Group

Yuexin Bian (2021/09-)

Yuexin is a fourth-year PhD student in ECE department. Her research interests broadly lie in optimization and control, with applications in power system. Before starting at UC San Diego, she completed her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University, China.

Jie Feng (2021/09-), UC-National Lab Graduate Fellow

Jie is a fourth-year PhD student PhD student in ECE department. Jie is currently working on stability constrained reinforcement learning for voltage and frequency control problems in power systems. Before UCSD, Jie obtained bachelor in Automation Engineering from the Chu Kochen Honor College, Zhejiang University.

Luke Bhan (2022/09-), DOE CSGF Fellow

Luke is a third-year PhD student in ECE department. He is currently working on machine learning and control of dynamical systems, especially for systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). Before UCSD, Luke got his bachelors in Physics, Applied Math, and BS/MS in Computer Science, all from Vanderbilt University.

Daniela Rojas (2024/09-), Fulbright Scholar

Daniela is a first-year Ph.D. student in the ECE department, focusing her research on applying machine learning to minimize carbon emissions. She is passionate about generative AI, renewable energies, and public policy. Prior to joining UC San Diego, Daniela worked as a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. She holds both undergraduate and master's degrees from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.

Avik Ghosh (2025/08-) 

Avik is a Postdoctoral Researcher in UC San Diego ECE working with Professors Yuanyuan Shi and Sujit Dey. He got his PhD in the MAE department, also at UC San Diego, being jointly advised by Professors Jan Kleissl and Sonia Martinez, in 2025. Prior to joining UC San Diego, Avik completed his Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur in 2019. His research interests include machine learning, control theory, and optimization for efficient microgrid operation with high penetration of renewables/EVs/batteries, with additional interests in heat transfer and HVAC-R systems.