Sze Zheng Yong
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Research Focus
Control, estimation, identification and analysis of autonomous, robotic and cyber-physical systems
Education
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010
Honors & Awards
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award 2023
- 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, identification and analysis of autonomous, robotic and cyber-physical systems
Selected Research Projects
- Distributed Coordination of Autonomous Swarms with Limited or Absent Communication and Intermittent Data
- – PI, Office of Naval Research
- 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
- Liu, C., Shen, Q., Niu, R. and Yong, S.Z. \Integrated Passive-Active Model Identication
with Tunable Model Discrimination for Ane Discrete-Time Systems.” IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2022, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2021.3135029. - Niu, R., Hassaan, S.M., Yang, L., Jin, Z. and Yong, S.Z. \Model Discrimination of Switched Nonlinear Systems with Temporal Logic-Constrained Switching.” IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 151-156, 2022.
- Hassaan, S.M., Shen, Q., and Yong, S.Z. \Equalized Recovery State Estimators for Linear Systems with Delayed and Missing Observations.” IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 85-90, 2022.
- Khajenejad, M., Jin, Z. and Yong, S.Z. \State and Unknown Terrain Estimation for Planetary Rovers via Interval Observers.” Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2100040, 2021 (Invited Paper).
- Huang, Y., Yong, S.Z. and Chen, Y. \Safety Control of Autonomous Ground Vehicles Using Control-Dependent Barrier Functions.” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 699-710, 2021
Sep 29, 2022
Yong Receives ONR YIP Award to Help Create Autonomous Navy Ships
MIE Associate Professor Sze Zheng Yong was awarded a $750K Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award for “Distributed Coordination of Autonomous Swarms with Limited or Absent Communication and Intermittent Data.” Yong is one of only twenty-five to share nearly $17.5 million in funding to conduct innovative scientific research that will benefit science and technology for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
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.