Abhishek Halder

Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics Affiliated faculty, Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center University of California, Santa Cruz Curriculum Vitae Contact: ahalder@ucsc.edu

News

• [March 19, 2019] Our paper "Stability Theory of Stochastic Models in Opinion Dynamics" is accepted in TAC

• [March 1, 2019] New manuscript: "Optimal Control of Thermostatic Loads for Planning Aggregate Consumption: Characterization of Solution and Explicit Strategies"

• [Feb. 17, 2019] We are excited to announce the 2019 CITRIS/CPAR Symposium on Control Theory and Automation, and the 2nd Norcal Control Workshop to be held at UC Berkeley. Early registration ends April 1.

• [Feb. 15, 2019] Our paper "DeGroot-Friedkin Map in Opinion Dynamics is Mirror Descent" is accepted in L-CSS

• [Jan. 31, 2019] I will Chair the session 'Optimization Algorithms III' and co-chair 'Markov Processes II' in 2019 American Control Conference

• [Jan. 28, 2019] Appointed as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

• [Jan. 27, 2019] Our papers "Proximal Recursion for Solving the Fokker-Planck Equation" and "Stability Analysis of Opinion Dynamics over Influence Networks" are accepted in ACC 2019.

• [Jan. 24, 2019] The 1st NorCal Control Workshop conference report has been published in the Feb. 2019 issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine.

• [Jan. 03, 2019] Robotics and Control Research Video at UCSC Baskin Engineering.

• [Dec. 28, 2018] New manuscript: DeGroot-Friedkin Map in Opinion Dynamics is Mirror Descent.

• [Dec. 19, 2018] Our project "Fast Computation of Stochastic Reachability for Provably Safe Planning and Control in Automated Driving" has been funded by the Ford Motor Company.

• [Dec. 18, 2018] Co-chaired session "Computational Methods II" and presented our work on fast computation of MVOE for reach sets at the 57th CDC 2018.

• [Nov. 25, 2018] New manuscript: Gradient Flow Algorithms for Density Propagation in Stochastic Systems.

• [Oct. 18, 2018] CITRIS special event on Drones: Technology, Policy, and Society at UC Berkeley

• [Oct. 10, 2018] Talk on gradient flows in uncertainty propagation and filtering at San José State University (SJSU) Math/Stats Colloquium

• [Sep. 26, 2018] New manuscript on solving the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov PDE as gradient flow: Proximal Recursion for Solving the Fokker-Planck Equation. Obviates spatial discretization or function approximation.

• [Aug 20, 2018] Our paper Optimal Power Consumption for Demand Response of Thermostatically Controlled Loads is accepted in Optimal Control Applications and Methods

• [July 13, 2018] The paper On the Parameterized Computation of Minimum Volume Outer Ellipsoid of Minkowski Sum of Ellipsoids is accepted in CDC 2018

• [June 28, 2018] Talk on Proximal Filtering in Fisher-Rao Metric at 2018 ACC.

• [June 20, 2018] Brunn-Minkowski-Firey theory meets reachability analysis: Smallest Ellipsoid Containing \(p\)-sum of Ellipsoids with Application to Reachability Analysis.

• [May 05, 2018] New manuscript On the Parameterized Computation of Minimum Volume Outer Ellipsoid of Minkowski Sum of Ellipsoids develops fast algorithm for tight over-approximation of the Minkowski sum.

• [April 27, 2018] Lia and Kenneth presented research posters on UTM and uncertainty propagation at the CITRIS/CPAR Symposium on Control Theory and Automation, and the 1st Norcal Control Workshop at UC Santa Cruz.

• [April 01, 2018] I am co-organizer (with R. Sanfelice, K. Goldberg and R. Berenstein) for the CITRIS/CPAR Symposium on Control Theory and Automation, and the 1st Norcal Control Workshop at UC Santa Cruz on April 27, 2018. Please plan to attend if you are in the area.

• [March 8, 2018] I will Chair the 'Filtering' session in 2018 American Control Conference

• [March 7, 2018] Received seed grant from CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, People and Robots Initiative (CPAR)

• [Feb. 12, 2018] Talk on Reachable Tube Computation for Unmanned Air Traffic Management in CPAR DREAMS seminar, UC Berkeley

• [Jan. 29, 2018] Received New Faculty Research grant from UCSC Committee on Research

• [Jan. 20, 2018] Our paper Gradient Flows in Filtering and Fisher-Rao Geometry is accepted in ACC 2018 as an Invited Paper

• [Jan. 5, 2018] Joined IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Systems with Uncertainty

• [Dec. 4, 2017] Talk on filtering at Applied Math special seminar, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

• [Oct. 4, 2017] Talk on Unmanned Air Traffic Management at Second Annual Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) Research Symposium, UC Santa Cruz

• [Oct. 1, 2017] Joined as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, UC Santa Cruz