Brian Block
Brian Block received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA in 2025. During his Ph.D., he was also a visiting research scholar at The University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy from 2024-2025. From 2025-2026, he was a postdoctoral research associate/research engineer at the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) at The Ohio State University. His research interests include control and optimization of PDE systems, modeling and control of PDE-ODE systems, and control of traffic systems.
He was the recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2020-2025) as well as a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at the American Control Conference (2024). From 2023-2025, he served as a Student Liaison for the ASME DSCD Automotive and Transportation Systems Technical Committee and from 2022-2024 he served as a Graduate School Ambassador for the Mechanical Engineering Department at The Ohio State University.
2026-current.
Amirhossein Samii
Amirhossein Samii received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, in 2018, and the M.Sc. degree in Control Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2021.
His research interests include delay systems, adaptive control, and nonlinear dynamics, with applications to connected and automated vehicles, Vehicle Control, and Traffic Flow Control.
2026-current.
Jukka-Pekka Humaloja
Jukka-Pekka Humaloja received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, in 2019. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Tampere University. From 2021 to 2023, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He has authored/coauthored 9 journal papers and 19 conference papers. His research interests include control and estimation of distributed parameter systems, especially robust output regulation and model predictive control of boundary-controlled PDEs, and virtual decomposition control.
Jukka-Pekka Humaloja is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee 2.6 on Distributed Parameter Systems. He has served as a reviewer for several journals (IEEE-TAC, Automatica, SICON…) and conferences (IFAC-WC, CDC, ACC…), as well as Mathematical Reviews (MathSciNet). He is the recipient of individual postdoctoral grants from the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation (2021-2022) and the Vilho, Yrjö and Kalle Väisälä Foundation (2022-2023).
2023-2026.
Senior Researcher – University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Florent Koudohode
Florent Koudohode received his Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control from LAAS-CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, in 2023. He completed two M.Sc. degrees in fundamental mathematics and applications, one from IMSP, Dangbo, Benin in 2018, and the other from Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III, France in 2020. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technical University of Crete, Greece, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
His research interests include event-triggered control, nonlinear control systems and PDEs. Florent has also served as a reviewer for several journals such as Automatica, CSL, Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, as well as for conferences including ECC, CDC, and ACC.
2023-2026.
Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher – CNRS L2S, Paris.
Shantanu Singh
Shantanu Singh has completed his PhD from Tel Aviv University, Israel. He was a Marie-Curie fellow from 2018 to 2022. He received his master’s degree in “Electrical Engineering” at Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
His research interests include scattering passive infinite dimensional systems, with applications to boundary control systems. Moreover, he has carried out research on of nonlinear partial differential equations, for instance wave equation with boundary damping, Maxwell’s equations with nonlinear damping. His published work can be accessed below.
2023-2024.
Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher – CNRS LS2N, Nantes.