Biography
Sean Warnick received the B.S.E. degree from Arizona State University in 1993, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995 and 2003, respectively. He attended ASU on scholarship from the Flinn Foundation, graduated summa cum laude with honors, and was named the Outstanding Graduate of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. In Summer 2006, Sean accepted an invitation as a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, UK, and in Summer 2008, he visited the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2014 he visited the Center for Systems Biomedicine at the University of Luxembourg. Moreover, Sean was named the Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National Security Agency three years in a row, 2008-2010, where he worked with the Summer Program for Operations Research Technology.
Research Interests
Theory: Feedback Control Theory (especially robust distributed or decentralized control of uncertain systems); System Identification and Machine Learning; Model Reduction and Approximation; Verification and Validation; and design of human-in-the-loop systems (data visualization, etc.)Applications: Reconstruction of (biological, social, financial, communication, etc.) Networks; Cyber Security; Learning and Control of Crop Systems (Corn, Soybeans, etc.); Risk Management (including portfolio optimization, etc.); Scheduling of Manufacturing Systems; stories and narrative.
Teaching Interests
Mathematical Modeling; Feedback Systems: Networks and Representation, Identification and Learning from Data, Design and Robust Control in spite of Uncertainty, Multiagent Effects; Human in the Loop; Algorithms and OptimizationEducation
- PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , Control Theory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003)
- SM, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , Control Theory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1995)
- BSE, Electrical and Computer Engineering , Arizona State University (1993)
Honors and Awards
- Distinguished Visiting Professor, National Security Agency (2010 - 2010)
- Distinguished Visiting Professor, National Security Agency (2009 - 2009)
- Distinguished Visiting Professor, National Security Agency (2008 - 2008)
Memberships
- INFORMS (2003 - Present)
- IEEE (1993 - Present)