Biography

Dongsheng Ding is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He received the BE in Automation and ME in Control Theory and Engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2011 and 2015, the MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2017, and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, in 2022. His research interests broadly lie in optimization and control. His primary focus is the analysis and design of control or decision-making algorithms for dealing with real-world environments, e.g., safety or risk constraints, multi-agent interactions, and unknown or time-varying dynamics.

Awards and Honors

• Expert Reviewers, International Conference on Machine Learning, 2021

• Top Reviewers, International Conference on Machine Learning, 2020

• Travel Award, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2020

• Travel Award, American Control Conference, 2018, 2019

• MHI PhD Scholar Finalist, ECE, University of Southern California, 2018 & 2021

• ECE Department Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2015

• Honor for Outstanding Graduate Student, Zhejiang University, 2015

• National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of P.R. China, 2011