Bhathiya Rathnayake received his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2017. He earned his M.S. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, in 2022. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Mamadou Diagne. His current research focuses on designing resource-aware infinite-dimensional feedback laws to manage flow and reaction systems, with applications in 3D printing, water management, traffic control, and oil drilling.

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Email: brm222@ucsd.edu

Tugrul is a Ph.D. candidate working with Prof. Miroslav Krstic and Prof. Mamadou Diagne. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2015 and 2018, respectively. He was awarded the UC San Diego MAE Ph.D. Outstanding Student of the Year Award in 2024. His research interests include extremum seeking, adaptive control, disturbance estimation and rejection, and the control of PDE systems.

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Email: cyilmaz@ucsd.edu

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 first year Ph.D. student 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

Peihan Zhang is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree supervised by Professor Mamadou Diagne with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.  He received the B.E. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2019 and 2022, respectively.  His research interests include the modeling and control of  micro and macroscopic traffic systems, focusing on traffic safety and efficiency through event-based and quantization methods.

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​​​Email: pez004@ucsd.edu