NESCW'26 Posters

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1	Session	First Name	Last Name	Institution	Poster Title	Poster Station
2	1	Sreejeet	Maity	North Carolina State University, Raleigh	Byzantine-Robust Federated Q-Learning	1
3	1	Sourav	Ganguly	New Jersey Institute of Technology	Optimistic, yet prepared: Learning decisions that survive adversity.	2
4	1	Kausar	Moshood	Oregon State University	RESTLocator: Fault Localization for Heterogeneous defects in REST API Systems	3
5	1	Kartik	Pandit	New Jersey Institute of Technology	The Safety Knight: Certifiable Methods for Safer Language Models	4
6	1	Bikash	Pal	University of Connecticut	Quantum Machine Learning for False Data Injection Attack Detection in Smart Grids	5
7	1	Armita	Kazeminajafabadi	Northeastern University	Are Trajectory Classifiers Robust to Sequential Attacks? A Reinforcement Learning Approach	6
8	1	Ali	Baheri	Rochester Institute of Technology	Federated Distributional Reinforcement Learning	7
9	1	Mohamadamin	Rajabinezhad	University of Connecticut	Attack-Resilient CLF–CBF Framework for Nonlinear Systems Under Unbounded Cyber Attacks	8
10	1	Nesa	Shams	University of Connecticut	Attack-Resilient CLF-Based Control of Quadrotors Under Unbounded Actuator-Channel Attacks	9
11	1	Arman	Moradpour	University of Connecticut	Deep Reinforcement Learning for Security Constraint Unit Commitment optimization	10
12	1	Leonardo Felipe	Toso	Columbia University	Physics-informed learning under mixing: How physical knowledge speeds up learning	11
13	1	Hamza	Tariq	New Jersey Institute of Technology	Decentralized Safe Path Following for Multiple Quadrotors on Intersecting Paths	12
14	1	Zhaofeng	Wang	Northwestern University	SENTINEL - Multi-Level Formal Framework for Safety Evaluation of Foundation Model-based Embodied Agents	13
15	1	Rhythm	Chandak	University of Pennsylvania	Racing with Physics: Neuro-Symbolic Dynamics Learning for Model-Based RL	14
16	1	Vaibhav	Thakkar	University of Pennsylvania	Model-Based RL with Symbolic Priors for Contact Locomotion	15
17	1	Hamed	Ajorlou	University of Rochester	BUILD with precision: Bottom-Up Inference of Linear DAGs	16
18	1	Liudong	Chen	Columbia University	A Prudent Framework for Understanding Risk-Awareness in Demand Response	17
19	1	Arman	Ibrayeva	Cornell University	Interventional motion planning for navigation in crowded environments	18
20	1	Houston	Claure	Yale University	Insights on Designing for Fairness and Safety in Human-Robot Interactions	19
21	1	Shilpa	Mukhopadhyay	New Jersey Institute of Technology	Robust Peak-cost Constrained Reinforcement Learning	20
22	1	Hyun Joe	Jeong	Carnegie Mellon University	Steering Vision-Language Action Models with Language Controllers	21
23	1	Md Mizanur	Rahman	Auburn University	AI‑Powered Solar Power Forecasting: From Raw Data to Reliable Predictions	22
24	1	Amirhosein	Chahe	Drexel University	PiJEPA: Policy-Guided World Model Planning for Language-Conditioned Visual Navigation	23
25	1	Jixian	Liu	Johns Hopkins University	Safety-Critical Control via Recurrent Tracking Functions	24
26	1	Maryam	Soleymani	Louisiana State University	Minimizing the Total Cost of Data Center Cooling: A Robust Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach with Domain Randomization	25
27	1	Mahdi	Bonyani	Louisiana State University	Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Data Center Cooling Control: Decomposing Hybrid Action Spaces for Improved Energy Optimization	26
28	1	Krishna	Suresh	Carnegie Mellon University	Learning Deformable Object Manipulation Using Task-Level Iterative Learning Control	27
29	1	Nick-Marios	Kokolakis	University of Pennsylvania	Adversarial Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Robust Optimal Safe Predefined-Time Stabilization: A Game-Theoretic Approach	28
30	1	Bhathiya	Rathnayake	Johns Hopkins University	Grid-Forming Control with Assignable Voltage Regulation Guarantees and Safety Critical Current Limiting	29
