Ali Jadbabaie
- Phone: (215) 898-8105
- Fax: (215) 573-2068
- Email: jadbabai (at) seas (dot) upenn (dot) edu
My Curriculum Vitae
My academic genealogy
Research Interests:
- Cooperative control of multiagent systems
- Applications of algebraic topology in coverage and deployment of sensor networks
- Analysis, optimization, and control of networked dynamical systems in physics, engineering and biology
- Optimization, and optimal control of nonlinear and hybrid systems
- Motion coordination and vison-based control of unmanned air and ground vehicles
- Robust control
- Spectral Graph theory
News, Awards and Projects:
- Nader Motee's paper wins the Student Best Paper award at the 2007 American Control
Conference in New York.
- NSF Power, Control and Adaptive Networks (PCAN) program, Topological methods for distributed coverage problems in
mobile sensing networks .
- SToMP in Science News: Sensor Sensibility.
- The paper "Distributed coordination of mobile autonomous agents," which
appeared in the June 2003 issue of IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Contol
wins the 2005 George S. Axelby Best paper award of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
The award is given every year for the best paper in the
IEEE Transactions on Automatic control in the previous
two calendar years.
- 2004 ONR Young Investigator Award.
for proposal entitled, "An optimization-based approach to distributed coordination of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles"
one of the total of 26 awarded in all areas of science and engineering.
- NSF CAREER Award.
- Featured on NSF website on Knowledge and Distributed
Intelligence.
- NSF CNS Program, Scalable approach to
reachability analysis and safety verification of hybrid
systems" with Calin Belta (BU) and Vijay Kumar (Penn).
- ARO MURI, Adaptive Coordinated Control of Intelligent Multiagent Teams.
Berkeley (lead institution). Other teams: Penn,
CMU.
- ARO MURI SWARMS: Scalabale sWarms of Autonomous Robots and Mobile Sensors"
Penn (lead institution), Other members:
Yale, UCSB, MIT, Berkeley.
- ONR Mathematical, Computer and Information Sciences Division, "Vision-based distributed coordination of multi-vehicle
systems."
- DARPA DSO, "SToMP: Sensor Topology for
Minimal Planning , a Multi-investogator project lead by UIUC, with coPIs from CMU, Penn,
and other places.
Educational Background:
Current Graduate Students
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi (2004- )
Michael Zargham (2008-)
Pooya Molavi (2008-)
Chinwendu Enyioha (jointly supervised, 2008-)
Former Graduate Students
Alex Stewart (jointly supervised) (2006-2007), MS
Ali Ahmadzadeh (2003-2008), PhD, now at Constellation Energy, Quantitative Finance Group
Nima Moshtagh, PhD (2003-2008), PhD, now at Scientific Systems Inc., a robotics research company
Nader Motee (2003-2007), PhD, currently a postdoc at Penn
Postdoctoral Scholars
Abubakr Muhammad (2006-2007)
Nader Motee (2007-2008)
Courses
