News from the Laboratory for Control, Learning, and Systems Biology at Northeastern University

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General News

  • Congratulations to all authors: Editors' Choice for Automatica two awards:
    December 2025: Convergence analysis of gradient flow for overparameterized LQR formulations, Arthur Castello B. de Oliveira, Milad Siami, Eduardo D. Sontag. [Volume 182, December 2025, 112504]
    June 2025: Properties of immersions for systems with multiple limit sets with implications to learning Koopman embeddings, Zexiang Liu, Necmiye Ozay, Eduardo D. Sontag [Volume 176, June 2025, 112226]
  • Jan 2026 news: Three papers accepted to ACC 2026:
    Small-covariance noise-to-state stability of stochastic systems and its applications to stochastic gradient dynamics, L. Cui and Z.P. Jiang and E. D. Sontag
    Modular machine learning with applications to genetic circuit composition, J. Wang and E.D. Sontag and D. Del Vecchio
    On the (almost) global exponential convergence of overparameterized policy optimization for the {LQR} problem, M.K. Wafi and A.C.B de Oliveira and E.D. Sontag
  • Jan 2026 news: Paper accepted to L4DC'26:
    On the convergence of overparameterized problems: Inherent properties of the compositional structure of neural networks, A.C.B de Oliveira and D.D. Jatkar and E.D. Sontag,
  • Eduardo Sontag elected to Argentina's Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, FĂ­sicas y Naturales, July 2025.
  • Eduardo Sontag elected to National Academy of Sciences, April 2025.
  • Eduardo Sontag elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, April 2024.

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