31	1	Yahya	Sattar	Cornell University	Two-Layer Linear Auto-Regressive Models Estimate Latent States	30
32	1	David	Snyder	University of Pennsylvania	Physics-Informed Learning of Feedback-Linearizing Representations	31
33	1	Jin	Schofield	Princeton University	Don’t Explore What You Already Know: Pattern-Seeking Exploration Via Temporal Invariance	32
34	1	Liza	Dahiya	Carnegie Mellon University	Uncertainty in Video Action Models	33
35	1	Yuyang	Zhang	Harvard University	Diffusion Policies for Improved Exploration in Online Reinforcement Learning	34
36	1	Junwon	Seo	Carnegie Mellon University	Steering Uncertain World Models using Noise Optimization Enables Robust Planning	35
37	1	Haitong	Ma	Harvard University	SiMPO: Measure Matching for Online Diffusion Reinforcement Learning	36
38	1	Jainik	Mehta	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Adaptive Safety Bounds: RL-Tuned CBF constraints for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance using NMPC	37
39	1	Zirui	Zang	University of Pennsylvania	Lagrange model for learning model predictive control	38
40	1	Luke	Snow	Cornell University	Efficient Neural SDE Training using Wiener Space Cubature	39
41	1	Grant	Ruan	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Flow Matching for Stochastic Policies in Reinforcement Learning	40
42	1	Feras	Al Taha	Cornell University	Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Risk-Sensitive Estimation Using Conditional Value-at-Risk	41
43	1	Tom	Dubnov	Princeton University	Detecting Cyber-Physical Telemetry Attacks with Domain-Constrained Cross-Signal Imputation	42
44	1	Ian Xul	Belaustegui	Princeton University	A continuous flow relaxation of the linear threshold model	43
45	1	Nicolas	Lizarralde	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Heuristic-Guided Learning for Online Path Planning	44
46	1	BuQing	Ou	Carnegie Mellon University	Can Tabular Foundation Models Guide Exploration in Robot Policy Learning?	45
47	1	Louis	Nel	Carnegie Mellon University	SideKIC: Rapid, Expressive and Closed-Form Failure Prediction for Learned Control Policies	46
48	2	Zizhe	Zhang	University of Pennsylvania	Viability-Preserving Passive Torque Control	1
49	2	Ariana	Haghighi	Columbia University	Two-Layer Hierarchical Receding Horizon Optimal Power Flow with Storage Scheduling	2
50	2	Kasra	Fallah	Columbia University	On the gradient domination of LQG problem	3
51	2	Tesshu	Fujinami	University of Pennsylvania	History-dependent policy gradient for LQR with Domain Randomization	4
52	2	Promise	Ekpo	Cornell University	AdaFair-MARL: Enforcing Adaptive Fairness Constraints in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning	5
53	2	Viet-Anh	Le	University of Pennsylvania	Learning to Optimize and Its Applications in Control	6
54	2	Alok	Shah	University of Pennsylvania	Optimization for Test-Time Performance, not Validation Loss	7
55	2	Keshawn	Smith	University of Connecticut	Robust and Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Communication for Autonomous Vehicles: From Simulation to Hardware	8
56	2	Jiguang	Yu	Boston University	Sparse Leader Control in Delayed Stochastic Multi-Agent Systems	9
57	2	Ye	Liang	University of Iowa	Supervisory Control of Delay Disclosure in Partially Observed Tandem Service Systems	10
58	2	Lakshitha	Ramanayake	Rutgers University	LSR Structured Ridge Regression for Matrix Covariates with Applications in Neuroimaging	11
59	2	Guruprerana	Shabadi	University of Pennsylvania	Auction-based Online Policy Adaptation for Evolving Objectives	12
60	2	Zhongqi	Wei	Carnegie Mellon University	Global Sampling-Based Trajectory Optimization for Contact-Rich Manipulation via KernelSOS	13
61	2	Hassan	Iqbal	University of Texas at Austin	Zero-Shot Function Encoder-Based Differentiable Predictive Control	14
62	2	Tianchonghui	Fang	University of Connecticut	Cooperative Multi-Agent Navigation in Unknown Environments via Incremental Tree Repair and Shared Wall Discovery	15
