Organizers: Minghui Zheng and Ellen Yi Chen Mazumdar
Time: Monday, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Woodlawn
All primary-, first-listed authors of a regular contributed paper who were students at the time of submission were eligible for the Student Best Paper Award. To be considered for the award, the paper was nominated by the student’s advisor by July 25, 2025. The papers were reviewed through the usual conference review process and by the Best Student Paper Award Committee. Based on those reviews, the following six papers were selected as finalists for the Best Student Paper Award.
Satoshi Tsuruhara and Kazuhisa Ito, “Discrete-time Two-Layered Forgetting RLS Identification under Finite Excitation”
Yu Mei, Shangyuan Yuan, Xinda Qi, Preston Fairchild, and Xiaobo Tan, “Learning-Based Modeling of Soft Actuators Using Euler Spiral-Inspired Curvature”
Christopher Martin, Apurva Patil, Wei Li, Takashi Tanaka, and Dongmei Chen, “Model Predictive Path Integral Control for Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing”
Hongliang Li, Herschel C. Pangborn, and Ilya Kovalenko, “Bi-level Model Predictive Control for Energy-aware Integrated Product Pricing and Production Scheduling”
Sangwon Kang, Hao Tu, and Huazhen Fang, “Physics-Inspired Equivalent Circuit Modeling of Thermal Runaway Triggered by Internal Short Circuits in Lithium-Ion Batteries”
Jonathan Bush and Wenlong Zhang, “Modeling Human Steering Behavior Using a Custom Robotic Bicycle”
The finalists’ papers will be presented in this session. The winner will be selected by the Best Student Paper Award Committee and will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, October 7.
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