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                     Current students


                     Yichen Zhang 
                    
                        
                    
                    
                         Yichen Zhang received B.S. degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China, in 2010, and M.S. degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, in 2012. Now he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. His main research interests include power system dynamics, renewable generation, hybrid system theory and its application to power systems.


                    
                     Ehsan Roufat 
                    
                        
                    
                    
                         Ehsan Raoufat is a Ph.D. candidate at EECS at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Prior to his Ph.D., he received M.S degree in power systems from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2014. He also received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in control systems from Shiraz University, Iran, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. His main research interests are in the area of distributed, decentralized and fault-tolerant control with their applications to modern power systems and smart grids. Contact: mraoufat@utk.edu


                    
                     Bhagyashri Telsang 
                    
                        
                    
                    
                        Bhagyashri Telsang received her Master of Science degree in Systems and Control from Delft University of Technology in August 2016. Her fields of interest include decentralized control and game theory. She is currently a second year PhD student at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Contact: btelsang@utk.edu


                    
                     Samaneh Morovati 
                    
                        
                    
                    
                         Samaneh Morovati received the B.S. degree from the IKIU, Iran, in 2011 and the M.S. from the IUST, Iran, in 2017 all in Electrical Engineering. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with EECS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. Her main research interests include Control system theory, Distributed and decentralized control, Robust control, Power system dynamics and Renewable generation. Contact: smorovat@vols.utk.edu


                    
                     Tumin Wu 
                    
                        
                    
                    
                         Tumin Wu graduated from Jilin University in 2017 and got his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering. He joined University of Illinois at Chicago in 2016 as an exchange student and graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago in 2018 and got M.S degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are control theory and statistical signal processing. Contact: twu19@vols.utk.edu



                     Nedas Jakstas 
                    
                        
                    
                    
                         Nedas is an undergraduate student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville pursuing a Master's in Electrical Engineering, with a concentration in Controls and anticipated graduation year of 2018. Contact: njakstas@utk.edu


                     Post-Doc  
                     Dr. Fatima Zohra Taousser 
                    
                        
                    
                    
                    Dr. Fatima Zohra Taousser received her PhD in Applied Mathematics in 2015 from the University of Valenciennes et du Hainaut Cambrésis, France. She received her Magister and Bachelor degree from the University of Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria, in 2009 and 1999 respectively. Her areas of interest include time scale theory, stability of switched systems on non-uniform time domain, stability of switched systems on stochastic time scale, commnication network and application in wide area network in power systems. She is currently a Post doctorate student of Dr Seddik Djouadi and Dr Kevin Tomsovic. Contact: ftaousse@utk.edu


                     Past students  
                    
                         Mr. Samir S. Sahyoun, Ph.D. Dissertation: Control Oriented Nonlinear Model Reduction of Distributed Parameter Systems, April 2017. Currently with Karlstad
                        
 Mr. Truman Bonds, Ph.D. Dissertation: Design and Control of Close Proximity Indirect Exposure for Nonthermal Atmospheric Pressure Plasma-Based Oxidation of Carbon Fiber Precursor, November 2016. Currently with RMX Technologies.
                        
 Mr. Jin Dong, Ph.D. Dissertation: Stochastic and Optimal Distributed Control for Energy Optimization and Spatially Invariant Systems, June 2016. Currently with Oak Ridge National laboratory.
                        
 Mrs. N. Dianne Bull Ezell, Ph.D. Dissertation: An Innovative Approach to Johnson Noise Thermometry by Means of Spectral Estimation, April 2016. Currently with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
                        
 Mr. Anis Drira, Ph.D. Dissertation: Characterization of Optimal Cyber Attacks on Control Systems, November 2015. Currently with University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI.
                        
 Mr. Shi Xiaoyu, Ph.D. Dissertation: Distributed Control of Power and Performance Management of Virtualized Web Servers, June 2015. Visiting student from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Currently with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
                    
 Mr. Cale N. Nelson, M.Sc. Thesis: Optimal Control of Energy Efficient Buildings, May 2014. Currently with Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe.
                    
 Mr. Teja Kuruganti, Ph.D. Dissertation: Techniques for Wireless Channel Modeling in Harsh Environments, November 2012. Currently with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
                    
 Mr. Xiao Ma, PhD. Dissertation: Control Design and Filtering for Wireless Networked Systems, September 2012. Currently with Western Digital.
                    
 Mr. Christopher D. Winstead, M.Sc. Thesis:  Reduced Order Modelling of the One Dimensional Burger’s Equation, November 2016. Currently with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
                    
 Mr. Mojtaba Amirkalabad, M.Sc. coursework, July 2013. Currently in Iran.
                    
 Mr. Krishna C. Kalavacharla, M.Sc. Thesis: Control and Coordination in a Networked Robotic Platform, April 2011. Currently with Broadridge.
                    
 Ms. Tasha Fernandez, M.Sc. Thesis: Analytical Computation of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Modes and n-Width Approximations for the Heat Equation with Boundary Control,” August 2010. Currently with United States Marine Corps.
                    
 Mr. Samir Sahyoun, M.Sc. Thesis: Source Localization and Boundary Tracking of Chemical Plumes, May 2009. Currently Ph.D. candidate at UT.
                    
 Mr. Mohammed Dkhiri, M.Sc. Thesis: Finite Element Galerkin Approach to the Two-Dimensional Burger’s Equation, April 2009. Currently with the Tennessee Valley Authority.
                    
 Ms. Yanyan Li, Ph.D. Dissertation: Statistical Analysis and Optimal Estimation of Wireless Fading Networks, August 2008, University of Tennessee. Currently with Universal Electronics.
                    
 Mr. Mohammed Olama, Ph.D. Dissertation: Stochastic Signal Processing and Power Control for Wireless Communication Systems, October 2007. Currently with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
                    
Mr. Yongsheng Pan, (co-supervised with Dr. Birdwell) Ph.D. Dissertation: Image Segmentation using PDE, Variational, Morphological and Probabilistic Methods, November 2007. Currently with Toshiba Medical Imaging Research Institute.
                    
Mr. Jason H. Foster, M.Sc., Thesis: Model Reduction for Aerodynamic Flow Control, April 2007. Currently with Dynatics.
                    
Mr. Kiran Jaladhi, M.Sc. Thesis: Stochastic Modeling, Estimation and Adaptive Power Control for Time Varying Long Term Fading Wireless Channels, November 2006. Currently with Intel Mobile Communications.
                    
Mr. Shoab Shajaat, M.Sc. Thesis Title: Optimal Power Control for Stochastic Wireless Fading Channels, April 2004, University of Arkansas. Currently working as a Software Engineer in Pakistan.