Postdocs

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Gianluca Bianchin

Department of Electrical • Computer • and Energy Engineering
Gianluca Bianchin is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering (ECEE) at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California Riverside, in 2020, the Laurea degree in Information Engineering and the Laurea Magistrale degree (Summa Cum Laude) in Controls Engineering at the University of Padova, Italy, in 2012 and 2014, respectively. He has...

Ph.D. Students

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Lily (Liliaokeawawa) Cothren

Department of Electrical • Computer • Energy Engineering
Lily is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 2021 from Arizona State University. Research interests: control and optimization.
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Felipe Galarza Jiménez

Department of Electrical • Computer • and Energy Engineering
Felipe received his B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering (Honor Degree) in 2017 at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Since August 2019 he has been a Ph.D. student in the ECEE department of the University of Colorado Boulder. Co-advised with Prof. Jorge I. Poveda (Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder) as primary advisor. Research interests: complex systems analysis and control.
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Seunghyun (Seung) Kim

Department of Applied Mathematics
Seunghyun (Seung) Kim is a graduate student in the Department of Applied Mathematics (APPM) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She received her B.S. degree in Applied Math in 2019 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Research interests: optimization, learning algorithms, and their applications (e.g., medicine and healthcare).
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Liam Madden

Department of Applied Mathematics
Liam is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. Co-advised with Prof. Stephen Becker (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder). Research interests: online optimization, stochastic optimization, and data processing.
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Ana Maria Ospina Sierra

Department of Electrical • Computer • and Energy Engineering
Ana is a Ph.D. student in the Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering Department. She received her B.S. Degrees in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 2011 and her M.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering in 2014, from University of Los Andes, Colombia. Ana was a Specialized Engineer at the National Mining and Energy Planning Unit (UPME), Colombia. Research interests: online optimization and learning, with applications in power and energy systems.
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Killian Wood

Department of Applied Mathematics
Killian is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from California State University Fullerton in Fullerton, California. Research interests: online optimization and learning.

Undergraduate students

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Molly Alvine

Department of Electrical • Computer • and Energy Engineering
Molly is an undergraduate student in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is completing her B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research interests: optimization and control, with applications to robotics and machine learning.

Visiting Students

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Nicola Bastianello

Department of Electrical • Computer • and Energy Engineering
October 2019 - present. Nicola Bastianello received the Bachelor degree in Information Engineering in 2015 and the Master degree in Automation Engineering in 2018, both from the University of Padova, Italy. Since October 2018 he is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Information Engineering (DEI), University of Padova, under the supervision of Prof. Ruggero Carli. Research interests: distributed optimization and time-varying optimization.

Former members

  • Aoife Henry, visiting Master student, ETH Zurich, Sept. 2020 - March 2021. Next destination: Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado Boulder.
  • Natalie Hellman, undergraduate student, July 2020 - April 2021. 
  • Amirhossein Ajalloeian, MS 2020. Next Destination: Ph.D. student (in Philosophy) at the University of Colorado Boulder. 
  • Martina Bucciarelli, visiting Ph.D. student, University of Siena, January 2019 - May 2019. Next destination: completed the Ph.D. program, then computational scientist at Enel X (Roma, Italy).
  • Emilio Benenati, visiting Master student, ETH Zurich, Sept. 2018 - March 2019. Next destination: Ph.D. student at TU Delft. 
  • Mohammadhafez Bazrafshan, postdoc, Sept. 2018 - Dec. 2018. Next destinations: postdocs at the University of Denver and the University of Colorado Boulder, and Ascend Analytics.