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...
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Elisabetta Perotti

Department of Electrical • Computer • and Energy Engineering
Elisabetta is a recipient of the Schmidt Science Fellowship. She plans to use her Fellowship to pivot from physics to renewable energy. During her PhD, she studied hadron physics at Uppsala University. She now plans to model and simulate an autonomous future electric grid, able to cope with the variability of renewable generation and changing consumer demand. Elisabetta's research will contribute to the development of a next-generation electric grid and...

Ph.D. Students

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Yiting Chen

Department of Electrical • Computer • and Energy Engineering
Yiting is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. He obtained a Master's Degree in applied mathematics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2022.
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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. Website: https://lilycothren.netlify.app
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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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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 the 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. Website:...
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Michelle Pirrone

Department of Electrical • Computer • and Energy Engineering
Michelle Pirrone is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is co-advised with Dr. Taylor Barton (as primary advisor). She earned her BS in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Biology from SUNY New Paltz in Spring, 2020. Research interests: Optimization and learning for applications in autonomous RF circuit design.
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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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Avril Cruz

Department of Biomedical Engineering
Avril is an undergraduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder, majoring in biomedical engineering and minoring in electrical engineering and space. She has a passion for helping others and plans to do so by understanding the body’s complex functions on Earth and in a microgravity environment. She wishes to make an impact in the fields of epidemiology, medical implants, tissue engineering, and bioastronautics.
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Liana Kerr-Layton

Department of Biomedical Engineering
Liana Kerr-Layton is an undergraduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder pursuing a minor in Spanish. She serves as the Co-president of the Biomedical Engineering Society and as an Engineering Fellow among other academic pursuits. Research interests: Biomedical devices, drug discovery, genetics, STEM cells, systems design and control.
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Benjamin Rautio

Department of Electrical • Computer • and Energy Engineering

Visiting Students

Former Ph.D. Students

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Liam Madden

Department of Applied Mathematics
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder, March 2022. Co-advised with Prof. Stephen Becker (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder). Thesis: First-order methods for online and stochastic optimization, and approximate compiling.

Former Undergraduate and Master Students

Former Master Students: 

  • Amirhossein Ajalloeian, M.S. August 2020. 
  • Felipe Galarza-Jimenez, M.S. May 2022.

Former Undergraduate students: 

    • Molly Alvine, August 2021 - January 2022. 
    • Natalie Hellman, July 2020 - April 2021. 

    Former visiting students

    • Nicola Bastianello, visiting Ph.D. student, University of Padova, October 2019 - September 2021. 
    • Aoife Henry, visiting Master student, ETH Zurich, Sept. 2020 - March 2021. 
    • Martina Bucciarelli, visiting Ph.D. student, University of Siena, January 2019 - May 2019. 
    • Emilio Benenati, visiting Master student, ETH Zurich, Sept. 2018 - March 2019.