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Ufuk Topcu

Postdoctoral Scholar

California Institute of Technology
Control and Dynamical Systems

Brief bio:

• Postdoc, Caltech, CDS, 2008-present
• Ph.D., UC Berkeley, ME, 2008
• M.S., UC Irvine, MAE, 2005
• B.S., Bogazici U., ME, 2003
  

News

• My FY 2012 AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program proposal is among those to be funded. See the press release.
• Invited session at the ACC12: Uncertainty Management in Electric Power Systems and the Grid
• Version 2012 of the EECI course is coming. See for registration. See EECI11 for the 2011 course page.

Highlights

• TuLiP: Temporal Logic Planning Toolbox
• Reading group
• V&V Library
• ACC'11 Sessions: Sustainable Infrastructure
• EECI Short Course (2011)
• Nonlinear Analysis Short Course

Applications

• Autonomy
  RAM, TAC
• Hybrid, more-electric technologies in aerial and ground vehicles
  Infotech11, CDC11
• Distributed, networked, and sustainable energy systems
  PES12-1, PES12-2, Trans. Power Sys

Technical areas

• Formal specification and automated synthesis of software-enabled control protocols
  HSCC12, TAC, HSCC11, ACC 12
• Uncertainty quantification and management
  RESS, IJNME, CDC08, ACC12
• Computational analytics for nonlinear dynamical systems
  HelpOnSOS, IJRNC, AutoBio, Automatica

Mailing Address

Ufuk Topcu
Control and Dynamical Systems 107-81
California Institute of Technology
1200 E. California Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

Contact information

E-mail: utopcu@cds.caltech.edu
Phone: (626) 395-2870
Office: 126 Steele