Mihailo R. Jovanovic - Students and Postdocs

Current Students

Neil Dhingra
Distributed analysis and design via compressive sensing techniques
Alma mater: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Hometown: Ann Arbor, Michigan

Armin Zare
Modeling and control of turbulent flows
Alma mater: Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Hometown: Shiraz, Iran

Xiaofan Wu
Sparsity-promoting optimal control of power systems
Alma mater: Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Hometown: Tianjin, China

Sepideh Hassan-Moghaddam
Topology identification and optimal control of networks
Alma mater: Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Hometown: Karaj, Iran

Wei Ren
Flow modeling and control
Alma mater: University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Hometown: Chongqing, China

Anubhav Dwivedi
Transition to turbulence in hypersonic flows
Alma mater: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
Hometown: Kanpur, India

Jointly with Graham Candler

Gokul Hariharan
Transition to elastic turbulence
Alma mater: Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Hometown: Bangalore, India

Jointly with Satish Kumar

Victor Purba
Control of microgrids
Alma mater: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Hometown: Bandung, Indonesia

Jointly with Sairaj Dhople

Dongsheng Ding
Distributed optimization and multi-agent systems
Alma mater: Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Hometown: Yancheng, China

Prashanth Bharadwaj Sivaraman
TBD
Alma mater: PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India
Hometown: Chennai, India

Former PhD Students

Binh Lieu
PhD Thesis: Dynamics and control of Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids
Currently: Senior Servo Engineer, Seagate Technology

Fu Lin
PhD Thesis: Structure identification and optimal design of large-scale networks of dynamical systems
Currently: Post-doctoral Fellow, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Rashad Moarref
PhD Thesis: Model-based control of transitional and turbulent wall-bounded shear flows
Currently: Post-doctoral Fellow, GALCIT, California Institute of Technology

Former Post-doctoral Fellows

Fu Lin
Structured optimal control of distributed systems
Currently: Post-doctoral Fellow, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Makan Fardad
Currently: Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University

Group photos

Enjoying a beautiful spring day in Minneapolis; April 2015.
From left, clockwise: Tryphon, Sairaj, Pete, MJ, Armin, Sepideh, Yongxin, Xiaofan, Andy, Neil.

After Binh's PhD defense; Aug. 2014.
From left to right: Yongxin, Neil, Xiaofan, MJ, Sepideh (up); Armin, Binh (low).

After Binh's PhD defense; Aug. 2014.
From left to right: Yongxin, Neil, Binh, MJ, Xiaofan, Armin, Sepideh.

Warming up for the World Cup Final with Armin; Mountain View, California, July 2014.

With Xiaofan at Stanford; April 2012.

After Rashad's PhD defense; Dec. 2011.

Rashad, with his signature Siberian Hat, just before moving to California; Dec. 2011.
From left to right: Armin, Neil, Mr Fu, MJ, Xiaofan.

Bowling with the boys; March 2011.
From left to right: Armin, MJ, Neil (up); Binh, Mr Fu, Rashad (low).

With Binh at Lutsen; Spring Break 2011.

With Binh, Mr Fu, and Armin at Lutsen; Spring Break 2011.

With Rashad and his parents during their visit to Minneapolis; Nov. 2010.

Warming up for the World Cup; May 2010. Control group almost got decimated during this event ;-).
From left to right: Subhra, Govind, Murti (up); Lipeng, Mr Fu, Rashad, MJ, Tryphon (low).

Survivors chilling at Sally's ;-).