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Somayeh Sojoudi
Associate Professor in Residence
Research Support
Vanessa Lopez
lopezv@berkeley.edu
Biography
Somayeh Sojoudi is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. She is a Senior Associate Editor of IEEE Systems Journal. She has served as Associate Editor for the journals of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Systems & Control Letters, IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, and IEEE Access. She has also been a member of the conference editorial board of the IEEE Control Systems Society. She has served as a senior program committee member for AAAI and as an Area Chair for NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR. She received several awards and honors, including NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, INFORMS Optimization Society Prize for Young Researchers, INFORMS Energy Best Publication Award, INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Award, and Best-of-the-Best conference paper award of IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting.
Education
2013, PhD, Control & Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology
Research Areas
Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR)
Optimization Theory (Non-Convex Optimization; Low-rank Optimization; Conic Optimization). Numerical Algorithms.
Research Centers
Teaching Schedule
EECS 127. Optimization Models in Engineering, TuTh 09:30-10:59, Stanley 105
EECS 227AT. Optimization Models in Engineering, TuTh 09:30-10:59, Stanley 105