Professor
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy)

Founding Director
Center for Systems and Control (CSC@USC)

Contact

Mail: Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Office: EEB, Room 344
University of Southern California Phone: +1-213-740-4474
3740 McClintock Avenue, EEB 300 E-mail: mihailo@usc.edu
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2563, USA URL: ee.usc.edu/mihailo

Recent Talks

2022 Sept Robustness of gradient methods for data-driven decision making (Slides)
2022 March Oblique transition in high-speed separated boundary layers (Video)
2020 Dec Convergence and sample complexity of gradient methods for the model-free LQR problem (Video)
2020 Sept Convergence and sample complexity of gradient methods for the model-free LQR problem (Video)
2020 June Learning the model-free LQR via random search (Video)

Recent Review Articles

2021 Jan From bypass transition to flow control and data-driven turbulence modeling: An input-output viewpoint
2020 May Stochastic dynamical modeling of turbulent flows

Recent Papers/Preprints

2021 July On the linear convergence of random search for discrete-time LQR
2021 Jan Model-based design of riblets for turbulent drag reduction
2021 Jan Global exponential stability of proximal gradient flow and Douglas-Rachford splitting dynamics
2020 Aug Proximal algorithms for large-scale statistical modeling and sensor/actuator selection
2020 June Transient growth analysis of oblique shock wave/boundary-layer interactions at Mach 5.92
2020 May Well-conditioned ultraspherical and spectral integration methods for resolvent analysis of channel flows
2019 Dec Convergence and sample complexity of gradient methods for the model-free LQR problem
2019 Dec Reattachment vortices in hypersonic compression ramp flow: an input-output analysis
2019 July The proximal augmented Lagrangian method for nonsmooth composite optimization
2019 May Robustness of accelerated first-order algorithms for strongly convex optimization problems

News

2022 Sept Allerton Conference; Opening Tutorial Presentation (Slides)
2022 Aug Dongsheng Ding completes his PhD; joins UPenn as a Postdoctoral Fellow
2022 March Workshop on Wall-Bounded Turbulence: Beyond Current Boundaries; Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Video Link)
2020 Dec Workshop on Reinforcement Learning from Batch Data and Simulation (Video Link)
2020 Sept Hesameddin Mohammadi named the 2020-2021 Ming Hsieh Institute PhD Scholar
2020 Sept Online Seminar on Mathematical Foundations of Data Science (Video Link)
2020 Aug Anubhav Dwivedi completes his PhD; joins USC as a Postdoctoral Fellow
2020 July Wei Ran completes his PhD; joins China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center
2020 June 2nd Annual Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (Video Link)
2020 April Gokul Hariharan completes his PhD; joins USC as a Postdoctoral Fellow
2019 Oct Sepideh Hassan-Moghaddam completes her PhD; joins Microsoft
2019 Sept Plenary Speaker, 8th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NecSys 2019); Slides
2019 Sept Guest Editorial Special Issue on Analysis, Control, and Optimization of Energy Networks, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
2019 Aug Armin Zare joins University of Texas at Dallas
2019 May 36th Southern California Control Workshop
2019 April Workshop on Innovative Optimization and Control Methods for Highly Distributed Autonomous Systems; National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2019 March Binh Lieu joins Apple
2018 Dec The Inaugural CDC Soccer Cup
2018 Nov Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2018 Oct Sepideh Hassan-Moghaddam attends the 2018 Rising Stars in EECS Workshop at MIT
2018 Sept Sepideh Hassan-Moghaddam named the 2018-2019 Ming Hsieh Institute PhD Scholar
2018 March Makan Fardad receives CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation
2017 Dec Neil Dhingra completes his PhD; joins Numerica Corporation
2017 Oct Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)
2017 Sept Workshop on Autonomous Energy Grids, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2017 Sept Workshop on Sensor Location in Distributed Parameter Systems, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications
2017 June Joined editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
2017 June Workshop on Large-Scale and Distributed Optimization, Lund Center for Control of Complex Engineering Systems, Lund, Sweden
2017 March Workshop on Optimization and Inference for Physical Flows on Networks, Banff, Canada
2017 Feb Colo(u)r of Turbulence appears in Journal of Fluid Mechanics; Predrag Cvitanovic organizes a Discussion at KITP (this wiki contains LOTS of useful info)
2017 Jan Workshop on Recurrence, Self-Organization, and the Dynamics of Turbulence, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara
2017 Jan Joined University of Southern California

News (Archive)

2016 Dec Armin Zare and Xiaofan Wu complete their PhD's; join USC and Siemens Corporate Technology
2016 Dec Program Vice-Chair, 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
2016 July Semi-Plenary Speaker, 2016 European Control Conference; Slides
2016 July MJ and Armin Zare attend the 2016 Center for Turbulence Research Summer Program
2016 May Promotion to Professor
2016 April Input-Output Analysis of Jet Noise receives Media Attention
2016 Jan Workshop on Optimization and Parsimonious Modeling, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications
2015 Nov Sparsity-Promoting Dynamic Mode Decomposition is one of the Most Cited Articles published in Physics of Fluids in 2014
2015 May Armin Zare and Neil Dhingra receive Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the U of M Graduate School
2015 May 4th Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory, Iowa State University
2015 March Minisymposium on Data-driven Methods for Complex Systems, 2015 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering
2014 Dec Workshop on Future Directions in Networks, Optimization, and Control, University of Southern California
2014 Nov Workshop on Turbulence in Engineering Applications, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics
2014 Oct Distinguished Alumni Award (Inaugural Class), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara
2014 Oct Keynote Speaker, 50th Anniversary Celebration, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara
2014 Oct Workshop on Optimal Cooperation, Communication, and Learning in Decentralized Systems, Banff, Canada
2014 Oct Binh Lieu completes his PhD; joins Seagate Technology
2014 July U of M Informatics Institute Transdisciplinary Faculty Fellowship
2014 July MJ and Armin Zare attend the 2014 Center for Turbulence Research Summer Program
2014 June Armin Zare is a Finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at the 2014 American Control Conference
2014 Jan Neil Dhingra receives MnDRIVE Outreach Fellowship
2014 Jan Joined editorial board of SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON)
2013 Dec George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award
2013 Sept IEEE Senior Member
2013 Sept Fu Lin joins Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory
2013 July Invited Presentation, Tutorial Session on ‘‘Sparse and Low-Rank Representation Methods in Control, Estimation and System Identification’’, 2013 European Control Conference
2013 June Invited Presentation, Special Session on ‘‘Future of Fluids – Celebrating 60 Years of AFOSR’’, 43rd AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit
2013 Jan Instructor, Specialist’s Course on Flow Control, 51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting
2012 Dec Fu Lin completes his PhD; starts his postdoc at the U of M
2012 Aug Resident Fellowship, Institute on the Environment
2012 July MJ and Binh Lieu attend the 2012 Center for Turbulence Research Summer Program
2012 July Flow Control Tutorial, the 2012 Center for Turbulence Research Summer Program
2012 Summer Neil Dhingra spends 10 weeks at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
2012 March Binh Lieu receives E-CAero fellowship to attend the Spring School on Fast Methods in Scientific Computing in Montestigliano, Italy
2011 Dec Rashad Moarref completes his PhD; starts his postdoc at Caltech (with B. McKeon and J. Tropp)
2011 June Binh Lieu receives Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the U of M Graduate School
2011 June Neil Dhingra receives Harriett G. Jenkins Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from NASA
2011 May Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Research Spotlight
2011 May Promotion to Associate Professor (with tenure)