Accomplishments of the students in the IDS Lab for 2021-2022

The students of the IDS Lab are striving and making an impact with their research. This is a summary of their accomplishments in the academic year 2021-22:

Awards/Recognitions:

Heeseung Bang, 2nd year PhD Student:

  1. Student Travel Support Award, IEEE Control Systems Society (ACC 2022).
  2. Ranked 88th percentile in the 15th IEEEXtreme Programming Competition (678/5561 in the world; 20/86 in USA), 2021

 Logan Beaver, 5th year PhD Student:

  1. Accepted a postdoc position with Boston University’s Division of Systems Engineering.
  2. Student Travel Support Award, IEEE Control Systems Society (ACC 2022).
  3. UD Graduate Scholar Award (2021 – 2022).
  4. 80th percentile in the IEEEXtreme Programming Competition.
  5. Student Travel Award for 2021 SIAM CT & OP and 2022 American Control Conference.

Behdad Chalaki, 5th year PhD Student:

  1. Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Delaware Graduate College, 2022, Awarded to support the participation in the American Control Conference (ACC)
  2. IAAP Scholarship Award, Iranian American Academics and Professionals 2022, Selected as a recipient of the IAAP scholarship based on academic achievements and services to the Iranian and Iranian American communities.
  3. Shabahang Scholarship Award, Iranian cultural society of America 2021, Selected as a recipient of the second prize of Shabahang’s Scholarship award by the Iranian cultural society of America (Shabahang).
  4. Student Travel Award, IEEE, Awarded for ACC 2022.

Ioannis Vasileios Chremos, 4th year PhD Student:

  1. Student Travel Support Award, IEEE Control Systems Society (ACC 2022).
  2. Graduate Student Travel Award, UD Graduate College (2022).
  3. University Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate College: This award recognizes the top doctoral students across the Graduate College.
  4. Student Travel Support Award, IEEE Control Systems Society (CDC 2021).
  5. Partial Scholarship, MIT Professional Education, 2021; Complementary Scholarship by UD Graduate College.
  6. Student Travel Support Program, IEEE Control Systems Society (CCTA 2021).

Aditya Dave, 5th year PhD Student:

  1. Student Travel Support Award, IEEE Control Systems Society (ACC 2022).
  2. Graduate Student Travel Award, UD Graduate College (2022).
  3. Student Travel Support Program, IEEE Control Systems Society (CDC 2021).

Ioannis Faros, incoming PhD student

  1. Recipient of the Robert W. Gore Fellowship: this fellowship has been made available to incoming doctoral students in the college of engineering who have displayed strong academic progress

 Nishanth Senthil Kumar, Research Assistant:

  1. Student Travel Support Award, IEEE Control Systems Society (ACC 2022).
  2. Graduate Student Travel Award, UD Graduate College (2022).

Filippos Tzortzoglou, incoming PhD student

  1. Participated in the TUCer team which ranked 6th out of 32 teams in Shell Eco-marathon Autonomous Programming Competition 2021.
  2. Co-author in a paper which will be presented at the 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation.

Ishti Mahbub, 5th year PhD Student:

  1. Poster Presentation (2nd Place), ME Graduate Recruitment Day, UD, 2022.
  2. IEEEXtreme Programming Competition: Global Position: 973/5561, US Regional Position: 31/86, 2021.
  3. Student Travel Grant, 60th Conference on Decision and Control, 2021.
  4. Scholarship, MIT Professional Education, 2021.
  5. Outstanding Presentation Award (2nd place), 10th Annual Graduate Students’ Forum, UD, 2021.
  6. Hackathon on Misinformation and Cybersecurity (2nd place), Annual Graduate Students’ Forum, UD, 2021.

Publications:

  1. Bang, H., and Malikopoulos, A.A., “Congestion-Aware Routing, Rebalancing, and Charging Scheduling for Electric Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand System,” Proceedings of the 2022 American Control Conference, 2022 (to appear).
  2. Beaver L.E. and Malikopoulos, A.A. “Constraint-Driven Optimal Control of Multi-Agent Systems: A Highway Platooning Case Study,” in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 1754—1759, 2022
  3. Bang, L.E. Beaver, and A.A. Malikopoulos, “Energy-Optimal Goal Assignment of Multi-Agent Systems with Goal Trajectories in Polynomials,” in 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, pp. 1228-1233, 2021.
  4. Chalaki, B., Beaver, L. E., Mahbub, A. M., Bang, H., & Malikopoulos, A. A., “A Research and Educational Robotic Testbed for Real-time Control of Emerging Mobility Systems: From Theory to Scaled Experiments,” IEEE Control Systems Magazine (in press).
  5. Chalaki, B. and Malikopoulos, A. A., “A Priority-Aware Replanning and Resequencing Framework for Coordination of Connected and Automated Vehicles,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 1772-1777, 2022.
  6. Chalaki, B. and Malikopoulos, A. A., “Robust Learning-Based Trajectory Planning for Emerging Mobility Systems,” Proceedings of the 2022 American Control Conference (to appear).
  7. Chremos, I.V., and Malikopoulos, A.A., “Socioeconomic Impact of Emerging Mobility Markets and Implementation Strategies,” in AI-enabled Technologies for Autonomous and Connected Vehicles, I. Kolmanovsky, Y. Murphhey, and P. Watta (editors), Springer 2022 (in press)
  8. Chremos, I.V., and Malikopoulos, A.A., “An Analytical Study of a Two-Sided Mobility Game,” Proceedings of 2022 American Control Conference, 2022 (to appear).
  9. Chremos, I.V., and Malikopoulos, A.A., “Design and Stability Analysis of a Shared Mobility Market,” Proceedings of the 2021 European Control Conference, pp. 374-379, 2021.
  10. Nakka S. K. S., Chalaki, B. and Malikopoulos, A. A., “A Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Coordination Framework for Connected and Automated Vehicles at Merging Roadways,” Proceedings of the 2022 American Control Conference (to appear).
  11. Chalaki, B. and Malikopoulos, A. A., “A Priority-Aware Replanning and Resequencing Framework for Coordination of Connected and Automated Vehicles,” Proceedings of 2022 American Control Conference, 2022, see IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 1772-1777, 2022.
  12. Dave, A., Chremos, I.V., and Malikopoulos, A.A., “Social Media and Misleading Information in a Democracy: A Mechanism Design Approach,” IEEE Trans. Autom. Control, Vol. 67, 5, pp. 2633–2639, 2022.
  13. Dave, A., and Malikopoulos, A.A., “A Dynamic Program for a Team of Two Agents with Nested Information,” Proceedings of the 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 3768-3773, 2021.
  14. Dave, A., Venkatesh, N., and Malikopoulos, A.A., “On Decentralized Minimax Control with Nested Subsystems,” Proceedings of 2022 American Control Conference, 2022 (to appear).
  15. Dave, A., Venkatesh, N., and Malikopoulos, A.A., “Decentralized Control of Two Agents with Nested Accessible Information,” Proceedings of 2022 American Control Conference, 2022 (to appear).
  16. Mahbub, A M. I., and Malikopoulos, A.A., “A Platoon Formation Framework in a Mixed Traffic Environment,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, 6, 1370-1375, 2022.
  17. Mahbub, A M. I., and Malikopoulos, A.A., “Conditions to Provable System-Wide Optimal Coordination of Connected and Automated Vehicles,” Automatica, 131, 109751, 2021.
  18. Mahbub, A M. I., and Malikopoulos, A.A., “Platoon Formation in a Mixed Traffic Environment: A Model-Agnostic Optimal Control Approach,” Proceedings of 2022 American Control Conference, 2022 (to appear).