Scholar
Somayeh Sojoudi
Google Scholar ID: kNH8zcgAAAAJ
Associate Professor, EECS, ME, UC Berkeley
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,441
H-index
28
i10-index
65
Publications
20
Co-authors
36
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper “DRAGON: Distributional Rewards Optimize Diffusion Generative Models” to appear in Transactions on Machine Learning Research.
- Three papers accepted at NeurIPS 2025: 1) Generalization or Hallucination? Understanding Out-of-Context Reasoning in Transformers, 2) OVERT: A Benchmark for Over-Refusal Evaluation on Text-to-Image Models, and 3) Revising and Falsifying Sparse Autoencoder Feature Explanations.
- Four new PhD students have joined her research group: Alex Zalles, Kaiwen Hu, Srikar Babu Gadipudi, and Xutao Ma.
- Paper “Evolutionary games on infinite strategy sets: Convergence to Nash equilibria via dissipativity” to appear in The IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
- Paper “Coordinating Distributed Energy Resources with Nodal Pricing in Distribution Networks: a Game-Theoretic Approach” to appear in the 2025 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
- Paper “Intent Demonstration in General-Sum Dynamic Games via Iterative Linear-Quadratic Approximations” has been conditionally accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (TCST).
- Paper “OVERT: A Benchmark for Over-Refusal Evaluation on Text-to-Image Model” has been accepted for presentation at the MUGen Workshop, ICML 2025.
- Paper “Towards optimal branching of linear and semidefinite relaxations for neural network robustness certification” to appear in the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR).
- Three PhD students from her group (Yatong Bai, Samuel Pfrommer, and Jingqi Li) have completed their dissertation talks.
- PhD student, Jingqi Li (co-advised with Prof. Tomlin), received the 2024-2025 Leon O. Chua Award for outstanding achievement in nonlinear science from UC Berkeley.
- PhD student, Yatong Bai, received the 2024-2025 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award from UC Berkeley.
- Paper “Distribution System Expansion Planning with Nonlinear Power Flow Models” to appear in IEEE PES General Meeting.
- Appointed as the chair of the Women in Systems Engineering (WiSE) Committee of the IEEE Systems Council.
- Appointed as an Associate Editor for Book Reviews of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine.
- Paper “Certifiable Reachability Learning Using a New Lipschitz Continuous Value Function” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
- Paper “Distributionally Robust Joint Chance-Constrained Optimal Power Flow Using Relative Entropy” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
- Paper “Ranking Manipulation for Conversational Search Engines” has been accepted for presentation at the EMNLP 2024 (main conference).
Research Experience
- Serves as an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley, mentoring multiple PhD students in research work.
Education
- No specific educational background information provided such as degrees, schools, advisors, etc.
Background
- Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and Mechanical Engineering departments at UC Berkeley. Works on interdisciplinary problems in optimization theory, machine learning, power systems, and control.
Miscellany
- Has a strong interest in optimization theory, machine learning, power systems, and control.
