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Paul Goulart Associate Professor of Engineering Science

Professor

Paul Goulart MSc (MIT) PhD (Camb)

Associate Professor of Engineering Science

Tutorial Fellow at St Edmund Hall

TEL: 01865 273105

Biography

Professor Paul Goulart joined the University of Oxford in 2014 as an Associate Professor in Engineering Science. He received his SB and MSc degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Following his undergraduate studies he was a software developer in the flight operations centre for the Chandra X-Ray Observatory at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, and later an engineer in the Autonomous Systems group at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.

In 2003, Paul was selected as a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where he received a PhD in Control Engineering in 2007. From 2007 to 2011 he was a Lecturer in control systems in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London, and from 2011 to 2014 a Senior Researcher in the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich. He is a member of the Control Group in the department of Engineering Science.

Most Recent Publications

Control of Cross-Directional Systems with Approximate Symmetries

Control of Cross-Directional Systems with Approximate Symmetries

Control of Cross-Directional Systems with Approximate Symmetries

Control of Cross-Directional Systems with Approximate Symmetries

Burer-Monteiro ADMM for large-scale SDPs

Burer-Monteiro ADMM for large-scale SDPs

Personalized incentives as feedback design in generalized Nash equilibrium problems

Personalized incentives as feedback design in generalized Nash equilibrium problems

The Past Does Matter: Correlation of Subsequent States in Trajectory Predictions of Gaussian Process Models

The Past Does Matter: Correlation of Subsequent States in Trajectory Predictions of Gaussian Process Models

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Research Interests

Paul’s research interests are mainly in robust and high speed optimisation and control, with a wide range of application areas including fluid flows, economics and traffic networks.

Research Groups

Most Recent Publications

Control of Cross-Directional Systems with Approximate Symmetries

Control of Cross-Directional Systems with Approximate Symmetries

Control of Cross-Directional Systems with Approximate Symmetries

Control of Cross-Directional Systems with Approximate Symmetries

Burer-Monteiro ADMM for large-scale SDPs

Burer-Monteiro ADMM for large-scale SDPs

Personalized incentives as feedback design in generalized Nash equilibrium problems

Personalized incentives as feedback design in generalized Nash equilibrium problems

The Past Does Matter: Correlation of Subsequent States in Trajectory Predictions of Gaussian Process Models

The Past Does Matter: Correlation of Subsequent States in Trajectory Predictions of Gaussian Process Models

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DPhil Opportunities

I am interested in supervising research students working in control engineering and optimisation.

Most Recent Publications

Control of Cross-Directional Systems with Approximate Symmetries

Control of Cross-Directional Systems with Approximate Symmetries

Control of Cross-Directional Systems with Approximate Symmetries

Control of Cross-Directional Systems with Approximate Symmetries

Burer-Monteiro ADMM for large-scale SDPs

Burer-Monteiro ADMM for large-scale SDPs

Personalized incentives as feedback design in generalized Nash equilibrium problems

Personalized incentives as feedback design in generalized Nash equilibrium problems

The Past Does Matter: Correlation of Subsequent States in Trajectory Predictions of Gaussian Process Models

The Past Does Matter: Correlation of Subsequent States in Trajectory Predictions of Gaussian Process Models

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