Students

Current Students

Richard Linares

Chris Nebelecky

Mike Andrle

Matthias Schmid

William Banas

Matthew Whittaker

Adonis Pimienta-Peñalver

Former Students

Sean Semper

Jemin George

Jay Kim

Prospective Students

If you are interested in working with me, please feel free to contact me (psingla at buffalo_dot_edu). However, before contacting me, please make sure you go through this website and find out what it is exactly that you want to work on. In particular, I look for students with good background in computational methods, mathematics, applied probability, celestial mechanics and nonlinear control. Though not absolutely necessary, good skills in Matlab, C/C++ and Java would be a great plus. I look forward to hearing from you!

I believe that my success lies in seeing my students succeed and I experience it when I see my students achieve their professional goals.

Special Achievements of My Students

• Best student paper travel award for paper entitled "Decision Based Uncertainty Propagation Using Adaptive Gaussian Mixtures" in 2009 International Conference on Information Fusion.
• 2009 Sigma Xi Research Award for poster entitled "VERTIGO: autonomous biaxial inverted pendulum."
• 1 Space Scholar Research Fellows.
• 4 Undergraduates NASA Space Grant Fellows.
• 2 SUNY Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (SUNY LSAMP) Undergrad Students.

Ph.D. Students

Cheng Jin Topic: A Hierarchical Multi-Functional Approach for Scattered-Data Approximation.	Summer 2008-Present
Jemin George Dissertation Title: An Adaptive Disturbance Accommodation Approach for Robust Control and Fault Detection in Uncertain Stochastic Systems.	Grad. Date: May 2010

Master of Science Students

Kumar Vishwajeet	Fall 2010-Present
Tae Wook Lee	Fall 2010-Present
Reza Madankan Topic: A Multiresolution Approach for Modeling of Spatio-Temporal Diffusion Phenomenon.	Fall 2008-Present
Daniel Giza (Space Scholar (Summer 2009)) Topic: Convex Optimization Based Approach for High Fidelity Uncertainty Propagation Through Nonlinear Dynamic Systems	Summer 2008 --Present
Thomas Leach Topic: Control System Design for UAV Formation Flying.	Spring 2008-Present
Asad Ali Thesis Title: Polynomial Chaos based Approach for State Limited Robust Control of Systems with Parametric Uncertainty	Grad. Date: Sep. 2009. Ph.D. Student at Michigan Ann-Arbor
Jonathan Missel (Presidential Fellow) Thesis Title: Design Development and Control of Mobile Biaxial Inverted Pendulum.	Grad. Date: Sep. 2009. Ph.D. Student at Texas A&M
Chen Lin Thesis Title: A Global Local Approach for Optimal Trajectory Generation.	Grad. Date: Sep. 2009. Ph.D. Student at University of Toronto
S. G. Manyam Thesis Title: Adaptive Sequential Linear Programming for Optimal Control Profiles.	Grad. Date: Sep. 2008. Ph.D. Student at Texas A&M
Baro Hyun Thesis Title: State Estimation for Vision-Based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping of Unmanned Vehicles.	Grad. Date: Sep. 2008. Ph.D. Student at Michigan Ann-Arbor
Subramaniam Iyer Thesis Title: Time Optimal Trajectory Generation for a Differential Drive Robot.	Grad. Date: Sep. 2008.
Christopher Wirz Project Title: Multi-Input Modeling using Sparsity Constraints with Global-Local Approximation.	Grad. Date: Sep. 2008. Lockheed Martin

Undergraduate Students

Osaka Shepherd (CSTEP Intern)	Summer 2010 - Current
Ron Heichman (CSTEP Intern, Zimmer Research Scholar)	Summer 2009 - Current
Carl Javier	Summer 2010 - Current
Xue Ian Wang	Summer 2010 - Current
Tae Wook Lee (Zimmer Research Scholar)	Graduate Student at University at Buffalo.
Geoffrey Hahn (Zimmer Research Scholar, NASA Space Grant Fellow)	Graduate Student at University of Washington, Seattle.
Rohan Sood (Zimmer Research Scholar)	Graduate Student at Purdue University.
Jonathan Missel (Zimmer Research Scholar, NASA Space Grant Fellow, Senior Scholarship Recipient)	Ph.D. Student at Texas A&M.
Kurt A. Cavalieri (Senior Scholarship Recipient)	Ph. D. Student at Texas A&M.
Thomas Leach (Zimmer Research Scholar, NASA Space Grant Fellow)	Graduate Student at University at Buffalo.
Michael Rausch (Zimmer Research Scholar)	Moog.
Vincent Koomson (SUNY LSAMP)	.