63	2	Liang	Wu	Johns Hopkins University	piMPC: A Parallel-in-horizon and Construction-free NMPC Solver	16
64	2	Pengbo	Zhu	Cornell University	Delivery with a mission: Cooperative Detour Planning for Dual-Task Drone Fleets	17
65	2	Anne	Somalwar	University of Pennsylvania	Statistical Efficiency of Single- and Multi-step Models	18
66	2	Chris	Verhoek	University of Pennsylvania	A Quantitative Framework for Navigating Controller Design Tradeoffs under Computational Constraints	19
67	2	Ada	Yildirim	Dartmouth College	Objective Misspecification in Model Predictive Game Controllers: Stability and Sensitivity Analysis	20
68	2	Gobinda Chandra	Sarker	University at Albany, SUNY	Risk-Aware Hosting Capacity Analysis for Flexible Load Interconnection in Distribution Networks	21
69	2	Ana	Jain	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Nature-Inspired Self-Organization in Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems	22
70	2	Jasmine Jerry	Aloor	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Decentralized Autonomous Traffic Management through Corridor Networks	24
71	2	Geoffrey	Ding	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Externalities of Prioritization in Routing Games	25
72	2	Hamza	Mahmood	New Jersey Institute of Technology	A Geometric Solution of the Schrödinger Bridge Problem on SO(2) via Stochastic Optimal Control	26
73	2	Burak	Aydin	Princeton University	Fare Game: A Mean Field Model of Stochastic Intensity Control in Dynamic Ticket Pricing	27
74	2	Onur	Unlu	Cornell University	Fictitious Play in Markov Potential Games	28
75	2	Yang	Hu	Harvard University	Solving Black-box Optimizations with Generative Models	29
76	2	Apurva	Badithela	Princeton University	Reliable Evaluation for the Next Generation of Robotics	30
77	2	Hongrui	Zheng	University of Pennsylvania	Stein Variational Fictitious Self Play	31
78	2	Khai	Nguyen	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cheap Thrills: Effective Amortized Optimization Using Inexpensive Labels	32
79	2	Yubo	Cai	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Scalable Co-Design via Linear Design Problems: Compositional Theory and Algorithms	33
80	2	Yanjun	Liu	Princeton University	Second-order Convex Interpolation with Applications to Algorithm analysis	34
81	2	Yusuf	Jimoh	Princeton University	Nanosecond-latency Model Predictive Control using an Optical ASIC	35
82	2	Sneha	Ramshanker	Princeton University	Strategic Sacrifice: Self-Organized Cost Amortization in Multi-Robot Systems	36
83	2	Yixuan	Hua	Princeton University	Disjunctive Sum of Squares	37
84	2	Giovanna	Amorim	Princeton University	Multi-Agent Opinion Dynamics on the Circle with Distributed Inputs	38
85	2	Shashwat	Jain	Cornell University	Inferring Group Intent as a Cooperative Game. An NLP-based Framework for Trajectory Analysis using Graph Transformer Neural Network	39
86	2	Kiran	Rokade	Cornell University	Asymmetric Network Games: $\alpha$-potential function and learning	40
87	2	Yukai	Tang	Princeton University	Solving semidefinite programs using adaptive linear programming	41
88	2	Zidi	Tao	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Time-Optimal Control (Entrainment) of Circadian and Sleep Processes using Lighting and Photobiomodulation Inputs	42
89	2	Shigeng	Wang	Johns Hopkins University	Decentralized Stability-Constrained Optimal Power Flow for Inverter-Based Power Systems	43
90	2	Fardin	Ishtiaq	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Coordinated Control and Active and Passive Elements for Energy-efficient Building Temperature Regulation	44
91	2	Abigail	Rolen	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Repetitive control for cancellation of Tollmien-Schlichting waves	45
92	2	Riddhiman	Laha	Northeastern University	Whole Body Motion Discovery in Partially Observable Physical Worlds	46
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