The paper on Run-indexed time-varying Bayesian optimization with positional encoding for auto-tuning of controllers: Application to a plasma-assisted deposition process with run-to-run drifts has been accepted for publication in Computers & Chemical Engineering.
Congratulations Thomas!
Thomas was selected as a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.
Workshop
We are excited to announce Dr. Ali Mesbah will be speaking at the ECC 2024 Workshop: When Bayesian optimization meets real-time control on Tuesday, June 25th, 2024 at the European Control Conference 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden. Please join us to learn about Bayesian optimization and its applications in real-time control and optimization. Updates, registration, and itinerary can be found on the following website: https://sites.google.com/view/bo2control.
Workshop
We are excited to announce ACC 2024 Cybermedicine Workshop on Tuesday, July 9th, 2024 at the 2024 American Control Conference in Toronto, Canada. Please join us to learn about recent cybermedical systems results that have been achieved by leading scientists and engineers from around the world. Open to all American Control Conference attendees, updates and itinerary can be found on the following website: https://syborgs.mae.ufl.edu/research/acc24-cybermedicine/.
Conference Publications
The papers on Safe explorative Bayesian optimization – Towards personalized treatments in plasma medicine, and No-regret Bayesian optimization with gradients using local optimality-based constraints: Application to closed-loop policy search have been presented at the 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC).
The paper on Preference-guided Bayesian optimization for control policy learning: Application to personalized plasma medicine have been presented at the 2023 Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).
Journal Publication
The paper on Perception-aware model predictive control for constrained control in unknown environments has been published in Automatica.
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The paper on Machine Learning in Process Systems Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities has been published in Computers & Chemical Engineering.
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Welcome Nima and Thomas!
Thomas Banker has joined the lab as a Graduate Student Researcher and Nima Moini has joined the lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Welcome Nima and Tommy!
New Project
The Mesbah group, in collaboration with Princeton University and Princeton Plasma Physics, has been awarded a major project grant by the DOE to lead research on machine learning and artificial intelligence for low-temperature plasmas.
Journal Publication
The paper on Safe Exploration and Escape Local Minima with Model Predictive Control under Partially Unknown Constraints has been published in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
UPDATE - 5th NorCal Control Workshop
The program of the workshop has been uploaded! Check it out, and see you there! There will be a plethora of exciting and interesting talks, including one by Michael Jordan, the keynote speaker.
Journal Publication
The paper on the Foundations of Machine Learning for Low-temperature Plasmas: Methods and Case Studies has been published in Plasma Sources Science and Technology.
5th NorCal Control Workshop
We are excited to continue the 5th annual NorCal Control Workshop on Friday, April 7th, 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley. Please join us for this symposium, which will consist of student presentations, a keynote presentation, a panel discussion, and poster presentations and networking! Updates, registration, and itinerary will be posted on the following website: https://norcal-control.github.io.
Journal Publication
The paper on Learning-based Adaptive-scenario-tree Model Predictive Control with Improved Probabilistic Safety using Robust Bayesian Neural Networks has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Nonlinear and Robust Control.
Welcome Joshua!
Joshua Ip has joined the Mesbah Lab as a Graduate Student Researcher! Welcome Joshua!
Journal Publication
The paper on Traffic Congestion Control using Distributed Extremum Seeking and Filtered Feedback Linearization Control Approaches has been accepted for publication in IEEE Control Systems Letters.
Online Meeting
A new online meeting dedicated to Artificial Intelligence for Plasma Science will be held November 29, 2022 through December 1, 2022. See the link to register and for more details about the event!
Welcome Shoubhanik and Praneeth!
Shoubhanik Nath and Praneeth Srivanth Ramesh have joined the Mesbah Lab as Graduate Student Researchers! Welcome Shoubhanik and Praneeth!