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Nikolai Matni is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in the intersection of learning, optimization, and control design within safety-critical data-driven cyber-physical systems. Nikolai completed his Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems at Caltech in June 2016. Additionally, he holds both a B.A.Sc. and an M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Prior to joining Penn, he worked as a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department and held a position as a postdoctoral scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech. His research interests include Autonomous Systems, Machine Learning, and various control system methodologies. He has received several accolades, including the NSF CAREER Award and IEEE Control Systems Society Paper Awards.
University of Pennsylvania • Philadelphia, PA
Teaching and conducting research in the field of Electrical and Systems Engineering.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Research in the field of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.
California Institute of Technology • Pasadena, CA
Research in Computing and Mathematical Sciences.
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