Primary, first-listed authors of regular contributed papers who were students at the time of submission are eligible for the American Control Student Best Paper Award . The nominated papers are reviewed through the usual conference process and by the Student Best Paper Award Committee.
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2020: SanWoo Park, Elisabeth Glista, Javad Lavaei, and Somayeh SojoudiRecipient of ACC Best Student Paper Award
Paper:
Homotopy Method for Finding the Global Solution of Post-contingency Optimal Power Flow
Biography:
SanWoo Park, Elisabeth Glista, Javad Lavaei, and Somayeh Sojoudi
University of California, Berkeley
2019: Tommaso MenaraRecipient of ACC Best Student Paper Award
Paper:
Exact and Approximate Stability Conditions for Cluster Synchronization of Kuramoto Oscillators
Biography:
Tommaso Menara (student author), Giacomo Baggio, Danielle Bassett, Fabio Pasqualetti
University of California, Riverside & University of Pennsylvania
2017: Yuh-Shyang WangRecipient of ACC Best Student Paper Award
Paper:
System Level Parameterizations, Constraints and Synthesis
Biography:
Yuh-Shyang Wang (Student Author), Nikolai Matni, John Doyle
California Institute of Technology
2016: Ernst Csencsics, Rudolf Saathof, and Georg SchitterRecipient of ACC Best Student Paper Award
Paper:
Design of a Dual-Tone Controller for Lissajous-based Scanning of Fast Steering Mirrors
2015: Hector E. Perez and Scott MouraRecipient of ACC Best Student Paper Award
Paper:
“Sensitivity-Based Interval PDE Observer for Battery SOC Estimation”
2014: Richard P. Mason and Antonis PapachristodoulouRecipient of ACC Best Student Paper Award
Paper:
"Chordal Sparsity, Decomposing SDPs and the Lyapunov Equation"
2013: Konstantinos Gatsis, Alejandro Ribeiro, and George J. PappasRecipient of ACC Best Student Paper Award
Paper:
"Optimal Power Management in Wireless Control Systems"
2012: Masahiro OnoRecipient of ACC Best Student Paper Award
Paper:
“Joint Chance-Constrained Model Predictive Control with Probabilistic Resolvability”
2011: Christopher Mayhew, Andrew TeelRecipient of ACC Best Student Paper Award
Paper:
Hybrid Control of Rigid-Body Attitude with Synergistic Potential Functions
2010: Florian Dörfler, and Francesco BulloRecipient of ACC Best Student Paper Award
Paper:
“Synchronization and Transient Stability in Power Networks and Non-Uniform Kuramoto Oscillators”