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

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

Department Research Areas

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.

Faculty

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.”