march 2026
new blog post: i thought everyone went to jail
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i teach engineering at vanderbilt university in nashville —
i work on dynamic system science, control, networks, and infrastructure, and i write papers with mostly my students —
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march 2026
new blog post: are the models lying to you?
open linkmarch 2026
Paper accepted on network partitioning in linear systems. Congrats to Mohamad Kazma on his first IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control paper
open linkmarch 2026
new paper submitted for review: Exploring Uncertainty Propagation in Coupled Hydrologic and Hydrodynamic Systems via Distribution-Agnostic State Space Analysis
open linkjanuary 2026
new paper accepted on reliability assessment of intermodal freight transportation --- congrats jafar!
open linkjanuary 2026
this semester i am teaching a new, required class on numerical computing in my department. check it out here:
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