I am a PhD candidate in Control and Dynamical Systems at Caltech. I am advised by Professors Eric Mazumdar, Franca Hoffmann and John Doyle. My research is on nonlinear control theory and analysis of game dynamics using PDEs.

Before Caltech, I earned my Bachelors degree in Electrical and Computer Engingeering with a physics minor from Cornell University in 2018.

I am supported by a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship and PIMCO Data Science Graduate Fellowship.

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You can reach me at lconger [at] caltech [dot] edu.

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Publications

Preprints

Characterizing Controllability and Observability for Systems with Locality, Communication, and Actuation Constraints
Lauren Conger, Yiheng Lin, Adam Wierman, Eric Mazumdar.
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Learning the Uncertainty Sets for Control Dynamics via Set Membership: A Non-Asymptotic Analysis
Yingying Li, Jing Yu, Lauren Conger, Adam Wierman.
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A System Level Synthesis Approach to Computing Open Loop Equilibria in Linear Quadratic Games
Lauren Conger, Eric Mazumdar, John C. Doyle.
[email me for paper]

Conference Papers

Strategic Distribution Shift of Interacting Agents via Coupled Gradient Flows
Lauren Conger, Franca Hoffmann, Eric Mazumdar, Lillian Ratliff.
NeurIPS, 2023
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Designing System Level Synthesis Controllers for Nonlinear Systems with Stability Guarantees
Lauren Conger, Sydney Vernon, Eric Mazumdar.
L4DC, 2023
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Nonlinear System Level Synthesis for Polynomial Dynamics
Lauren Conger, Jing Shuang (Lisa) Li, Eric Mazumdar, Steven L. Brunton.
CDC, 2022
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Output-Feedback System Level Synthesis via Dynamic Programming
Lauren Conger, Shih-Hao Tseng.
ACC, 2022
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Journal Papers

Resolution and dose dependence of radiation damage in biomolecular systems
Hakan Atakisi, Lauren Conger, David Moreau and Robert Thorne.
International Union of Crystallography Journal, 2019
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Workshop Papers

Signal Enhancement for Magnetic Navigation Challenge Problem
Gnadt, Belarge, Canciani, Conger, Curro, Edelman, Morales, O’Keeffe, Taylor, Rackauckas.
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Talks

Semiautonomous Seminar at Berkeley
Strategic Distribution Shift of Interacting Agents via Coupled Gradient Flows
December 2023

SIAM Student Meeting at Caltech
Inequalities for proving convergence of coupled PDEs for modeling distribution shift
October 2023

Group Seminar, Harvard University
Coupled Gradient Flows for Strategic Non-Local Distribution Shift
May 2023

Research Seminar, MIT Lincoln Lab Homeland Protection Systems
Coupled Gradient Flows for Strategic Non-Local Distribution Shift
May 2023

Group Seminar, University of Washingon
System Level Synthesis: Parameterization for Linear and Nonlinear Control
August 2022