The PI, Wentao Tang, receives the prestigious National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) award of over $500,000 to perform research in process systems engineering and provide novel educational experiences for students at NC State.
This CAREER project adopts a dynamics and control perspective and uses the tools from machine learning and operator theory to analyze and improve algorithms.
See https://cbe.ncsu.edu/tang-career-award/ for the department’s news announcement.
The group keeps growing. On October 28, 2024, Jarod Morris joins the group as a first-year Ph.D. student. Jarod obtained his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Univ. S. Alabama. He will be working on research problems pertaining to data-driven control theory.
The research group welcomes Dr. Xiuzhen Ye to become a member from October 1, 2024. Having accomplished her Ph.D. at University of Sheffield in Electrical Engineering focusing on stealthy data injection attacks, Xiuzhen will receive her next-stage training as a researcher in the control domain towards future goals of profession.
Moritz passed his Ph.D. Preliminary Exam on 8/14/2024 (Wednesday). The title of his exam is “Data-Driven State-Space Methods for the Observation and Control of Nonlinear Processes“. Prof. Peter Fedkiw, Prof. Phillip Westmoreland, Prof. Khai Tien Nguyen, and Prof. Wentao Tang were on his preliminary exam committee. Now he has successfully become a Ph.D. candidate.
Our research group at NC State University is looking for a postdoc research associate.
This postdoctoral researcher will work on several exploratory ideas at the interface of control theory, optimization, and machine learning, specifically, about data-driven analysis/characterization of nonlinear control systems and its implication on optimization algorithm development. As this position is supported by startup funds, other directions are potentially available, and new ideas from the candidates are welcomed. Rigorous mathematical training is greatly valued.
Candidates are invited to apply at the NCSU Employment Site (https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/192572) and send a copy of their CV to wentao_tang@ncsu.edu. Recommendation letters will be requested later. The start date is flexible within a year from now.