Sze Zheng Yong
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Affiliated Faculty,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact
- s.yong@northeastern.edu
- 334 SN
360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Office
- 355 SN
Research Focus
Control, estimation, planning, learning and analysis of hybrid systems, with applications to autonomous, robotic and cyber-physical dynamic systems and their safety, robustness and resilience.
Education
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010
- Dipl.-Ing. (FH), Automotive Engineering–Mechatronics/Control Systems, Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, Germany, 2008
Honors & Awards
- COE Faculty Fellow 2026
- George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper Award 2023
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award 2022
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Early Career Faculty Award 2020
- National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award 2020
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award 2018
Research Overview
Control, estimation, planning, learning and analysis of hybrid systems, with applications to autonomous, robotic and cyber-physical dynamic systems and their safety, robustness and resilience.
Selected Research Projects
- Distributed Coordination of Autonomous Swarms with Limited or Absent Communication and Intermittent Data
- – PI, Young Investigator Program Award, Office of Naval Research, 2022
- Coordinated Multi-Robot-Chain for Terrain Estimation and Exploration
- – PI, Early Career Faculty Award, NASA, 2020
- CAREER: Towards Non-Conservative Learning-Aided Robustness for Cyber-Physical Safety and Security
- – PI, National Science Foundation, 2020
- Identification and Estimation of Swarm Intent via Partitions of System Dynamics
- – PI, Young Faculty Award, DARPA, 2018
Selected Publications
- Khajenejad, M. and Yong, S.Z. “Tight Remainder-Form Decomposition Functions with Applications to Constrained Reachability and Guaranteed State Estimation.” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2023.
- Jin, Z., Khajenejad, M., and Yong, S.Z. “Robust Data-Driven Control Barrier Functions for Unknown Continuous Control Affine Systems.” IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 1039–1314, 2023.
- Pati, T., Khajenejad, M., Daddala, S.P., and Yong, S.Z. “L1-Robust Interval Observer Design for Uncertain Nonlinear Dynamical Systems.” IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 3475– 3480, 2022.
- Hassaan, S.M., Shen, Q. and Yong, S.Z. “Path-Dependent Controller and Estimator Synthesis with Robustness to Delayed and Missing Data.” International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, Nashville, TN, vol. 22, pp. 1-11, 2021.
- Paden, B., Cap, M., Yong, S.Z., Yershov, D., Frazzoli, E. “A survey of motion planning and control techniques for self-driving urban vehicles.” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 33-55, 2016.
Jan 29, 2026
Faculty and Staff Awards 2026
Faculty and staff were recognized at the 28th Annual College of Engineering Faculty and Staff Awards for their exceptional service and dedication in support of students, the COE community, and the university during the 2025-2026 academic year.
Sep 29, 2022
Yong Receives ONR YIP Award To Help Create Autonomous Navy Ships
MIE Associate Professor Sze Zheng Yong was awarded a $750,000 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award for “Distributed Coordination of Autonomous Swarms With Limited or Absent Communication and Intermittent Data.”
Aug 17, 2022
New Faculty Spotlight: Sze Zheng Yong
Sze Zheng Yong joins the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department in August 2022 as an Associate Professor.