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I am a PhD student at ETH Zurich with a passion for Game Theory & Control Theory, and the fascinating intersection between the two. Automation is no longer contained to the factory floor; it is making decisions on who gets to work on time (traffic control), when to charge who's EV (energy control), or who gets to see what posts (recommender systems). I am working towards embedding the social aspect into the next generation of control systems. How can we design these systems in a manner that respect individuals' private and heterogeneous needs, in a fair and efficient manner? On this quest, I have been working to bridge the gap between engineering and economics and incorporate lessons from Welfare Economics & Social Choice Theory into control design.

Short bio

Since October 2020, I am a PhD student under the supervision of Florian Dörfler and Emilio Frazzoli at ETH Zürich. My PhD is funded by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Automation. I received the B.A Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo in June 2014, and the M.Sc. in Robotics, Systems & Control at ETH Zürich in May 2020, for which I was awarded the ETH Silver Medal. From 2014-2018, I held various control engineering positions at process automation and lifting equipment companies. See my full CV here.

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2024.12.19: Presented Dynamic Population Games in this year's CDC in Milan! See slides.
2024.12.12: Presented Multi-Karma Economies in this year's CPHS in Antalya; awarded IFAC Young Author Award! See slides.
2024.12.06: Presented Karma Experimental Study in this year's Hurwicz Workshop on Mechanism Design Theory! See slides.
2024.12.02: Had the honor of giving the Game Theory & Control lecture on Stochastic Games! See slides and video.
2024.11.20: Presented Karma in a site visit of Syngenta CH! It was exciting to see how karma can manage internal competition for greenhouse and growth chamber space!
2024.10.29: Presented Karma in the UZH Department of Sociology CSR Colloquium! What a great opportunity for interdisciplinary dialogue! See slides.
2024.10.05: CARMA made it to the Swiss news! Check out all the heated comments! See article 1, article 2, article 3.
2024.10.03: Presented CARMA in this year's AI+X Summit! What a pleasure to present to such diverse and broad audience! See slides.
2024.09.11: CARMA is finally published in Transportation Science!
2024.03.19: Presented Karma Experimental Study in this year's Matching in Practice Workshop! See slides.
2024.03.14: Gave the IfA Coffee Talk on Karma! See slides.
2024.02.23: Held a tutorial on Social Choice Theory in Engineering Systems! See slides.
2023.12.13: Presented CARMA with elastic demand in this year's CDC in Singapore! See slides.
2023.11.28: Co-organized this year's IfA Open House and fed ~200 passionate students pizza!
2023.11.14: Co-presented CARMA in this year's NCCR site visit, together with Carlo Cenedese! See slides.
2023.11.12: Co-wrote NCCR blogpost on how to use karma for traffic congestion control!
2023.10.26: Gave a demo on real quad-copter control to high school students as part of the Technik- und Informatikwochen!
2023.09.05: Attended UZH workshop on bias in teaching and learning!
2023.06.27: Presented CARMA in this year's MED in Cyprus! See slides.
2023.04.06: Presented Dynamic Population Games in NUS Workshop on Games on Networks! What an honour to be among such distinguished speakers! See slides and video.

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