Lab

The Hybrid Systems Laboratory (HSL) at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Cruz, focuses on the analysis of hybrid dynamical systems and the design of hybrid feedback control algorithms. The research approach is mainly theoretical with numerical validation via simulations (though experimental validations of findings at an on-site testbed are performed at times). Particular emphasis is given to dynamical systems with nonlinear hybrid dynamics, cyber-physical systems, and feedback systems with decision-making strategies emerging in the areas of robotics, aerospace, power systems, and biology.

For details and application procedures, please go here.

Director

Ricardo G. Sanfelice, Ph.D. Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California Santa Cruz 1156 High Street  MS:SOE3 Santa Cruz, CA 95064  Tel: (831) 459-1016 Url: http://hybrid.soe.ucsc.edu Email: r...@ucsc.edu

Postdoctoral Researchers

	Himadri Basu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher Email: hbasu@ucsc.edu
	Daniel E. Ochoa, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher Email: dochoa14@ucsc.edu

Graduate Students 

Undergraduate Students                          

	Ishan Madan Undergraduate Student Email: imadan1@ucsc.edu
	Indy Spott Undergraduate Student Email: espott@ucsc.edu
	Kevin Sandoval Undergraduate Student Email: ksandov4@ucsc.edu
	Cédric Chartier Undergraduate Student Email: cchartie@ucsc.edu
	Akhil Datla Undergraduate Student Email: adatla@ucsc.edu
	Chetan Thunga Undergraduate Student Email: cthunga@ucsc.edu
	Tharuka Kodituwakku Undergraduate Student Email: tkodituw@ucsc.edu
	Beverly Xu High School Intern Email: xu21beve@gmail.com

 

Alumni

Neili Hu (B.S. 2023).

Jake Nations , now at Azul Bio (B.S. 2023).

Dr. Ryan Johnson, now at JPL (Ph.D. 2023).

Xi Luo (M.S. 2023).

Zachary Lamb, now at Lockheed Martin (M.S. 2023).

Eric Partika, now at Tesla (M.S. 2022).

Jack Anthenien (B.S. 2022).

Jovita Martinez, now at Cisco (B.S. 2022).

Dr. Adeel Akhtar (Postdoc 2022).

Dr. Kunal Garg (Postdoc 2022).

Dr. Dawn Hustig-Schultz, now at Supernal (Ph.D. 2022).

Harsh Bhakta, now at ArgoAI (M.S. 2021).

Dr. Berk Altin, now at NVIDIA (Postdoc 2021).

Dr. Adnane Saoud, now at Supelec(Postdoc 2020).

Dr. Mohamed Maghenem, now at University of Grenoble, Alpes(Postdoc 2020).

Dr. Marcello Guarro, now at Zoox (Ph.D. 2021).

Dr. Hyejin Han, now at STMicroelectronics (Ph.D. 2021).

Adam Ames, now at Rain (M.S. 2021).

David Kooi, now at Dirac Solutions (M.S. 2020).

Haoyue Gao (M.S. 2019).

Roger Berman, now at Zoox (M.S. 2019).

Dr. Nathalie Risso, now at University of Arizona (Ph.D. 2019).

Dr. Malladi BharaniPrabha (Ph.D. 2019), now at Ford Motor Company.

Yegeta Zeleke (M.S. 2019), now at Intel.

Brendan Short (M.S. 2018).

Dr. Jun Chai (Ph.D. 2018), now at SSL.

Jeremy Crowley (B.S. 2018).

Daniel Lavell (M.S. 2018), now at SSL.

Dr. Sean Phillips (Ph.D. 2017), now at Air Force Research Lab - Space Vehicles Directorate.

Sumukh Atreya (M.S. 2017).

Dr. Francesco Ferrante (Postdoc 2016 - 2017), Gipsa-lab, France.

Kevin-Patxi Le Bras (M.S. 2017), now at InspecTools.

Calvin John (B.S. 2017), now at UCLA.

Dr. Pedro Casau (Ph.D. 2017), now at Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal.

