Teaching and Mentoring

Teaching Experience

• ES155: Systems and Control, Fall 2020
  Section Leader
  Rating: 4.83/5.0
  Comments: She did a great job with office hours and was very helpful. She also did a great job explaining a lot of the linear algebra background I was lacking in section.

• ES 202: Learning, Estimation and Control of Dynamical Systems, Spring 2024
  Section Leader
  Rating: 4.75/5.0
  Comments: Cathy is a great TF and always super helpful.

Guest Lectures and Tutorials

• Invited Tutorial Lecturer, UT Austin Game Theory Summer School, August 13, 2026.
• Guest Lecturer, MIT Artificial Intelligence Accelerator and U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School Workshop, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 7, 2026.
• Guest Lecturer, MIT System Design and Management Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 18, 2026.
• Guest Lecturer, An Introductory Lecture on Systems and Control, undergraduate lecture, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, March 4, 2025.
• Guest Lecturer, Advanced Topics in Machine Learning (Prof. Bo Dai), Georgia Institute of Technology, October 16, 2024.

Research Mentoring and Student Supervision

At Harvard University

• Phevos Paschalidis, Harvard College, 2023–2024
• Aryan Naveen, Harvard College, 2023–2024
  Project: Algorithm design for the multi-agent graph bandit problem (paper accepted to ACC 2023, preparing journal submission to TAC)
• Johan Olsson, visiting master’s student from Lund University, 2023
  Project: Distributed reinforcement learning design for networked systems (paper accepted to ACC 2023)

At MIT

• Jiarui Li, PhD student, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2025–present
• Xinling Li, PhD student, MIT Transportation, 2025–present
• Yujun Huang, PhD student, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Yubo Cai, PhD student, MIT Computational Science and Engineering
• Riccardo Fiorista, graduate student, MIT Transportation
• Karan Mahesh, graduate student, MIT Mechanical Engineering
• Augusto Mondelli, visiting master’s student from ETH Zürich
• Florian Lercher, visiting master’s student from TU Munich
• Raphael Karmalker, visiting master’s student, MIT Energy Initiative
• Zeina Rmaile, MIT Summer Research Program intern and Georgia Institute of Technology undergraduate, Summer 2026

Outside Harvard and MIT

• Mingjia He, PhD student, ETH Zürich, 2025–present
• Binghang Lu, PhD student, Purdue University, 2026–present
• Zheyuan Deng, master’s student, Brown University, 2026–present
• Yuze Ge, master’s student, School of Data Science, Fudan University, 2026–present