About Me

I’m Alisina Bayati, a Ph.D. student at the Coordinated Science Lab (CSL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I’m also pursuing a Master of Science in Mathematics.

My research interests lie at the intersection of optimization, reinforcement learning, control theory, and sequential decision-making.

You can find a detailed overview of my academic and professional background in my CV. A summary of my research and course projects is available here.

News

• [04/03/2025]: Two works submitted to CDC 2025!
  • A control barrier function approach to constrained resource allocation problems in a maximum entropy principle framework, by Alisina Bayati$^{\dagger}$, Dhananjay Tiwary$^{\dagger}$, and Srinivasa Salapaka. arXiv:2504.01378
  • Orthogonal nonnegative matrix factorization with sparsity constraints, by Salar Basiri, Alisina Bayati, and Srinivasa Salapaka. arXiv:2210.02672

• [04/12/2024]: I successfully passed my qualifying exam!

• [02/29/2024]: Our work on maximum entropy sparse linear regression is accepted in European Control Conference 2024, Sweden. Click here to check out our work.