Recipient of the Office of Naval Research's 2021 Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award.
Best Paper Award at the 2019 International Conference on Data Mining.
IEEE Control Systems Magazine Best Paper Award, 2018.
O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, 2012.
Multiple Best Student Paper Finalist Awards in both student and advisor roles.
Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure at George Mason University in August 2022.
Associate Editor for IFAC Journal on Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems since October 2021.
Guest Editor for SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization Special Section on Mathematical Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Epidemics since October 2021.
Background
Currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University.
Research interests broadly lie in dynamics, controls, and robotics.
Specifically focuses on the analysis and control of complex distributed and/or networked systems and spreading processes.
Key motivations include minimizing energy or wireless communication, efficient computation of control strategies or decisions, and the use of sparse sensing and/or control.
Applications of his work span mobile sensors, autonomous robots, resource allocation, public health and epidemiology, network protection, and marketing campaigns.