All six finalist papers (see below) will be presented during a special session on Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 13:30 – 15:00, in Director's Row H. The session is chaired by Cesar A. Uribe (Rice University) and co-chaired by Shirantha Welikala (Stevens Institute of Technology). The winner will be selected by the Best Student Paper Awards Committee and will be announced at the AACC Awards Ceremony.

Co-Investment with Payoff Sharing Benefit Operators and Users in Network Design 

TuB19.1

Authors:  
Mingjia He, Andrea Censi, Emilio Frazzoli, Gioele Zardini

 

Lyapunov and Converse Lyapunov Theorems for Fixed Time Stability of Continuous Autonomous Systems  

TuB19.2

Authors:      
Kriti Verma, Wassim M. Haddad

 

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Intervention of Partially Observable Regulatory Networks 

TuB19.3

Authors:      
Seyed Hamid Hosseini, Mahdi Imani

 

Dissipativity-Based Distributed Droop-Free Control and Communication Topology Co-Design for DC Microgrids

TuB19.4

Authors:        
Mohammad Javad Najafirad, Shirantha Welikala

 

Prevailing against Adversarial Noncentral Disturbances: Exact Recovery of Linear Systems with the L1-Norm Estimator  

TuB19.5

Authors:         
Jihun Kim, Javad Lavaei

 

Convex Constrained Controller Synthesis for Evolution Equations 

TuB19.6

Authors:         
Lauren Conger, Antoine Leeman, Franca Hoffmann