Laboratory for Control, Learning, and Systems Biology

News

Awards, new papers, and lectures. For abstracts and the most current list, see the publications page.

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General news

  • Award Congratulations to all authors: two Editors' Choice selections for Automatica.
    • Dec 2025Convergence analysis of gradient flow for overparameterized LQR formulations
      Arthur Castello B. de Oliveira, Milad Siami, Eduardo D. Sontag (Automatica, vol. 182, 112504)
    • Jun 2025Properties of immersions for systems with multiple limit sets with implications to learning Koopman embeddings
      Zexiang Liu, Necmiye Ozay, Eduardo D. Sontag (Automatica, vol. 176, 112226)
  • Jan 2026 · Accepted Three papers accepted to ACC 2026:
    • Small-covariance noise-to-state stability of stochastic systems and its applications to stochastic gradient dynamics
      L. Cui, Z. P. Jiang, E. D. Sontag
    • Modular machine learning with applications to genetic circuit composition
      J. Wang, E. D. Sontag, D. Del Vecchio
    • On the (almost) global exponential convergence of overparameterized policy optimization for the LQR problem
      M. K. Wafi, A. C. B. de Oliveira, E. D. Sontag
  • Jan 2026 · Accepted Paper accepted to L4DC 2026: On the convergence of overparameterized problems: inherent properties of the compositional structure of neural networks
    A. C. B. de Oliveira, D. D. Jatkar, E. D. Sontag.
  • Jul 2025 · Honor Eduardo Sontag elected to Argentina's Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales.
  • Apr 2025 · Honor Eduardo Sontag elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
  • Apr 2024 · Honor Eduardo Sontag elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Lectures

  • Jun 2025Keynote at L4DC, Michigan.
  • Apr–May 2025Three talks at Imperial College, Cambridge, and Oxford.
  • Feb–Mar 2025Four talks at UCSD and UCSB, including the Petar Kokotović Lecture at UCSB.
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New publications

A selection of recent papers. See the publications page for abstracts and the most up-to-date list.