New ✨Publication Alert📷: Learn about the potential of low-temperature plasma in upcycling animal waste! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… #lowtemperatureplasma #upcycling #nitrogenfixation #greenfertilizer

New ✨Workshop Alert📷: Dr. Ali Mesbah will be speaking at the ECC 2024 Workshop: When Bayesian optimization meets real-time control on Tuesday, June 25th, 2024. Updates, registration, and itinerary can be found on the following website: sites.google.com/view/bo2control.

New ✨Workshop Alert📷: We are excited to announce the ACC 2024 Cybermedicine Workshop on Tuesday, July 9th, 2024. Open to all American Control Conference attendees, updates and itinerary can be found on the following website: syborgs.mae.ufl.edu/research/acc24….

New ✨Publication Alert📷: See how time-varying Bayesian optimization can aid controller auto-tuning in the face of process drift for plasma-assisted semiconductor manufacturing! doi-org.libproxy.berkeley.edu/10.1016/j.comp… #bayesian #optimization #control #plasma #semiconductor

🎉Congratulations🥳: Our newest member, Thomas Banker, was selected as a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship!

New ✨Publication Alert📷: Curious on what the future holds for plasma etching for microelectronics? Find out here! doi.org/10.1116/6.0003… #plasma #microelectronics #semiconductor #machine #ML #AI

New ✨Publication Alert📷: Designing embedded control policies requires algorithmic design and hardware implementation decisions. Learn about Bayesian optimization as a framework for co-design here! doi.org/10.1109/TCST.2… #embedded #control #codesign #Bayesian #optimization

New ✨Publication Alert📷: Efficient Performance-based MPC Tuning in High Dimensions using Bayesian Optimization over Sparse Subspaces. Learn about BO for MPC tuning with many parameters here! cello-blueberry-n67w.squarespace.com/s/kudva2024eff… #autotuning #control #Bayesian #optimization

New ✨Publication Alert📷: Time-varying Bayesian optimization for MPC calibration for run-to-run drifting systems: A study on discrete-temporal kernels. Learn about MPC auto-tuning via BO for time-varying systems! doi.org/10.1016/j.ifac… #MPC #timevarying #Bayesian #optimization

New ✨Publication Alert📷: Stability-informed Bayesian optimization for MPC cost function learning. Learn about BO for optimizing MPC performance with safety considerations! doi.org/10.1016/j.ifac… #Lyapunov #stability #Bayesian #optimization

New ✨Publication Alert📷: Nitrogen accountancy in space agriculture. Learn about space agriculture modeling to account for the nitrogen dependence of crops! doi.org/10.1038/s41526… #closedloop #space #agriculture #nitrogen #modeling #GSA

New✨Publication Alert📷: A Cold Atmospheric Plasma Sensor for Identification and Differentiation of Biological Tissues. Learn about cold atmospheric plasmas for real-time tissue identification! doi.org/10.1109/TRPMS.… #plasma #ml #diagnostics #tissue #classification

Upcoming 🎙️Conference Presentation🎙️: Preference-based Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization with Gradients. Josh will be speaking on his work at the NeurIPS workshop on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty tomorrow, December 14th. gp-seminar-series.github.io/neurips-2024/

New✨Publication Alert📷: Data-Driven Discovery of Sparse Dimensionless Numbers and Nondimensional Relations for Low-Temperature Plasmas. See how dimensionless relationships can be discovered from process data! doi.org/10.1088/1361-6… #dimensionless #scaling #plasma

New✨Publication Alert📷: Coactive Preference-Guided Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization: An Application to Policy Learning in Personalized Plasma Medicine. Learn how to incorporate user preferences in BO! doi.org/10.1109/LCSYS.… #Bayesian #optimization #plasma

New✨Publication Alert📷: Gradient-Based Framework for Bilevel Optimization of Black-Box Functions: Synergizing Model-Free Reinforcement Learning and Implicit Function Differentiation. doi.org/10.1021/acs.ie… #bilevel #optimization #reinforcement #learning

❗️Call for Papers❗️: An upcoming special issue in Control Engineering Practice aims to collect novel Bayesian optimization approaches for the optimization and tuning of industrial and personalized systems and processes. For more information, please see: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…

New📰Publication Alert📰: Interpretable attention-based transfer learning in plasma catalysis: a study on the role of surface charge. See how thermal catalysis DFT can transfer to plasma catalysis! doi.org/10.1039/D4EY00… #Plasma #Catalysis #DFT #MachineLearning #TransferLearning

🌟Congratulations🌟: Tommy received second place in the CAST Directors’ Student Presentation Awards, presenting his work “MPCritic: A Unified Framework for MPC and Reinforcement Learning” at the 2025 AIChE Annual Meeting. The full paper can be found here: arxiv.org/abs/2504.01086

New✨Publication Alert📷: MPCritic: A Plug-and-Play MPC Architecture for Reinforcement Learning. static1.squarespace.com/static/5d4488d… #Control #ReinforcementLearning #MachineLearning