• Ph. D. (2024) Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University – Tempe
• M. S. (2018) Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University – Tempe
• B. Tech (2015) Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology – Kharagpur
• Employment:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher (2025) Department of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University

Research Interests:

• Convex optimization
• Control of Infinite-dimensional systems
• Optimal and Robust Control
• Intersection of Control theory and Machine Learning

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Shivakumar, S. ; Das, A. ; Weiland, S. ; Peet, M.. Extension of the Partial Integral Equation Representation to GPDE Input-Output Systems (2024) 10.1109/TAC.2024.3505954
2. Shivakumar, S. ; Bondar, G. A. ; Khan, G. ; Halder, A.. Sum-of-Squares Programming for Ma-Trudinger-Wang Regularity of Optimal Transport Maps (2024) 10.48550/arXiv.2412.13372
3. Shivakumar, S. ; Peet, M.. A Computational Method for H2-optimal Estimator and State Feedback Controller Synthesis for PDEs (2024) 10.48550/arXiv.2403.08052
4. Shivakumar, S. ; Das, A. ; Peet, M.. Dual Representations and $H_ {infty}$-Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations. (2025) 10.48550/arXiv.2208.13104

CNLS Publications:

• Shivakumar, Sachin; Peet, Matthew; Das, Amritam. Dual Representations and $H_{infinity}$-Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 2025
• Elamvazhuthi, Karthik; Shivakumar, Sachin. Uniform Sampling from the Reachable Set Using Optimal Transport. IEEE Control Systems Letters 2025 10.48550/arXiv.2509.15571
• Braghini, Danilo; Shivakumar, Sachin; Peet, Matthew. $H_2$-Optimal Estimation of Linear Delayed and PDE Systems. 2025 https://cnls.lanl.gov/External/pubs/LA-UR-25-28328.pdf
• Teter, Alexis M. H.; Wang, Wenqing; Shivakumar, Sachin; Halder, Abhishek. Markov Kernels, Distances and Optimal Control: A Parable of Linear Quadratic Non-Gaussian Distribution Steering. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 2025 10.48550/arXiv.2504.15753