiting Students



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Verena Häberle

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Verena Häberle is a PhD student at the Automatic Control Laboratory (IfA) at ETH Zurich since June 2020. Her research explores the intersection of power system dynamics and control, highlighting her expertise across various disciplines, including automatic control, power systems, power electronics, and renewable energy sources. Verena is joining us in Fall 2024. Welcome, Verena!


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Ethan Varghese

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I’m a driven high school student from Pleasanton, California, attending Foothill High School. Specializing in web development and machine learning, I’m thrilled to join Dr. Low’s Netlab team, where I’ll be working on exciting projects. Eager to learn and contribute, I’m excited for the opportunity to immerse myself in cutting-edge research and development.


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Kaibo Chen

I am a graduate student from Tianjin University, China. Before joining Prof. Low’s Netlab, I focused on power electronics, especially wireless power transfer. With my background in Control Science, I am enthusiastic about doing some challenging research on energy systems through this opportunity.



Caltech Faculty Collaborators



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Adam Wierman

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Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Executive Officer for Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Director, Information Science and Technology


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John Doyle

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Jean-Lou Chameau Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Electrical Engineering, and Bioengineering


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Mani Chandi

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Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Executive Officer for Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Director, Information Science and Technology


Administrative Assistant



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Christine Ortega

Laboratory Research Assistant



Previous Graduate Students


David Lapsley


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PhD 1999

Cisco

Jiantao Wang


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PhD 2005

Goldman Sachs

Lijun Chen


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PhD 2006

U Colorado, Boulder

Lun Li


Website

PhD 2006

OpenX, Pasadena

Mortada Meyhar


Website

PhD 2006

Tesla

Kevin Tang


Website

PhD 2006

Cornell ECE

David Wei


Website

PhD 2006

Facebook


Jayakrishnan Nair


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PhD 2012

Indian Institute of Sciences

Subhonmesh Bose


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PhD 2014

UIUC ECE


Na Li


Website

PhD 2014

Harvard EAS

Zhenhua Liu


Website

PhD 2014

SUNY Stony Brook

Lingwen Gan


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PhD 2015

Facebook

Desmond Cai


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PhD 2016

Singapore A*STAR

Qiuyu Peng


Website

PhD 2016

Nuro

Changhong Zhao


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PhD 2016

NREL

Niangjun Chen


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PhD 2017

Singapore A*STAR

John Pang


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PhD 2019

Schlumberger

Linqi (Daniel) Guo


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PhD 2019

Stealth Startup

Yujie Tang


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PhD 2019

Harvard

Zach Lee


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PhD 2021

PowerFlex

Chen Liang


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PhD 2022

Five Rings

Fengyu Zhou


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PhD 2022

Two Sigma

Tongxin Li


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PhD 2022

CUHK-SZ SDS

Lucien Werner


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PhD 2023


Youngmi Ohk


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MS 1998

Dawson Consulting Pty Ltd

Sanjeewa Athuraliya


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MS 2000

Ergon Energy


Craig Cameron


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MS 2002

Finisa


John Pongsajapan


Website

MS 2006

Square

Cheng Hu


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MS 2006


Kevin Phan


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MS 2009


Masoud Farivar


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MS 2010

Google

George Lee


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MS 2011

Akam

Previous Postdoctoral Researchers


Ki-Baek Kim

2001 - 2003




Bartek Wydrowski

2004 - 2005


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Google

Cheng Jin

2002 - 2005


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Akamai

Werner Almsberger

2002 - 2003




Joon-Young Choi

2004 - 2005




Lachlan Andrew

2005 - 2008


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Monash Uni.

Chee-Wei Tan

2008 - 2009


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City University

Sachin Adlakha

2010 - 2013


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NMLStream

Libin Jiang

2010 - 2012


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Qualcomm

Dennice Gayme

2011 - 2012


Website

Johns Hopkins

Eilyan Bitar

2011 - 2012


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Cornell

Yunjian Xu

2012 - 2013


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Singapore Uni.

Enrique Mallada

2013 - 2015


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Johns Hopkins


Krishnamurthy Dvijotham

2014 - 2016


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DeepMind

James Anderson

2017 - 2019


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Columbia


Guannan Qu

2019 - 2021


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Carnegie Mellon

Lucien Werner

2023 - 2024


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Citadel

Previous Student Visitors


Hyojeong Choe

2001 - 2003


ECE

Postech, Korea

Kyungmo Koo

2004 - 2005


ECE

Postech, Korea

Krister Jacobsson

2008 - 2009


KTH, Sweden


Jongkyoo Kim

2010 - 2011


ECE

Postech, Korea

Kai Wang

2010 - 2011


CS

Tsinghua University, China

Chengdi Lai

2012 - 2013


Fulbright Scholar, EEE

Hong Kong University

Daniela Meola

2013 - 2014


Control Department

Università del Sannio, Italy

Yongmin Zhang

2013 - 2014


Control Department

Zhejiang University, China

Junhao Lin

2015 - 2016


EEE

Hong Kong University

Zhaojian Wang

2016-2017


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Tsinghua University, China


Pengcheng You

2016-2017


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ME & ECE

Johns Hopkins University

Yue Chen

2018-2019


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EE

Tsinghua University, China

Chenxi (Stephanie) Sun

2018-2019


EEE

Hong Kong University


Bo Sun

2019-2020


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ECE

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Andreas Venzke

2019-2020


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Technical University of Denmark


Su Wang

2019-2020


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ECE

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Ognjen Stanojev

2023


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ETH Zurich




Previous Faculty Visitors


Janusz Bialek

2017


Moscow, Russia

Skoltech

Feng Liu

2015 - 2016


Tsinghua University

Electrical Engineering

Angela Zhang

2014


Chinese University

of Hong Kong

Fernando Paganini

2013


Universidad ORT, Uruguay


Jin S Lee

2012


Postech, Korea

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