| Dec 08, 2025 | [ New! ] I am serving as an Area Chair for ICML 2026. |
| Oct 17, 2025 | [ New! ] “Explore-then-Commit for Nonstationary Linear Bandits with Latent Dynamics” joint work with S. Choi, Y. Jedra, M. Fazel, and S. Dean is now on arXiv! (paper, github) |
| Sep 25, 2025 | [ New! ] “Pre-trained Large Language Models Learn to Predict Hidden Markov Models In-context” joint work with Y. Dai, Z. Gao, S. Dean, and J. Sun is now accepted to NeurIPS 2025! (paper, github) |
| Aug 20, 2025 | [ New! ] Attended the 2025 Summer Workshop on Theoretical Foundations of Applied AI at UW Seattle hosted by IFDS, and presented a poster on “Finite Sample Identification of Partially Observed Bilinear Dynamical Systems” joint work with Y. Jedra, M. Fazel, and S. Dean. (paper) |
| Jul 20, 2025 | [ New! ] “Sub-optimality of the Separation Principle for Quadratic Control from Bilinear Observations” joint work with S. Choi, Y. Jedra, M. Fazel, and S. Dean is now accepted to CDC 2025! (paper) |
| Mar 15, 2025 | [ Oral! + Best paper award nominee! ] “Finite Sample Identification of Partially Observed Bilinear Dynamical Systems” joint work with Y. Jedra, M. Fazel, and S. Dean is accepted to L4DC 2025! (paper) |
| Feb 15, 2025 | [ Oral! ] “A Case Study of Low Ranked Self-Expressive Structures in Neural Network Representations” joint work with U. Saini, W. Shiao, Y. Dahiya, S. Oymak, and E. Papalexakis is accepted to CPAL 2025! (paper) |
| Jan 20, 2025 | “Learning Linear Dynamics from Bilinear Observations” joint work with Y. Jedra, and S. Dean is accepted to ACC 2025! (paper) |
| Jul 10, 2024 | Attended the Princeton Workshop on Optimization, Learning, and Control at Princeton University, and presented a poster on “Learning Linear Dynamics from Bilinear Observations” joint work with Y. Jedra, and S. Dean. (paper) |
| May 10, 2024 | Attended the Northeast Systems and Control Workshop at University of Pennsylvania, and presented a poster on “Learning Linear Dynamics from Bilinear Observations” joint work with Y. Jedra, and S. Dean. (paper) |
| Apr 08, 2024 | “Random Features Approximation for Control-Affine Systems” joint work with K. Kazemian, and S. Dean is accepted to L4DC 2024! (paper, github) |
| Sep 01, 2023 | I have joinded the Department of Computer Science at Cornell as a postdoctoral associate starting Fall 2023. I am very fortunate to be working with Prof. Sarah Dean at Cornell, and collaborating closely with Prof. Maryam Fazel at UW Seattle. |
| Aug 01, 2023 | I have successfully defended my PhD dissertation, titled “The Sample Complexity of Learning Dynamical Systems”. I am extremely grateful to my advisor Prof. Samet Oymak, my collaborators Prof. Necmiye Ozay, and Prof. Laura Balzano, and my thesis committee members Prof. Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury, and Prof. Fabio Pasqualetti. (thesis) |
| Oct 25, 2022 | Attended the 40th Southern California Control Workshop at Caltech, and gave a talk on “Finite Sample Identification of Bilinear Dynamical Systems” joint work with S. Oymak, and N. Ozay. (paper) |
| Jul 20, 2022 | “Finite Sample Identification of Bilinear Dynamical Systems” joint work with S. Oymak, and N. Ozay is accepted to CDC 2022! (paper) |
| May 30, 2022 | “Non-asymptotic and Accurate Learning of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems” joint work with S. Oymak is accepted to JMLR! (paper) |
| Jan 31, 2022 | “Certainty Equivalent Quadratic Control for Markov Jump Systems” joint work with Z. Du, D.A. Tarzanagh, L. Balzano, N. Ozay, and S. Oymak is accepted to ACC 2022! (paper) |
| Jan 31, 2022 | “Data-Driven Control of Markov Jump Systems: Sample Complexity and Regret Bounds” joint work with Z. Du, D.A. Tarzanagh, L. Balzano, N. Ozay, and S. Oymak is accepted to ACC 2022! (paper) |