Dr. Jeffery Koessler (Ph.D. 2017), now at Raytheon.

Dr. Pablo Nanez (Ph.D. 2017), now at Carnegie Mellon University@ Robotics Institute.

Dr. Yuchun Li (Ph.D. 2016), now at Google.

Alexander Jacobs (M.S. 2013), now at Understory.

Xiaolu Tian (M.S. 2013), now at Shandong Luneng Intelligence Technology Co, Ltd, China.

Qin Shu (M.S. 2013).

Manuel Robles (M.S. 2012), now at Northrop Grumman.

David Copp (B.S. 2011), now at UCSB.

Visitors

Xianle Zeng, Undergraduate Student, Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, China. September - October 2024.

Hyung Tae Choi, Graduate Student, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea. April - October 2024.

Gia Quoc Bao TRAN, Graduate Student, Mines Paris - PSL, France. April - June 2023.

Tommy Snijders, Graduate Student, University of Technology Eindhoven, Netherlands. September - November 2022.

Jan de Priester, Graduate Student, University of Technology Eindhoven, Netherlands. August - October 2019.

Alessandro Melis, Graduate Student, University of Bologna, Italy. October 2018 - March 2019.

Dr. Pauline Bernard, Postdoctoral Researcher, MINES ParisTech, France. January 2018 - May 2018.

Giulia Zucchini, Graduate Student, University of Bologna, Italy. August 2017 - February 2018.

Luca Torquati, Graduate Student, Universita Di Trento, Italy. September 2016 - March 2017.

Dr. Laurent Praly, Professor, ParisTech, Ecole des Mines, France. August 2016.

Dr. Stephan Trenn, Jun.-Prof., Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany. August 2016.

Dr. Jonathan Sprinkle, Associate Professor, University of Arizona, United States. August 2016.

Dr. Benjamin Biemond, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Leuven, Belgium. August 2016.

Dr. Nathan Van De Wouw, Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. August 2016.

Dr. Xuyang Lou, Associate Professor, Jiangnan University, P.R. China. July 2014 - February 2015.

Pablo Nanez, Graduate Student, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia. August 2012 - present.

Francesco Ferrante, Graduate Student, LAAS, Toulouse, France. July - August 2014.

Pedro Casau, Graduate Student, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal. September - December 2011. April 2013 - June 2013.

Francesco Fichera, Graduate Student, LAAS, Toulose, France. January - March 2013.

Thomas Theunisse, Graduate Student, Tu/e, The Netherlands. August - December 2012.

Dr. Roberto Naldi, Assistant Professor, University of Bologna, Italy. October 2010.

Qian Ye, Graduate Student, Jiangnan University, China. September 2010 - September 2011.

 

Interest in Our Research?

Thank you for your interest in the research at the Hybrid Systems Lab!

If you would like to be considered for a position in our lab, I suggest the following:

1. Read the first 20 pages of the article [34] at the "publications" page of our website (https://hybrid.soe.ucsc.edu/biblio) to get a better idea of our work.
2. Read the section "Simulation in Matlab/Simulink" of article [34].
3. Download the simulator files in the "software" page of our website (https://hybrid.soe.ucsc.edu/software) and simulate a hybrid system that you are interested in.
4. Prepare a LaTeX document describing the model of your interest, explaining the simulation results, and describing potential dynamical properties to study (e.g., stability, attractivity, robustness, etc.), and provide an outline of a possible analysis approach.

You are also encouraged to read other papers, project descriptions, etc. posted at our website.

Then, email me a report in pdf format with the following sections:

a) A one-page summary describing your interests on theoretical research. Call this section "Research Interests."

b) A one-page summary describing the relationship of your interests and the research at the Hybrid Systems Lab, and your initial ideas on the problems you would like to work on. Call this section "Preliminary Research Plan."

c) The LaTeX document you generated in item 4 above. Call this section "Initial Results."

d) A description of your qualifications. Please include a list of publications, reports, monographs, etc. you have written and attach to your email copies of two representative ones. Call this section "Qualifications."