Saman Cyrus

I took my PhD from the electrical and computer engineering department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and I enjoyed working with Professor Laurent Lessard. My research interests lie in the intersection of robust control and optimization.

My Resume.

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Publications

• A robust accelerated optimization algorithm for strongly convex functions (arXiv)(IEEEXplore)
  Saman Cyrus, Bin Hu, Bryan Van Scoy and Laurent Lessard
  American Control Conference, 1376–1381, Jun 2018. (Miwaukee, WI)
• Unified Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for the Robust Stability of Interconnected Sector-Bounded Systems (arXiv)
  Saman Cyrus and Laurent Lessard
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 7690-7695, December 2019. (Nice, France)
• Generalized necessary and sufficient robust boundedness results for feedback systems (arXiv)
  Saman Cyrus and Laurent Lessard
  Preprint.

Forthcoming

• A Revised Mehrotra Predictor-Corrector algorithm for Model Predictive Control (arXiv)
  Saman Cyrus, Ali Khaki Sedigh
  Preprint.

Thesis

• Stability of Interconnected Sector-bounded Systems, with Application to Designing Optimization Algorithms
  Saman Cyrus
  ECE Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2021.
• Locational Effects of Variability of Power Generation and Loads on Total Cost of Power Systems
  Saman Cyrus
  ECE Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015.
• Design of Fast Model Predictive Control Systems Using Advanced Optimization Algorithms
  Saman Cyrus
  EE Department, K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2013

Work Experience

• Senior control algorithm engineer, Johnson Controls 2020 - Present

• Intern, Apple Inc. 2020

• Graduate Research Intern, Johnson Controls, 2019 - 2020

• Graduate Assistant at UW - Madison, 2013 - 2020

• Teaching Assistant at UW - Madison, Physics Department, 2015 - 2016

• Teaching Assistant at UW - Madison, ECE Department, 2016 - 2017

• Teaching Assistant at UW - Madison, Math Department, 2016

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• M. Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• M. Sc., Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• M.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• M. Sc., Electrical Engineering-Controls, K.N.Toosi University of Technology

• B.Sc., Electrical Engineering -Controls, Iran University of Science and Technology

Other Responsibilities:

• Board Member and Treasurer, Persian Student Society of University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013- 2014

• Reviewer: International Journal of Nonlinear and Robust Rontrol, American Control Conference (ACC), Smart Grid Conference (SGC), Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), SN Applied Sciences.