Roy Dong

For More Information

• https://roydong.web.illinois.edu/

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; University of California, Berkeley; 2017
• B.S. Honors in Economics; Michigan State University; 2010
• B.S. Honors in Computer Engineering; Michigan State University; 2010

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering; August 2023 - Present
• Research Assistant Professor; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Electrical and Computer Engineering; January 2019 - August 2023
• Postdoctoral Researcher; University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute; May 2017 - May 2018

Research Interests

• data manipulation, incentive design, and privacy
• Game theory
• Cyber-physical systems

Research Topics

• Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence
• Data/Information Science and Systems

Selected Articles in Journals

• P. Du, R. Dong, K. R. Driggs-Campbell, "Improving the Feasibility of Moment-Based Safety Analysis for Stochastic Dynamics," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022.
• I. Konstantakopoulos , K. Hamilton, Y. Murthy , T. Veeravalli, C. Spanos, R. Dong,"smartSDH: An Experimental Study of Mechanism-Based Building Control," IEEE Systems Journal, 2022.
• T. Westenbroek, R. Dong, L. J. Ratliff, S. S. Sastry, "Competitive Statistical Estimation with Strategic Data Sources," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019.

Articles in Conference Proceedings

• S. WADHWA, R. Dong, "Equilibrium Selection in Data Markets: Multiple-Principal, Multiple-Agent Problems with Non-Rivalrous Goods," American Control Conference (ACC), 2024.
• R. Dong, H. ZHANG, L. J. Ratliff, "Approximate Regions of Attraction in Learning with Decision-Dependent Distributions," Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2023.

Recent Courses Taught

• ECE 120 - Introduction to Computing
• ECE 486 - Control Systems
• ECE 515 (ME 540) - Control System Theory & Design
• ECE 528 (ME 546, SE 520) - Analysis of Nonlinear Systems
• IE 300 BD1 (IE 300 BD2, IE 300 BD3, IE 300 BD4, IE 300 BL1) - Analysis of Data
• IE 521 - Convex Optimization