Ahmed Allibhoy

Postdoctoral Scholar

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of California, Riverside

aallibho [at] ucr [dot] edu


About Me

I am currently a postdoctoral scholar at UC Riverside, working with Fabio Pasqualetti. I completed my PhD at UC San Diego in 2023, where I studied under the supervision of Jorge Cortés.

My research is primarily concerned with modeling and control of complex network systems (e.g. electric power distribution networks, transportation networks, the human brain, social networks), though I am also interested in problems in the areas of optimization and control theory more generally. My work involves a mix of theoretical analysis, and computation, and draws on tools from control theory, optimization, dynamical systems, and network science. The following is a list of topics that I am currently working, or have previously worked, on:


Publications

Journal Publications

  1. Regularity Properties of Optimization-Based Controllers,
    Pol Mestres, Ahmed Allibhoy, Jorge Cortés,
    European Journal of Control, accepted. [arXiv]
  2. Anytime Solvers for Variational Inequalities: the (Recursive) Safe Monotone Flows,
    Ahmed Allibhoy, Jorge Cortés,
    Automatica, accepted. [arXiv]
  3. Control-Barrier-Function-Based Design of Gradient Flows for Constrained Nonlinear Programming,
    Ahmed Allibhoy, Jorge Cortés,
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 69, no. 6, 2024, to appear. [Full version (with appendix): arXiv]
  4. Optimal Network Interventions to Control the Spreading of Oscillations,
    Ahmed Allibhoy, Federico Celi, Fabio Pasqualetti, Jorge Cortés,
    IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, vol. 1, pp. 141-151, 2022.
  5. Linear-threshold Dynamics for the Study of Epileptic Events,
    Federico Celi, Ahmed Allibhoy, Fabio Pasqualetti, Jorge Cortés,
    IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1405-1410, 2021. [PDF]
  6. Data-based Receding Horizon Control of Linear Network Systems,
    Ahmed Allibhoy, Jorge Cortés,
    IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1207-1212, 2021. [PDF]

Conference Publications

  1. Safety-Critical Control as a Design Paradigm of Anytime Solvers to Nonlinear Optimization Problems,
    Ahmed Allibhoy, Jorge Cortés,
    IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancún, Mexico, pp. 6211-6216. [PDF]
  2. Anytime Solution of Constrained Nonlinear Programs via Control Barrier Functions,
    Ahmed Allibhoy, Jorge Cortés,
    IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, TX, December 2021, pp. 6520–6525. [PDF]
  3. Data-Driven Distributed Predictive Control via Network Optimization,
    Ahmed Allibhoy, Jorge Cortés,
    Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Berkeley CA, June 2020, vol. 120, pp. 838-839.

Twitter Threads

Occasionally I do twitter threads on various topics from nonlinear dynamics, control theory, and optimization. Below is a list of all the threads I have done so far. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any suggestions for topics I should cover in the future!