Sam Coogan

About Me Ph.D. Student Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley E-mail: sam[dot]coogan[at]berkeley[dot]edu Advisor: Prof. Murat Arcak

Background

I am a third year Ph.D. student working with Dr. Murat Arcak in the Networked Dynamical Systems Group. My research is funded in part by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

I graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in May, 2010 and received a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley in May, 2012. During Summer 2012, I interned at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. I was a visiting scholar at the Lund Center for Control of Complex Engineering Systems at Lund University, Sweden during October 2012.

As an undergraduate at Georgia Tech, I completed an undergraduate thesis with Dr. Magnus Egerstedt exploring formation control methods for multiagent systems. I also was a member of Georgia Tech's team for the EcoCAR competition, an advanced vehicle technologies competition established by the DOE, and I co-oped at the Georgia Tech Research Institute for a total of four semesters.

Research Interests

My research focuses on control of multiagent and networked systems, including cooperative control of interconnected mobile agents, noncooperative control and game theory, and control synthesis for networked hybrid systems.