Hak is from Seoul, South Korea, and is a Ph.D. student co-advised by Professor Mamadou Diagne and Professor Miroslav Krstić. He received his B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020. His research includes safety-critical control, with a focus on designing efficient Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) for applications such as safe aircraft carrier on-deck traffic control and aerial pursuit.

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Email: kwk001@ucsd.edu

Eranda is from Kandy, Sri Lanka. He is a Ph.D. student since 2022 in Professor Mamadou Diagne’s research group. He got his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2020 and then worked as a teaching assistant at the same University from 2020 to 2022. His research is focused on control of sedimentation in river channels for the ecological preservation of the riverbed and long term operation of dams.

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Email: eranda@ucsd.edu

Shuheng Zhang is an Oxford graduated mathematician with an interest in control theory. He got his B.Sc. in Pure Math from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, in 2024, and M.Sc. in Mathematics (with Distinction) from University of Oxford in 2025. He is now pursuing Ph.D. at UC San Diego under the supervision of Prof. Mamadou Diagne and Prof. Miroslav Krstić. His research interests span partial differential equations, control systems, and stochastic analysis, with current work focusing on control-theoretic approaches in mathematical biology.​​​

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Email: shz132@ucsd.edu