Abhishek Halder

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

News

• [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

• [Sep. 28, 2017] New manuscript: Gradient Flows in Filtering and Fisher-Rao Geometry shows Kalman-Bucy filter is gradient descent w.r.t. the Riemannian metric

• [July 12, 2017] Our paper Gradient Flows in Uncertainty Propagation and Filtering of Linear Gaussian Systems is accepted in CDC 2017

• [June 10, 2017] New manuscript: $\href{https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03158.pdf}{\text{Stability Theory in }\ell_{1}\;\text{for Nonlinear Markov Chains and Stochastic Models for Opinion Dynamics over}}$ $\href{https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03158.pdf}{\text{Influence Networks}}$

• [April 21, 2017] Talk on filtering at the 32nd Southern California Control Workshop, Caltech

• [April 13, 2017] Talk at the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University

• [March 31, 2017] Talk at the Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University

• [March 20, 2017] Talk at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UT Dallas

• [January 27, 2017] Talk at the Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, UC Santa Cruz