JUSTIN KOELN
justin.koeln@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-4649
Mailstop: ECW 31
Office: ECSW 3.355D
800 West Campbell Rd.
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Education
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016
MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013
BS, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Utah State University, 2011
Research Interests
Dynamic systems and control, energy systems, distributed and hierarchical control, set-based methods
Five Most Recent Journal Publications, Book Chapters, and Books
- J. Siefert, T. Bird, J. Koeln, N. Jain, H. Pangborn, “Reachability Analysis of Nonlinear Systems Using Hybrid Zonotopes and Functional Decomposition,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2025.
- T. Sakakini, A. Gomez, J. Koeln, “Experimental Validation of Switched Moving Boundary Modeling of Phase Change Thermal Energy Storage Systems,” ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurements, and Control, 2024.
- T. Bird, H. Pangborn, N. Jain, J. Koeln, “Hybrid Zonotopes: a New Set Representation for Reachability Analysis of Mixed Logical Dynamical Systems,” Automatica, 2023.
- D. Leister, J. Koeln, “Nonlinear Hierarchical MPC With Application to Aircraft Fuel Thermal Management Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2022.
- V. Raghuraman, J. Koeln, “Hierarchical MPC for Coupled Subsystems using Adjustable Tubes,” Automatica, 2022.
Major Honors and Awards
- 2024 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- 2022 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
- 2018 Air Force Research Laboratory Summer Faculty Fellowship
- 2016 UIUC’s List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students
- 2011 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- 2010 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar