# Somayeh Sojoudi

### Research Areas

- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR)
- Power and Energy (ENE)
- Optimization Theory (Non-Convex Optimization; Low-rank Optimization; Conic Optimization). Numerical Algorithms.

### Research Centers

- Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)

### Teaching Schedule

#### Spring 2024

- EE C128. Feedback Control Systems, TuTh 12:30-13:59, Soda 306

## Biography

Somayeh Sojoudi is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. She is a Senior Associate Editor of IEEE Systems Journal. She has served as Associate Editor for the journals of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Systems & Control Letters, IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, and IEEE Access. She is a member of the conference editorial board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and has also served as an Area Chair for NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR. She received several awards and honors, including NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, INFORMS Optimization Society Prize for Young Researchers, INFORMS Energy Best Publication Award, INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Award, and Best-of-the-Best conference paper award of IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting.

## Education

- 2013, PhD, Control & Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology

## Awards, Memberships and Fellowships

- IEEE PES Best-of-the-Best Conference Paper Award, 2022
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator, 2021
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER), 2021
- INFORMS Data Mining (DM) Best Paper Award, 2018
- INFORMS Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment (ENRE) Best Publication Award in Energy, 2016
- INFORMS Optimization Society Young Researchers Prize, 2015