Arthur Castello Branco de Oliveira, PhD.
Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex
Northeastern University
Room 355
805 Columbus Ave, Boston, MA 02120
E-mail: a.castello@northeastern.edu
Since I can remember, learning has been one of the biggest joys of my life. The day I found out that could actually be my job, my path was set.
“Magic is just science we do not yet understand.”
— Arthur C. Clarke
Research Interests
Systems and control theory studies how to bend the world to our will, or prove that it is impossible. As such, it is only natural that my research is rooted in this fertile field. My focus is to develop and deploy tools from nonlinear systems theory to understand the behavior of modern optimization and optimal control algorithms. My research bears some of its fruits specifically when studying modern AI techniques and their interaction with control problems, looking for a priori conditions and guarantees of convergence, optimality, robustness, etc.
However, the applications of both systems and control theory and optimization are as interesting as they are vast. As such, I also conduct research in other topics, such as: dynamical networks; robotics; and bioengineering.
Publications Overview
My publications focus on systems and control outlets, with appearances at the American Control Conference, the Conference on Decision and Control, the Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, the Open Journal on Control Systems, and others.
Teaching Experience
My teachers and professors had a great impact in my academic development, and I strive for passing forward the lessons they taught me to the future generations. Furthermore, through my personal experience with teaching, I have learned that one does not truly master a subject before they are capable of teaching it to other people. I believe the plurality of viewpoints consequent of teaching any subject in a class forces the lecturer to widen its understanding in a way not too unlike the academic peer review process. As such, I look forward for the opportunity to better my own understanding while guiding students through their own learning journey.