{"612154":{"#nid":"612154","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Coogan Tapped for AFOSR Young Investigator Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESam Coogan has been chosen for an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award for his research project entitled \u0026quot;Scalable Analysis and Control of Dynamic Flow Networks.\u0026rdquo; Coogan is an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECoogan\u0026rsquo;s project will develop fundamental theory for controlling and designing networks that model the flow of physical material among interconnected components. These systems are called physical flow networks and are used to model, for example, vehicular transportation networks, air traffic networks, and civil infrastructure. The fundamental commonalities of such flow networks suggest a unified approach for modeling, while domain-specific features point towards a full understanding of their rich behavior.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn physical flow networks, nonlinearities in each component compound due to the network interactions. For example, congestion in one link of a road network can impact traffic flow in other parts of the network over time. In applications, such networks are becoming larger, more complex, and increasingly distributed, and there is an urgent need to study the mathematical models that underlie many of these systems. The proposed research will focus on using and extending tools from nonlinear system analysis to study and control these physical flow networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECoogan holds a joint faculty appointment with Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 2017, he was\u0026nbsp;an assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2015-2017.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn January 2018, Coogan received an NSF CAREER Award to study the control of traffic networks with an emphasis on autonomy, and in December 2017, he received the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems\u0026nbsp;Best Paper Award\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eat the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE and CEE Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;Sam Coogan has been chosen for an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE and CEE Assistant Professor\u00a0Sam Coogan has been chosen for an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2018-10-01 18:24:32","changed_gmt":"2018-10-01 20:39:29","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"594985":{"id":"594985","type":"image","title":"Sam Coogan","body":null,"created":"1503597637","gmt_created":"2017-08-24 18:00:37","changed":"1503597637","gmt_changed":"2017-08-24 18:00:37","alt":"photograph of Sam Coogan","file":{"fid":"226753","name":"Sam Coogan.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sam%20Coogan.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sam%20Coogan.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":159508,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Sam%20Coogan.jpg?itok=ewEZ97O9"}}},"media_ids":["594985"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/samuel-coogan","title":"Sam Coogan"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cee.gatech.edu","title":"School of Civil and Environmental Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech "},{"url":"https:\/\/www.wpafb.af.mil\/afrl\/afosr\/","title":"Air Force Office of Scientific Research"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"142","name":"City Planning, Transportation, and Urban Growth"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171007","name":"Sam Coogan"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"167864","name":"School of Civil and Environmental Engineering"},{"id":"177759","name":"Air Force Office of Scientific Research"},{"id":"179234","name":"dynamic flow networks"},{"id":"179235","name":"physical flow networks"},{"id":"179236","name":"vehicular transportation networks"},{"id":"179237","name":"air traffic networks"},{"id":"12856","name":"civil infrastructure"},{"id":"179238","name":"nonlinear system analysis"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}