Michael Fisher

Michael Fisher is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. His research is centered around dynamics, optimization, and control of complex systems. He received his PhD in electrical engineering: systems at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2020, and a MSc. in mathematics from the same university in 2017. Prior to joining Waterloo he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Automatic Control Laboratory and the Power System Laboratory at ETH Zurich from 2020-2022. He was a finalist for the 2017 Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) Best Student Paper Award, and a recipient of the 2019 CDC Outstanding Student Paper Award.

• Optimal control
• Distributed control
• Ensemble control
• Nonlinear stability
• Hybrid dynamics
• Nonlinear control
• Complex systems
• Power systems
• Power electronics

• 2020, Doctorate Electrical Engineering: Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
• 2017, Master of Science Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
• 2014, Bachelor of Arts Mathematics, Physics, Swarthmore College, United States

• ECE 484 - Digital Control Applications
  • Taught in 2022, 2023
• ECE 700 - Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Taught in 2024

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