Dr. Philipp Braun
Senior Lecturer
School of Engineering
The Australian National University
Email: philipp.braun@anu.edu.au
Bio:
Philipp Braun received the Diploma in mathematics (equivalent to M.Sc.) from Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 2012, and the PhD degree in mathematics from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, in 2016, under the supervision of Prof. L. Grüne.
From October 2016 to August 2018, he was an Assistant Professor with the University of Bayreuth with a double affiliation with the University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia. From October 2016 to July 2020, he has been a Senior Research Associate with the University of Newcastle. Since August 2020, he holds a position with the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering.
Philipp Braun is an IEEE Senior Member; he is currently an associate editor for IFAC Automatica, IEEE Control Systems Letters and Science China Information Sciences. His main research interests include stability analysis of and controller design for constrained nonlinear dynamical systems.
Research Focus and Research Expertise:
- Stability analysis of and Lyapunov methods for nonlinear dynamical systems
- Constrained control (using control Lyapunov and control barrier functions)
- Hybrid systems and discontinuous controller designs
- Analytical performance analysis of AI and machine learning based decision making
- Nonlinear model predictive control
- (Distributed) optimization and distributed algorithm design
- Differential games
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